Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:38 for 9 hours 13 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 69.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1790, President Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
There is a story today at the Journal Sentinel, framed with the tired formulation that two people are ‘pointing fingers’ at each other about past election actions from two of Wisconsin’s gubernatorial candidates:
“Barnes, who leads the Democratic primary for governor in name identification, criticized Tiffany, a Republican leading the GOP primary race, on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection for his support of a lawsuit that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“… let’s remind WI that you are an election-denier that tried to overturn the 2020 election at the bidding of Donald Trump,” Barnes said in a post on X.
Tiffany shot back, reminding X followers of a past post from Barnes following President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory that questioned its legitimacy.
“The election was, rigged?” Barnes tweeted on Nov. 9, 2016 ? a day after Trump defeated former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by winning key swing states, including Wisconsin.”
See Molly Beck, Barnes, Tiffany point fingers over questioning of election results, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 8, 2026.
This libertarian blogger is skeptical of neither election result (Trump won in ’16, Biden won in ’20). And yet, and yet, for any person of normal discernment, it’s easy to see that Barnes’s unfounded skepticism in 2016 was little more than a social media claim, while in 2021 Rep. Tiffany in Congress actively voted on 1.6.21 to overturn Biden’s victories in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
In her story, Beck reminds readers of Tiffany’s actions only ten paragraphs down.
Tiffany did more than ‘point fingers’ in 2021. He acted affirmatively to reject a lawful election result to support a losing presidential campaign.
That plain truth deserves more than a tenth-paragraph observation.
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