Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 59. Sunrise is 7:08 and sunset is 6:12 for 11 hours 4 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 23 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1815, Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
We’ve only a few weeks to go, and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany seeks any ally, and any port from the storm, he can find:
Tiffany told the Examiner there was no “greater icon in Wisconsin” than Favre and he was glad he [Favre] could be there to speak on voting and hunting issues. He expressed no concern when asked how his campaign’s accountability and anti-fraud agenda matches up with Favre’s entanglement in a fraud scandal in Mississippi. Favre has repaid the state of Mississippi over $1 million for speeches he was paid for but didn’t deliver, and he is still a defendant in a civil case filed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services to recoup millions of dollars in misspent federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare funds, some of which he allegedly used to build a volleyball stadium.
Clever, very clever: Who better to support Tiffany’s anti-fraud agenda than a defendant intimately familiar with accusations of fraud?
There’s a key tell in Favre’s remarks:
Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre spent the majority of his time on stage in Waukesha on Tuesday night talking about his time playing football. But when the conversation turned to the election, Favre was blunt about what he would say to hunters, Christians, veterans, farmers, factory workers, truck drivers and school teachers who aren’t planning to vote.
“You can’t sit it out. You can’t sit it out,” Favre, a Mississippi native, said. “You can’t bitch if you don’t vote.”
The Tiffany campaign is worried about turnout; Favre’s remarks to people in the room are directed at those who aren’t in the room. More pointedly, Favre is demographically (and theologically) ignorant — one can be a hunter, Christian, veteran, farmer, factory worker, truck driver, or school teacher and vote for David Crowley.
One other moment from the Tiffany-Favre rally stands out:
The event also featured…an auction of a Ted Nugent guitar signed by Favre — claimed by the only person who bid at the starting bid of $5,000…
A bid that stops where it starts is hardly an auspicious place to end.
See Baylor Spears, Republican Tom Tiffany seeks to boost turnout in Waukesha with an assist from Brett Favre, Wisconsin Examiner, October 15, 2026.
So, at Halloween or any other time, how do bats land upside down?