Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 69. Sunrise is 5:21 and sunset is 8:23, for 15 hours, 02 minutes of daytime. The moon is new with 0.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5 PM. The Whitewater Unified School District’s Policy Review Committee meets at 6:40 PM. The Whitewater School Board then meets in open session at 7 PM, to enter closed session and return to open session later in the evening.
On this day in 1937, in California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
There’s all sorts of speculation about who’s running for what in Wisconsin. Molly Back and Daniel Bice at the Journal Sentinel offer Which Democrats will run for governor if Tony Evers doesn’t and answers to other questions. Let’s address some of their speculations:
Q: If Gov. Evers declines to run for a third term, who are the likely Democratic front-runners?
Molly: Here are the Democrats I hear floated when this question comes up: Attorney General Josh Kaul, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, and soon-to-be-former Democratic Party of Wisconsin chairman Ben Wikler.
Evers running again is as close to a certainty as there is.
Q: Is U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson running again in 2028?
Molly: Johnson is now in his third term (one term longer than he initially promised to stay in D.C.) and is now 70. Whether he seeks a fourth term is a good question, and I don’t think we’ll have an answer until closer to 2027.
Dan: Remember when Johnson was just a “citizen legislator,” emphasizing the fact that he was a businessman and political outsider? Things have changed. Johnson sold his business and is now a D.C. insider. Washington will do that to you. But is he ready to give up his podcast interviews and Fox News airtime for a quiet retirement in Oshkosh? Who will listen to his conspiracy theories then?
Johnson is a crackpot and a liar (he broke his pledge not to run for a third term). There’s no predicting his actions except to know that he’s a crackpot and a liar. (And holy cow, if Johnson retires, it won’t be to Oshkosh: Johnson travels along a Washington, D.C. to Florida axis.)
Q: Scott Walker is on TV a LOT. Is he running for office again?
Dan: Here’s what you need to know — his poll numbers are not good from what I hear, and he’s making more money than he ever has. In 2023, he pulled in $840,521 as president of the Young America’s Foundation, according to its financial filings. (So much for his brown bag lunches.) It’s also a job without a downside. If the number of conservative youngsters increases, then great. But if it doesn’t, what did you expect? He can blame the liberals for running the universities, the entertainment industry and the media.
So the answer is no, not anytime soon. He’s too busy counting his cash and his media appearances.
Well, that’s right: Walker isn’t running, and would lose any major race if he did run. The WISGOP isn’t Walker’s party anymore; it’s Trump’s. It’s also well-known, not scuttlebutt, what Walker makes at YAF. (There’s no ‘from what I hear’ inside knowledge required.)
See Molly Beck and Daniel Bice, Which Democrats will run for governor if Tony Evers doesn’t and answers to other questions, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 27, 2025.
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