Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy and cloudy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 5:21 and sunset is 8:23, for 15 hours, 03 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. It is also the earliest event of which the precise date is known.
Ruth Conniff (always worth reading) writes in the Wisconsin Examiner that grassroots pressure on Gov. Evers reflects nationwide impatience with Dems:
More than 100 citizens from an array of grassroots groups packed the Wisconsin state Senate parlor and marched on Gov. Tony Evers’ office Tuesday, their chants bouncing off the marble walls inside the Capitol. They were there to deliver a letter — which they urged others to sign online — demanding that Evers veto the state budget if it doesn’t include key elements of the governor’s own budget proposal.
“The whole Democratic grassroots is now demanding that national leaders stand and fight,” said Robert Kraig, executive director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, who helped organize the effort, “and I think that spirit is now being translated down to the state level.”
Public school advocates, child care providers, teachers’ unions and advocates for criminal justice reform and health care access came to demand that Evers take a stronger stand and threaten to use his significant veto power in negotiations with Republicans.
See Ruth Conniff, Grassroots pressure on Gov. Evers reflects nationwide impatience with Dems, Wisconsin Examiner, May 28, 2025.
I’m not a Democrat, yet I understand Democrats’ justified frustration. Indeed, this libertarian blogger has encouraged collective protest. See Go Outside.
Gov. Tony Evers, however, is governor of Wisconsin, not Illinois; his political position is different from the one that J.B. Pritzker (admirably) has taken. (Without question, Pritzker’s expressed views on Trump are similar to millions of Americans, my own among them.)
Someone would do well, however, to remind activists that there is more than one path to success. Ever is a twice-elected governor, and he is almost certain to run again. Although mild-mannered, Evers has a record of political success in this state, and a strong chance of success should he run for a third term in 2026.
Tony Evers’s re-election is vital to Wisconsin’s political health. Other Democrats running in legislative races next year can take a more assertive stance. Evers needn’t — and shouldn’t — change his approach. That approach is, and will continue to be, a winning one.
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