Good morning,
The forecast for Whitewater today calls for a sunny day with a high of seventy-four degrees, with an above-average level of regulation and interference in residents’ lives.
There’s a choir concert scheduled for tonight at 7:30 p.m. in our high school auditorium.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this date in 1934, the
Wisconsin Progressive Party [was] Formally Organized
On this date Wisconsin’s Progressive Party was formally organized near 30 E. 2nd St. in Fond du Lac. It had begun as a “progressive” movement within the Wisconsin Republican Party more than 30 years before, and under leaders such as Robert M. LaFollette its list of achievements brought national attention to Wisconsin. By the 1930s, a new generation of policy makers, many of whom had been trained under progressive Republicans, were advocating for reforms as part of Democrat Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs (see our page on the Wisconsin roots of Social Security for an example). At the same time, a new generation of Republicans such as Walter Kohler were advocating their own solutions to the nation’s problems. The heirs of the LaFollette tradition organized a third party, the Wisconsin Progressive Party, to keep alive the traditions they valued. [Source: History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers, edited by Sarah Davis McBride]
Whether self-declared Progressives or conservatives, Republicans or Democrats, right or left, Wisconsin residents been over-regulated in the years since.