On this, the recently held first state election in Wisconsin
since Donald Trump's second ascendancy to the presidency,
your ready-to-burst Peasant wants to give my observations
and opinions about its results, and have I got a lot to say!
One race on the slate was the battle for a seat on the Wisconsin
State Supreme Court being vacated by a retiring left-wing
justice. Former state Attorney General and current Waukesha
County Judge Brad Schimmel faced Dane County Judge
Susan Crawford for the opening, and the race was very important
for several reasons: with the court having had a 4-3 liberal
majority, if Schimmel had won there would have been a
4-3 conservative majority which would have buffered
Act 10, then-Gov. Scott Walker's economic reform package
which would have meant lower property taxes because
it limited public service unions' bargaining rights on wages
and benefits. This meant that governors could not simply give
the unions whatever they asked for because the governors
would have been giving the unions money that wasn't theirs
in the first place but were the monies derived from the taxes
paid by the people of Wisconsin, the property taxes which were
paid generally went to fund the public schools. This has long
been discussed and debated in political circles, especially
by those in the Democrat Party, with some otherwise pro-union
Democrats being hesitant to support this idea --- most notably
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who supported unions most
of the time. He was concerned, as are many people today, that
increasing the compensation for the unions would drive up
taxes without taxpayers having a place at the table, so to speak,
to give their yea or nay to any deals made under such an
arrangement. But the Wisconsin Dems want to reinstate that
very arrangement, and with the state's highest court remaining
in liberal hands the court could (and would) easily strike down
Act 10.
Not only that, but the top court could reorder the political maps
of the state redrawn to combat the imagined gerrymandering
of the current maps, which by the way were the very maps drawn
up by Wisconsin's current governor, Democrat (!) Tony Evers.
The Dems want to eliminate two congressional districts which
would necessitate two Republican incumbent congressmen to
run against each other if they wanted to remain in Congress.
Other things which would be up for very possibly being eliminated
include abortion restrictions, gun ownership and usage laws favoring
wider latitude, and the rights of schools and gyms to keep men out
of women's sports and locker rooms. This is a hotly debated issue
throughout the country as well.
Finally, the election was, for some people (especially Democrats)
a favorability measurement for President Trump. It must be noted
that the incumbent president's party generally does not do well in
non-presidential elections such as this one. But two factors were
what spelled defeat for Republicans and conservatives in
Wisconsin's elections: the lack of an effective ground game and a
failure of many pro-Trump voters to go to the polls. On the
former, the GOP has long been behind the Dems in the effectiveness
of getting out the vote with vigor and aggressiveness. They have
been much too gentlemanly in their approach, and it has been like
bringing a pocket knife to a gunfight, or adhering to the Marquess
of Queensbury Rules in a fight against a streetfighter who has no
regard for any rules at all. The GOP and its allies should alter their
approach accordingly if they are to remain at all competitive in
elections. Regarding the latter, and this really frosts your otherwise
placid Peasant, many conservatives and pro-Trump voters didn't
go to their polling places to support Brad Schimmel, including
counties with considerable conservative majorities such as Waukesha
County where Judge Schimmel is from. Schimmel actually ran behind
President Trump in terms of the percentage of the vote he received
compared to that which Trump won in 2024. Judge Crawford actually
outperformed expectations in terms of the percentage of votes that
she was expected to win in heavily Democrat counties such as
Dane and Milwaukee Counties, the "mother lodes" of Democrat
votes in elections. This also affected the other race for office,
that being for the office of the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, which has sway over the public schools. Incumbent
and big lefty Dr. Jill Underly, who lowered the statistical benchmark
measurement for public school students' performance in the classroom
and claiming that said students have had an increase in their perform-
ance scores, in an shameful attempt to gaslight the student's parents
and taxpayers, won another term and will hold on to her current job.
Underly defeated moderate and "Readin', writin' and "rithmetic"
oriented challenger Brittany Kinser, who currently has children in a
public school in addition to being a schoolteacher. What ruined the
race for the State's high court also ruined the race for the DPI super-
intendentship for the Republicans and conservatives. These are races
that they could have, and and should have won.
Your cheesed-off Peasant is sick and tired of people on our side
blowing off the off-year races when the presidency, the governor-
ship, and/or the legislative seats are not being contested! We have the
quantity of voters to win elections with, but when they don't go to the
polls they are, in effect, voting without voting; they are voting for the
enemy! They should know that the victory goes to those who show
up! In Wisconsin we can vote early, up to two weeks ahead of
Election Day. We can vote via Absentee ballot. We can even vote by
mail. We have no excuse for not voting. None! And I'll tell you this:
Over the net few years, until the next time a liberal justice is up for
re-election or until Gov. Evers is up for same, these no-shows better
not come crying to me about their taxes going on a rocket ride,
or their ability to obtain firearms and ammunition for which to defend
their families, their homes, and all are negatively impacted,
or that their children complain that boys are allowed to change in the
same locker rooms that they use, or some other awful consequence of
the results of this recent election making them miserable, your angry
Peasant doesn't want to hear it! I don't want to hear one word, I don't
want to see one teardrop! You can shove it where the sun don't shine!
We all know what needs to be fixed, and what needs to be done when
election time rolls around again. 2026 is coming! Let's get down to
business!
MEM
