One More Thing re: The Recent Wisconsin Spring Elections

Among the lessons to be learned from the painful defeat

in Wisconsin's recent elections that Republicans and 

conservatives of all stripes must heed are:

1) We must always remember that our true enemy is 

     the Democrat party, with their candidates and their 

     planks in their party platform; NOT each other.

2) Fundraising is vitally important to our candidates' 

    campaigns and their chances for victory. Campaign 

    donations are the mother's milk of electoral success.

    We must keep on reminding our longtime campaign

    donors of the other side relentlessly raising out-of-state 

    money which is giving them not just an edge, but a 

    gaping chasm. Furthermore, we should look for new 

    donors, both well-to-do and those with more modest

    means. Some elections in other states have been won 

    with many modest campaign contributions from 

    the latter group of voters; the "Widow's Mite"

    has might!

3) Campaigns are largely fought on the battlefield of

    ideas, contrasting ideas, and public opinion. These

    battles should NOT be fought like a boxing match

    under the Marquis of Queensbury rules. We must

    fight with ferocity for what we stand for, for what

    we represent! Let's get in the trenches and blast it 

    out with our foe!

4) On both the primary and general election days,

     we must get out of our comfy chairs, put on our 

     hats and coats, and go to our polling precincts to

     vote. As I have said before, if you choose not to

     vote you still have voted. You will have helped 

     opposition to win. That is exactly what happened 

     a few weeks ago. So it ultimately comes down 

     to this: Vote! Vote! VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    There it is, my fellow Wisconsin Righties,

    from the state GOP bigwigs to the candidates

    to the campaign team staff, both volunteers and

    salaried, to the voters who make up our conservative

    electorate.

    Get it? Got it? Good!

   

     MEM

    

This Defeat Had a Thousand Fathers

The very recent Spring elections here in Wisconsin was, once again,

an unmitigated disaster for conservatives, particularly in the race for

the seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court held by the retiring Justice

Rebecca Bradley, one of three remaining conservative justices who 

will be replaced by newly-elected liberal judge Christine Taylor, who

will be sworn in on August 1. The post mortem reveals many steps

which should have been taken to clinch the victory, and many 

missteps which should not have been taken so as to avoid defeat.

Let's swallow hard and review:

Judge Maria Lazar, the opposing candidate, has a fine background as 

a circuit judge in Waukesha County and as a judge on the Wisconsin

Court of Appeals. A conservative jurist, she ran in the recent election

stating that she would follow the state constitution and interpret the 

law thus, but said little else about her judicial philosophy. Meanwhile,

Judge Taylor opened up as to what her goals on the bench would be,

harkening back to her days as a state legislature where she supported

bills to strengthen abortion rights, gun control and unions (you just 

KNOW she would vote to strike down Act 10 as a justice on the state's

high court!). Conservative voters wanted Judge Lazar to be a bit more 

forthcoming on what they could expect from her rather than hear the 

kind of campaign rhetoric one would hear from a high school class 

council candidate. 

Judge Taylor received a lot of monetary donations from wealthy lefty

interests outside of Wisconsin, which enabled her campaign to buy 

more media space in print, on the airwaves, and online. Team Lazar 

was outraised and therefore outspent by Team Taylor, and by a gigantic

margin. Wealthy conservatives were, on the whole, rather hesitant to

give money to the Lazar effort, and based their reluctance on Judge 

Lazar to elucidate more on her ideas concerning her views as related

to her judicial temperament. Who wants to buy a pig in a poke?

However, in fairness to Judge Lazar, she wasn't her own worst enemy;

not at all. Her team made weak messaging, did lackadaisical fund-

raising, and a Wisconsin Republican Party infrastructure which is both

behind the times and the 8-ball, not keeping pace with the Democrats

in the shifting how-tos and wherefores of campaigning. Adding to this,

few of the state bigwigs argued and fueded amongst themselves, 

fighting each other rather than fighting the Democrat-backed enemy; 

this a long-standing problem for the state GOP which has cost the 

party past elections, the infamous circular firing squad. Defeat 

usually is an orphan, but this defeat had a thousand fathers. 

Also, there is a thing called "The billionaire loophole" in which wealthy

donors could, rather than give limited amounts of money to candidates,

give much greater sums of money in donations to the parties of the 

donations for which there are no limits imposed by campaign laws.

Do you know who gave us this loophole? The Republicans! In 2015

the GOP-controlled legislature and then-Gov. Scott Walker passed 

Act 117, doing away with aggregate contribution limits, doubling  

campaign candidate limits, and giving the OK to unlimited transfers

from parties to candidates. A funnel-down way of filling campaign

coffers. Did they not think that the Democrats might, just MIGHT, 

avail themselves of this then-new rule? 

Additionally, the state GOP big shots failed to craft a message to make  

it look worthwhile for conservative voters around the state to come out 

to vote for the GOP candidates in the races. The electorate had many

who didn't vote, not feeling any motivation to vote, going back to the 

weak messaging by the party. There was little resonating with the 

voters and a low turnout was the consequence. Furthermore, the low 

turnout hurt Republicans and Republican-backed candidates in their 

elections, some of them losing races that they otherwise would have  

won. If one chooses not to vote, then one has already voted. 

The Wisconsin Republican Party is its own worst enemy. It should stop,

take stock of itself, and make note of all what it must do in order to get

back on the winning track and regain the ground it lost in recent 

elections. Otherwise, Wisconsin will become a tax-and-red tape, 

crime-ridden hellhole like Illinois, New York, and California, 

for Democrats will have taken over Wisconsin like they have these 

other states and good luck with getting our state back. We conser- 

vatives and Republicans have to win back control of the state GOP,

win back the seats in government, especially the state's highest court,

and with alacrity.

 

We can do it, but time is a dwindling commodity, and the hourglass  

sands are running out.

MEM

 

Re: The Upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

As tomorrow is Election Day here in Wisconsin,

here is some final information on the two candidates

for the seat opening up on the state's high court.

This is a list of facts re: each of the 

candidates.

WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT

Endorsements

Chris Taylor is endorsed by the current liberal majority 

members on the State Supreme Court of Wisconsin:

*Rebecca Dallet 

*Janet Protasiewicz

*Jill Karofsky

*Susan Crawford

Maria Lazar is endorsed by the following conservatives:

*Former Governor Scott Walker

*U.S. Representative Glen Grothman

*Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly

Experience

*Judge Taylor was Attorney and Policy Director, 

  Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin

*Taylor was also a member of the State Assembly

*Was a Dane County Circuit Judge

*Is currently on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals

*Judge Lazar was Corporate Attorney, 

  Galanis, Pollack, Jacobs and Johnson

*Was Assistant Attorney General during Former Governor

  Scott Walker's administration

*Was Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge

*Is currently on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals

On Abortion

*Judge Taylor worked for Planner Parenthood of Wisconsin before 

 she began her judicial work. Taylor advocated for health care

 access and for less limitation on abortion availability. 

*Judge Lazar, as assistant attorney general, argued against Planned 

  Parenthood to limit access to abortions in Wisconsin. 

 

On the Environment

*Judge Taylor, as a state legislator, pushed for legislation to reduce

  lead in water, improve water testing, and bring Wisconsin into

  alignment with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

  practice.

*Judge Lazar ruled that PFAS, "widely used, long lasting chemicals,"

  cannot "be regulated under Wisconsin's spill laws," ruling in favor

  of the Wisconsin State Manufacturers and Commerce.

The Peasant wishes to thank the Spring 2026 Non-Partisan Voter 

Guide for the Wisconsin Supreme Court for supplying this important 

information about the candidates for the contested seat on the state's 

high court.

One final item from the Peasant: If you, my fellow Wisconsin 

conservatives haven't voted during the early voting period, 

come out to your polling precincts tomorrow to participate 

in this vitally important election. VOTE!

MEM

Easter Greetings From The Peasant

To all my wonderful and cherished readers, 

your appreciative and faithful Peasant wishes 

all of you a Happy Easter and all the joys of 

the day! You are my presents at Easter and 

always!

MEM

A Word for My Fellow Badger Staters: VOTE!!!

A word of great import to Wisconsin conservatives

concerning the election on Tuesday, April 7:

The April 7 election is crucial for our state, with 

the effects from its results to be with us for quite 

some time to come. With the Wisconsin State 

Supreme Court currently at a 4-3 liberal advantage

and conservative justice Rebecca Bradley retiring, 

and a left-wing judge who would make perhaps the

most politically left-leaning justice ever to be on the

state's highest court running, fueled by record-setting

campaign contributions from wealthy liberals on both

the east and west coasts, Wisconsin Appeals Court 

Judge Christine Taylor will face Judge Maria Lazar, 

also an Appeals Court judge and a solidly conservative

jurist in the rapidly approaching election. A few items

of note: Judge Lazar is far behind in raising funds for 

her efforts while Lazar is rolling in the green. 

Personally, your fair-play supporting Peasant detests 

out of state fund contributions to candidates for local

and statewide offices, and this sort of strategy has been

integral to the success of Democrat and independent 

left-wingers in Wisconsin elections, but as there is no 

law against it then our side has to engage in same to 

some degree. 

But what has hurt conservative candidates the most in

some of these elections, particularly those for our 

state's high court, has been the failure of many conservative

voters sitting out those elections because of reasons ranging

from "President Trump/a Trump-endorsed candidate isn't 

on the ballot" to "I don't pay much or any attention to any

of the (non-national) off-year elections". To think that if we

had healthy turnouts like we did when Scott Walker ran for 

governor and when Donald Trump ran for the presidency

we could still have had a 5-2 conservative edge on the highest

court in the state! 

If Judge Taylor were to get on the court we would be saying 

goodbye to Gov. Walker's Act 10, which had cut the influence

of labor unions in the funding of public works and other state 

departments which has all this while been keeping taxes at

reasonable, easier-to-handle levels for Wisconsin taxpayers,

not just the upper-level earners but the middle-class earners

as well. We would furthermore be bidding state government's

meddling in parents' rights to get the counselling and the 

treatments they deem necessary for their sexually-confused 

children (boys thinking they are girls and vice-versa). 

This last concern also affects school athletics, mandating that

boys who think they are girls play on the girl's teams, never mind

that they have greater musculature and strength which could

seriously injure female athletes. In addition, such boys would be

allowed by mandate to be able to use the girl's rest rooms.

Your faithful Peasant could give many more such reasons as well

as reasons pertaining to other subjects of concern but for the 

lack of time and room to accommodate them.

Judge Lazar has stated many times in her campaign that she would 

be an interpreter of the law, rather than a legislator on the bench.

She also has a track record of pro-life rulings on abortion-related

cases while on the appellate court. Finally, Judge Lazar is no fan 

of allowing governmental units create red tape which would ensnare 

businesses, making difficulties for them to expand and to create more 

jobs. Wisconsin would resemble our neighboring states such as 

Illinois and Minnesota, which have solidly liberal governments

and a veritable lock on their states, causing many residents and some

businesses to flee to lower- and fewer-taxed states such as Florida 

and Texas. This would erode the state's tax base, making it harder

for Democrat governments to collect the tax revenue that they

would need for their programs and plans.

And what about backing for local police forces? Your frightful Peasant

Shudders to think about the consequences. Especially with our State 

Supremes being elected to ten-year terms. 

But all this could be avoided with our more fair and manageable costs 

of governance and its effects on the cost of living in Wisconsin, along

with fairer business regulations and certainly fairer criminal justice 

laws and support for our law enforcement people remaining intact 

and safe from the whims of a liberal state supreme court. But this 

won't happen if we all don't do one simple, painless thing which 

would be needed to preserve these benefits of living in Wisconsin;

We all must vote. Vote like our future as a state and as individual 

citizens depend on it, because they do. If you don't vote, you still 

will have voted, for if you choose not to decide at your polls you

still have chosen. 

Don't let the other side win by forfeit. One simple, easy act will keep

them at bay, and we will keep our great way of life: 

VOTE! DAMMIT, VOTE!

MEM