Thanks, I now recall hearing about that.
I am S of the state line btw, but grew up in WI and occasionally consider returning. When living up there, I would tsk-tsk about the nuttiness of Illinois’s political scene, thinking WI could never be worse. Alas.
So an election conspiracist was challenged by a more rabid election conspiracist, held on and won his election, fired the guy chasing down his election conspiracies (that he had set up in the first place), and is now being challenged by write-in campaign by the rabid conspiracist whom he defeated. That is a genuine schadenfreude twofer with a karma twist.
The repubs took their cue from orange who complained endlessly about being treated unfairly while he was campaigning.
“I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before,” Woodward quoted Trump as telling him. “There’s nobody — what we have is incredible.”
I don’t have any inside scuttlebutt. All I’ve got is this from the LaCrosse Tribune a couple of days ago:
“Democrats are considering fielding a candidate in the district, even if their name cannot be on the ballot. Meg Andrietsch, chairwoman of the Racine County Democratic Party, said there are Democrats in District 63 considering a campaign, but no one has officially said they want to run yet.”
It takes courage though – as jinnj said in another comment, there was one Dem candidate who withdrew in 2020 in the wake of personal attacks.
In the 2020 election, the campaign was the most expensive ever, ~$1 million a great deal poured in from the outside. I can’t find the article that gave a breakdown, but with that kind of money and still a 17 point loss do you throw that much money at it every two years and hope something like this happens or do you focus on the marginal districts where they need every bit to try and eke out a win?
I think this is a most excellent idea, more like this please!
Please proceed…
Personal attacks - kinda gives the lie to the whole Scott Walker “Wisconsin nice” thing, don’t it?
Yep. So you’re ready to pull up stakes, quit your job and life, move to Wisconsin, right fucking now? No? So why do you think there are some other people growing on trees ready to throw away a year of their life and income to satisfy your sloganeering?
Adam Steen, a 2020 election denier who lost his race against Vos by a mere 260 votes, announced during a press conference in Burlington on Thursday that he would be running as a write-in candidate in November’s general election.
“I want the people to be able to choose their election representatives,” he said, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
I know I’m just a simple caveman, but I was under the impression that elections are about choosing . . . and that in this case, voters chose.
I’m over here smiling at the irony that Vos is trying to distance himself from Trump by putting an end to the committee investigating the past election, and Steen won’t let him off so easily (via Steen’s trump-eting of tfg’s endorsement).
So the upside is that Vos wastes time and money o his own race. And should he lose, to a fascist trump sucking asshole, that guy won’t be the Leader so Vos’ power base and control takes a hit.
Better if a Democrat had run. Lesson learned for the umpteenth time.
As I recall, a fellow named Howard Dean proposed a “50-state strategy.” Too bad he screamed and ruined his political career.
Kari Lake.
The problem with being attractive, and a news reader, and being able to string noises into sentences does not make you a viable candidate.
Let’s be clear.
Just because you can make noises into words, and words into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into PowerPoints, DOESN"T MEAN YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY!™
Well, frankly Steen’s gambit only makes sense in the absence of a Dem challenger. So tired of Democratic pre-surrender.
Some candidate, any candidate is better than none. Get the ballot line. If it’s truly hopeless, you don’t need to do the fundraising lose a year of your life thing, but just be on the fricking ballot, in case lightning strikes.
Me? I’m hoping that when Trump loses to DeSantis (or vice versa) he launches a massive third party write-in campaign and sucks 10-15% of the gullible vote into a black hole.
Wyoming is only a plane flight away. Get out there and do it, since it is so trivial to commit a year of your life to running for office. Though if you don’t go and do it, it is by definition the Democrats’ fault, by your own words.
Sure, fine, why not. Will you be funding the $500,000 every two years? And why just in that assembly district? Currently there are 38 Democratic districts, most of which are a fight because of thin margins, 4 vacant and 57 Republican. And the red Assembly districts, for the most part, are very heavily red.
So we need candidates and funding for 61 Assembly districts. Now, what about all of the other legislative offices? And that’s only Wisconsin!
That’s why you focus on the ones where you might have a chance. There isn’t the manpower or candidates to contest EVERY seat, EVERY time.
