Wisconsin Megathread

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Walker has been saying there's no money for the roads and has been begging the feds for billions to help, but they "found" $100 million more for road expansion by Foxconn. So likely more bonds and deferring interest, yay. -_-


Also, Soglin needs to GTFO.

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Ugggghhhhhhhhhhh

It almost seems like Soglin wants Walker to win...

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Barnes is a Chris Larson puppet, won't support him.

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Go Evers!

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Moved last fall, think I figured out where I'm supposed to vote, we'll find out if I'm right after work. Just the State SC and local school board election to vote in. The school board has it split between those who are infuriated the school board passed an energy saves/repair motion last year without letting the voters try and vote it down. Will be voting for those in favor of the correct use of power/not the morons who want to pay nothing for schools.

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Moved last fall, think I figured out where I'm supposed to vote, we'll find out if I'm right after work. Just the State SC and local school board election to vote in. The school board has it split between those who are infuriated the school board passed an energy saves/repair motion last year without letting the voters try and vote it down. Will be voting for those in favor of the correct use of power/not the morons who want to pay nothing for schools.

Super easy to look up in WI: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/

Thanks, it is showing the correct area. They just moved the polling places out of schools in my new city so I wasn't sure if it would have been correct, but thankfully it is.

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I think I'm leaning towards Dallet in the primary only because I fear that Burns might lose the general. If it's Dallet vs Burns I'd probably vote Burns. Weird.

That's where my mind is going right now too.

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It's folly to extrapolate results for an election over 2 years from now based on one poll.

For Walker at least we can use it, election is this fall. Hope he can get slapped out of office.

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You know, someone who I haven't seen many people talk about is this Mandela Barnes guy who's running for Lieutenant Governor. He's a former State Rep who got his seat from primarying the incumbent, and unsuccessfully attempted to primary a State Senate incumbent in 2016. He's young(only 31), African-American, and he has a good quality Twitter profile(which I guess = charisma, or something).

Provided he wins the primary, I can see him become a rising star at some point the future. Thoughts, anyone?

http://www.mandelabarnes.com/

He's a Chris Larson crony, glad he lost!

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You know, someone who I haven't seen many people talk about is this Mandela Barnes guy who's running for Lieutenant Governor. He's a former State Rep who got his seat from primarying the incumbent, and unsuccessfully attempted to primary a State Senate incumbent in 2016. He's young(only 31), African-American, and he has a good quality Twitter profile(which I guess = charisma, or something).

Provided he wins the primary, I can see him become a rising star at some point the future. Thoughts, anyone?

http://www.mandelabarnes.com/

He's a Chris Larson crony, glad he lost!

the MKE County Dem Party is the most fragmented dumpster fire of a party in the state. Larson v Abele is a giant waste of time, and I hate all of them.

Kinda fits the bill of the most fragmented city in the U.S.

You guys should read up on the wonder of a person that is Chris Larson.

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Anyone care to fill me on the horrors of Chris Larson?

The two big ones I can remember were when he pushed and got a white candidate from the suburbs to represent a very heavy black majority district into office because the white area voted much more heavily in the primary. She was his handpicked person.

Also orchestrated Mandela Barnes rise and tried to do the same with knocking out Lena Taylor.

He also voted for the rebuild of the Estabrook damn even though taking it down would be the environmentally and fiscally better option. Support was for the few rich people along the man made lake a little upstream in the burbs.

There is a lot more that I can't remember but he wants to be King Larson while playing the people's progressive.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-judge-considering-forcing-walker-to-call-elections/2018/03/22/657079ac-2ddd-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html

Major blow to Walker, Judge orders him to call special elections.

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The generally conservative Wisconsin State Journal endorses Rebecca Dallet.

Nice

He's going to lose again, they can't hold it for a hypothetical bill passing.

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The generally conservative Wisconsin State Journal endorses Rebecca Dallet.

Nice

He's going to lose again, they can't hold it for a hypothetical bill passing.

He really doesn't want the attack ads this fall of canceling an election that was already called.

You have to wonder if Republicans are thinking they will be in power forever. They probably think they will be, then when it turns they will go agro about all the changes they made.

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Why can't Scott Walker obey the law?

The news even said he's scared of Democrats winning after the last special election and the Koch brothers told him no.

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Why can't Scott Walker obey the law?

The news even said he's scared of Democrats winning after the last special election and the Koch brothers told him no.

No as in “no more special elections” or “no more money for you”?

I would have to verify with the bill but I think it was to stop all special elections as being a waste of money and "against the voice of the people".

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Gass, Masterjedi and Arch,
Is this winnable?

I'm not the best with what's going on outstate so I'll leave that to the others.

As for me I'm just surprised Walker didn't try and go to the SC but knowing some of the members they probably told him it would be a bad idea.

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https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/979359077104054274

They realized how bad this would hurt them if they kept pushing it. At least they're learning something in the era of Trump. They can't rely on blaming Obama to win votes anymore.

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This isn't going to motivate a demotivated base to come out and vote. Could even make them think it won't happen and they stay home.

But trying to use the "evil correct DC liberals" likely isn't going to help either.

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Wisconsin Family Asks Screnock Ad to be taken down, re-victimizes family.

One more reason to not vote for that piece of crap

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Snowstorm already in progress up north, supposed to be double digits up there. Supposed to turn to a mix in SE WI sometime in the afternoon and full on snow at 6 so that will depress this election.

Hoping it holds off on snow until after 4:30 so I can vote and get my ass home.

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Snowstorm already in progress up north, supposed to be double digits up there. Supposed to turn to a mix in SE WI sometime in the afternoon and full on snow at 6 so that will depress this election.

Hoping it holds off on snow until after 4:30 so I can vote and get my ass home.

Yeah, the whole state is gonna be buried in it. I'm voting in an hour though.

Lucky, needed to be at work at 7, just needs to hold off until 4:30 and let me get it done lol

Hoping Oak Creek doesn't go stupid full on right though. Whole hoopla over the school board doing its job instead of a referendum to save money by spending money (green/energy savings) and a crazy mayoral candidate who doesn't like the development going on.

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Snowstorm already in progress up north, supposed to be double digits up there. Supposed to turn to a mix in SE WI sometime in the afternoon and full on snow at 6 so that will depress this election.

Hoping it holds off on snow until after 4:30 so I can vote and get my ass home.

Yeah, the whole state is gonna be buried in it. I'm voting in an hour though.

South of Madison should be relatively unaffected. Not that there is a lot of Wisconsin south of Madison.

Hey now, Janesville is a lovely place. 

A lot of locals seem to think it's a gleaming metropolis in the country lol

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Ugh, looks like a snow storm is hitting most of the state.

Generally will hit the north more than the south so deep red central WI will be affected the most.

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Wonder how Milwaukee turnouts/votes today. The liberal-leaning candidates (combined) won with a 26-point margin there in the spring primary; Clinton won Milwaukee County by 37 points. Obviously a completely different electorate, but a big margin in Milwaukee probably hands it to Dallet. If Dallet can win most of the counties that swung to Trump, though, she may not need a Presidential-style margin in Milwaukee.

I'm hoping to see Steve Taylor lose (doubt it) and the Treasury to not be eliminated (doubt it) otherwise it's just my school board that has any meaningful election going on.