Ripon now votes blue, once Republican Party hub

Ripon, Wisconsin is the birthplace of the Republican Party; but now has transformed into a blue area as the GOP has moved away from its roots into statist radicalism.

Julia Zhu and Alexandra Chachkevitch have the story.

Meanwhile Scott Walker's criminal rise to power being investigated by the John Doe probe has now seen the new Walker surrogates' line that the probe is a witch hunt (notwithstanding the immunity deals and guilty pleads already entered) joined by the first such piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.