Republicans Renew Attack Against Matt Flynn in Wisconsin Gov Race

Matt Flynn at NextGen America forum for
Democratic Party candidates in July 2018

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — The Republican daily, Wisconsin State Journal (Madison), ran a banner headline this week for a piece fed by state Republicans against gubernatorial candidate, Matt Flynn, who is running for the Democratic Party nomination.

The latest in a string of Republican troll attacks is bogus as Republican attacks tend to be.

These political hits are revealing of whom the Republicans and their Party press fear in the general election campaign: Matt Flynn, a Milwaukee progressive.

Matt Flynn stands alone among the eight candidates for the Democratic nomination in vowing to litigate Foxconn out of Wisconsin.

Foxconn is so unpopular in the northern two-thirds of the state that Gov. Scott Walker (R) refuses Foxconn photo-ops.

Not just Republicans and Foxconn fear Flynn.

State Democratic Party insiders who rigged the 2016 nomination for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders are working an inside game against Flynn, who is often irreverent toward Party flunkies, and rightfully so.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has done nothing to discourage the stealth campaign against Flynn.

Misplaced in Party machinations is the Lost Decade (2010-2019), an unmitigated disaster for the Wisconsin people.

The Wisconsin disaster required the small number of incompetent and patronage-happy Democratic Party followers to abandon the people, leaving future generations in the lurch, many of whom ridicule Democrats as a force for change.

Take a trip to the Meadowood Shopping Mall on the southwest side of Madison and ask young and minority folks for whom they are voting.

Most folks whom this writer has contacted the last five years are not voting.

Matt Flynn pitches for support at
NextGen America forum for Democratic
Party candidates in July 2018

Expressing political sentiment by fleeing the ballot box is music to Republicans who maintain their voter obstruction work against the vulnerable segments of the population who want to throw in the towel.

At a NextGen America forum for Wisconsin Democratic Party candidates for governor this week, Matt Flynn outlined an agenda demanding tuition relief, legalizing marijuana, implementing mass use of the governor's pardon power and a comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system.

Thanks @nextgenamerica WI #youthvote for a great forum! We discussed everything from legalizing marijuana, the governor's pardon power, providing 2yrs free tuition at Wisconsin colleges and universities, and why a hot dog IS a sandwich (if it's in a bun). https://t.co/mm4lsqo7yG pic.twitter.com/s70ZCyoVEF

— Matt Flynn (@ForwardWFlynn) July 24, 2018

If you're in Wisconsin, consider: When is the last time you've read anything from a Democratic Party of Wisconsin member publicly questioning their Party's performance during the Lost Decade?

From 2007-2010 Wisconsin Democrats had gubernatorial and legislative control of state government. But when Democrats considered legal use of medical marijuana, for example, the Party allowed one Democratic state senator to block a vote on the popular reform.

There was no strategic reformist legislation passed. Rather, the Democratic Party, as with insiders today, follows the golden rule of Democrats: Groupthink rules and don't rock the boat.

The Dems could have passed at least some manner of legalization of marijuana, reforms against gerrymandering, strengthened the rights of organized labor, locked in funding for the UW System and public schools, codified local control of government, reformed the criminal justice system, strengthened voting rights, among a host of initiatives not dreamed of among Party bureaucrats.

It's not like the writing was not on the wall spelling out what Republicans would do upon taking power. But few Democrats think, even less act.

Republicans do think and act in the current campaign for governor.

The GOP is not trolling Tony Evers, the white bureaucrat from east-central Wisconsin who will animate young and minority voters with all the passion generated by a baseball score from last Spring.

The GOP and Paul Ryan are trolling Randy Bryce, Democratic candidate for Ryan's seat, and Flynn.

August 14 Wisconsin Partisan Primary

There are too many X factors for anyone to make a data-drivien prediction on who wins the Democratic Party nomination for governor.

Early voting and registration in Madison are picking up and will accelerate in late July. Informed sources say they expect a 45-percent turnout in Madison, thanks to the municipal government's pro-voter initiatives. Other municipalities continue to contact Madison City Hall for tips, after being pushed by their local voting rights workers.

Does Madison Mayor and candidate for governor, Paul Soglin benefit from this massive turnout relative to the rest of the state? No doubt Soglin will benefit, but the question is to what degree, and speculation elicits wild disparities among observers.

Among a strong field of candidates, I predict post-air wars that Matt Flynn overtakes Tony Evers, and the Democratic  establishment takes another shot on their collective chin, not that this bothers Party bureaucrats who are still lined up at the trough, like so many pigs and cows at a factory farm.

Scott Walker is vulnerable.