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| Clean water activists in Saratoga, Wisconsin fight for water and oppose the siting of a proposed factory farm. Clean water activists statewide fear a future where clean and safe lakes will become a memory, and vow August 14, Election Day, as a milestone in taking Wisconsin back from industrial interests allied with religious Evangelicals and racists who tend to cross-pollinate here. |
The most significant result will be the winner of the nomination of the Democratic Party primary for governor.
The Democratic nominee will face Gov. Scott Walker (R), an arsonist who is destroying long traditions, institutions, community democracy, a world-class University system, voting rights, rivers, lakes and aquifers that have been actively preserved or built over generations, (NYT, The Progressive, Mal Contends).
The product of labor, intellect, time away from families, energy, entire lives and whole communities, Wisconsin as a state is poised at the very top of the capitol and if it falls this November, noone is confident the shattering is repairable.
These are the electoral stakes.
There has been citizen action and inspiring ferment the last several years rivaling the peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
But with every political step froward, the menace of groupthink, patronage, and narcissism embodied in Democratic Party of Wisconsin functionaries, aides and political operatives slimes the terrain, leaving behind a trail of Republican victories against families and communities.
As a group, Wisconsin democrats constitute the most maladroit bunch of political operatives and policymakers in state history.
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Whether citizen action, innovative municipal policy, campaign brilliance and powerful electoral tailwinds are sufficient to propel a Matt Flynn, Paul Soglin, Kathleen Vinehout, Kelda Roys or a Mahlon Mitchell to victory Tuesday may decide if the state of Wisconsin continues to exist.
Make no mistake, Nov. 6 could signal the long-feared exodus of intellectuals, writers, artists and business and cultural innovators from the progressive state.
If gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers — pushed behind-the-scenes by some Democratic Party incompetents who bequeathed to us Scott Walker and Donald Trump — wins, Wisconsin loses.
"We’ve got to get back to being decent," said Sally Mather of Mazomanie, commenting on the mid-terms in this morning's New York Times.
Yes. But we have to win first.
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Matt Flynn and Paul Soglin stand apart by vowing to rescind the illegal Foxconn contract that promises to wreak havoc as Wisconsin families will collectively cough up $ billions to finance the most insidious of corporate bad actors.
Wisconsin voters are anxious, and many voters are still making up their minds today.
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Looming in the background are two federal voting rights cases — One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen (U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin and Frank v. Walker — which are being heard by a three-judge panel at the Count of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (Marley, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).
The three judges are: Frank Easterbrook, Michael Kanne and Diane Sykes.
Easterbrook and Sykes are corrupt and craft their election-law opinions to most benefit the Republican Party.
Both judges would be willing to issue an order in the next eight weeks eviscerating the effect of pro-voting rights decisions that have resulted in high voter turnouts during the last two years.
Stay tuned.
