A Call to Boycott Wisconsin Democrats — Party Is over for Nihilistic Gang Defending Wrongful Convictions

"I hate injustice. I guess that's about the only thing I really do hate."
— Ben Shahn, anti-fascist artist (1898–1969)

Madison, Wisconsin — This is a call for withholding all political and electoral support for Wisconsin Democrats at all levels of government.

This action starts with opposing Gov Tony Evers (D), Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D), U.S. Rep Mark Pocan (D), and all Democrats down to any  state, county and municipal candidates who are silent on the wrongful convictions of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, and so many others languishing behind bars, ruining and preventing their lives.

The game, this charade, is over, people. 

The Democratic Party is imprisoning innocents and killing black and brown people in broad daylight, then defending these crimes in their elected offices of public trust. Kenosha and Jacob Blake are the norm.

Tony Robinson is the norm. Paul Heenan is the norm. Ashley DiPiazza is the norm. That's just Madison, the civilized place. Look, killer cops cannot operate for long without the support of the Democratic Party. This is the truth staring everyone in the face, and yet we look away.

In Wisconsin, supporters of black and brown folks, and Brendan Dassey and Steven Avery, it's time to pursue opposition to Wisconsin Democrats at all levels of government. This injustice system cannot go on unless we support Evers and Kaul in the political system.

Corrupt Wisconsin police targeted the innocent to tragic
consequence in cases of  Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey.
Image from Kathe Kollwitz, (1867-1945). Kollwitz
is a major anti-fascist artist who lived in Germany, and never
recovered from the death of her son in World War I.
Image depicts German state enlisting her son, shortly before
he was killed in a senseless and ridiculous war.

Evers and Kaul know the facts of these innocents in prison, especially Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey.

What escapes bums like Evers and Kaul is no individual life is worth the Democratic Party, especially this Democratic Party.

Over time, we can quickly raise the costs of Party opposition to freeing innocent men and women. 

Even a marginal raising of electoral costs will quickly degrade the Party in Wisconsin. No more support for Democrats, people. We want Brendan and Steven free?

The political system is the pressure point. This is the prominent way in which we pursue change and protect our very lives and liberty, yet many working for the freedom of innocents eschew the political and electoral systems as a means of freeing people who do not belong behind bars.

Most folks in Wisconsin, my state, had they resided in Germany in the 1930s would have made superlative NAZIs, worse -- by-standers. No more.
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"I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me."

All the NAZIs required of the population is a "mood of passive compliance" as Hitler’s Holocaust and armies coursed through Europe as he promised a return to "traditional values" and security for good German families. -- Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1970). Cited by Noam Chomsky, The Culture of Terrorism (1988).
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Has anyone been watching the Derek Chauvin trial on Court TV?

Every witness at the Chauvin trial struggles with the question, 'should they have done more to save George Floyd?' The sadistic pig-cop Chauvin and his buddies did not struggle with any moral question. They viciously terrorized and killed a man.

Watch the sadist Chauvin driving his knee as he looks around and preens on a terrified George Floyd's neck, as he arrogantly flaunts his status as a cop among Minnesota-Nice society. What we do in Wisconsin's Democratic Party is worse, and this sick game must be over now.

Don't Believe the Hype — State Sen Carpenter Hates Black Lives Matter; Faked His Collapse, and Wants Liberation Movement in Prison

Madison, Wisconsin — As Wisconsin racists go, Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (D) is typical, meaning he's bad in the worst state to be black.

So, when Carpenter showed up late at night at a Black Lives Matter protest on June 23, it wasn't to express his love for black people. The Milwaukee legislator has worked against black folks for a long time.

In fact, Carpenter has worked his whole legislative career mobilizing the war against drugs directed against people of color.

After state Democrats regained unitary control of the state legislative and executive branches in 2007-11, Carpenter, while working as a member of the out-sized Joint Finance Committee, killed marijuana reform and doctor-prescribed marijuana.

Pot possession and distribution charges are an effective means of keeping black and brown people in prison, and Carpenter is all-in for this enterprise.

[Folks can contact State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) to ask why he rejects decarceration, decriminalization, police defunding. Seven weeks into historic movement, Carpenter instead authors bill expanding criminal code to protect statues. 
(608) 266-8535
Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov ]

Carpenter traveled to Madison on June 23 to confront the Black Lives Matter protesters, an incident that Carpenter, in his evolving narratives, says ended up with a fight, after which the legislator proclaimed his love for black people and then walked to the capitol, where he collapsed near a WKOW-TV crew, (Pittman/WORT News). Listen to audio and ask if Carpenter speaking sounds like he is on the verge of collapse that Carpenter performed minutes later when entering the capitol square grounds that Carpenter knows is under surveillance and enjoyed a heavy media presence.

In fact, video shows Carpenter performed his 'collapse' at which Carpenter laid down gently on soft plants (instead of the pavement) and then used the subsequent four weeks to issue press statements hyping his 'recovery.' He didn't fall down uncontrollably, he performed a nice, easy set-down in front of WKOW-TV to dramatize the confrontation that he began.

He then pitched the story to local and national media, overemphasizing that he is "gay," a nice angle to gain prominence in the identity-politics-obsessed corporate media.

His anti-Black Lives Matter true colors revealed subsequently, Carpenter then became unhinged, and he harassed and accosted a black candidate for a Dane County state senate seat, Nada Elmikashfi, for daring to criticize Carpenter's proposed expansion of the Wisconsin Criminal Code to protect statutes, but not black lives.

A reprimand from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin put an end to Carpenter's tirade.

Don't believe the hype as Madison Police and the Dane County District Attorney's Office charge-stack two Black Lives Matter allies at a protest leading to a confrontation that Carpenter began, that he wanted and is now using for his own racist ends.

Wisconsin GOP Justices Seen as Corrupt, Litigation Is Pending

Wisconsin Supreme Court entrance at state capitol

Update: In Jere Fabick v. Andrea Palm, Appeal Number 2020AP000828, A May 18 state DoJ legal filing reads in part: "As a result of this Court's decision in Legislature v Palm, the petitioners' motion for an injunction and petition for an original action challenge an order that no longer exists. If this Court doe not sua sponte deny the petitioners' motion for an injunction and decline to take jurisdiction of the petition for an original action because the claims are moot, then the State Respondents respectfully request that the Court issue a schedule for supplemental briefings on the issue of mootness," (Wheeler Report).
  
Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin Supreme Court republicans deciding questions through fidelity to law is as likely as Republican legislators using empirical investigation and scientific findings to inform public policy.

It's not the way it is here.

Impartial processes are often mission-critical barriers to Republican Party aims of achieving corporatist demands and fundamentalist taboo-morality dogma.

Democratic foundations such as law, rights and empirical reality are rejected by Republicans, in conception.

All proceedings, hearings, deliberation and elections should arrive at orderly, pro-Party results. Law and citizen input must be minimized because the rule of law and rights-laden democracy can be powerful opposing forces to Republican Party autocracy.

It is in through this perspective that we can understand the work of Wisconsin Republican justices reaching preordained, nakedly corrupt decisions to serve Republican Party interests.

Noone was surprised by the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision to block Gov Tony Evers administration's safer-at-home Emergency Order 28, (Wisconsin Executive Orders), (Treleven, Wisconsin State Journal).

That legal case is entitled Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, Julie Willems Van Dijk and Nicole Safar, In Their Official Capacities As Executives of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Respondents. (Appeal Number 2020AP000765), (Case History).

Another case now before the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the so-called second safer/stay-at-home litigation, Jere Fabick v. Andrea Palm, Appeal Number 2020AP000828.
 
Fabick appears part of the Republican Party effort to dismantle targeted statutory law protecting public health and safety without the introduction of legislation. No need for a bill when hyper-activist justices stand ready to accomplish Party aims.

"Final briefs have been filed in a second lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's 'Safer at Home' order, this one arguing the order violated peoples' rights to freedom of worship, speech and travel under the Wisconsin Constitution," reports Wisconsin Public Radio.

Fabick is pending before the state Supreme Court. A decision whether the Court will hear the case is expected soon.

As local public health officials issue local orders to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the wake of Palm, the state DoJ issued an advisory opinion on May 15 affirming the authority of local officials because they are empowered by a different statute than the governor and Health secretary.

The non-binding DoJ opinion states in part:

4. First,  the supreme court’s  decision  addressed  only  DHS’s  authority found in Wis. Stat. § 252.02. That statute does not govern the authority of local health officers, which is separately set out in Wis. Stat. § 252.03. That separate grant of local authority  provides,  among  other  things,  powers  to  'prevent,  suppress  and  control  communicable  diseases'  and 'forbid  public  gatherings  when  deemed  necessary  to  control  outbreaks  or  epidemics.'  Wis.  Stat.  §  252.03(1)–(2).1  Because the  court  decision addressed a different statute applicable to a state agency, and not the statute applicable to local authorities, the Palm decision is not directly controlling on powers under the latter statute.

More litigation is expected by some observers.

Gov Tony Evers Sees End of Safer-at-Home Order; Would Follow Trump, Republicans' COIVD 19 Policy

Update II: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is warning Congress that if the country reopens too soon during the coronavirus pandemic, it will result in "needless suffering and death,"
(Madisoncom). Gov Evers' political gambit in issuing a new May 11 Emergency Order is his latest let's-hope tactic.
 
Update: See The GOP tests 2020 campaign theme: ‘Some of you will have to die.’ Tony Evers' message accepts this GOP premise, giving up major public health infrastructure built up over generations.

Madison, Wisconsin — Gov Tony Evers signaled a major course change in coronavirus COVID 19 policy in a statement last week, telling WBAY-TV his current Stay-at-Home order — now before the Wisconsin Supreme Court awaiting decision — should expire on May 26.

Evers (D) told WBAY's reporter, Cami Rapson, that he believes he can predict COVID 19's trajectory on May 26, divine relevant data points now, and infectious-disease experts' advice and conclusions, false statements that fly in the face of leading epidemiologists and the history of unpredictable and rapid progression of this coronavirus through the American population, (Roberts, New York Times).

Said Evers in a meandering interview with WBAY:

I think by [May] 26th we will be in a place where we don't have to do that, [extend Stay-at-home], unless something extraordinary happens. You know, the virus doesn't consult with me on that, but we are doing a great job with testing and tracing those results in a way that I feel confident we are headed in the right direction. ...

Whether we need to extend that, I frankly think we are going to meet our metrics that we laid out anyway. And so I'm doubtful. But if we have surges all across the state and things are going backwards, I suppose that's possible. But I think Safer at Home has worked, it's done its job, and we will continue to open up the state as we can thoughtfully and safely do it.

Evers is now rhetorically appeasing the Trump administration and Wisconsin Republicans, all of whom are working to end public health experts' pandemic policy at the expense and very lives of vulnerable members of our citizenry.

Tony Evers is privately derided by progressives and Democrats here for his dithering politics, exemplified by Evers' heavily criticized effort to hold Wisconsin's April 7 elections before reversing course on April 6 in the face of national ridicule. But Evers' comments last week garnered silence among Wisconsin Democrats.

Evers insists his public policy is informed by science.

As national media cite experts warning social-distancing efforts will not be sufficient to control the pandemic in the long term in the United States, Evers publicly musing ending social-distancing in some two weeks seems absurd.

Writes Siobhan Roberts in the New York Times:

By now we know — contrary to false predictions — that the novel corona virus will be with us for a rather long time.

'Exactly how long remains to be seen,' said Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 'It’s going to be a matter of managing it over months to a couple of years. It’s not a matter of getting past the peak, as some people seem to believe.'

A single round of social distancing — closing schools and workplaces, limiting the sizes of gatherings, lockdowns of varying intensities and durations — will not be sufficient in the long term.

In the interest of managing our expectations and governing ourselves accordingly, it might be helpful, for our pandemic state of mind, to envision this predicament — existentially, at least — as a soliton wave: a wave that just keeps rolling and rolling, carrying on under its own power for a great distance.

Tony Evers seems an unappealing cross between Peter Pan and Neville Chamberlain as COVID 19's in-effect proponents wish to create a make-believe herd immunity among our citizen 'warriors,' a reality that is unachievable without a vaccine.

See the paper at the Center for Infectious Disease Research andPolicy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota for three projected scaniros of COVID 19.

Wisconsin Republican Justices Put on Shit Show in Stay-at-Home Orals

Wisconsin Supreme Court entrance at state capitol

Update: "The court’s five Republican justices appeared to have no compunction about ending social distancing rules for the rest of the state’s citizens, even as they conducted their hearing remotely on Zoom," writes Mark Joseph Stern in Slate.

Madison, Wisconsin —The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning on the Republican-led legislature's petition to block Gov Tony Evers administration's safer-at-home Emergency Order, (Wisconsin Executive Orders), (Treleven, Wisconsin State Journal).

Most observers believe the Republican-led state court will rule in the Republican Party's favor, so partisan have Republican justices become.

The legal case is entitled Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, Julie Willems Van Dijk and Nicole Safar, In Their Official Capacities As Executives of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Respondents. (Appeal Number 2020AP000765), (Case History).

The Legislature wants a Court order, (temporary restraining order), that would bar enforcement of the stay-at-home order issued April 16, 2020, (Wisconsin Executive Orders).

Oral arguments today featured rhetorical, contentions and seemingly outrageous comment by two Republican justices —Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack (R) and Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley (R).

Justice Patience Roggensack second-guessed the administration's executive order and mused falsely that the coronavirus mostly impacted workers in meat-packing plants, and not what she termed "the regular folks."

Observes listening in online gasped at what appeared to be Roggensack's false observation implicitly disregarding the health and safety of Wisconsin citizens.

Justice Rebecca Bradley editorialized that the stay-at-home order is comparable to the infamous Japanese internment camps.

And Wisconsin's Republican chief justice just dismissed a coronavirus flare up because it only impacted people who work in meat packing plants and not "the regular folks."

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 5, 2020

Justice Rebecca Bradley, a Republican, just compared Gov. Evers' stay-at-home order to the forced Japanese internment order upheld in Korematsu.

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 5, 2020

Attorneys Ryan J. Walsh for Petitioner, and Colin T. Roth for Respondents, argued the case.

On May 1, the Court voted to accept jurisdiction over the case and agreed to hear argument on the following issues, which were set forth in the Legislature’s petition:

The questions before the Court concern alleged overreach by the Evers administration accused of running afoul of Wisconsin statutes through its rule-making processes in its Executive Orders, (Wisconsin Court Headlines).

Republican justices also accused the Evers administration of violating the Wisconsin and United States Constitutions, Executive Orders, (Wisconsin Court Headlines).

The Wisconsin Supreme Court bars in-person oral arguments, using video conferencing instead, due to "health concerns created by the COVID-19 pandemic," (Wisconsin Supreme Court).

The May 5 oral arguments are reproduced below in YouTube by Wisconsin Eye.

Wisconsin Gov and DoJ Brief: Toss Republican Suit Seeking End to Stay-at-Home Order

Madison, Wisconsin — The Wisconsin Dept of Justice filed a brief asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to deny the Republican-led legislature's petition to block the Tony Evers administration's safer-at-home Emergency Order, (Wisconsin Executive Orders).

The legal case is entitled Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, Julie Willems Van Dijk and Nicole Safar, In Their Official Capacities As Executives of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Respondents. (Appeal Number 2020AP000765), (Case History).

The Legislature wants a Court order, (temporary restraining order), that would bar enforcement of the stay-at-home order issued April 16, 2020, (Wisconsin Executive Orders).

In the response brief, the Evers administration asks the Court to deny the legislature's petition for an original action before the high state court, and the motion for a temporary injunction.

Observes believe the legal position of the administration is strong, but the Republican-led Wisconsin Supreme Court often acts an adjunct for the Republican Party in political cases.

The brief emphasizes the prominence of Wisconsin Statute § 252.02, the COMMUNICABLE DISEASES or Pandemic statutes.

States the brief:

Even if  this  Court  were  to  accept  jurisdiction, the claims should be dismissed as a matter of law.

A. The  language,  context, and history of Wis. Stat. § 252.02 make clear that DHS was authorized to issue Safer-at-Home.

It is well-accepted that statutes like Wis. Stat. § 252.02 provide  broad grants   of  authority  to  respond  to  a very  rare  and  narrow  type  of crisis—the  very  one  we  now  face  with  a  rapid  spread  of  a  novel  communicable  disease. These   kinds   of   provisions   appear in statutory   codes throughout  the  country. To  respondents’  knowledge,  every  state   operates   under   laws   vesting   these   duties   in   a   department of  health  or  similar  executive  agency,  and  the  petitioners  have  not  suggested  otherwise.  These  laws  are designed to  provide  an  executive  agency  the  tools  to  act  quickly  and  with  flexibility  based  on  circumstances  on  the  ground. Wisconsin’s version of these laws, in section 252.02, does  just  that.  It  gives  DHS  flexible  powers to  address  the specific  threat of a  rapidly  spreading  disease. That  makes  sense:  this  Court  has  long  acknowledged  the  commonsense  proposition that public health officials must be able to react swiftly and effectively in the face of an imminent or existing crisis.

As  it  pertains  to the pandemic  here,  the  statutes  contain  three  independent  powers  that  authorize  measures found  in  Safer-at  -Home: Section  252.02(6)  permits  DHS  to  “authorize and implement all emergency measures to control communicable diseases.” Section 252.02(4) allows the agency to  “issue  orders  .  .  .  for  the control  and  suppression  of  communicable diseases” that “may be made applicable to the whole  .  .  .  of  the  state[  ].”  And  Section  252.02(3)  authorizes  DHS  to  “close  schools  and  forbid  public  gatherings  .  .  .  to  control outbreaks and epidemics.”Petitioners’ approach  to these statues  is not only atextual, it also   would lead to absurd, and dangerous, results. This is exactly the  time  when  pandemic  statutes  should apply with their full force. [pp 22-23]

The Evers administration April 28 press release is linked here.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court currently bars in-person oral arguments, using video conferencing instead, due to "health concerns created by the COVID-19 pandemic," (Wisconsin Supreme Court).

Wisconsin Republicans Seek Court Action to Block Safer at Home Order

Madison, Wisconsin — Republicans asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to block the Tony Evers administration's safer-at-home Emergency Order 28.

The Safer at Home order seeks to protect the public from the deadly COVID 19 disease during the state public health emergency, (Wisconsin Executive Orders; Wisconsin Examiner; Wisconsin State Journal; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).

The legal case is entitled Wisconsin Legislature v. Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, Julie Willems Van Dijk and Nicole Safar, In Their Official Capacities As Executives of Wisconsin Department of Health Services Respondents. (Appeal Number 2020AP000765), (Case History).

The Republican-led Legislature seeks a Court order, (temporary restraining order), that would bar enforcement of the stay-at-home order that was issued April 16, 2020, (Wisconsin Executive Orders).

The state Supreme Court is often used as an instrument to advance Republican Party aims.

The legal petition is unusual in its use of political rhetoric.

The petition characterizes the Evers administration work on the Public Safety emergency as a "decree," and includes use of adverbs such as Incredibly, brazenly to describe executive orders issued during the health emergency.

The legal action follows objection from rightwing billionaires such as Charles Koch and Liz Uihlein. Uihlein urges her company employees in a recent email to oppose Gov Evers' work on COVID 19, (Bloomberg).

The Wisconsin Supreme Court majority is biased for Republican Party interests.

Five right-wing justices routinely rule for their partisan patrons. With the defeat of Justice Daniel Kelly in April, the Republican majority on the Court will be four rightwing justices to three when Kelly's term expires on July 31.

The petition urges the case be resolved without oral argument.

The petition states:

Although this case would warrant oral argument under ordinary circumstances, the Legislature respectfully requests that the Court resolve this urgent dispute without it. Emergency Order 28 takes effect on April 24, 2020, and prompt adjudication is necessary to avoid ongoing irreparable harm. For the same reason, immediate publication is unnecessary to the extent that it would delay a resolution of the emergency motion.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court currently bars in-person oral arguments, using video conferencing instead, due to "health concerns created by the COVID-19 pandemic," (Wisconsin Supreme Court).

Wisconsin Writers Hiding Tony Evers' Empty Suit

Madison, Wisconsin—"I don't know who the Democratic Party is. I just don't know who they are anymore," said Terrance Warthen, co-chair of Our Wisconsin Revolution, in 2017 (MSNBC).

Warthen is in good company.

In Wisconsin, not much is known about Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers (D) beyond the fact he is not Scott Walker, a compelling attribute after eight years of unmitigated disaster.

But several progressive writers are working feverishly to conceal the fact that Evers is an uninformed, moribund, Republican-lite empty suit who just doesn't get it.

One month into the Evers administration, there is a public relations campaign from Paul Fanlund, John Nichols, Ruth Conniff and Dave Zweifel, all of whom rush to say that Tony Evers is some variation of nice.

This Tony Evers team of writers omits the fact the new governor has done nothing during the campaign, transition and administration in working against the lunatic, illegal and unconstitutional Foxconn-Wisconsin contract that Scott Walker concealed from Wisconsin, for example.

Outside of Tony Evers' world, Foxconn and the corporatist scam it represents are catastrophic, and  seeking some personal attribute to highlight it is a fools' game that ignores the radical work of rightiwingers whom the corporate press still term "conservative." This is not about "messaging," to which Evers has reduced the Foxconn scam.

Here are examples from the Evers-does-has-clothes caucus.

Paul Fanlund - Tony Evers is "personally likable," just like Sen Tammy Baldwin (D).

Fanlund ignores it was Baldwin's hard-hitting camapign "that used the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to effectively frame her opponent as doing the bidding of corporate special interests" (In These Times). Baldwin "garnered 150,000 votes more than Tony Evers," notes the piece and it was not by being Ms. Nice Girl.

John Nichols - "[Tony] Evers defeated Scott Walker precisely because the former state superintendent of public instruction speaks to a longing on the part of Wisconsinites for a presumption of civility."

Nichols has been pushing this line for months.

I know many activists around the state of many persuasions and none of them voted for Tony Evers because they long for civility. It is all about clean water, local control, collective bargaining, public schools and the University of Wisconsin System, among human rights concerns.

I have never spoken to Scott Walker because I don't like the company of racists and rightwing Christians, but if I did meet Walker, I would be willing to bet he would be likeable and civil.

So what?

This brings us to:

Ruth Conniff - Conniff quotes Evers' inaugural address, noting Evers' call for kindness and civility.

C'mon, every politician calls for kindness, peace, love and understanding.

This is what Conniff has to prop up Evers?

Dave Zweifel - "Evers showed once again that his style shuns nastiness," writes Zweifel. Finally, Zweifel does offer, "kowtowing to big business—million-dollar, even billion-dollar, payouts to hugely successful corporations started to grate" on voters.

But Zweifel like many other pro-Evers writers is working to reduce politics to personality, holding out the hope, for example, that State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) may hear the "governor's message."

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As Republicans have mobilized the corporate-prison-racist-Evangelical coalition as never before, the Tony Evers crowd calls for depoliticization, saying it's time to be nice, civil and bipartisan.

The Evers crowd does have some friends on the rightwing who emphasize the personal over policy—Peggy Noonan.

Noonan chastised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) for not appearing likeable, warm and spirited at the State of the Union spectacle.

AOC offered a response to Noonan, that Wisconsin's pro-Evers crowd should consider:

Why should I be “spirited and warm” for this embarrassment of a #SOTU?

Tonight was an unsettling night for our country. The president failed to offer any plan, any vision at all, for our future.

We’re flying without a pilot. And I‘m not here to comfort anyone about that fact. https://t.co/7bu3QXFMnC

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 6, 2019

Terrance Warthen and AOC have it right.

In Wisconsin, the Democratic Party and its amen corner have veered into a post-policy world where elected officials must prioritize being nice, likable, civil and spunky in the manner of a 1970s cheerleader—not that there is anything wrong with that, just that I would prefer the governor to be a fighter and straight shooter with more than a pedestrian knowledge of public policy.

Tony Evers could be really nice and resign, offering the executive branch to Lt Gov Mandela Barnes (D), who gets it.

Ex-DA in Making a Murderer Case Advocates on Social Media for Racist Teen at Jan D.C. Rally, and other Rightwing Causes

Disgraced ex-district attorney who corruptly prosecuted the
wrongfully convicted citizens featured in the docuseries,
Making a Murderer, can no longer practice law in Wisconsin
due to a suspended license, according to the
State Bar of Wisconsin's attorney profile.

Madison, Wisconsin — Ken Kratz is the disgraced former district attorney of Calumet County Wisconsin, now living in Appleton.

Kratz' unindicted public misconduct featured in Making a Murderer and Wrecking Crew paints Kratz as a lurid, corrupt criminal in his performance as a district attorney.

But Kratz is much worse.

In 2010, Kratz faced being fired after Wisconsin Gov Jim Doyle began removal proceedings and the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association called for Kratz to resign after at least 10 women complained of sexual misconduct and harassment by Kratz, (pp 262-63, Ferak, Wrecking Crew, Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery).

Kratz' license to practice law in Wisconsin is currently suspended due to unrelated administrative deficiencies. It's likely Kratz will never practice law again in Wisconsin.

So, Kratz now inserts himself in rightwing politics defending wrongful convictions, and attempting to win favor with rightwing political forces through Kratz heavy social media presence.

Yesterday, Kratz joined forces with open racists defending Make America Great Again teens who taunted and harassed a Native America veteran after a D.C. rally last weekend.

Echoing the rightwing, Kratz also adopts the Trump-Fox News banter, calling the Making a Murderer docuseries, "fake."

#makingamurderer don’t pretend the MaM mob is any different than advancing a KNOWINGLY false narrative against teenagers in Kentucky. Attorney Kathleen Zellner, Jerry Buting, and many others have taken their FAKE 2-season docuseries, and ruined people’s lives. #Bloodsport https://t.co/sipkDLGhlD

— Ken Kratz (@Ken723Ken) January 22, 2019

Other topics on which Kratz opines include a defense of Donald Trump, whom Kratz says is the "greatest negotiator in history," and:

• Retweeting the wisdom of Sarah Palin
• Trolling wrongful-conviction attorney, Kathleen Zellner
• Trolling Justice Kavanaugh accuser,  Dr. Christine Blasey Ford

What does the disgraced Ken Kratz do now besides social media posts?

There's the Republican Party, refuge for racists, miscreants and those for whom ethics and decency do not weigh, like Ken Kratz.

Scott Walker Is Malignant and Not too Bright

Madison, Wisconsin — Scott Walker may be the most foolish, certainly the most malicious governor in Wisconsin history.

Walker left Marquette University in 1990, then moved to a Milwaukee suburb and was elected to the state assembly in 1993.

Walker has been living on the public dole ever since, inflicting incalculable damage to Wisconsin:

Scott Walker turned down $500M in Medicaid expansion only to propose spending $200 million more on health insurance.

Walker turned down $810M in fed stimulus for CHI>MKE railroad and now wants to spend $195M on CHI>MKE rail.

Hasn't Walker's bad business sense hurt WI enough?

— Wisconsin Resistance (@WI_Resistance) February 14, 2018

Scott Walker Doesn't Talk about Working in the Private Sector Anymore

After 25 years on the public dole, Scott Walker now believes
government creates jobs, as demonstrated in Walker's $3 billion
boondoggle to Foxconn in an unprecedented act of corruption.

Scott Walker's Life Is an Uninterrupted Feast on Public and Corporate Hand-outs

Madison, Wisconsin — As Gov. Scott Walker, (2011-present), veers into campaign mode under the fog of Friends of Scott Walker Google ads, the amassed deceit from the pathological one is an ocean of toxic racism, false witness, and reckless destruction of cherished Wisconsin institutions.

Wisconsin has never seen a pol like Walker before as the Evangelical from Iowa leads the Republican Party in a full-spectrum war against families and communities while refusing to face the people at even one unscripted public forum during Wisconsin's lost decade.

Walker likes to pose an entrepreneur, but one who for 25 years as a career politician gets his salary, health care, life insurance, pension, security, housing, and transportation all provided by the Wisconsin people.

Said Walker in 2012 during the Recall election one year after reluctantly assuming the governor's office to blaze a path for the Wisconsin people through his services: "Not because this job is that important for me because frankly my wife in some ways would love it if I would go back to the private sector and make some real money," (Blogging Blue).

Walker is now shooting for foour terms in the public job that's not important for him with hi $ six-figures in public funds.

Wrote Zach Wisniewski in 2012:

What’s truly absurd about Gov. Walker’s comment that his wife would like it if he went back to the private sector and made some real money is the fact that Scott Walker has never actually worked in the private sector. Scott Walker has been an elected official for 19 of the 44 years he’s been on planet Earth, and his only work experience as an adult consists of four years spent working full-time in marketing and fundraising at the American Red Cross, a nonprofit organization.

What’s also absurd is the fact that Scott Walker apparently thinks his six-figure salary as Governor of the State of Wisconsin isn’t 'real money,' because I know a bunch of hardworking public employees who could only wish they made six figures to do their jobs.

Lying comes easy for some career politicians, and now-a-days they're usually Republican.