Wisconsin Dem Primary Race for Gov—Explosive Shite Show

Establishment effort to rig Primary race appears doomed, sure to divide Democratic Party 

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Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin Democrat establishment — off-center from grassroots voters — lost their rightest champ, Lt Gov Sara Rodriquez, who suspended her campaign for governor under a smokey ethical and legal cloud.

State Rep. Francesca Hong (D-Madison), a young progressive, appears on the glidepath to the Democrat Party nomination for Wisconsin governor.

So, outgoing Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers will stay out of the race, and leave it to voters three weeks out from Aug 11 Election Day. Right?

Wrong.

Democrats Party bureaucrats and Zionist donors moved hard today for Zionist Milwaukee County Exec David Crowley's reentry into the race, following Sara Rodriquez' exit.

Wisconsin Democrats—Peace v Genocide

Early Friday, Crowley said, yes, to getting back in, setting off a race described in historical terms by Wisconsin political journalist, Bill McCoshen: "This is going to turn into a battle for the soul of the WI Dem party over the next 24 days."

This is going to turn into a battle for the soul of the WI Dem party over the next 24 days.

— Bill McCoshen (@BillMcCoshen11) July 17, 2026

The description is apt and recalls the anti-war movement here of the 1960s when the Wisconsin Peace Movement took over the Wisconsin Democratic Party in 1968, as a grassroots coalition of peace activists and college students propelled Minnesota Sen Eugene McCarthy to a massive upset victory over incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in the April 2 Democratic presidential primary.

Wisconsin Democrats are at a crossroads not seen since 1968 
when the Peace Movement displaced pro-war old guard.

We are at a similar moment recalling the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the demands for peace by Wisconsin's delegates led by Donald Peterson, the Wisconsin state chair.

Those events led to a powerful anti-intervention force in Wisconsin politics lasting some 50 years.

Today, at issue is Genocide that has taken on prominence when establishment Democrats, Sara Rodriquez and David Crowley, earlier this month snubbed a voter forum at the last moment in Oak Creek organized by the Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance, after learning questions would include, "Do you agree with the overwhelming consensus among genocide experts that the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide?" 

Reports John Nichols:

Why did Rodriguez and Crowley skip the forum? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that they opted out 'after learning they would be asked about Israel's actions in Gaza and other controversial topics.' At issue were 'lightning round' questions that asked for yes/no responses to inquiries about, among other things, whether candidates thought the Israeli military assault on Gaza — which has cost the lives of more that 70,000 Palestinian men, women and children — was 'a genocide.'

Five candidates remain now: Frontrunner Francesca Hong, Mandela Barnes, Kelda Roys, Joel Brennan and David Crowley.

It's likely Evers and pro-Genocide Wisconsin Democrats will push to clear the field as much as possible following Crowley's reentry Saturday. 

But noone knows how successful this effort will be this late in the game as animosities linger, and Wisconsin's population remains heavily anti-Genocide.

Writes Matt Henkel: "Roughly 70,000 Wisconsinites have already voted in the August primary. Theres a whole day lag to that number. By the time Crowley gets into the race I’m betting it’ll be 100,000. The math to pull this top-down Dem insider driven switchweroo is not even close to in their favor."

In 2018, when Gov Evers won a plurality with 41 percent of the vote, the Wisconsin Democratic Party Gubernatorial Primary results saw 538,857 total votes cast.

This means roughly 18 percent of the vote has been already cast today, and David Crowley can be expected to have garnered only a scattering.

So, Crowley will not win, and Evers and Party bureaucrats will have alienated and incensed 10,000s of well-organized Francesca Hong voters who already are hostile towards the Democrat establishment.

What is the Wisconsin Democrat Party thinking? They are not thinking, they are following orders to appease an aggressive and indecent Zionist wing.

To find out from whom, run the Sara Rodriquez and David Crowley big donors through Tracking AIPAC and Open Secrets, though arriving at figures is difficult in state elections.

The Democrat-establishment's attempted rigging reeks of desperation, and most observers who have gamed the effort through are scoffing at it.

McCarthyism Comes Back to Wisconsin, Dem Primary Race for Governor Goes Rancid

Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy (R) led a national descent 
into madness as the infamous 'Red Scare' champ lied and
 defamed his way into the leading anti-communist, ruining 
lives and families along the way. McCarthy-lite is the 
order now-a-days, as anti-Semitism charges are thrown
about like fireworks and confetti by inheritors of this 
putrid man who stood for nihilism and lies as values.

Democrat-launched Slurs Do 'Gunner Joe' Proud, to Wisconsin's Shame

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Madison, Wisconsin—Wisconsin's political class has been clamoring for a split among Wisconsinites in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for governor.  

They got their wish.

 Zionist liberals in the Wisconsin media and allied candidates share a desperation to keep Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong from running away with the Democratic Primary.

War, genocide and a shaky economy see an emergence of pro-working class, anti-war candidates across the nation whom corporatist liberals are working to stop.

Corporate and establishment Democrats falsely accuse candidates such as Francesca Hong of virtually everything, as Party establishments continues to alienate the working class, right as progressive strategists point to new data showing workers overwhelmingly support progressive economic policies—including raising the minimum wage, expanding Medicare, and higher taxes on corporations.

Faux Scandal

Now, corporatists have discovered what they believe is a campaign sandal involving Francesca Hong: Nothing Hong has said or done, rather Hong's public appearance with a social media streamer/content creator named Hasan Piker on social media sites, Twitch, and Youtube, is is the asserted scandal.

Nothing Hong has said or done on Piker's show either. Just hostility towards the mere fact of Hong's appearance with Hasan Piker is presented as scandalous, because bad-faith effort to silence legitimate anti-Zionist dissent and progressive policy advocacy for working class Americans.

The issue is Piker is a critic of Genocide, torture, slaughter of children and rape by israel in the occupied territories, among Piker's other moral condemnation of atrocities, such as war; bombing girls' schools, so on, therefor Francesca Hong must be held to account for each and every statement, formulation of statement and others' intentional misrepresentations of statements Hasan Piker has ever made on social media, including all slurs and lies that 'critics' have hurled towards Piker for appearing on a live-stream show with a Piker.

Piker has also mads statements echoing U.S. intelligence on the danger of blow-back when various geniuses in the White House decide to start a war or three.

Who is running for Wisconsin governor: Piker or Hong? 

It's the way it is now. Hong even appeared on another social media show in late June. 

The Wisconsin State Journal republished the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's absurd hit piece on Hong, (authored by Hope Karnopp and Molly Beck) though most of the piece is about Piker who is defamed, and then falsely presented as having relevancy to Wisconsin's gubernatorial campaign, in a display of third-rate McCarthyism by Wisconsin's two largest dailies. 

Hong's social media appearance is presented by Journal-Sentinel's Karnopp and Beck as somehow defining Hong, and uses the polemical device, 'critics call,' 'critics have called,' (references to Piker), as a method to portray this dishonest hit piece on Piker and Hong as objective reporting.

Hope Karnopp, Molly Beck and most corporate 'journalists,' including Wisconsin State Journal editors, are just shoveling slop, lies and misrepresentations. 

And Karnopp and Beck know fully well what they're doing.

Karnopp's colleague, Molly Beck, at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran an even more absurd piece on the governor's race in the Spring featuring a Trump flunky, Tom Tiffany claiming Francesca Hong is a Satanist who wore a hat bearing the mark of the devil—three sixes. Sincerely.

Molly Beck ran the absurdity as a he-said, she-said piece, not bothering to report the lack of evidence of satanism, the falsity of what Republicans said, the utter ridiculousness of the charge, or the fact that the Republican attack is not true. 

This is what passes for modern journalism. 

If you subscribe to Wisconsin State Journal and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, dump the trash.

Hong campaign opponents, David Crowley and Kelda Roys, facing little pathway to the nomination on Aug 11, issued critical statements that this writer will not bother posting here because of the pure inanity of the comment; see Heartland Post.

Ann Jacobs, Political Mania

Meanwhile, the unhinged Ann Jacobs, former Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Commissioner, and a supporter of David Crowley, blasted Francesca Hong in a fit of Hypomania and falsehoods, calling for banning of speech and speakers such as Piker whom Jacobs views as hateful for opposing Genocide. 

Reports Urban Milwaukee on Jacobs' incoherent and defamatory rant:

[Jacobs] tweeted that Hong was "willing to sell out the Jews of Wisconsin for a few bucks."

"Why are those people you want to be in conversation with? Is it just for the money? You’re willing to sell out the Jews of Wisconsin so that you can raise money? That’s disturbing," said Jacobs, who also co-chairs the Jewish Caucus of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio.

"I don’t think we should tolerate all forms of opinions," Jacobs added. "I don’t think that we should tolerate antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all these other hate groups that are rampant right now on social media."

Jacobs reposted on X, posts by David Crowley and Molly Beck.

In the political atmosphere today, anyone objecting to israel-committed Genocide, slaughter of children and rape are asserted to be per force anti-Semites.

Absurd, but the McCarthyite defamation helps the Democrat Party to smash candidates who stand with working class families, always a frightening prospect for the Democratic Party establishment.

History repeats.
 
McCarthyism

In the 1940-50s, Truman, Democrats and Joe McCarthy ushered in an era of suppression, working to squash labor-led effort to help out working class folk, as McCarthyism ruined lives to counter the "energizing effect of the war and the depression in mobilizing the population, and causing them to challenge the- to reveal the mysteries of government, and do all these bad things," noted Noam Chomsky, (Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Delivered at University of Wisconsin – Madison, March 15, 1989). ... "Wars, depressions, and such things, they have a way of arousing people from apathy, and making them think, and sometimes even organize."

Progressives and working-class advocates thinking, organizing and running for office have caused Democrats to veer into political hysterics.

As Trump, delving into lunacy extreme even for him. declares prominent politicians opposing him as a 'communist' and 'anti-Semitic' and 'terrorist,' those who either have lived through McCarthyism or are students of the political mania, see history repeated in many Democrats and media propaganda led by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

 

McCarthyism is alive and well in Wisconsin, though the conventional slur today is anti-Semite, not communist, unless you're the president.
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Top candidates for the 2026 Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor include: Mandela Barnes (the top Zionist), Francesca Hong, Sara Rodriguez, David Crowley, and Kelda Roys.

Election Day is August 11.
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Wisconsin Gov Primary—Mandela Barnes Took $250,000-plus from Israel Lobby in 2022

Mandela Barnes accepted $251,415 from the Israel Lobby
as the 2022 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate.
Barnes is a candidate for the 2026 Democratic Party
nomination for governor. Election Day is Aug 11.
Barnes' 2022 campaign gifts are tracked by Open Secrets.

Israel Lobby Gifted Barnes Campaign in 2022 Senate Run, Will Doom Electability as Pro-Genocide Blood Money Shows Character Problem

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Madison, Wisconsin—The campaign for the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin governor is off and running.

Mandela Barnes, whose supporters are dropping dishonest 'electabililty-concern' social media posts about Barnes' opponents, has taken to dead silence when asked about his accepting $251,415 from the Israel Lobby as 2022 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate, (see Open Secrets).

During the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin, Mandela Barnes was gifted substantial pro-Israel money from Zionist donors and conduits.

Barnes explicitly declared in 2022, "It's important that Israel remains a strong ally and a strong partner in the Middle East," in June 2022, just before absentee voting began, as reported in Jewish Insider as Barnes sought to highlight his pro-Zionist commitment.

Barnes told the Jewish Democratic Council of America forum in June 2022 that he opposes the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) that seeks to highlight and stop Israeli human rights atrocities, (Washington Free Beacon).

The Mandela Barnes campaign is a top U.S. Senate candidate recipient of pro-Israel money during the 2022 federal elections.

Barnes has paid lip service to Wisconsin's peace movement, but has run from associations with anti-Genocide groups, (Washington Free Beacon).

But Israel-committed Genocide, Israel-sanctioned rape, torture and massacres of children play less well among the Democrat-voting electorate in 2026, and appears to be determinative in Michigan primaries to be held in early August, signaling a similar campaign dynamic in Wisconsin.

Top candidates for the 2026 Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor include: Mandela Barnes, Francesca Hong, Sara Rodriguez, David Crowley, Kelda Roys and Missy Hughes. See analyses at Bill McCoshen in Dairyland Sentinel.

Barnes campaign was contacted by email asking: 

What is your comment on accepting $251,415 from the Israel Lobby as 2022 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate?

Do you renounce this blood money?

As of Saturday, no comment from Barnes has been received.

Absentee voting for the Wisconsin Aug 11 elections begins June 26.