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‘It’s scary’: Scandal sends Wisconsin Dems into freakout mode over governor’s race
Politico ^ | 07/18/2026 | Tyler Katzenberger, Will Steakin and Lisa Kashinsky

Posted on 07/18/2026 10:46:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Democratic establishment is alarmed that a top candidate’s collapse and the surge from a democratic socialist could cost them the governorship.

Sara Rodriguez had a prime opportunity this past Saturday to show voters gathered for a gubernatorial candidate forum in Wisconsin’s rural Northwoods that she was the person who could unite Democrats, thwart a democratic socialist insurgency and deliver the party unified control of state government for the first time in a generation.

Except the lieutenant governor didn’t show up. Her reserved table sat empty, save for a lone campaign sign. She blamed the last-minute cancellation on a family emergency. But a day later, Rodriguez revealed she had just fired her campaign manager for overcounting donations by hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple months.

After a weeklong scramble to unsuccessfully contain the financial and political damage she dropped out of the race on Friday, declaring in a video that her money issues were an “ongoing distraction” and that she didn’t want it to “become a cloud over an election that Democrats need to win.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: crooks; demagogicparty; lisakashinsky; politico; pollutico; sararodriguez; tylerkatzenberger; willsteakin; wisconsin

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1 posted on 07/18/2026 10:46:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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You expect a future governor to be able to read bank statements?


2 posted on 07/18/2026 11:05:32 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Democrat infighting


3 posted on 07/18/2026 11:07:10 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: nickcarraway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Rodriguez


4 posted on 07/18/2026 11:08:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

If the Dim socialist can hit the Robert Marion La Follette nerve, there’s a good chance it can win. Those Minn/Wisc libs can’t be trusted. There’s still a strong blue collar/socialist undercurrent in the Upper. Midwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette


5 posted on 07/18/2026 11:38:42 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: nickcarraway; All

Wisconsin is ruled by Dane (Madison) and Milwaukee county communists. Vote fraud.

Every blue state is ruled by communists in a capitol city or major metropolitan area. Washington/Seattle, Illinois/Chicago, Oregon/Portland-Salem, Colorado/Denver-Boulder, New York/NYC-Albany, Arizona/Phoenix, Georgia/Atlanta, Nevada/Las Vegas.

The list goes on.


6 posted on 07/19/2026 12:10:16 AM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Brian Griffin

“Can’t we just raise taxes?” Thats what would be her knee-jerk reaction to hearing she didnt have enough money...


7 posted on 07/19/2026 1:00:35 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Brian Griffin
You expect a future governor to be able to read bank statements?

For a Democrat at this point in America, nothing is expected excepted regurgitating the woke anti-American party line.

8 posted on 07/19/2026 2:50:17 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: nickcarraway

Socialist oligarchs are okay when they fund socialists. Just ask Bernie. Now that they cease funding Democrats, the welfare zombies that form up their organized base can’t make up the difference. The foundation is rotten to the core.


9 posted on 07/19/2026 3:16:28 AM PDT by Kudsman (Free, free Wakanda!)
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To: nickcarraway

“democratic socialist”

There is no such thing, it is an oxymoron.


10 posted on 07/19/2026 4:01:09 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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“democratic socialist” There is no such thing, it is an oxymoron.

Don't you mean it's a redundancy? Republican socialist would be an oxymoron, though we can't even be so sure of that these days.

11 posted on 07/19/2026 4:07:51 AM PDT by KevinB (Nepotism = affirmative action for white people. )
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To: nickcarraway

” overcounting donations”

The new phrase for stealing


12 posted on 07/19/2026 4:09:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: AppyPappy

“Where da money go?”


13 posted on 07/19/2026 4:13:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Hookers and blow.


14 posted on 07/19/2026 4:16:43 AM PDT by Kudsman (Free, free Wakanda!)
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To: nickcarraway

Dems do not care one little bit about scandals within their own party — based on morals or ethics. If the scandal threatens gaining or retaining power, then they care. Scandal in its own right is not a problem for them.


15 posted on 07/19/2026 4:18:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: KitJ

Baltimore and DC now,
Don’t forget the Motor City


16 posted on 07/19/2026 4:19:56 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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HEE HEE watching this is fun!

They went after the lunatics, the illegals and the muslims looking for votes, all the time thinking they could control them ha ha!
Now, WE can sit back and watch these useful idiots destroy that evil party.

This is delicious!


17 posted on 07/19/2026 4:30:10 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: KevinB

“Republican socialist would be an oxymoron”

Not really, a ‘Republican socialist’ often referred to as a RINO is basically the same thing when those two words are together in sequence. Or other popular names like ‘uniparty’ or ‘GOPe’ are not oxymorons in my book.


18 posted on 07/19/2026 4:31:14 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Palio di Siena
All we need is Music, sweet music.

I can't believe I just posted that.

19 posted on 07/19/2026 4:38:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

You got the spirit! Happy Sunday.


20 posted on 07/19/2026 4:39:40 AM PDT by Kudsman (Free, free Wakanda!)
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