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Wisconsin’s gerrymandering case has garnered national attention. But a little-explored aspect of the suit — the pervasive presence of “Swiss cheese” districts — could have huge ramifications for the outcome.

Republicans are playing the long game in the fight to ban “Zuck Bucks” nationwide, and in Wisconsin they’re entrusting it to voters on the state’s April 2024 primary ballot.The Federalist first reported on Republican legislators’ strategy to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot next year, giving Wisconsiners the power to ban private funding for elections. Twenty five states have already done so, and in purple Virginia and Pennsylvania with Democratic support.The need couldn’t be more urgent. Most Americans are now familiar with partisan billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s plot to funnel $420 million to thousands of local election offices in 2020,...

The swing state of Wisconsin has been called out for at least one vote-rigging scheme that has swung elections. But there's more than just Zuckerbucks, a privately funded entity which invaded public election spaces without voter consent in an act the state's special counsel office said amounted to 'bribery.' According to JustTheNews, there's also this:A Wisconsin lawmaker is questioning whether it was legal for a political action committee to pay people to encourage others to vote for liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the state Supreme Court election in the latest mobilization tactic to raise integrity concerns...

WI absentee update: 1,333,843 ballots cast = 45% pct of 2016 turnout. Dane Co.is 1st county where 50% of reg. voters have now voted and the top turnouts so far (as pct of reg voters): Dane 50.2 Ozaukee 45.7 Waukesha 43.7 Brown 43.2 Washington 40.1 Door 39.8 La Crosse 39.7 MKE 39.6 (see below for translation)

It is stunning how many recent riots over purported racial injustice have been based on phony stories. Ferguson, Missouri was pillaged and burned over the false contention that  Michael Brown was gunned down with his hands up (the Obama Justice Department confirmed that he was struggling to kill the police officer arresting him for a strongarm robbery he had just committed by grabbing his gun when he was fatally shot). Baltimore was sacked over the contention that Freddie Gray was assassinated by police officers deliberately tossing him around in a police van (a jury acquitted the officers). Just this...

MADISON - Wisconsin election officials have now received nearly 800,000 early ballots, far exceeding the number tallied in the two previous presidential elections. The latest figures from the Wisconsin Elections Commission show early voting continued to pick up steam last week in the ultra-conservative “WOW” counties – Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington – and in Dane and Milwaukee counties, historically liberal strongholds. Early voting also spiked in Brown and Outagamie counties, which has a heated congressional race on Nov. 8 ballots.

Hey DUmmies! You want to know the REAL reason why the Democrats failed in their attempt to overturn the Republican majority in the Wisconsin state senate yesterday? I give you the answer in three words: William Rivers Pitt.How can that be? Simple. William Rivers Pitt has become the Eddie Mush of the Left. And who is Eddie Mush? He is the REAL LIFE character in the movie "A Bronx Tale" who jinxes everything he comes into contact with. The reason why I describe Eddie Mush as a "real life" character is that when they tried to find an actor...

A few of the pics I took today

A state union leader accused Governor-elect Scott Walker on Tuesday of wanting to extort public employees into taking lower benefits and suggested Walker risked sparking a war with rank-and-file workers. "It seems to me Walker has kind of taken a lesson about this corporate extortion that went on at Merc Marine, Harley-Davidson, Sub-Zero/Wolf, and he's trying to implement it on the public-sector side," said Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union. "We won't have anything of extortion. We'll fight him on that." Beil was referring to recent major changes in labor contracts at Mercury Marine and other...