No Kings Day protest in March. See the Capitol of Wisconsin State Gregory Conniff Photo for Wisconsin Examiner
Early Campaign reports The guessing this week is that Tony Evers, the head of government, may not take a third term. Evers, who has not announced his intentions, has only collected $ 757,124 this year and has $ 2 million. USD in the bank compared to $ 5 million.
Some progressive, most vocal Dan Shafer, creator The area of reomublation Blog, urged Evers to retreat. Traumatized by former President Joe Biden’s Fumbling 2024 campaign, Shafer says Evers, 73 (a decade younger than biden), should not make the mistake of hanging too long and should “hand over the flashlight”.
“This is ultimately not an argument about ideological differences or political disagreements,” Shafer writes. For him, this is about a century. It is about Biden’s injury. It seems about the problem that Democrats in the state and the national level have fostered the new generation leaders.
For some progressives it is too about ideology and political disagreements. Advocated for Child carepublic schools, Criminal Justice Reform and Protect healthcare It was frantic that Evers recently completed the state budget agreement did not lead to a more difficult deal with Republicans.
However, if Evers announces his retirement, a large part of the magic of Maga Wisconsin will experience a moment of fear. In our closely divided purple state, there is a real possibility for the Republican to win the governor’s office, just like new, fairer maps, finally give Democrats the opportunity to compete for the state’s legislation. Republicans who have published So far, pour in the magic flag. Evers is popular throughout the state and has shown that he can win.
Devin Remaker, chairman of the State Democratic Party, said he is ”pray“Evers will run again. US spokesman Mark Pocan, former chairman of Congressian progressive Kaukas, recently told reporters that he could not think of a better Wisconsin governor than Evers.
If Evers is not working, Attorney General Josh Bone, Milwaukee District Executive Director David Crowley, Lieutenant Sarar Rodriguez, State Elder Rays Roys and Sarah Godlewski, Secretary of State – all are probably democratic candidates.
“There are many people on the bench who would like to be a governor,” Pocan said. “… it’s not a concern. It’s really, I want the best person to be a governor, and I think the best person who could be a governor of a democratic side is Tony Evers.”
Pocan calls the “responsible adult” to Evers, unlike Republicans following President Donald Trump from the rock, reduces health care and food assistance and increases prices and deficits, so many people, including a expected 276,000 in Wisconsin, will lose health insurance, and 49,000 that will lose their food assistance under the Federal Mega Law.
There is an argument that Evers – “Basically the Wisconsin politician I have ever seen”, “As Pocan said,” did what most Wisconsin voters wanted him to make the budget process, postpone politics and agree on the best agreements possible for the state’s population. Working throughout the corridor to achieve common goals with another party-including the last minute maneuver that softens the disastrous Medicaid cut short and the Congress, which pushed over $ 1 billion a year with federal funds for Wisconsin. noted“Significantly different” from dynamics in Washington.
“Oh, how, a compromise?” Evers said that Wisconsin’s voters said to him happily when he heard about the deal.
If the definition of a compromise is a deal that all becomes unhappy, Democrats and progressively are obviously unhappy parties of this transaction.
Despite the productive glow of mutual connection when the agreement was concluded, the details and how the transaction was made – some of the biggest supporters of Everso were begun.
The vast majority of Republican lawmakers voted for an agreement in both palace. They were joined by five of the 15 Senate Democrats, and there were only seven votes out of 45 Democratic State Assembly, where Robin Vos, who helped to make a budget, made it clear that he did not need or unwilling to democratic votes.
Of course, Democrats who gave impatient floor speeches condemning the budget were in a minority in the legislative field, and they never need to think about the types of compromises related to the divided states. If you look at it, it seems that it is unfair to respond angrily to Eversa, a decent man who shared his goals and worked carefully to fulfill what he can do with the ugly opposition. In addition to the minority leader Dianne Hesselbein, who joined the budget negotiations behind closed doors after it turned out that Republicans in the Senate would need certain democratic voices, Democrats were essentially closed from the whole process.
And that is the real problem of the management of Eve, according to Robert Right citizen’s actions. From the outset, without participating in the legislative Democrats, he pulled out not only those individual legislators but also their voters, refusing the pressure he could have caused to Republicans if he used citizens’ outrage and demanding actions for a widely popular priorities – the original budget, expanding Medicaid, childcare centers.
Instead, Evers was an adult in a room that sends everyone else when it’s time to make a decision.
The ridge says that this style of control does not go deep into the political moment. As increasingly dangerous, the destructive administration sends masked agents to pull people out of the street and thrown them into detention centers or deportes them without proper process, eliminates safety network programs and deliberately destroy civil society, and will take a huge, popular movement.
Maybe Shafer is right for a younger, dynamic Democratic candidate to become the leader of that movement. Perhaps the Democratic Party needs to stop praying to be liked, a bilateral father’s figure to pass the victory, and instead open the door to a slightly chaotic, populist response that boils against oligarchic, authoritarian kleptocracy led by short.
This is a high risk. But we are very risky. Democrats and society as a whole have not yet come up with the malignancy of our current Federal Government and the Magapha in the Republican Party, which has no precedent. The whole idea of a mutual approach seems to be outdated in the world, where one side seeks to tear the social contract, the Constitution, the right process, the justice system, the honest elections and the simplest, long -term protection against poverty, hunger and disease.
These are the same conditions that led to the progressive era. Fighting Bob Lafollette He fought against his party leaders and founded the movement of the whole country to control the government from rich wood barons and railway monopolies, which, through corrupt, captive politicians, fought to control all the resources of our state and nation.
Now the same powerful interests are fighting to bring everything back, destroy the early 20th century reforms, protecting employees, the environment and the public space. They crushed state institutions and disregard legal restrictions.
Democrats must bring the case to the public that they will fight. And they need the public to rise behind them to help them do it.
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