Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Wisconsin 2026 elections: Open seat in 33rd Assembly District due to Speaker Robin Vos's retirement (good riddance to him)

 
Prior to redistricting, the 33rd Assembly District included most of the southern half of Jefferson County, the southwestern portion of Waukesha County, and a chunk of Walworth County.   

The redrawn 33rd is now located in eastern Walworth County and the southern half of Racine County west of Interstate 94. The Town of Troy in Walworth County is the only municipality that remains in the 33rd after redistricting.

Maps and election results:  Ballotpedia (highlights added)

Redistricting moved Assembly Speaker Robin Vos from the 63rd to the 33rd district.   In 2024, he easily won re-election to an 11th (and last) term.  An independent candidate received 13.1% of the vote.

The August 11th primary features match-ups in both parties:
 









Related election posts:
1st Assembly District.  (6/11/2026)
2nd Assembly District.  (6/14/2026)
3rd Assembly District.  (6/15/2026)
4th Assembly District.  (6/17/2026)
5th Assembly District.  (6/18/2026)
6th Assembly District.  (6/20/2026)
7th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)
8th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)
9th Assembly District.  (6/22/2026)
10th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)

11th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)
12th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
13th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
14th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
15th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
16th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
17th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)
18th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)
24th Assembly District.  (4/19/2026)
26th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
29th Assembly District.  (7/10/2026)

30th Assembly District.  (7/11/2026)
31st Assembly District.  (7/12/2026)
34th Assembly District.  (4/24/2026)
35th Assembly District.  (4/15/2026)
37th Assembly District.  (4/20/2026)


50th Assembly District.  (4/24/2026)
53rd Assembly District.  (4/29/2026)
58th Assembly District.  (4/12/2026)
59th Assembly District.  (4/10/2026)

60th Assembly District.  (4/10/2026)
69th Assembly District.  (4/29/2026)



93rd Assembly District.  (4/11/2026) 
97th Assembly District.  (4/23/2026)
99th Assembly District.  (4/18/2026)

17th Senate District.  (4/14/2026)
23rd Senate District.  (4/15/2026)
31st Senate District.  (4/15/2026)


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CORRECTION: Daylight Saving Time does not shorten winter days; it simply shifts the time when daylight occurs

 
On Monday, December 21, 2026 -- the shortest day of the year -- Madison Wisconsin will have 8 hours 59 minutes and 44 seconds of daylight.  It won't matter if the Central Time Zone is on standard or daylight time.  There will not be any shortening of the amount of daylight the city experiences on the day when winter begins.  Or any other day, for that matter.

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent will push the Madison sunrise to 8:25 a.m. on December 21st.   I imagine many parents will be thrilled to no end to have their children leave for school when it's still dark out.

Meteorological data:  Time and Date (highlight and box added)
Headline:  New York Times, 7/14/2026

Olivia Diaz reports:
The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent, but the measure to spare Americans the semiannual clock-changing that shortens winter days faces an uncertain path to enactment. 
The measure, fittingly named the “Sunshine Protection Act,” passed on a 308-to-117 vote. Its fate is murky in the Senate, where one G.O.P. leader said it was unclear whether it could move ahead and at least one Republican appears inclined to try to block it. 
President Trump has championed the effort to save an extra hour of daylight before nightfall and make the time zone permanent, describing the ritual of moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall a “ridiculous, twice yearly production.”
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Meet Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's master groveler


AI-generated image:  Manus 1.6 Lite
Headline:  Public Notice, 7/15/2026

Liz Dye reports:
Nine years later, Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn, but with a prodigious aptitude for sycophancy substituted for the personal demons. 
“I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche simpered in April after his predecessor Pam Bondi got pushed out. “And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I’ll say, ‘Thank you very much, I love you, sir.’”
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