The latest from CPAC 2021

 

2/26/2021 update starts here

CPAC2021 agenda

Mark Green and Jody Hice are both Freedom Caucus Crazies.  Green serves as Communications Chair for the group.

Southern Poverty Law Center, 9/27/2007

And who has Coombs hired to take their place? Meet Sara Carter, the 2006 winner of the Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration* given to “promote informed and fair reporting” on immigration.  [2016 winner:  Michelle "Mau-Mau" Malkin]

It’s awarded by the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that claims to be nonpartisan but which was dreamed up by hate group leader John Tanton, the architect of much of the modern anti-immigration movement and a major producer of racist, anti-immigrant material. 

Carter, meanwhile, has been severely criticized by Salon.com for her heavily biased coverage and fact-stretching reporting on Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, former U.S. Border Patrol agents who were convicted and are currently serving 10- and 11-year sentences for shooting an unarmed immigrant and then covering up the episode.

Original 2/26/2021 post starts here.

He makes it sound like a solo act in this tweet.

Pam Blondi, too.   Yikes!

CPAC2021 agenda

Expect a grievance-filled session.

Vanity Fair, 4/20/2020

GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin legislature has resolution to honor racist, misogynist, homophobic, nativist bloviator (sponsor gallery update)

 

Edit as needed

Least surprising to me (to the nth degree): Jacque, Sortwell, Brandtjen. 

Most surprising to me: Kerkman, Tranel. (Tell me what I don't know.)  I'm inclined to add Rozar, but I don't know anytihng about her. 

Assembly leadership MIA: August, Steineke, Peterson, Vorpagel, Duchow, James. 

And if you know anything about Barbara Dittrich, her absence as a sponsor is most puzzling. (From a 2/17/2021 tweet: "I would not be in the Wisconsin Legislature today if not for Rush Limbaugh. My husband challenged me to listen to him when we were dating. Rush taught me to think critically and examine why I believe what I believe.")

Original 2/23/2021 starts here

Looking for sponsors

Wisconsin Examiner, 2/22/2021

Just an amazing list of accomplishments!

Limbaugh achieved a national presence among far-right conservatives by demeaning not just others’ political opinions, but also for mocking women, people of color, LGBTQ people and people with AIDS. He also, not long before his death, attempted to justify the deadly violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as patriotism. 

He expressed hope that former President Barack Obama would fail, suggested Jesse Jackson looked like “all composite pictures of wanted criminals” and compared NFL games to watching the “Bloods and the Crips without weapons.”

GET ME REWRITE: Chicago White Sox fan Richard Michetti gives his drool bib a chance to dry

 

Now This News, 2/25/2021

Greetings from Trump's America: McLean County, North Dakota, where officials cling to a coal-fired past

McLean's population has declined 50% since its 1950 peak.

Source:  Wikipedia

NPR, 2/25/2021

That's when Ladd Erickson stepped in. He's the attorney for McClean [sic] County, North Dakota, where the coal plant is located, and he launched a battle over access to that power line. "The transmission line is everything," he says. "It's the golden goose."  

 Erickson wants to keep Coal Creek Station open, because it's a pillar of the local economy. Other political leaders in North Dakota do, too. They're looking for a company willing to buy the plant and keep it running. And in the meantime, they don't want wind companies claiming that transmission line. "Without a transmission line, there's no value in the plant," Erickson says.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau uikFacts

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

• 20.8% - McLean County
• 30.0% - North Dakota
• 32.1% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

• 24.2% - McLean County
• 15.7% - North Dakota
• 16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

•   9,4% - McLean County
• 10.6% - North Dakota
• 10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

Trump's America: White, rural, declining population, less educated, much older, and Trumpier than they were in 2016.

Wikipedia

3rd-party candidates received 25.9% of vote in 1992, 14.5% of vote in 1996, 7% in 2016;

Segregationist George Wallace received a 4.3% of the vote in 1968

Other Trump's America posts:

Alabama
Autauga County.  (6/29/2017)
Bibb County.  (11/10/2017)
Covington County. (11/11/2017)
Dale County.  (12/12/2017)
Geneva County.  (11/11/2017)
Marion County.  (11/11/2017)

Arizona
8th congressional district.  (4/25/2018)

Arkansas
Faulkner County.  (3/20/2018)
Mississippi County.  (3/19/2018)
Woodruff County.  (3/26/2018)

California
Mesa County.  (7/20/2017)
Shasta County.  (7/4/2017

Colorado
Morgan County.  (4/25/2017)

Florida
Citrus County.  (3/5/2017)
DeSoto County,.  (9/9/2017)

Georgia
Hall County.  (1/31)

Idaho
Benewah County.  (12/24/2020)

Kootenai County.  (9/25/2017)

Illinois
Effingham County.  (2/15/2018)
Franklin County.  (2/27/2017)
Jo Daviess County.  (5/13/2018)
Knox County.  (5/13/2018)
McHenry County.  (2/5/2017)
Perry County.  (5/8/2017)
Stephenson County.  (5/13/2018)
Whiteside County.  (5/13/2018)
16th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)

Indiana
Granger.  (3/26/2017)
Hendricks County.  (10/1/2017)
Huntington County.  (4/27/2017)
Jefferson County.  (3/10/2018)

Jennings County.  (12/26/2020)
Posey County.  (10/21/2017)
Scott County,.  (12/26/2020 update)

Iowa
Adair County.  (9/16/2018)
Adams County.  (9/16/2018)
Allamakee County.  (7/31/2018)
Appanoose County.  (8/4/2018)
Benton County.  (8/2/2018)
Boone County.  (1/15/2017)
Bremer County.  (8/2/2018)
Buchanan County.  (8/2/2018)
Butler County. (8/6/2018)
Calhoun County.  (9/6/2018)
Cass County.  (4/3/2018)
Cedar County.  (7/31/2018)
Cerro Gordo County.  (8/6/2018)
Chickasaw County.  (8/2/2018)
Clarke County.  (8/8/2018)
Clayton County.  (7/31/2018)
Clinton County.   (10/15/2017)
Davis County.  (8/3/2018)
Decatur County.  ( 7/5/2018)
Delaware County.  (7/31/2018)
Des Moines County.  (8/1/2018)
Emmet County.  (8/19/2018)
Fayette County.  (8/2/2018)
Floyd County.  (9/25/2018 update)
Franklin County, (8/14/2017)
Greene County.  (9/6/2018)
Guthrie County.  (9/16/2018)
Hamilton County.  (4/2/2018)
Hancock County. (8/7/2018)
Hardin County.  (4/2/2018)
Henry County.  (7/9/2018)
Howard County.  (8/2/2018)
Iowa County.  (8/2/2018)
Jasper County.  (8/5/2018)
Jefferson County.  (8/1/2018)
Keokuk County.  (8/2/2018)
Kossuth County.  (8/18/2018)
Lee County.  (8/1/2018)
Louisa County.  (8/1/2018)
Lucas County.  (8/5/2018)
Lyon County.  (12/3/2020 update)
Madison County.  (8/8/2018)
Marion County.  (5/23/2017)
Mitchell County.  (8/7/2018)
Monticello County.  (1/13/2017)
Muscatine County.  (8/1/2018)
Palo Alto County.  (9/6/2018)
Pocahontas County.  (9/6/2018)
Poweshiek and Webster counties.  (2/7/2017)
Ringgold County.  (8/8/2018)
Sioux County.  (8/26/2018 update)
Tama County.  (7/6/2018)
Taylor County.  (9/16/2018)
Union County.  (9/10/2017)
Wapello County.  (8/3/2018)
Washington County.  (4/2/2018)
Wayne County.  (8/5/2018)
Webster County.  (8/9/2018)
Winnebago County. (12/17/2017)
Winneshiek County.  (8/2/2018)
Worth County. (8/7/2018)
Wright County.  (8/8/2017)

Kansas
Clark County.  (3/21/2017)
Comanche County. (1/28/2021 update)
Mitchell County.  (1/29/2017)

Rice County.  (12/29/2020)
Sumner County.  (10/1/2017)

Kentucky
Bell County.  (12/29/2020 update)
Hancock County,.  (1/4/2021 update)
Jackson County.  (12/9/2017)
Knox and Whitley counties.  (2/17/2017)
Lee County.  (12/9/2017)
Letcher County.  (6/29/2017)
Martin County.  (3/22/2018)
Perry County.  (12/29/2020 update)
Rowan County.  (6/4/2018)

Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish,.  (5/22/2017)
St. Martin Parish.  (4/26/2017)

Maine
Piscataquis County.  (7/3/2017)

Michigan
Lake County.  (9/16/2018)
Macomb County.  (11/29/2017)
St. Joseph County.  (6/5/2017)

Minnesota
Chisago County.  (6/20/2018)
Itasca County.  (5/12/2018)
Lac qui Parle County.  (7/2/2017)
Mower County.  (5/12/2018)
Nobles County.  (1/26/2018)

Mississippi
Pontotoc County.  (7/19/2017)

Missouri
Butler County.  (7/22/2018)

Nebraska
Merrick County.  (2/9/2021)

Sioux County.  (12/22/2018)

New Jersey
7th Congressional District.  (4/14/2017)

New York
Broome County.  (2/14/2019)
Cayuga County.  (2/13/2019)
Cortland County.  (2/14/2019)
Essex County.  (11/29/2017 update)
Franklin County. (2/9/2019)
Fulton County.  (2/10/2019)
Herkimer County.  (2/10/2019)
Orange County.  (2/15/2019)
Oswego County.  (2/11/2019)
Otsego County.  (2/12/2019)
Putnam County.  (2/27/2018)
Renssalaer County.  (2/13/2019)
St. Lawrrence County.  (2/8/2019)
Seneca County.  (2/14/2019)
Sullivan County.  (2/15/2019)
Warren County.  (2/11/2019)
Washington County.  (2/11/2019)
19th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)

North Carolina
Robeson County.  (12/1/2017)
Union County.  (3/9/2017)

North Dakota
Sargent County.  (10/22/2017)

Ohio
Adams County.  (12/9/2020 update)
Ashtabula County.  (2/18/2019)
Belmont County.  (12/9/2020 update)
Columbiana County,  (12/9/2020 update)
Defiance County.  (3/21/2017)
Gallia County.  (12/6/2020 update)
Guernsey County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Highland County.   (12/9/2020 update)
Huron County.  12/10/2020 update)
Jackson County.  (12/6/2020 update)
Jefferson County.  (2/20/2019)
Lawrence County.  (2/25/2018)
Marion County.  (12/12/2020 update)
Meigs County.  (12/13/2020 update)
Morgan County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Muskingum County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Shelby County.  (12/12/2020 update)
Trumbull County.  (4/3/2017)
Van Wert County.  (12/12/2020 update)

Vinton County.  (12/6/2020)
Wayne County.  (12/12/2020 update)

Williams County.  (12/10/2020 update)
Wyandot County.  (12/8/2020 update)

Oklahoma

Bryan County.  (5/5/2017)
Nowata County.  (5/5/2018)

Oregon

Douglas County.  (5/17/2017)

Pennsylvania

Beaver County.  (2/8/2019)
Cambria County (Johnstown).  (12/28/2020 update)

Dauphin County. (4/22/2017)

Erie County.  (10/11/2018 update)
Fayette County.  (7/25/2018)

Greene County.  (12/28/2020 update)

Indiana County.  (12/28/2020)
Lawrence County.  (2/5/2019)

UPDATE. Luzerne County.  (1/14/2017)
Mercer County.  (2/9/2019)

Northampton County.  (7/20/2017)
Wayne County.  (3/1/2018)

Williamsport.  (1/24/2017)

8th Congressional District.  (4/18/2017)

South Carolina

Spartanburg County.  (6/5/2017)

South Dakota

Lawrence County,.  (4/27/2017)

Tennessee
Campbell County.  (12/10/2017)

Grundy County.  (2/19/2021)
Lake County.  (12/22/2018)
Marion County.  (4/1/2017)
Maury County.  (10/31/2017)
Roane County.  (5/1/2018)

Scott County.  (2/19/2021)
Union County.  (5/30/2017)

Texas
Gaines County.  (4/26/2017)
Shackelford County.  (2/26/2018)

Virginia
Alleghany County.  (3/4/2020)
Bath County.  (3/6/2020)
Bland County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Buchanan County.  (12/13/2019)
Carroll County.  (2/28/2020)
Craig County.  (3/3/2020)
Dickenson County.  (2/15/2020)
Floyd County.  (8/14/2020 update)
Franklin County.  (3/2/2020)
Frederick County.  (2/15/2020)
Giles County.  (2/26/2020)
Grayson County.  (2/27/2020)
Henry County.  (3/12/2020)
Highland County.  (3/10/2020)
Lee County.  (2/15/2020)
Patrick County.  (2/29/2020)
Pulaski County.  (2/26/2020)
Russell County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Scott County.  (2/16/2020)
Smyth County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Tazewell County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Washington County.  (2/16/2020)
Wise County.  (11/9/2019)

Washington
Grays Harbor County.  (8/20/2017)

West Virginia
Berkeley County.  (3/25/2018)
Boone County.  (3/23/2018)
Cabell County.  (8/4/2017)
Fayette County.  (1/24/2017)
Greenbrief County.  (12/14/2018)
Jackson County.  (6/18/2017)
Marshall County.  (2/7/2018)
Mason County.  (12/16/2017)
McDowell County.  (7/10/2017)
Mingo County.  (3/25/2018)
Summers County.  (3/25/2018)
Wayne County.  (3/24/2018)
Wood County.  (1/15/2019)

Wisconsin
6th congressional district.  (1/27/2018)
Adams County.  (2/6/2017)
Buffalo County.  (3/19/2017)
Burnett County.  (2/24/2018)
Clark County,.  (8/13/2018)
Crawford County.  (5/14/2018)
Fond du Lac County.  (3/7/2018)
Grant County.  (5/16/2018)
Green Lake County.  (1/26/2018)
Jackson County.  (1/6/2021)
Johnson Creek.  (1/21/2017)
Juneau County.  (2/23/2017)

Kewaunee County.  (1/4/2021)
Lafayette County.  (5/16/2018)
Manitowoc County.  (8/10/2017)

Marinette County.  (1/6/2021)
Monroe County.  (1/9/2021 update)
Oconto County.  (1/4/2021 update)
Oneida County.  (4/24/2017)
Pepin County.  (12/21/2017)
Price County.  (12/23/2018 update)
Richland County.  (11/10/2017)
Sauk County.  (5/14/2018)
Sawyer County.  (3/20/2017)
Taylor County.  (12/23/2018 update)
Vernon County.  (5/14/2018)
Waushara County.  (2/6/2017)
Winnebago County.  (11/27/2017)
Wood County.  (3/8/2018

Wisconsin Covid cases mapped, listed and graphed (2/26/2021)

 

New York Times

Friday, February 26.   Total tests (positive and negative):  3,183,104.  One-day increase of 5,498 (656 positive; 12%)

Total positive Covid 19 cases:  562,807

Counties with largest numerical gains = 33 of 72

• 2 with 50 or more new cases
• 4 with 20 to 49
• 17 with 10 to 19
• 10 with 5 to 9

The 33

• Milwaukee (97)
• Dane (70)

• Outagamie (33)
• Waukesha (30)
• Rock (29)
• La Crosse  (22)

• Fond du Lac (19)
• Washington (18)
• Brown, Marathon, Racine, St. Croix (17 each)
• Winnebago (16)
• Ozaukee, Sauk (13 each)
• Polk, Walworth (12 each)
• Columbia, Green, Kenosha, Manitowoc (11 each)
• Eau Claire (10)

• Barron (9)
• Calumet, Chippewa, Dodge (8 each)
• Grant, Jefferson, Pierce, Vernon (6 each) 
• Portage, Trempealeau (5 each)

WI Department of Health Services

Marinette County drops below the state average (2/23/2021)

Link to other WI COVID posts:

Related posts:

Alabama.  (2/15/2021)

Arizona.  (2/15/2021)

Arkansas.  (2/4/2021)

California.  (2/7/2021)

Connecticut.  (8/21/2020)

Florida.  (2/15/2021)

Georgia.  (2/15/2021)

Idaho.  (2/7/2021)

Illinois.  (2/2/2021)

Indiana.  (2/6/2021)

Iowa.  (2/6/2021)

Kansas.  (2/4/2021)

Kentucky.  (2/4/2021)

Louisiana.  (2/6/2021)

Maryland.  (1/27/2021)

Massachusetts.  (2/16/2021)

Michigan.  (2/16/2021)

Minnesota.  (2/4/2021)

Mississippi.  (2/15/2021)

Montana. (2/5/2021)

Nebraska.  (2/4/2021)

Nevada.  (2/17/2021)

New Jersey,  (2/16/2021)

New York.  (2/16/2021)

North Carolina.  (2/7/2021)

North Dakota.  (2/7/2021)

Ohio.  (2/6/2021)

Pennsylvania.  (2/16/2021)

South Carolina.  (2/5/2021)

South Dakota.  (2/18/2021)

Tennessee.  (2/5/2021)

Texas   (2/6/2021)

Utah.  (2/17/2021)

Virginia.  (1/22/2021)

Washington State.  (6/12/2020)

West Virginia.  (2/3/2021)

CPAC loves to trumpet its diversity but the header shows a parade of white men

 

CPAC2021

The majority of the faces on the SPEAKERS page are white, but an occasional person of color does pop out.

Related post:  
The latest from CPAC2021.  (2/26/2021)

USA TODAY snubs Scott Walker, leaves him off list of 2024 GOP presidential wannabees

USA Today, 2/26/2021

This year's CPAC speakers who are suspected of harboring presidential ambitions include: 

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will give the welcoming speech; 

• Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., whose national security speech is entitled "Keeping America Safe"; 

• Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who plans to discuss religious freedom; 

• Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., rebuked by many for his support of Trump's election protests, but popular with members of the ex-president's political base; 

• South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is seeking to build name recognition; 

• Mike Pompeo, talking about his foreign policy record as Trump's secretary of state; and 

• Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a runner-up to Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries. Cruz also has been criticized for backing Trump's election protests – and for recently traveling to Mexico while his state suffered electricity blackouts from severe winter storms.

 

Wisconsin Covid cases mapped, listed and graphed (2/25/2021)

 

New York Times

Thursday, February 25.   Total tests (positive and negative):  3,177,606.  One-day increase of 13,177 (840 positive; 6%)

Total positive Covid 19 cases:  562,151

Counties with largest numerical gains = 39 of 72

• 4 with 50 or more new cases
• 6 with 20 to 49
• 13 with 10 to 19
• 16 with 5 to 9

The 39

• Milwaukee (151)
• Dane (62)
• Outagamie (62)
• Waukesha (53)

• Brown (45)
• Winnebago (40)
• Racine (30)
• Kenosha (23)
• Sheboygan (21)
• Monroe (20)

• Rock (19 each)
• Eau Claire, Jefferson (16 each)
• Dodge (15)
• Marathon, Walworth (14 each)
• Manitowoc, Sauk, Vilas (13 each)
• Calumet, Ozaukee, Polk (11 each)
• Green (10)

• Washington (9)
• Chippewa, La Crosse (8 each)
• Lafayette, Shawano (7 each)
• Barron, Douglas, Dunn, Portage, Wood (6 each) 
• Door, Fond du Lac, Grant, Oneida, Sawyer, St. Croix (5 each)

WI Department of Health Services

Link to other WI COVID posts:

Related posts:

Alabama.  (2/15/2021)

Arizona.  (2/15/2021)

Arkansas.  (2/4/2021)

California.  (2/7/2021)

Connecticut.  (8/21/2020)

Florida.  (2/15/2021)

Georgia.  (2/15/2021)

Idaho.  (2/7/2021)

Illinois.  (2/2/2021)

Indiana.  (2/6/2021)

Iowa.  (2/6/2021)

Kansas.  (2/4/2021)

Kentucky.  (2/4/2021)

Louisiana.  (2/6/2021)

Maryland.  (1/27/2021)

Massachusetts.  (2/16/2021)

Michigan.  (2/16/2021)

Minnesota.  (2/4/2021)

Mississippi.  (2/15/2021)

Montana. (2/5/2021)

Nebraska.  (2/4/2021)

Nevada.  (2/17/2021)

New Jersey,  (2/16/2021)

New York.  (2/16/2021)

North Carolina.  (2/7/2021)

North Dakota.  (2/7/2021)

Ohio.  (2/6/2021)

Pennsylvania.  (2/16/2021)

South Carolina.  (2/5/2021)

South Dakota.  (2/18/2021)

Tennessee.  (2/5/2021)

Texas   (2/6/2021)

Utah.  (2/17/2021)

Virginia.  (1/22/2021)

Washington State.  (6/12/2020)

West Virginia.  (2/3/2021)