But as scholars, Mr. Williams’s colleagues in the House of Delegates and others on social media noted, that debate was between not Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, but Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, a Democratic senator from Illinois.
“The gross mistake in this bill is indicative of the need to have scholars and teachers, not legislators/politicians, shaping what students at every level learn in the classroom,” Caroline Janney, a professor of Civil War history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in an email.
Layout of multi-phase plan for the site
Original 3/1/2021 post, "Bruce Company proposes major development on its Middleton property", starts here.
Approximate outline of property proposed for redevelopment
The Bruce Company, known for its landscaping services and robust garden center, has presented plans to the Middleton Plan Commission for a 16-acre project that would construct a new retail store, greenhouse and corporate headquarters and move its field operations to Verona, freeing up acres of land for redevelopment.
The plan, which could take 10 years to come to fruition, calls for multiple buildings housing 600 apartment units, offices, a bank and possibly a hotel. A public park could also be constructed along Pheasant Branch Creek, which runs adjacent to the property but is shielded by a tangle of brush and trees.
From the February 23, 2021, Middleton Plan Commission agenda packet
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Another GOP clown show. When will it ever end?
She won 79 percent of the vote over Republican Jason Mariner, who was born in Boston and founded a drug and alcohol detox center in Florida. Mariner got less than 20 percent of the vote and trails Cherfilus-McCormick by over 32,000 votes. For context, Biden beat Trump statewide in Georgia by 11,000 votes.
“Now they called the race, I did not win, so they say, but that does not mean that they lost either, it does not mean that we lost,” Mariner was quoted by the Miami CBS affiliate as saying.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Most of those who took out the loans that will be forgiven under the settlement attended for-profit schools — like the defunct ITT Technical Institute — that often have low graduation rates and poor job-placement records. The private loans were — in Navient’s own words, according to legal filings — a “baited hook” to reel in more federally backed loans. [emphasis added]
At some schools, Navient anticipated that more than 90 percent of the loans would default. But what it lost on the private loans was far outweighed by what it gained on the federal loans — guaranteed by the government — that students at those schools took out.
Chipolo connects your personal items with a companion app so that you can find everything in seconds, and the company is now releasing a wallet finder that can easily slide right into one of your card slots. It's safe, it's slim, it hits up to 105dB when you ring the alarm and it's IPX5-rated water-resistant. It has a long battery life as well, lasting up to two years.
35 buckaroos.
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Claims of national crisis and delusions of indispensability are standard among lawmakers looking to justify abandoning their term-limit pledges. But Mr. Johnson is correct that he has distinguished himself for his willingness to tread where many other officials dare not, at least in the Senate. He has become known as perhaps the chamber’s foremost spreader of absurd yet dangerous conspiracy theories — especially in the areas of anti-vaccine insanity and the election-fraud delusions of a certain former president.
So it is worth drilling down on what sort of “truth” and “freedom” Mr. Johnson is fighting for — and why it would be good news, not merely for Democrats but for all Americans, if he could get his butt whupped in November. [emphasis added]
The tenor of the ads was reminiscent in some respects of Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural address when he painted a dark and apocalyptic picture of the state of the nation epitomized by the phrase, "American carnage."
The ads were accompanied by a media rollout for Johnson on conservative talk radio as he sought to shore up his conservative base and reach donors — both nationally and locally —for what will be an expensive race for re-election. [emphasis added]
"I believe America is in peril," Johnson wrote. "Much as I'd like to ease into a quiet retirement, I don't feel I should."
Wisconsin’s conspiratorial U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has spouted plenty of garbage in recent months — that mouthwash has been proven to kill COVID-19, that unvaccinated people are being put “basically into internment camps,” that climate change is “bullsh-t.”
But the Oshkosh Republican’s worst idea among many doozies went like this: He wants his partisan pals at the statehouse in Madison to take over the administration of Wisconsin elections.
During an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) denounces Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) false claim that mouthwash has been proven to kill Covid-19.
After Johnson accused Fauci of hyping AIDS and COVID, he said on CNN’s State Of The Union, “How do you respond to something as preposterous as that? Over hyping AIDS? It killed over 750,000 Americans. 36 million people worldwide. How do you overhype that? Over hyping COVID? It killed 780,000 Americans and over 5 million people worldwide. I don’t have any clue of what he is talking about. “
Fauci put his finger on the problem. Republicans are spreading misinformation about COVID, and they don’t care that they don’t know what they are talking about. [emphasis added]
The Oshkosh Republican said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, overstated AIDS when it first began killing gay Americans inexplicably and that he was doing the same with COVID-19 today.
"He created all kinds of fear, saying it could affect the entire population when it couldn't," Johnson said Wednesday during an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Kilmeade's radio program.
Johnson's comments were made on World AIDS Day, a national day of remembrance that began in 1988 after tens of thousands of people had died in the U.S. of AIDS in a span of seven years.
"The timing of this was crass and hurtful and harmful to people. What happened in the 80s was the exact opposite of hype," said Brian Bond, the executive director of PFLAG National, which advocates for LGBTQ Americans and their families.
He contended Republicans who control the Legislature could unilaterally take over federal elections and said Democratic Gov Tony Evers couldn't stop them.
"There's no mention of the governor in the Constitution" when it comes to running elections, Johnson said. "It says state legislatures, and so if I were running the joint —and I’m not — I would come out and I would just say, 'We're reclaiming our authority. Don't listen to WEC anymore. Their guidances are null and void.'"
Johnson, who in 2016 made a commitment to only serving two terms, was asked how he would explain breaking a campaign pledge if he takes the plunge and runs for a third term.
Because I never anticipated the importance of continuing to uncover the corruption," Johnson said. "But also just this moment, right here, this is crucial that Republicans retain this Senate seat and I think just about everybody I talk to says I probably have the best chance of doing that. And that puts a fair amount of pressure on me to do that. No, I mean, look, when I made that pledge, when my wife (Jane) and I made that pledge, that was our very strong preference."
Asked directly if he believed he was best positioned to retain the seat, a crucial battleground with the Senate now split 50-50 among Democrats and Republicans, Johnson said: "Oh, it's not just me, I think just about everybody I talk to. I mean the political pros believe that."
On Tuesday, the Oshkosh Republican sent another letter to top health officials, contending that "public health officials have not only ignored potential early treatments, but at times seem to have participated in an aggressive campaign against the use of specific early treatment options." Twenty-one of Johnson's Republican colleagues signed the letter, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Tom Tiffany, who represents Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District.
U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas also signed on.
In a Tuesday appearance on the John Solomon Reports podcast, Johnson suggested vaccinated Americans could be worsening the pandemic though recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services show the unvaccinated are more likely to become infected.
The move by the FDA came amid reports that an increasing number of people in Mississippi and Louisiana were self-medicating with ivermectin intended for livestock.
In Wisconsin, a handful of people have called UW Health in Madison after taking the drug for COVID-19, said Nasia Safdar, the health care system's director of infection control. Most experienced gastrointestinal side effects after taking the drug, and called because they were worried.
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Jonathan Yardley, an associate professor at Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, said ivermectin is used to kill worms in horses and cows, but is quite powerful. The drug has caused seizures in miniature horses and dogs,
Yardley said, adding, "I find it strange that people are unwilling to take a vaccine that has been approved (under emergency use authorization), but are willing to take a horse drug. I just can't wrap my head around that." [emphasis added]
"I think he's going to run and I think he'll decide in the next few months," U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, said Monday before a political event in Hales Corners.
Scott joined former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at Heritage Action's Save Our Paycheck event, a program focused on what Republicans claim is the failure of President Joe Biden's economic agenda.
The Oshkosh Republican, who’s yet to announce whether he’ll seek a third term in 2022, was at 35 percent favorable and 42 percent unfavorable among registered voters in Wisconsin, with 23 percent having no opinion.
In October’s poll, Johnson was at 38 percent favorable, 36 percent unfavorable and 26 percent no opinion.
“I don’t say this publicly, but are you watching what’s happening in Michigan?” Johnson told several people after the event. “.... So you think the FBI had fully infiltrated the militias in Michigan, but they don’t know squat about what was happening on January 6th or what was happening with these groups? I’d say there is way more to the story.”
“I want to make sure that this U.S. Senate seat is retained in Republican hands,” Johnson told conservative commentator Lisa Boothe. “You see what the media’s doing to me. I may not be the best candidate. I wouldn’t run if I don’t think I could win, if I don’t think I was the best person to be able to win.”
He then referenced former Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant, who he said retired at the height of his success because “he wanted to live a life.” [emphasis added]
He keeps disregarding scientists’ published findings about vaccine immunity and the clear guidance from federal health agencies and doctors. He failed to heed experts’ admonitions about his wrongheaded use of the VAERS data. His advisers have been unable to rebut, over the course of two months, the CDC’s assertion that currently “available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines.”
We don’t know what motivates this one-man campaign of misinformation on a vital public health issue, but it’s clear this is a deliberate effort and not just a few stray comments.
“I don’t know about you guys, but I think climate change is — as Lord Monckton said — bulls—-,” Johnson said, without actually speaking the second half of the expletive but mouthing it, and referring to British conservative climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton. “By the way, it is.”
Ron Johnson and Lord Monckton deserve each other.
Olivia Troye, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the Trump administration, said Johnson’s pandemic hearings were troublesome.
“I felt like (Johnson) was an echo chamber for Trump,” said Troye, a former homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence. “I thought to myself, ‘This is so fundamentally dangerous.’”
Wisconsin's governor blasted the state's senior senator Friday for giving a platform to six people who claim they've had adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines instead of promoting the millions who haven't reported serious side effects and avoided sickness and death. [emphasis added]
When asked what he thought of the boos Saturday, Johnson said: “This is unusual for Wisconsin. Most people in Wisconsin say, ‘You are in our prayers; we are praying for you.’ ... But you got some people here that are just sort of nasty at some points.”So sez a member in good standing of the Party of Nasty.
“While it still seems strange that having taxpayers provide federal employees paid time off is now required to celebrate the end of slavery, it is clear that there is no appetite in Congress to further discuss the matter,” Johnson said regarding a proposal to make June 19, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., a federal holiday. “Therefore, I do not intend to object.”
Johnson, R-Oshkosh, told a Milwaukee Press Club and WisPolitics.com media panel Thursday he doesn’t feel any pressure to make a decision on running for a third term, despite former President Donald Trump already endorsing him in April, telling him to “run, Ron, run” in a statement from the former president’s Save America PAC.
He also declined to encourage people to get COVID-19 vaccines, saying he’s concerned about the push for mass vaccination, and said Republicans have accepted that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, even as efforts continue to scrutinize the results.
“Who's ultimately responsible for securing the Capitol? Well, that would be congressional leadership, including Speaker Pelosi,” Johnson said during a virtual Q&A hosted by the Milwaukee Press Club. “I don't trust her to select commissioners to investigate her own involvement in this thing, or her own culpability or any congressional leader’s culpability in this.”
Johnson repeated that he condemned the violence on Jan. 6 but said he disagreed with the value of the commission.
"I also asked what questions regarding Jan. 6 they are seeking answers to. Although we respectfully disagreed on the added value of the proposed commission, I did commit to doing everything I could to ensure all their questions will be answered," Johnson said in a statement.
Johnson previously falsely claimed that the riot "didn't seem like an armed insurrection." The senator has also promoted a discredited conspiracy theory that fake Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Although a substantial number of Republican lawmakers have shown support for the measure, Johnson argues, "What this is all about is they're probably figuring out they can't impeach Donald Trump for a third time. So this is the only way they can keep their false narrative that they were thousands of armed insurrectionists that stormed the capital intent on overthrowing this government."
He added, "And then by extension, they can paint with a very broad brush that the 75 million Americans that voted for Donald Trump are also potentially domestic terrorists and would be armed insurrectionists themselves if the FBI doesn't intervene soon enough. So this is all about a narrative that paints Donald Trump's supporters as threats to this nation."
"The biggest problem businesses in Wisconsin face now is finding people willing to turn down government subsidies and go back to work," U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Oshkosh said in a statement.It goes beyond what this simpleton thinks.
"I mean having the disease, I’ve always felt, was better than a vaccine because you’ve actually had the disease. You’ve developed the antibodies, you ought to have some pretty good immunity. Why would you be pushing people that have already had the disease, why would you push the vaccine on them?" [emphasis added]RoJo thinks he's smarter than the experts.
"I have no idea who started that rumor, but if I run for anything, it's not going to be for governor," Johnson, R-Oshkosh, said in response to a question from conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna. "So anybody considering governor, you're not going to have me entering any kind of primary for governor."
Johnson himself floated the possibility of a run for governor back in 2019 when he was asked about it and responded "Never say never."
"It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with riots," Johnson said. "I completely did not anticipate that anybody could interpret what I said as racist. It's not."
"I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn't concerned," Johnson said about the predominantly white crowd that marched to the U.S. Capitol to overturn a presidential election and triggered an assault that left five people dead, 140 police officers injured and windows smashed.
"Now, had the tables been turned, and Joe — this is going to get me in trouble — had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa, I might have been a little concerned," Johnson said during an interview with syndicated radio show host Joe "Pags" Pagliarulo.
Johnson, R-Oshkosh, who has described the massive stimulus package as unnecessary, said he plans to force a full reading of the 700 to 800 page document, which could take 10 hours.
She was furious as she listened to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson speak during the Senate hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, her daughter said.
"We were watching TV and Ron Johnson was totally whitewashing and, you know, making January 6 sound like it was just a bunch of goofy people having fun. And she was just irate, so she was going off," Laurie said. "She said she wished that she had spoken up more and done more and that she wanted to be a freedom fighter, which is something I'd never heard before.
Democrat Klobuchar, chair of one of the two panels holding the hearing, derided Johnson's line of questioning, saying most of the members of the committees investigating the riot were working constructively across the aisle but called Johnson an exception to that.
"I'm not one bit surprised that Ron Johnson has again engaged in a conspiracy theory — that's what he does," she said.
Johnson has accused Democrats of using the Capitol riot to portray Trump supporters broadly as an ongoing threat. At Tuesday’s hearing, Johnson suggested the riot was a surprise to law enforcement officials because, “the vast majority of Trump supporters are pro-law enforcement, and the last thing they would do is violate the law.” [emphasis added]
Yeah, just like their idol.
Johnson’s grasp on reality has been tenuous for years, but even more so since he aligned himself lockstep with former President Donald Trump.
Since Trump left office, two kinds of Republicans have emerged:
Those who want to purge Trump and his cult of white supremacists and conspiracy theorists from the party and those, like Johnson, who long for the return of their would-be king.
"When you hear the word ‘armed,’ don’t you think of firearms? Here’s the questions I would have liked to ask — how many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired? I’m only aware of one, and I’ll defend that law enforcement officer for taking that shot, it was a tragedy, but I think there was only one," Johnson said. "If that was a planned armed insurrection, man, you had really a bunch of idiots."
Dumb, dumber, and dumbest: Ron Johnson rolled up into one big goofy package. The deadly insurrection attempt at the Capitol was fueled, in part, by gun rights extremists who brought their firepower to Washington to stop the certification of the electoral college votes. At least nine people who were at or around the Capitol have already been arrested on weapons charges, including a heavily armed man in D.C. who prosecutors allege had texted his intention to “[put] a bullet” in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s head. Thousands of rounds of ammunition were recovered by authorities. Rioters displayed militia patches, waved a “Come and Take It” Confederate flag with an AR-15 image, and dawned insignia of gun groups including the NRA. A review of the digital footprint of those arrested at the Capitol reveals ties to the NRA and other forms of gun rights extremism.
For now, much of the focus is on Johnson, whom new National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Rick Scott (R-Fla.) started trying to convince to run again in the fall of last year.
Annotations 1. Sen. Ron Johnson took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. In our system, the states certify Electoral College votes and Congress acknowledges the victor. Senators and representatives cannot overturn the will of citizen voters by rejecting a state's electoral votes.
As for racism: Underlying the attack on the U.S. Capitol was a “tribal fury against people targeted as scapegoats,” we wrote, a fury President Donald Trump stoked repeatedly during his time in office. Johnson showed he was a willing accomplice in this shameful politics by repeatedly failing to adequately call out Trump’s appeals to the worst prejudices in people.
Sen. Ron Johnson decided to vote against both baseless challenges to the states' certified votes only after our nation's Capitol was sacked as Congress gathered to perform its simple constitutional duty to recognize the Electoral College vote. But Johnson had been shilling for Trump and this moment for days, adding kindling to the megalomaniac's fire, so his last-minute switch does nothing to absolve his role in stoking this shameful day in American history.
Yet Johnson continues to damage our democracy and fuel public suspicion and distrust in our institutions based on his feelings and, more specifically, his fear of Trump's scorn.
That's cowardly and dangerous.
The group is led by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and also includes Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Mike Braun of Indiana, and Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
Together with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.....
But in recent years, Johnson — now the de facto leader of the Wisconsin Republican Party as the only remaining statewide officeholder — has increasingly relished his role as a leading Senate contrarian and defender of President Donald Trump. [emphasis added]
Over the past year, rather than using his position as head of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to investigate foreign election interference or the government’s botched response to the pandemic, Johnson has aired unproven and potentially harmful COVID-19 and presidential election conspiracy theories.
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Sen. Ron Johnson believes Americans have been “snookered into this mass hysteria” about the coronavirus. He continues to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine, rejecting scientific studies that found it can endanger covid-19 patients. He has said the country’s intelligence service conspired with the media to undermine President Trump
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President Trump lost the election. He lost the recounts. He lost the vote certifications, by Republican and Democratic officials alike. He lost 59 of 60 court cases. He lost the electoral college vote. His own attorney general said “we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome.”
But Johnson forges ahead with his fraudulent attempt to undermine the election — and the credibility of elections in the United States generally.
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Doctors are criticizing a hearing held this week by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, about controversial treatments for COVID-19, including hydroxychloroquine — a drug that studies have found to be ineffective and in some cases dangerous when treating the disease.
During the hearing, Johnson pushed a baseless theory that the medical community was working to deny patients drugs such as hydroxychloroquine because they were cheaper than other treatments.
Our Dumb Senator gets away with a slap on the wrist from the pinheads at PolitiFact.
The death toll now stands at 1,745. The seven-day average for daily deaths is 24; one month ago, it was four.
The quickly rising death toll is a direct result of the rise in cases weeks earlier, state health officials have said.
Because cases have continued to surge since then, hospitalization and death numbers will only get worse in coming weeks.
10/21/2020 update starts here
10/15/2020 update, "Marquette poll snooze alarm: After 10 years in office, Our Dumb Senator Ron Johnson remains a blank page to one-third of registered voters", starts here.
It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and grasping for everyday words. Increasingly, Covid survivors say brain fog is impairing their ability to work and function normally.
“There are thousands of people who have that,” said Dr. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuro-infectious disease at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, who has already seen hundreds of survivors at a post-Covid clinic he leads. “The impact on the work force that’s affected is going to be significant.
