Saturday, November 11, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Menomonee Falls school board president Nina Christensen and her newest puppet Superintendent David Munoz run and hide from best-selling author Jodi Picoult

 

Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 11/10/2023
Picoult’s books have been banned in about 41 school districts in the U.S. But she also didn’t want to let her book, which is about a school shooting, disappear quietly. 
Picoult reached out to Menomonee Falls Superintendent David Muñoz and School Board President Nina Christensen and asked them for a Zoom meeting, so they could explain to her why her book was targeted. 
She didn’t get a response. 
"I've written, I think, three times now asking when they'd like to meet, and I've heard absolutely nothing," Picoult said during an interview Friday with Wisconsin Public Radio. "I’m going to hazard to guess that it's a lot easier to be a bully when you’re not face to face with someone." 
Muñoz and Christensen did not respond to requests for comment.  [emphasis added]

It's called hunkering down.
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GET ME REWRITE: GOP lapdog and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice ordered to produce records related to sham impeachment panel

 
Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 11/10/2023
Former state Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack has been ordered by a Dane County Circuit Court judge to produce all records related to her involvement in a panel of former justices tasked with exploring the prospect of impeaching a current member of the state’s high court. 
Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington issued the order Friday after attorneys representing liberal watchdog group American Oversight told the court that the other two former justices on the panel, David Prosser and Jon Wilcox, had provided all requested documents. Remington has given Roggensack 30 days to “produce all records within her possession relating to her work as a member of the panel.”

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GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin MAGA election denial queen Janel Brandtjen smacked down by GOP colleagues on Assembly floor


Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/9/2023
A Republican lawmaker's effort to initiate impeachment proceedings against Wisconsin's top elections official was rebuffed on the Assembly floor during Thursday's session dedicated to implementing changes — many with bipartisan support — to the state's election laws. 
Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, requested unanimous consent to suspend the rules toward the beginning of the session and take up a resolution containing 15 articles of impeachment against Wisconsin Elections Administrator Meagan Wolfe she introduced with four other GOP members of the Assembly in September. 
Many of the impeachment articles contain accusations that have been debunked or are based on decisions made by the bipartisan panel of commissioners who oversee Wolfe.

Janel's long trail of election denial Looney Tunes:
November 2023
Robin Vos to MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen:  Stop obsessing about Trump's 2020 election loss.  (11/8)

September 2023

August 2023

June 2023

February 2023
Trump rewards slobbering sycophant and fanatical election denier with endorsement in today's 8th Senate District primary.  (2/20/2023)
Democrats educate voters about off-the-charts whackjob Janel Brandtjen. (2/16/2023)

January 2023
Anti-Trump group campaigns against "inept, unqualified, ineffective" election denier Janel Brandtjen.  (2/13/2023)

December 2022
Spoiler alert:  GOP Dan Feyen drops out of Wisconsin 8th Senate District primary, hoping to keep 'divisive fringe candidate' Janel Brandtjen from winning.  (12/30)War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues (chapter two).  (12/28)
War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues.  (12/23/2022)
2020 election denier queen Janel Brandtjen sez she won't shut up or stop drinking the Trump Kool-Aid.  (12/20)
GOP caucus outcast and election denier Janel Brandtjen running for open State Senate seat.  (12/6)
One-woman election denier Looney Tunes festival doesn't realize she's about to get cancelled.  (12/5)

November 2022
As John Torinus describes it, Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen went ballistic over three grains of sand in the desert.  (11/23)
Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen is even too toxic for her own party's caucus.  (11/16)
GOP judge quickly slaps down Wisconsin election denier queen's lawsuit to block military votes.  (11/8)

October 2022
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Moms for Liberty short out in Iowa

 


Des Moines Register, 11/10/2023
But the unofficial 2023 results were an unambiguous win for Democrats and progressive groups in the Des Moines metro, central Iowa and elsewhere in the state. Democratic-backed slates were victorious in districts such as Johnston, Ankeny and West Des Moines. Few of the candidates promoted by area Republican legislators such as Rep. Eddie Andrews, R-Johnston, and Rep. Dan Gehlbach, R-Urbandale, managed to win a seat. Just one of the 13 candidates endorsed statewide by Moms for Liberty, a group that lobbied for the education law changes, won their race.

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Friday, November 10, 2023

"All the News That's Fit to Print" on the front page of today's New York Times includes feature on "Trump Family Trial Style"

 

Photo by Retiring Guy

Subscribers to the Times can read the entire article for themselves.

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MISDVENTURES IN JOURNALISM:  Whataboutism rules on front page of New York Times while decades of oil company climate change lies gets buried on page 4 of business section.  (1/13/2023)

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Day 1105 of GOP election denial hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, Colorado edition)

 
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Starring Colorado conservative radio host
Deborah Flora
Headline: Colorado Times Recorder, 11/9/2023
In the wake of Buck’s surprise announcement that he would not be seeking reelection in 2024, several other conservatives have already thrown their hats into the ring for the congressional district’s Republican primary. Buck listed one of his reasons for stepping down as his frustration with GOP election deniers; and although Flora has avoided explicitly answering the question of whether the 2020 election was stolen, she has made comments casting doubt on its legitimacy.

Related posts:
Day 938 (Doug McLinko)
Day 942 (Glenn Youngkin)
Day 944 (Janel Brandtjen)
Day 945 (Jeff Serdy)
Day 946 (Todd Graybill)
Day 947 (Kyle Ardoin)
Day 949 (Frank LaRose)
Day 951 (Garland Favorito)
Day 952 (Doug Logan)
Day 954 (Brian Pritchard)
Day 955 (David Cross)
Day 956 (Suzi Voyles)
Day 957 (Josh McKoon)
Day 958 (David Whipple)
Day 960 (Joe Oltmann)
Day 961 (Theresa Manzella)
Day 962 (Sandra Merchant)
Day 964 (Stuart Hadlund)
Day 965 (Kari Lake)
Day 966 (Andro Lerario)
Day 971 (Jason Snead)
Day 982 (Joseph Mastroianni)
Day 983 (Mike Lindell)
Day 984 (Robert Sutherland)
Day 985 (Charlie Kirk)
Day 992 (Stan Grot)
Day 996 (Tim O'Hare)
Day 998 (Shawnna Bolick)
Day 999 (Dave Williams)
Day 1000 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1003 (Janel Brandtjen)
Day 1004 (Dinesh D'Souza)
Day 1005 (Sonny Borrelli)
Day 1006 (Daire Rendon)
Day 1007 (70% of GOP voters)
Day 1011 (Peter Bernegger)
Day 1013 (Sidney Powell)
Day 1015 (Matt Maddock)
Day 1016 (Nick Sherman)
Day 1017 (Boris Epshteyn)
Day 1019 (Rudy Giuliani)
Day 1020 (Eric Burlison)
Day 1025  (Mark Finchem)
Day 1026 (Brian Schimming)
Day 1027 (Jenna Ellis)
Day 1030 (David Whipple)
Day 1031 (Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman) 
Day 1032 (Joe Oltmann)
Day 1033 (Kari Lake)
Day 1035 (Abe Hamadeh)
Day 1037 (Douglas Frank)
Day 1039 (Warren Daniel)
Day 1040 (Craig Berland)
Day 1041 (Jason Frazier)
Day 1042 (Tina Peters)
Day 1044 (Meshawn Maddock)
Day 1046  (Jim Womack)
Day 1049 (Devin LeMahieu)
Day 1051 (Shawn Still)
Day 1053 (Ron DeSantis)
Day 1054 (Kristina Karamo)
Day 1055 (Cathy Latham)
Day 1056 (Kari Lake)
Day 1057 (Janel Brandtjen)
Day 1059 (Warren Daniel)
Day 1064 (Mike Thompson)
Day 1065 (Scott Hall)
Day 1069 (Janel Brandtjen)
Day 1072 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1074 (Sharon Hewitt)
Day 1081 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1082 (Amanda Jennings Smith)
Day 1083 (Kari Lake)
Day 1084 (Bob Bachenberg)
Day 1085 (Sidney Powell)
Day 1086 (Kenneth Chesebro)
Day 1087 (Gym Jordan)
Day 1088 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1089 (Tom Emmer)
Day 1090 (Mike Johnson)
Day 1091 (Jenna Ellis)
Day 1094 (Jim Marchant)
Day 1095 (Donald Trump)
Day 1096 (Mike Johnson)
Day 1097 (Seth Keshel)
Day 1098 (Doug Basler)
Day 1099 (Amy Kremer)
Day 1100 (Gabrielle Hanson)
Day 1101 (Mike Lindell) 
Day 1102 (Harrison Floyd)
Day 1103 (Steve Scalise)
Day 1104 (Kari Lake)
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GET ME REWRITE: West Virginia is a lost cause for the Democrats, with or without Manchin

 
If we can believe the polls -- and that's a possible leap of faith -- current West Virginia governor Jim Justice would have kicked Manchin's butt in November 2024.

Poll results:  Real Clear Politics
Headline:  New York Times, 11/9/2023

You can count on the New York Times to ride the Oblivion Express when it comes to reporting on Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Instead, Mr. Manchin, who was likely to face a strong Republican challenger to keep his Senate seat in a deeply red state, said he would continue exploring whether there was an appetite in the country for a centrist third-party bid for the presidency. That prospect has alarmed many Democrats, who fear such a run could doom President Biden’s hopes of remaining in the White House.

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GET ME REWRITE: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through one of the whitest states.  (12/16/2021)
GET ME REWRITE: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema now flourishing as GOP hacks.  (11/21/2021)
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As you might expect, Wisconsin MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen's latest plaything, the Wisconsin Elections Committee, Inc., is a font of lies and misinformation



2 "pants on fire" and 1 "false" statements fact-checked by PolitiFact.


From the Wisconsin Examiner (11/9/2023)
The Wisconsin Elections Committee, Inc, a nonprofit group that has been running attack ads against Vos in his home district, has accused Vos of preventing Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) from bringing up her resolution at the end of Tuesday’s Assembly floor session in a Facebook post.

Janel's long trail of election denial Looney Tunes:
Robin Vos to MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen:  Stop obsessing about Trump's 2020 election loss.  (11/8)

September 2023

August 2023

June 2023

February 2023
Trump rewards slobbering sycophant and fanatical election denier with endorsement in today's 8th Senate District primary.  (2/20/2023)
Democrats educate voters about off-the-charts whackjob Janel Brandtjen. (2/16/2023)

January 2023
Anti-Trump group campaigns against "inept, unqualified, ineffective" election denier Janel Brandtjen.  (2/13/2023)

December 2022
Spoiler alert:  GOP Dan Feyen drops out of Wisconsin 8th Senate District primary, hoping to keep 'divisive fringe candidate' Janel Brandtjen from winning.  (12/30)War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues (chapter two).  (12/28)
War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues.  (12/23/2022)
2020 election denier queen Janel Brandtjen sez she won't shut up or stop drinking the Trump Kool-Aid.  (12/20)
GOP caucus outcast and election denier Janel Brandtjen running for open State Senate seat.  (12/6)
One-woman election denier Looney Tunes festival doesn't realize she's about to get cancelled.  (12/5)

November 2022
As John Torinus describes it, Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen went ballistic over three grains of sand in the desert.  (11/23)
Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen is even too toxic for her own party's caucus.  (11/16)
GOP judge quickly slaps down Wisconsin election denier queen's lawsuit to block military votes.  (11/8)

October 2022
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GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen continues to obsess over 2020 election

 
Headline:  Wisconsin Examiner, 11/9/2023
The Wisconsin Elections Committee, Inc, a nonprofit group that has been running attack ads against Vos in his home district, has accused Vos of preventing Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) from bringing up her resolution at the end of Tuesday’s Assembly floor session in a Facebook post. 
“Vos has until the next session on Thursday to rectify his course and allow democracy to prevail by permitting [Rep.] Brandtjen to call her resolution to the floor,” the group wrote. “Failure to do so will result in the Wisconsin Election Committee, INC. exercising all of its options in any recall effort against Vos.”

Janel's long trail of election denial Looney Tunes:
November 2023
Robin Vos to MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen:  Stop obsessing about Trump's 2020 election loss.  (11/8)

September 2023

August 2023

June 2023

February 2023
Trump rewards slobbering sycophant and fanatical election denier with endorsement in today's 8th Senate District primary.  (2/20/2023)
Democrats educate voters about off-the-charts whackjob Janel Brandtjen. (2/16/2023)

January 2023
Anti-Trump group campaigns against "inept, unqualified, ineffective" election denier Janel Brandtjen.  (2/13/2023)

December 2022
Spoiler alert:  GOP Dan Feyen drops out of Wisconsin 8th Senate District primary, hoping to keep 'divisive fringe candidate' Janel Brandtjen from winning.  (12/30)War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues (chapter two).  (12/28)
War of words between Janel Brandtjen and Robin Vos continues.  (12/23/2022)
2020 election denier queen Janel Brandtjen sez she won't shut up or stop drinking the Trump Kool-Aid.  (12/20)
GOP caucus outcast and election denier Janel Brandtjen running for open State Senate seat.  (12/6)
One-woman election denier Looney Tunes festival doesn't realize she's about to get cancelled.  (12/5)

November 2022
As John Torinus describes it, Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen went ballistic over three grains of sand in the desert.  (11/23)
Wisconsin GOP election denier Kool-Aid Queen Janel Brandtjen is even too toxic for her own party's caucus.  (11/16)
GOP judge quickly slaps down Wisconsin election denier queen's lawsuit to block military votes.  (11/8)

October 2022
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GET ME REWRITE: According to the latest Marquette Law School poll, Wisconsin's Christian nationalists are overwhelming in favor of the overturning of Roe v. Wade

 
Poll results:  Marquette Law School


As defined by Christianity Today, Christian nationalism is
the belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way. Popularly, Christian nationalists assert that America is and must remain a “Christian nation”—not merely as an observation about American history, but as a prescriptive program for what America must continue to be in the future.
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GET ME REWRITE: Wisconsin GOP and its legislative leaders are out of touch with voters

 
Headline:  Wisconsin Examiner, 11/9/2023
Poll results:  Marquette Law School
In the latest Marquette poll, released Wednesday, 57% of Wisconsin voters who were polled said they opposed the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and 80% said abortion is either somewhat important or one of the most important issues to them. In a head-to-head rematch, Wisconsinites also said they prefer President Joe Biden to Donald Trump. 
Instead of listening to the majority, Republicans are putting their hands over their ears, talking loudly, and, at the state level, passing bills designed to muffle their opponents and make it harder to vote. It doesn’t take a futurist to see the limitations of this approach.

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It took all of 15 seconds for these 6 white guys -- the Wisconsin GOP legislative leadership -- to slam the door on reproductive rights.  (10/4/2022)
Reproductive rights? Fuggedaboudit! What else would you expect from these Wisconsin GOP Gomers? (8/22/2022)
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Trump's waning influence in Kentucky

 
Election results:  Ballotpedia

Related post:
Dear Steven Shepard @politico, Your order of crow is ready. Best, Retiring Guy.  (11/8/2023

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

No words

 


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Bang the drum all day: Corporate media's obsession with Joe Biden's age. (And giving Donald Trump a pass on this vital statistic.)

 
It's amazing what a difference 3 years makes!

Top headline:  NBC News, 9/15/2023
Poll results:  Marquette Law School
Bottom headline:  Boston Globe, 10/7/2023

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America's broken health care system (syphilis edition)

 
Headline:  New York Times, 11/7/2023

The numbers:
3,700
Number of cases of congenital syphilis reported in 2022, eleven times the number reported 10 years earlier.

1,406
Number of babies born to woman who received no prenatal care.

231
Number of stillbirths caused by syphilis

51
Number of infants deaths caused by syphilis

90%
Percentage of new cases in 2022 that could have been prevented with timely testing and treatment, according to the Center for Disease Control. 
88%
Percentage of women who tested positive for syphilis who received inadequate, undocumented, or no treatment.

Excerpt:
Syphilis was nearly eliminated in the United States about 20 years ago, but rose by 74 percent, to 177,000 cases, between 2017 and 2021. Other S.T.I.s are also on the rise: In 2021, there were 1.6 million cases of chlamydia and more than 700,000 cases of gonorrhea.
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Day 452 of aftermath Wisconsin 2020 election review clown show: Incompetent, incorrigible Michael Gableman keeps running off at the mouth

 
Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/7/2023

Blah, blah, blah......
In an interview Monday with conservative radio show host Joe Giganti on Green Bay's WTAQ, Gableman suggested to listeners that the floor session would be the "last chance" to impeach Wolfe. There are no time limits on such resolutions, however. 
"If Speaker Vos or anyone else voluntarily or unnecessarily gives up that power (of impeachment), they are shutting the people out of their ability to get rid of people like Meagan Wolfe," Gableman said. 
"If they don't impeach her tomorrow — that is if 50 members of the Assembly don't vote on it and send it over to the Senate so the Senate can consider it — we are going to have Meagan Wolfe for the foreseeable future." 
The lawmakers — Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls, Rep. Scott Allen of Waukesha, Rep. Elijah Behnke of Oconto, Rep. Ty Bodden of Hilbert and Rep. Chuck Wichgers of Muskego — argued impeachment is warranted because Wolfe challenged a Senate vote to fire her.



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Glenn Youngkin and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day


Headline:  Washington Post, 11/8/2023
The Democrats’ capture of the state legislature in Virginia on Tuesday is nothing short of humiliating for Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who staked immense political capital on the races by making them straightforwardly about his ambition to pass a 15-week abortion ban he has championed. But the GOP governor’s comeuppance isn’t just about the durability of abortion rights as a political winner for Democrats. It also shows that right-wing culture-warring on education — built around a “parents’ rights” agenda limiting school discussion of race and gender — has utterly lost its political potency, allowing Democrats to respond with their own affirmative liberal cultural agenda.


April 2023
Baby, scratch my back: Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis math textbook ban is good thing for Virginia GOP governor Glenn Youngkin's bottom line.  (4/26/2023)


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