Saturday, February 10, 2024

2024 elections: Who will run in Washington's 5th congressional district now that Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers is not running for re-election?

 
Safe GOP seat.  No Democrat ran for the seat in 2022.

Source:  Ballotpedia

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/10/2024
Gallagher told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he will leave Congress at the end of his current term to enter the private sector and spend more time with his young family. He said his future work will be in-line with his national security goals and focus on defense policy. 
“I really just feel like I’ve accomplished much more than I even thought I could when I set out, and I firmly don’t believe that the best use for the next chapter of my career is staying in Congress for another decade,” Gallagher said in an interview.

Wisconsin State Senator Roger Roth (R-Appleton) is ready to run.


Other dropouts:
Republicans
Debbie Lesko, AZ-8.  (11/28/2023)
Kevin McCarthy, CA-20.  (12/6/2023)
Ken Buck, CO-4.  (11/28/2023)
Doug Lamborn, CO-5.  (1/5/2024)
Victoria Spartz, IN-5.  (11/28/2023)
Greg Pence, IN-6.  (1/9/2024)e
Larry Bucshon, IN-8.  1/7/2024)
Dan Bishop, NC-8.  (12/5/2023)
Patrick McHenry., NC-10.  (12/5/2023)
Kelly Armstrong, ND.  (1/24/2024)
Brad Wenstrup, OH-2.  (12/1/2023)
Bill Johnson., OH-6.  (12/1/2023)
Jeff Duncan, SC-3.  (1/18/2024)
Kay Granger, TX-12.  (12/1/2023) 
Michael Burgess, TX-26.  (12/2/2023)
Chris Stewart, UT-2.  (12/2/2023)

Democrats
Anna Eshoo, CA-16.  (11/29/2023)
Tony Cardenas, CA-29.  (11/29/2023)
Grace Napolitano, CA-31.  (11/29/2023)
John Sarbanes, MD-3.  (11/30/2023)
John Sarbanes, MI-8.  (11/30/2023)
Brian Higgins, NY-26.  (11/30/2023)
Earl Blumenauer, OR-3.  (12/3/2023)
Jennifer Wexton, VA-10.  (12/3/2023)
Derek Kilmer, WA-6.  (12/3/2023)

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Day 1199 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, MAGA Alabama edition)

 
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Starring Alabama secretary of state
Wes Allen
Headline:  Replacing the Refs
ERIC, a partnership that bolsters election security by helping member states keep their voter rolls accurate. Once in office, he quickly pulled Alabama out of the system, a decision that drew criticism from John Merrill, the Republican Secretary of State whom Allen replaced.
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 Flo\yd)
Day 1103 (Steve Scalise)
Day 1104 (Kari Lake)
Day 1105 (Deborah Flora)
Day 1107 (Rick Weible) 
Day 1110 (Jenna Ellis)
Day 1112  (Dan Scorvino)
Day 1114 (Mark Zuckerberg)
Day 1115 (Patrick Henry)
Day 1116  (Jim DeMint)
Day 1117 (Peg Cage)
Day 1118  (Sonny Borrelli)
Day 1119 (Kristina Karamo)
Day 1121 (Ron Hanks)
Day 1122 (Tom Crosby, Peggy Judd)
Day 1123 (Nancy Landry)
Day 1124 (Ken Buck)
Day 1125 (Burt Jones)
Day 1128 (Kari Lake)
Day 1129 (Cleta Mitchell)
Day 1132 (Klete Keller)
Day 1133 (Andrew Hitt)
Day 1135 (Alan Hostetter)
Day 1136 (Robert Spindell)
Day 1137 (Donald Trump)
Day 1158 (Leah Anderson)
Day 1160 (John Eastman)
Day 1161 (Rob Natelson)
Day 1162 (Earl Wright)
Day 1163 (Dave Williams)
Day 1165 (Liz Harrington)
Day 1166 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1167 (Kris Kobach)
Day 1168 (Elise Stefanik)
Day 1171 (Gilbert Fonticoba)\
Day 1172 (Bob Bartlesmeyer)
Day 1173 (Robert E. Norton II)
Day 1174 (Sandra Merchant)
Day 1176 (Carlos Ayala)
Day 1177 (Mark Robinson)
Day 1178 (Iowa GOP caucusgoers)
Day 1179 (Laura Loomer)
Day 1180 (Kristina Karamo)
Day 1181 (Stefanie Lambert)
Day 1182 (Debbie Kouzounas)
Day 1183 (Marylyn Todd)
Day 1185 (Jim O'Connor)
Day 1186 (Max Burns)
Day 1187 (Brandon Beach)
Day 1188 (Gina Swoboda)
Day 1189 (Peter Navarro)
Day 1190 (Calvin Hayden)
Day 1191 (Terpsehore Maras)
Day 1192 (Anthony Kern)
Day 1193 (Russ Andrews)
Day 1194 (Ron Hanks)
Day 1195 (James Little)
Day 1196 (Wendy Rogers)
Day 1197  (Michael Whatley)
Day 1198 (Mike Lindell)

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Friday, February 9, 2024

Last November, voters in Trumpy Iowa county choose to keep their public library independent

 
Wikipedia
3rd party votes:  14.3% n 1992, 7.5% in 1996, 7.7% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace 
received 5.9% of the vote in 1968)

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 31.7% - Marion County
  • 30.3% - Iowa
  • 34.3% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 18.5% - Marion County
  • 18.5% - Iowa
  • 17.3% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  •   8.1% - Marion County
  • 11.0% - Iowa
  • 11.5% - U.S. 

Des Moines Register, 11/8/2023
About 51% of voters cast ballots against a measure to give City Hall officials oversight of the library's actions and budget, according to unofficial results. The non-binding referendum reached the ballot after some residents petitioned the library board to remove a graphic novel about gender fluidity, mirroring a national debate driven by conservatives over what books taxpayer-funded libraries should carry. 
Just 87 votes separated the two sides, according to unofficial results. 
"I feel the same way I did after I defended my doctoral dissertation," said Anne Petrie, a retired Central College professor of music and treasurer for the Vote NO To Save Our Library committee. "It's not euphoria. It's relief."


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Covid Chronicles. Chapter 106: Saturday visits to Knoche's Meat Market

 
Read chapter 105 here
Photos by Retiring Guy


February 10, 2021

A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to transcribe some of the journal entries I wrote when Andy and Eddie were young. I started with a bound journal I purchased in 1994. From the approach I took, I must have expected this volume to be the inspiration I I needed to make these reflections a daily activity. I inscribed a title page and even used a matching color of ink. The seven entries, dated from October 7 to October 24, take up just 25 of the blank book’s 200 pages. Yet another failed effort. 



One of the vignettes here resulted In a pleasant and sentimental trip down memory lane, one that set in motion a series of images involving parenting at that time. It’s worth sharing. 

Sunday, October 9, 1994 
As he’s been doing for most of his 7 years, Andy accompanied me to the grocery store this morning. He’s become quite the little helper on these excursions. Selecting the produce. Attaching the ties to the plastic bags. Inspecting the eggs. Hefting a gallon jug of milk into the cart. Bagging the groceries. He still lets me push the cart. \ 
Actually, over the past 6 months, most of my trips to the grocery store have been solo. I can even pinpoint the date: Mother’s Day 1994, when Andy rode his bike without training wheels for the first time. We let him ride around the block by himself. Within a week, he was not making a prompt reappearance. So began his friendship with Meaghan Stehr and more important things to do with his weekend time than tagging along with Dad through the aisles of Cub Foods, even with the promised reward of a bag of Skittles for good behavior. 
Andy has always been good company on these errands, which were probably a regular occurrence in his life by his first birthday. During his 2’s, I used the book The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmes to teach him lessons on moderation, i.e., you can’t always get what you want. 
No, Andy, we’re not going to buy Fruit Roll-ups this time. 
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Twenty-eight years later, Andy and I are still making trips to the store together. Under very different circumstances. 

During the pandemic, Andy and I make regular Saturday morning trips to Knoche’s meat market. With menu planning having become a key part of our family life, we stock up on the items we need for the coming week’s dinners. We also take advantage of certain items that always seem to be on sale: bone-in/skin-on chicken breasts (as low as $1.99/lb.) and pork spare ribs ($2.59/lb. – it’s one of Andy’s specialties) are two of our staples, especially now that JoAnna is limiting her intake of beef. 
 
These Saturday morning excursions sometimes includes at Brennan’s Market, where we buy most of our produce. During our drive-time, the car radio is tuned to SIRIUS XM 70s on 7, as we listen to the latest rebroadcast of Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40”. 

Andy is still good company after all these years.
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Texas GOP hypocrisy in full flower

 
Top headline:  The Guardian, 7/29/2023
Bottom headline:  The Texas Tribune, 2/9/2024

From The Guardian:
The message was blunt: “Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.” 
The words of defiance came from Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, making clear that he would not comply with a justice department request to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande. And Abbott is not the only Republican governor in open revolt against Washington.

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Height of GOP hypocrisy:  "The most effective government is government closest to the people".  (1/31/2024)
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"Refined" plans offers for Essen Haus block redevelopment in downtown Madison Wisconsin

 
Photo by Retiring Guy
Rendering and headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 2/8/2024

JCap Real Estate of Eau Claire proposes redeveloping properties at 506, 510, 514, 516 and 518 E. Wilson St. and 134, 140, 148 and 150 S. Blair St., including a large surface parking lot, for a six-story, 100-room hotel along East Wilson Street and an eight-story residential building with 170 units, including 39 lower-cost ones, on South Blair Street. 
The landmark Hotel Ruby Marie, 524 E. Wilson St., and its Up North Bar would be remodeled and remain a separate structure. But now the facades of the venerable Come Back In and J.B. Drives Store Building along East Wilson Street would be preserved and incorporated into the design of the hotel.
Hotel Ruby Marie
Photo by Retiring Guy

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GET ME REWRITE: MAGA Queen Janel Brandtjen's election denier hysteria reaches highest vocal range

 
Headline:  WisBusiness, 2/9/2024
“This Tuesday, February 13, once again represents the first business day of the month, and according to Assembly Rules, a resolution can be pulled to the floor for a vote. I will once again try to get a floor vote on AR 18 to start an impeachment investigation into WEC administrator Meagan Wolfe. 
The impeachment action was requested by Senate President Kapenga on October 4, 2023, due to a lack of consistency from Wolfe and staff members when carrying out election laws. I believe Wolfe and her staff have created the greatest threat to our Constitutional Republic by disregarding existing election laws.

Janel's long trail of election denial Kool-Aid servings:
January 2024
And the hits just keep on coming:  GOP Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August calls MAGA queen outcast Janel Brandtjen a grifter.  (1/19)

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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Day 1198 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, MAGA Mike Lindell edition)

 
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Starring MAGA election denier king
Mike Lindell
Headline:  Newsweek, 2/7/2024
But he told Newsweek he would not run again: "I am not running as I have to finish my efforts to get this country to paper ballots hand counted!" he said via text message. "The RNC should pick anyone that the election platforms are their main focus! Julianne Murray (chairwoman of Delaware) would be the best pick for the RNC chair."
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 Flo\yd)
Day 1103 (Steve Scalise)
Day 1104 (Kari Lake)
Day 1105 (Deborah Flora)
Day 1107 (Rick Weible) 
Day 1110 (Jenna Ellis)
Day 1112  (Dan Scorvino)
Day 1114 (Mark Zuckerberg)
Day 1115 (Patrick Henry)
Day 1116  (Jim DeMint)
Day 1117 (Peg Cage)
Day 1118  (Sonny Borrelli)
Day 1119 (Kristina Karamo)
Day 1121 (Ron Hanks)
Day 1122 (Tom Crosby, Peggy Judd)
Day 1123 (Nancy Landry)
Day 1124 (Ken Buck)
Day 1125 (Burt Jones)
Day 1128 (Kari Lake)
Day 1129 (Cleta Mitchell)
Day 1132 (Klete Keller)
Day 1133 (Andrew Hitt)
Day 1135 (Alan Hostetter)
Day 1136 (Robert Spindell)
Day 1137 (Donald Trump)
Day 1158 (Leah Anderson)
Day 1160 (John Eastman)
Day 1161 (Rob Natelson)
Day 1162 (Earl Wright)
Day 1163 (Dave Williams)
Day 1165 (Liz Harrington)
Day 1166 (Mike Lindell)
Day 1167 (Kris Kobach)
Day 1168 (Elise Stefanik)
Day 1171 (Gilbert Fonticoba)\
Day 1172 (Bob Bartlesmeyer)
Day 1173 (Robert E. Norton II)
Day 1174 (Sandra Merchant)
Day 1176 (Carlos Ayala)
Day 1177 (Mark Robinson)
Day 1178 (Iowa GOP caucusgoers)
Day 1179 (Laura Loomer)
Day 1180 (Kristina Karamo)
Day 1181 (Stefanie Lambert)
Day 1182 (Debbie Kouzounas)
Day 1183 (Marylyn Todd)
Day 1185 (Jim O'Connor)
Day 1186 (Max Burns)
Day 1187 (Brandon Beach)
Day 1188 (Gina Swoboda)
Day 1189 (Peter Navarro)
Day 1190 (Calvin Hayden)
Day 1191 (Terpsehore Maras)
Day 1192 (Anthony Kern)
Day 1193 (Russ Andrews)
Day 1194 (Ron Hanks)
Day 1195 (James Little)
Day 1196 (Wendy Rogers)
Day 1197  (Michael Whatley)
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