Dave Cieslewicz

Yesterday I offered a pretty bleak assessment of where things are at. My point was that societies are closing down all over the world and turning over power to corrupt authoritarians, like Donald Trump. It has happened before in history when more educated urban elites grow much richer and far more culturally progressive than the greater numbers of less well-off and culturally conservative citizens.

With rare exceptions, Kamala Harris lost support across demographic groups compared to Joe Biden.

Eric Hovde is giving us a little, inconsequential, second rate taste of what we would have gotten had Donald Trump lost the election.

The other day Mike Maierle wrote a piece for YSDA analyzing the numbers behind Kamala Harris' defeat. It was headlined Where Harris Lost Support.

This week's quote comes to us from none other than House Speaker Mike Johnson. Referring to the completed, but unreleased, House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz. Johnson said:

So, here's a question for my liberal Democratic friends. If we're on the side of people of color and the working class, how come they're leaving us in droves? And if your answer is that they're just too dumb to know who their real friends are, well, see, there you go again.

Let's say you're like me. You love the environment. In fact, maybe you've contributed to environmental causes or even, as I did, had a career in the movement. Of course, these days you're very concerned about climate change. And you live or have a place up in the North Woods.

Of the 16 school districts in Dane County only one performs worse than Madison.

When I was Mayor of Madison I wanted to have cabinet government, just like the governor has at the state level. My argument was that a chief executive at any level deserved to have his own team in place to implement the policies he was elected to pursue. Instead, the city operated like most cities in Wisconsin, except for Milwaukee, with managers hired on five-year contracts that could hold over, instead of being directly appointed by a new mayor.

Today we're going to depart from our usual format of the Quote & Quiz. Instead of offering a quote, the YSDA investigative team has obtained a copy of the Trump transition team's questionnaire for potential cabinet picks. We quote it below.