No protest on the Day of Kings is viewed by Wisconsin State Capitol | Photo by Gregory Konif for Wisconsin Testing
Early Campaign Reports This week, Goed Special, that governor Tony Evers may not run for a third term. Evers, who has not announced his intentions, has raised only $ 757,114 this year and has $ 2 million in the bank, compared to $ 5 million, which he raised during the same period in 2021, before his successful second term offer.
Some progressives, most will -wound Dan Safer, creator of Recombulence Zone A blog, I urged Evers to retreat. Traumatized by former President Joe Biden’s campaign for 2024, Shafer says Evers, who is 73 (a decade older than Biden), should not make the mistake of hanging too long and instead “pass the torch”.
“This is not an argument for the ideological differences or disagreements of politics,” Shafer wrote. It is about age. It’s about Biden’s trauma. And this is the problem that Democrats at both state and national level seem to have nourished the next generation of leaders.
For some progressives this is also to disagree on ideology and politics. Advocates for Childcarepublic schools, reform of criminal justice and Protection of access to healthcare They were fierce that Eves did not lead to a more difficult deal with the Republicans in the recently completed state budget deal.
Still, if Evers announced his retirement, a big, no-magician from Wisconsin will experience a moment of fear. In close our divided purple state, there is a real possibility for the Republican to win the governor’s office, just like the new, more just cards, finally give the Democrats a chance to compete for power in the state legislative body. Republicans who have declared So far, they are wrapped in the banner of Maga. Evers is popular throughout the country and has shown that it can win.
Devin Remiker, chairman of the State Democratic Party, said he was “prayer“Evers will run again. US reporter Mark Invited, a former chairman of the Congress Progressive Cook, told reporters recently that he could not think of a better governor for Wisconsin of Evers.
If Evers does not run, Prosecutor Josh Caul, County CEO David Crowley, Lieutenant Sarah Rodriguez, State Senator Kelda Royce, and Secretary of State Sarah Godlevski are likely to be candidates for Democrats.
“There are many people on the bench who would like to be a governor,” an invitation said. “… This is not a problem. In fact, I want the best person to be a governor and I think the best person who could be a governor from the democratic side is Tony Evers.”
Invited calls Evers a “responsible adult” unlike Republicans who follow President Donald Trump from Scale, reducing health and nutritional assistance and stimulating prices and deficits, which worsens life much more for many people, including a Designed 276,000 in Wisconsin, who will lose health insurance and 49,000, which will lose nutritional assistance on the Federal Mega Bill.
There is an argument that Evers – “The most important Wisconsin politician I have ever seen,” as an invitation says – achieved what most Wisconsin’s voters wanted him to do in the budget process, to put the policy aside, and to get the best deal it could for state residents. Working through the trail to achieve common goals with the other last-minute maneuver, which mitigates the catastrophic Republicans from Trump and Congress, driven through congress, reducing $ 1 billion a year in Federal Funds for Wisconsin, as well as the bicycle itself pointed out“Significantly different” from the dynamics in Washington.
“How about that, compromise?” Evers said that Wisconsin’s voters told him happily when they heard about the deal.
If the definition of a compromise is a deal that makes all the unhappy, the Democrats and the progressives are obviously the more unhappy aspects of this transaction.
Despite the radiance of productive bilateral participation in the achievement of the deal, the details – and how the deal is done – they are beginning to take care of some of the largest former Evers supporters.
The great majority of Republican legislators voted for the deal in both chambers. Five of the 15 Senate Democrats joined them, and there were only seven votes “Yes” from 45 Democrats at the State Assembly, where orator Robin Boss, who helped make the budget make, made it clear that he did not need or wanted democratic votes.
Probably, the Democrats, who gave dispassionate speeches on the floor denying the budget, have been in the minority in the legislature so long that they should never think about the types of compromises involved in the management of a divided country. If you look at it this way, it seems unfair from them to react angrily to Evers, a decent person who shares his goals and works diligently to achieve what he can in the face of the nasty opposition. In addition to minority leader, Diane Hselbein, who joined the budget negotiations behind the closed doors, after it became clear that Republicans would need some democratic voices in the Senate, the Democrats were largely excluded from the whole process.
And this is the real problem with the way Eves manages, according to Robert Crime of civil action. By not involving legislative Democrats from the beginning, it has mastered not only those individual legislators, but also their voters, giving up the pressure that could cause Republicans if he uses outrage from citizens and the demand for political priorities – funding and the whole of government, maintenance of medication. Eves “Original Budgets Supporting Children’s Opening Centers and the entire Evers Progressive Policy List”, supporting a proposal for children’s centers.
Instead, Evers was the species of the adult in the room that sends everyone else when it’s time to make a decision.
This management style, Crig, is not bad up to the political moment. As an increasingly dangerous, the destructive administration sends masked agents to catch people from the street and throw them to retention centers or deport them without a proper process, to eliminate safety programs and deliberately destroy civil society, it will take a mass, popular movement to fight.
Perhaps a bridesmaid is that a more young, dynamic democratic candidate can become the leader of this movement. Perhaps the Democratic Party should stop praying for the likes, bilateral figures of the Father to deliver victory and instead open the doors to a little chaotic, populist response that moves against the oligarchic, authoritarian kleptocracy led by Trump.
This is a big risk. But we are in many risky times. Democrats and the public as a whole have not yet figured out how to defend themselves against the unprecedented maliciousness of our current federal government and the Musfid Republican Party. The whole idea of bilateral participation seems to be outdated in a world in which one country seeks to tear apart the social contract, the constitution, the proper process, the justice system, the fair elections and the most basic, long -standing protection against poverty, hunger and disease.
These are the same conditions that gave rise to the progressive era. Fighting beans lafolet fights with the leaders of his own party and founded a national movement to control the government from the rich barons of timber and railway monopolies, which, through corrupt politicians captive, struggled to control all the resources of our country and nation.
Now the same powerful interests are fighting to return everything to destroy reforms from the early 20th century, protecting workers, the environment and the public sphere. They break down public institutions and sail legal restrictions.
Democrats must make the case of the public that they will fight. And they need the public to rise behind them to help them do it.
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