First, it was nice to see the Everday Editor make "somewhat of a concession" today in granting that the quality of supervisors on the Winnebago County Board is more important than the quantity of seats. He also says some very nice things about new supervisor Donna Lohry and concludes that "If the county board was smaller, it would be much more difficult for candidates like Lohry to unseat incumbents." I guess great minds think alike, eh?
The rest of the column deals with supervisor Mike Norton's ill-fated March Madness scheme to solicit bets on the election outcomes, and if I were a bettin' man myself I'd say Mike's probably right about now thinking that a Judge Wirtzian effort to shut down the Northwestern wouldn't be such a bad idea. (Perhaps if Stew had accused Mike of setting a point "spread" or "laying" odds, that would have met the Wirtzian threshold for enforcing prior restraint.).
But the real purpose of this post is to alert T2T readers to some serious sore losin' goin' on in Outagamie County. According to the Post-Crescent, three ousted Outagamie County Board supervisors are blaming their losses on a conspiracy involving County Executive Toby Paltzer, supervisor Helen Nagler, and Sheriff Brad Gehring. "They put a machine together," said ousted supervisor Bob Spahn.
Ousted supervisor Larry Cain says the machine politicians are "terrified" of him because he "forced them to do what they should do." Yet he apparently doesn't think the fact that he missed 39% of the Board's meetings had anything to do with his defeat.
I think this video from a Japanese game show is a perfect going away present for the Outagamie County sore losers.
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