State of the State Columns

For those of you who may not know, in addition to Media Rants I also write "State of the State" for the Oshkosh Independent. Some recent columns include:

Grand Chute Chair Calls Out Corruption: About Town of Grand Chute Chair David Schowalter's tense exchange with Representative Mike Rohrkaste (R-55th Assembly District) over the "Dark Store Loophole." 

Grand Chute Town Board Chair David Schowalter called out the state legislature's corruption in a tense exchange with District 57 Assembly Representative Mike Rohrkaste

Stuck in the 8th Congressional District: About State Representative Amanda Stuck's (D-57th Assembly District) decision to challenge incumbent Republican Mike Gallager in the 8th Congressional District. 

State Rep Amanda Stuck is trying to make an argument that her life experience makes her especially suited to represent the 8th Congressional District. 

Budget Process Shows Why Partisan Gerrymandering Must End: About how hyper partisan gerrymandered legislative districts helped undermine the biennial budget process. 

In 2018 Democrats won all the major statewide offices. In the state assembly, because of extreme partisan gerrymandering, they gained no seats even though their share of the statewide vote was higher than the Republicans'

The Trouble With Tweeting: About the awful state of social media use among Wisconsin's elected officials.

Republicans won with court-drawn maps in the 1990’s and 2000’s as well as in the 2010’s. The Democrats’ efforts are based on sour grapes because they haven’t won in 30 years no matter how the maps were drawn.

— Speaker Robin Vos (@SpeakerVos) July 16, 2019

A complete archive of my State of the State columns can be found here.