{"id":81486,"date":"2022-04-07T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81486"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:25:50","slug":"from-deep-moldy-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81486","title":{"rendered":"From Deep Moldy Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Voters in Kenosha County &#8211; which has been voting Democrat for literally decades &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/kenosha-wisconsin-just-went-red-for-the-first-time-in-decades-after-blm-riots-and-kyle-rittenhouse-case\">threw out Democrats for county executive and school board <\/a>in county elections this week.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a Republican candidate for governor, endorsed 48 school board candidates. Of those, 34 won including eight incumbents, based on preliminary results. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, a former teacher, school administrator and state superintendent, did not endorse in any race&#8230;<\/p><p>Conservative candidates picked up school board seats in Waukesha, Wausau and Kenosha, but lost races in Beloit and the western Wisconsin cities of La Crosse and Eau Claire.<\/p><p>The Republican-backed candidate for a state appeals court seat in southeastern Wisconsin, Maria Lazar, also defeated a sitting judge who was appointed by Evers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenosha?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huh.  Where have I heard of Kenosha.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder why a habitually Democrat county seems to be swinging red? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why <em>could <\/em>that be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> am a small-town Scandinavian at heart, and have spent decades involved in Minnesota and Metro Republican politics, so optimism doesn&#8217;t come easily.  I&#8217;m waiting to see how the MNGOP screws this potential wave up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s not screw this potential wave up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Kenosha County &#8211; which has been voting Democrat for literally decades &#8211; threw out Democrats for county executive and school board in county elections this week.. Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a Republican candidate for governor, endorsed 48 school board candidates. Of those, 34 won including eight incumbents, based on preliminary results. Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,72,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-mngop","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81487,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81486\/revisions\/81487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}