Walker fatigue finally caught up with Scott Walker. So did two years of Donald Trump.
I count this election Day as Earth Day 2.0 in Wisconsin, thanks to a solid blue wave strong enough to wash away eight years of political and environmental pollution.
While the State Legislature remains in GOP hands, Walker has been defeated by the duo of a calm, issue-oriented state school superintendent Tony Evers, and the precedent-setting Lieutenant Governor-elect, Mandela Barnes, our state's first African-American citizen elevated to that post.
And Josh Kaul's late-night-early-morning 21,000-vote lead is the icing on the cheesecake, because it means that everyday people fighting for science-driven policies, and for clean water near CAFOs, and for state parkland staying in the hands of the people instead of special interests, and for cleaner air and fishable rivers and intact wetlands won't also have to battle against a hard-right ideologue sitting in the Attorney General's office serving as the Governor's cudgel to help out corporations and trade associations.
This is a great day, a change day, for science and public policy, for the land and the water, for optimism and integrity, and especially for the kids and grand kids whose birthright won't be put up for auction in Wisconsin in exchange for careerist partisan advantage.
So for now - - big ups to Tony Evers, Mandela Barnes, Josh Kaul, their staffs, volunteers and votes.
It's late.
More later.
On, Wisconsin.
I count this election Day as Earth Day 2.0 in Wisconsin, thanks to a solid blue wave strong enough to wash away eight years of political and environmental pollution.
While the State Legislature remains in GOP hands, Walker has been defeated by the duo of a calm, issue-oriented state school superintendent Tony Evers, and the precedent-setting Lieutenant Governor-elect, Mandela Barnes, our state's first African-American citizen elevated to that post.
And Josh Kaul's late-night-early-morning 21,000-vote lead is the icing on the cheesecake, because it means that everyday people fighting for science-driven policies, and for clean water near CAFOs, and for state parkland staying in the hands of the people instead of special interests, and for cleaner air and fishable rivers and intact wetlands won't also have to battle against a hard-right ideologue sitting in the Attorney General's office serving as the Governor's cudgel to help out corporations and trade associations.
This is a great day, a change day, for science and public policy, for the land and the water, for optimism and integrity, and especially for the kids and grand kids whose birthright won't be put up for auction in Wisconsin in exchange for careerist partisan advantage.
So for now - - big ups to Tony Evers, Mandela Barnes, Josh Kaul, their staffs, volunteers and votes.
It's late.
More later.
On, Wisconsin.
