At some point Scott Walker will join the Fat Cats' big-check-rubber-chicken speaking circuit and pundits will move on from 'how did Tony Evers do it?' to 'how's Evers doing?'
So let me share one thought that in all the issue-reporting about the campaign I've done for months - - you want a recent, 21-part series on the environment, well, have at it - - that I'd not really found a spot for, and it goes something like this:
I think everyone has a favorite teacher, and I'll bet somewhere in the calculus that determines how we all vote that Evers - - an educator - -
either reminded us of that favorite teacher or made us really appreciate the very profession which Walker had singled out for special pain through Act 10.
I was lucky enough to have had a teacher named Doris Hadary, now deceased. She had taught at nearby American University when I was in high school in suburban Maryland,.
I somehow ended up in her advanced biology class and clearly in over my head, but Mrs. Hadary one day praised my work in front of the class - - cell construction, I'll never forget it - - and after class invited me to a series of dress-up seminars she held at her home to which she invited her university colleagues and scientists from the nearby National Institutes of Health.
There they read papers and took questions and talked about all sorts of science, and most of it went right over my head.
But her including me in something special boosted my confidence, helped prepare me for college-level work and no doubt helped is in large part responsible for my interest in science and the environment and the natural world.
So all these years later I attended two public events where Tony Evers spoke.
Now it's a coincidence that he and Mrs. Hadary had backgrounds in science, but when I saw and heard Evers offering his calm, intelligent remarks and analyses, I could feel the same positive connections I felt when Mrs. Hadary was lecturing.
I'll bet plenty of people came away from an Evers event or television appearance and were reminded of a teacher or a school experience they still felt good about.
And were reminded again of the value of the teaching profession in Wisconsin.
And understood that putting a teacher - - this teacher, with a science background - - in the Governor's Office was the perfect antidote to eight years of contempt for science and education.
Anyway, if you, too, felt in some way that your favorite teacher was also on the ballot, or still matters, weigh in.
I somehow ended up in her advanced biology class and clearly in over my head, but Mrs. Hadary one day praised my work in front of the class - - cell construction, I'll never forget it - - and after class invited me to a series of dress-up seminars she held at her home to which she invited her university colleagues and scientists from the nearby National Institutes of Health.
There they read papers and took questions and talked about all sorts of science, and most of it went right over my head.
But her including me in something special boosted my confidence, helped prepare me for college-level work and no doubt helped is in large part responsible for my interest in science and the environment and the natural world.
So all these years later I attended two public events where Tony Evers spoke.
Now it's a coincidence that he and Mrs. Hadary had backgrounds in science, but when I saw and heard Evers offering his calm, intelligent remarks and analyses, I could feel the same positive connections I felt when Mrs. Hadary was lecturing.
I'll bet plenty of people came away from an Evers event or television appearance and were reminded of a teacher or a school experience they still felt good about.
And were reminded again of the value of the teaching profession in Wisconsin.
And understood that putting a teacher - - this teacher, with a science background - - in the Governor's Office was the perfect antidote to eight years of contempt for science and education.
Anyway, if you, too, felt in some way that your favorite teacher was also on the ballot, or still matters, weigh in.
