Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

Let’s do a little tidying up around the YSDA office before we get out of here for the weekend. Here are some observations about this week’s events that didn’t merit (or I just didn’t feel like) writing a whole blog about. Money can’t buy you votes. Okay. Okay. Maybe in Cook County it still can,Continue reading “YSDA Refuses to Lawyer Up”

According to an analysis in the New York Times, “The path to Democrats’ sweeping victory this week, when they seized control of both chambers of Congress, was paved overwhelmingly by moderates who had spent months persuading voters in Republican-leaning states and competitive congressional districts that they could be trusted to govern and would deliver dissatisfiedContinue reading “A Mandate For Moderation”

Last night’s destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party raises some fundamental questions for both parties. First for the Republicans: who are you guys? Are you going to continue to be the Party of Trump or will you return to being the Party of Reagan or will you reinvent yourself as something else entirely? Because youContinue reading “The Mandate Is To Get Real”

It’s election day. The day on which all right thinking people walk a few blocks through crisp autumn air, kicking through the maple leaves, to join their neighbors in person to participate in a sacred rite (and also right) of democracy. Okay, so most of us don’t vote at a neighborhood polling place any more.Continue reading “What I’ll Be Watching Tonight”

Before I get to today’s topic, let me just say, BREWERS WIN! BREWERS WIN! BREWERS WIN! The latest Marquette Law School poll, and the last one before the election, is out and, as per usual, it’s packed with interesting stuff. For example: Crowley’s lead grows. David Crowley increased his lead over Tom Tiffany from 3%Continue reading “Gems from the MU Poll”

Last week, when I wrote that I hoped Abdul El-Sayed would lose the Michigan Senate race, the comments section was set ablaze with righteous indignation. To put it in the most clinical terms (which they did not) my correspondents claimed that I had two choices and they were El-Sayed and a potential Democratic Senate majorityContinue reading “Why It’s Ok Not to Vote in Every Race”

This week’s quote comes to us from none other than the Pentagon, which in an official statement about Defense Secretary (unless you want to call him War Secretary) Pete Hegseth’s staff busting Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe, said: “Accidents happen, we are grateful no one was harmed, and the globe is being repaired. It is unsurprisingContinue reading “The Quote & Quiz for 10/24/26”

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning the Madison City Council did the right thing. It fired interim Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass. Glass harassed a Madison police officer to the extent that she now faces criminal charges for it and she irresponsibly called for the city to be “burned down,” but she was actually firedContinue reading “Empty Glass”

Maybe the Milwaukee Brewers can teach us something about government spending. The Brewers’ payroll ranks 19th among the 30 Major League clubs. Their World Series opponents, the Tampa Bay Rays, rank 28th. And the team that the Rays dispatched for the American League pennant, the Cleveland Guardians, ranked dead last. Meanwhile, the LA Dodgers’ payrollContinue reading “What Government Can Learn From the Brewers”

I’m a Democrat who would like to see some Democrats lose in November. At the top of that list is Abdul El-Sayed, the socialist-lite who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. According to a recent story in the Free Press: “Progressives believe El-Sayed will be a bellwether for the future of the DemocraticContinue reading “My Opponent in November: Populism”