The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Keep it quiet, a Democratic victory

    Tuesday. In Wisconsin . By the two Dems against whom the Reps had organized a Recall. Well publicized by NPR in a sucky piece a week before the election introducing us to Patriotic Wisconsin Housewife, out there fighting the Good Fight and organizing one of the Recalls. Yawn.

    Not saying NPR didn't have the right. Just pointing out that anyway the Dems got 54% and 58% of the vote.Which sounds like an improvement over the General judging by the absence of Republican claims of an improved share.

    But there's more than one way to kill a cat. Or deal with a successful Dem. .If you can't beat em.. redistrict them away.

    In the interests no doubt of fairness and the Wisconsin way the Reps have already taken advantage of their majority  to redistrict  out of existence  the seat of one of the two Democratic survivors..

    Hard to find, even here, much coverage of Tuesday's results. Nothing like last week when the commentariat were clucking over the dems only winning two of their six challenges. "Despite all that union money that had been used" ( no mention of the Koch$s. Pity the Kochies don't form a union.) 

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    Here's a little more information from Wisconsin media

     

    A packed room of supporters in Rhinelander reacted to the news, Jim Holperin had beaten the odds again, winning the second recall election of his career, in a sprawling Northwoods district that usually votes for Republicans.

     

    The Holperin victory was a disappointing end to an all consuming campaign for Kim Simac, who used her Tea Party connections to spearhead the recall drive.


    Makes my day, Flavius.  It's a win, no matter how it's presented.  (We could use a few more of those.)


    Sometimes the good guys do finally win.