On Wisconsin: on its Way to becoming Florida on Steroids?

Wisconsin is my native state, which I left upon full adolescence to go to college in another state. I worked in politics in Milwaukee and environs in 1968 in the Gene McCarthy campaign, bussing around 2000 students from Ann Arbor where I was in grad school at the time. My only family connections were my paternal grandfather, a judge, and my maternal great, great uncle, an alderman at the end of the nineteenth century.

My minor in getting an M.A. was Poli Sci and Wisconsin's progressive history is well-known, as the state which originated the primary and direct voting for Senators, among other innovations on the U.S. political scene. But in the sixties, two Democrat Senators Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, allowed the state to be hijacked to the left even further, with all sorts of state reps mimicking their Senate and House reps and allowing the most generous welfare allotments for those out of work in the country. The predictable result was a demographic deluge of poor blacks and Hispanics, many accompanied by their criminal family outliers. The result was that the Milwaukee I left in the mid '60s was virtually unrecognizable in the '90s when I fetched up with family on the north side of Chicago and visited my siblings and parents on a frequent basis. Whole neighborhoods had in the twenty-five year interim been semi-gutted, Detroit-style, and I recalled my two summers as a taxi driver in the '60s while going to grad school as a virtual Garden of Eden when black neighborhoods had yet to be swamped with crime, drugs, gangs, and drive-by violence.

John Fund in today's WSJ describes how a complete grifter like Sen. Feingold is pushing to get Wisconsin's voter registration laws completely under the control of national political parties---in this case, a criminal entity named the Wisconsin Democrat Party is trying to suborn the state's independence and throw it into a Chuck Shumer NY-sponsored national law on registering and absentee ballots, which have become RICO-type organizations like ACORN's chief means of electoral fraud and crime. As Fund puts it in his excellent piece on Wisconsin's descent into fraud, chicanery, and political trickery:

Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, has introduced federal legislation to mandate same-day registration in every state, claiming the system has worked well in his state. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is readying a bill to override the election laws of all 50 states and require universal voter registration—which would automatically register anyone on key government lists. This is a move guaranteed to create duplicate registrations, register some illegal aliens, and sow confusion.

Fund goes on to remind us citizens to beware of crime-oriented Senators like the insufferable oaf Shumer and the tricky lil Jew-boy Feingold:

Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, has introduced federal legislation to mandate same-day registration in every state, claiming the system has worked well in his state. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is readying a bill to override the election laws of all 50 states and require universal voter registration—which would automatically register anyone on key government lists. This is a move guaranteed to create duplicate registrations, register some illegal aliens, and sow confusion....The court made the obvious point that "disenfranchisement" is a two-way street. Fraud, it noted in Gonzales v. Arizona (2006), "drives honest citizens out of the democratic process. . . . [V]oters who fear their legitimate votes will be outweighed by fraudulent ones will feel disenfranchised."

Sad that a once thriving political culture under LaFollette and others has now become a disgraceful demonstration of Three Monte at the polls on election day.