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20 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: The Recombobulation Area is BACK and answering YOUR questions, featuring a breakdown of the 2022 #WISEN race (with Alex Lasry officially in).

Plus: Ron Johnson and what continues to be the biggest story in Wisconsin politics.

Let's recombobulate: recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/reader-mailb…
Other questions answered include: Gov. Evers' budget, a proposed minimum wage increase, State Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, gerrymandering, and the end of a 300+ day streak of inaction.
Also: A ranking of Wisconsin bakery items (h/t @aluthern @TosaAmyLee)
And sincerely, thanks for the questions, everyone! We really do have the very best readers at The Recombobulation Area.

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19 Feb
This this this! The biggest thing a sales tax increase in Milwaukee County would pay for us INFRASTRUCTURE.
The County has tightened up its finances in recent years, but now *needs* to spend on infrastructure. They need a new Safety Building, the Courthouse needs work, there’s a nine-figure deferred maintenance need at the parks, streets are in disrepair, lead lines need replacing.
Take a look at how @WisPolicyForum broke down Milwaukee’s infrastructure needs two years ago. There’s so much we need to do! wispolicyforum.org/wp-content/upl…
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3 Oct 20
holy shit ron johnson
madison.com/ct/news/local/…
so, I should probably mention here that I’m an independent journalist in Wisconsin. I write and publish a column called The Recombobulation Area.

When I launched last summer, my very first piece was on Ron Johnson and the “blood on his hands.” recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/wisconsin-se…
I published a new column TODAY on Wisconsin becoming the new epicenter for coronavirus in America, the inevitable result of the Republican-led State Legislature‘s 143-days-long (and counting) commitment to inaction after wrestling control of covid response away from the governor:
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2 Oct 20
That quote broke me a little bit.
I’m running out of ways to say the Republican-led State Legislature has failed our state and that people like Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald are responsible for the death and devastation we are seeing now. They sued to control this. They’re doing nothing. People are giving up.
Somebody has to step the fuck up and do something.
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29 Sep 20
Here's @SenTaylor being shown how the Trump campaign was specifically targeting Black people in Milwaukee to "deter" them from voting.
And what happened?

Black voter turnout in Wisconsin dropped 19% in 2016. madison.com/wsj/news/local…

Turnout in Milwaukee County (where 70% of Black Wisconsinites live) dropped more than any other. wiscontext.org/how-and-where-…
Reminder👇
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25 Sep 20
So, do Evers and his administration deserve some blame for an inadequate response to the unemployment crisis? Yes.

Was asking Frostman to resign a “better late than never” move? Probably, yes. But it showed some level of accountability. 1/
Was the system designed to fail by Republican legislators who spent the last decade gutting the safety net? Yes.

Are those very same legislators making matters worse by their catastrophic lack of response to the pandemic, which remains the cause of the recession? OH MY GOD YES.
Did recent investigative reporting from @WisconsinWatch, @amandasaint5 and others reveal many of these issues with UI to be long-standing and systemic? You bet.

Did legislative Democrats introduce a package of bills to reform that system more that 100 days ago? They sure did.
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23 Sep 20
Since yesterday was her last day as health commissioner, I'd like to extend a big THANK YOU! to @jlkowalik.

We've been lucky to have your leadership in Milwaukee during this time of multiple, converging crises. Our city should be forever grateful for the job you did here.
This @WUWMradio Lake Effect interview is a good and important reflection of her two years on the job:

"I want other Black women, other women of color, other queer women to move into these spaces because we need to lead and our voices need to be heard."

wuwm.com/post/milwaukee…
Here's my extended interview with Dr. Kowalik on managing the city's response to the pandemic, treating racism like the crisis it is, and about her full circle journey back to the Milwaukee Health Department.

From June: recombobulationarea.substack.com/p/in-conversat…
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