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Wisconsin Spring Elections 2022: Beware the Vocally ‘Non-Partisan’ Candidate

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The wolves are coming for your flock; beware the vocally ‘non-partisan’ candidate.

By: Paris Procopis

Well, it’s Wisconsin spring elections season and that means voters will choose from a whole slate of non-partisan local government races like city councils and school boards. The ballots are basically final for the February primaries, which lead to the April general election.

Sure, non-partisan sounds good, but, as the last few years have taught us, there is no such thing as a non-partisan race. This has never been more true than it is today.

Over the years, the left pushed for “non-partisan” local races in order to have a place to hide and stalk their ideological prey. Then they slowly came out of the weeds leaving once purple cities like Wauwatosa, for example, with hyper-leftist social justice warrior majorities on the City Council and on the School Board.

[You can follow WisRed on Facebook for a list of vetted conservative candidates for the spring primary and general election here.]

As Wauwatosa saw first hand that it only takes one vociferous hyper-partisan social justice warrior to push leftist ideology, under the guise of “good intentions” and leave the rest of our elected officials either fully supporting or quietly cowering in fear of being “canceled.” Of course, I am referring to former disgraced alderman Heather Kuhl.

Under Kuhl’s few short months on the Wauwatosa city council, they saw several extreme “WOKE” proposals. Things like making Wauwatosa a sanctuary city, making the ‘equity’ committee a sanctioned committee, or demonizing the Wauwatosa police chief and officers. Of course, she hid her extremist ideology behind fluffy names like calling her sanctuary city proposal a ‘safe city’ proposal. How “WOKE” of her.

She is not alone though. Leftists occupy nearly all the council seats and the ENTIRE school board. Wauwatosa schools have seen elements of leftist ideology like critical race theory (CRT) creeping in the curriculum for years. Of course, they are not calling it CRT; they are using fluffy words like “equity” and “inclusion.” Wauwatosa is still purple, but their local government is DEEP BLUE.

Wisconsin Spring Elections

Now, back to the Wisconsin spring elections. How are local government officials like Kuhl even elected? Well, like I said before, they hide behind the “non-partisan” label. Clearly, she did not campaign on all her “wokeness.” She was just the “sweet Tosa mom” looking to serve. In her case, Wauwatosa residents were finally awakened, and Kuhl was forced to resign after she was tied to her fake hateful Twitter profile. Once again hiding who she really was.

Great, she’s gone, but she’s not forgotten. MOST of her allies are still on the council and on the school board. It’s a complete stranglehold on power in Wauwatosa.

And, sadly, Wauwatosa is NOT alone. This is everywhere.

However, liberal incumbents all through the state know their days in office may be numbered because of the recent groundswell of people saying they have had enough of the left pushing far-left ideology like CRT and FORCED masking.

As we have seen with the massive overreach by the fringes of the far left over the past year, they are desperate to pass anything they can in order to keep their stranglehold on power.

What does all this mean?

It means there are flocks of extremest left-wing liberals who are seeking to head this off by running for office to prevent a conservative tsunami of ordinary people winning “their” seats.

What concerns me is not that they are running; surely it’s their right. The concern is that they will successfully hide behind the “non-partisan” label and keep our city councils and school boards under their totalitarian grip.

As I said, people like this get elected because voters are not making informed decisions. Sure, the candidates seem nice enough, until they get elected. Then, they bite!

My goal here is not to tell you who to vote for but to help you make an informed decision.

You see, a conservative is proud because conservative ideas are common-sense ideas. Liberals, on the other hand, hide what they believe because they know that most people would disagree with them if they were honest.

The backlash against leftist ideology over the past several months is living proof of this.

Over the next several weeks, you will get that knock on the door. And when the “nice” person on the other side tells you that they are running for office and would like your vote, ask them about their party or ideology.

A conservative will tell you proudly: They are conservative. A liberal will divert the conversation and tell you that they are “non-partisan,” and it’s a “non-partisan” race.

So, when you hear the word “non-partisan,” they are likely that extremist wolf in sheep’s clothing and, as we have seen, their bite will hurt us all.

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Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees, including the gunman charged in the shootings of two National Guard members, killing one just blocks from the White House, were eligible for a slew of benefits, including housing and medical at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Following the pullout of American forces from Afghanistan in 2021, the Biden administration admitted nearly 200,000 evacuees between 2021 and 2023, including two recently arrested on terrorism charges. Through various reports and testimony by government officials, it was revealed that many of the Afghan nationals couldn’t be properly vetted.

Afghans who entered the U.S. on a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), under a special immigrant parole (SQ/SI), and were granted humanitarian parole as part of the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies Welcome were eligible for over a dozen taxpayer benefits, many continuing four years later.

The benefits include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), HUD Public Housing and Section 8 housing vouchers, emergency Medicaid, Affordable Care Act health plans and subsidies, full-scope Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), federal student aid and Pell grants, REAL ID, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act services, refugee resettlement programs through the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center.

For those who didn’t qualify for SSI or TANF, refugees were eligible for up to 12 months of Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) through the ORR.

In addition, many refugees qualified for employment assistance through Refugee Support Services, which included: childcare, transportation, “employability services,” job training and preparation, job search assistance, placement and retention, English language training, translation and interpreter services and case management, according to the Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The ORR also noted that “some clients may be eligible for specialized programs such as health services, technical assistance for small business start-ups and financial savings.”

Many refugees also qualified for “immigration-related legal assistance” to assist them “on their pathway to obtaining a permanent status.”

Despite the multitude of services provided to Afghan refugees, “they are less likely to be proficient in English, have lower educational attainment, and lower labor force participation” compared to other immigrants in the U.S., according to the Migration Policy Institute. Additionally, “compared to both the native born and the overall foreign-born population, they are much more likely to be living in poverty.”

The institute noted that Afghans “tend to have lower educational attainment” compared to American and foreign-born populations, citing a 2022 statistic showing 28% of Afghan immigrants age 25 and older “reported having at least a bachelor’s degree” as compared to 36% of Americans and 35% of all foreign-born populations.

While 29% of Afghan adults reported having less than a high school diploma, compared to 25% of other immigrant populations, there were some slight improvements among those who arrived in the U.S. between 2020 and 2022, with 36% having at least a four-year degree. However, that figure is 12 points less than other immigrant populations arriving during the same period.

The institute highlighted the “relatively low labor force participation rate” of Afghan immigrants ages 16 and older, showing that in 2022, 61% were in the civilian labor market, compared to 67% of other immigrant populations and 63% of U.S.-born individuals.

Afghan immigrants have a higher poverty rate compared to the American and foreign-born populations. As of 2022, 39% of Afghan nationals were living in poverty, compared to 12% of Americans and 14% of other immigrant populations.

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The institute showed that a majority of immigrants from Afghanistan are concentrated in some of the regions with the highest housing costs in the nation, including the metro areas of Washington, D.C., Sacramento, San Fransico, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle and San Diego.

When asked if Afghan refugees are still receiving housing benefits, a HUD official told The Center Square that the department “is working in coordination with appropriate agencies to align the Department’s guidance related to immigration status to ensure taxpayer-funded benefits are not used for any unintended purpose.”

Adding to housing benefits, The Center Square reported Tuesday exclusively that amid a national housing crisis, the Biden administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development produced guidelines encouraging property owners to forgo some fair housing practices to favor Afghan refugees, which the Trump administration directed to be terminated.

The Center Square obtained a HUD directive from the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity rescinding the Biden-era guidance document, “Operation Allies Welcome: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Fair Housing Issues,” and withdrawing from a FHEO guidance document “Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Renting to Refugees and Eligible Newcomers,” which the agency claims violates the Fair Housing Act.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner argues the Biden-era guidelines prioritized nearly 200,000 Afghan refugees who were admitted following the 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan by encouraging landlords and property owners to forgo credit checks, occupancy limitations, and engage in targeted marketing toward Afghans.

“After President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, his administration made a bad situation worse by prioritizing housing assistance for Afghan refugees, who we now know were unvetted and unchecked,” Turner told The Center Square. “Since day one, our mission has been clear: to serve the American people and end the misuse and abuse of American taxpayer-funded resources. That is why we rescinded this Operation Allies Welcome guidance, which encouraged landlords and property owners to violate federal civil rights law to protect Afghan refugees. Under President Trump’s leadership, the days of putting Americans last is over.”

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