Democrats Come for Tony Evers Like Walkers in the ‘Walking Dead,’ Tom Tiffany Delivers on Virgal’s Pickles at State GOP Convention, and More

Democrats came at Tony Evers like walkers in the “Walking Dead,” hungry for flesh. They now despise the popular governor of their own party whom they liked a couple days ago. And somehow they think that will help them win elections. Meanwhile, Tom Tiffany headed to the Republican state convention and delivered on Virgal’s pickles. But more on that later.

Evers narrowly escaped to a park bench in front of the Capitol and the warm embrace of WISN’s ever-serious Matt Smith, who always looks like he’s about to fill out a term paper while struggling with a stomachache. It was a sunny day. Their hair fluttered softly in the breeze. Everything looks better in the morning. The governor shook off yesterday’s shock, got some sleep, and was now p*ssed. At Democrats. We’re watching Tony Evers go through all of the stages of grief at warp speed in front of our very eyes.

“They believe that somehow putting money back into people’s pockets that are struggling financially across the state, apparently they don’t believe that’s an issue,” Evers revealed. It’s worth reminding folks that he’s talking about DEMOCRATS here. And Chris Kapenga.

Say what you want about Evers, but he won elections because he spoke about political bullsh*t in a way that made voters think he was speaking plainly. Think like a wiseman, but communicate in the language of the people. That’s from William Butler Yeats. Of course, this is all wildly disingenuous because Evers’ own 400-year veto is what caused the problem. Republicans wanted to repeal it, but he took that off the table.

In case you missed it, Evers is angry because all Democrat senators and most Democrat assembly people killed the bipartisan deal he struck with Republicans to stop government from taxing people’s tips and overtime; to help schools all over the state with special education funding they desperately say they need; and to send struggling taxpayers back $600 or $300 of their OWN money. A grand total of four Republicans opposed it: Kapenga, Lindee Brill, Steve Nass, and Rob Hutton. Scott Allen didn’t vote. The bill passed the Assembly 61-32. It failed in the Senate 15-18 because Evers couldn’t muster two Democrat votes to offset Kapenga, Nass and Hutton.

Maybe Tony Evers Should Endorse Tom Tiffany

If Tony Evers really believes in putting money back into financially struggling people’s pockets, he should endorse Tom Tiffany. After all, Tiffany wants to give the entire more than $1.8 billion surplus back to folks. Democrats want to blow it.

There’s a big disconnect when government is doing better but average folks aren’t.

“They’re impacting kids right now,” Evers continued, wildly trashing his own party. “They’re impacting children right now. Bad place for Democrats.”

Tony Evers believes Democrats are hurting kids!

And then the world ended, and unicorns ran through the forest and…I mean, WHAT?

The Democrats weren’t content with simply voting down their popular governor’s compromise plan to help schools and give folks tax relief (which they all say they want funded.) No, they had to literally rip his flesh off like infected zombies all thinking in unison, “If we get the trifecta in November, just think of all the crazy things we can blow people’s money on? How dare Tony and legislative Republicans want to give people’s own money back to them. It belongs to government! It’s OUR money to spend!”

It was something to behold. As one Republican activist put it, never had a party turned so swiftly and so aggressively on the popular leader of its own party. What gives? Probably, it’s just a sign of what Evers has been dealing with all along. The Democrats in his own party have gone full-blown crazy-eyed Squad, and they now see him as the establishment enemy. And it’s a sign that they aren’t in a compromising mood when they see that shining Trifecta brass ring dangling so tantalizingly in the distance, which was exactly what Robin Vos was trying to prevent by giving the six Assembly “majority makers” good messaging at the doors. So maybe their “no” votes made political sense. They are willing to hurt regular folks to win political races by taking that victory away from Vos. Why is that surprising? When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time. Remember in November.

Think I’m exaggerating? Democrats didn’t just criticize Evers. They tried to rip his face off for wanting to fund schools and help out struggling taxpayers.

The Democrats put out a series of increasingly deranged and frankly dishonest posts and videos. Democrat state Rep. Kelda Roys, who is running for governor and voted against helping taxpayers and schools, screeched: We did this because the deal would have just created a massive deficit! No, Kelda, your deficit fearmongering is based on the false premise that there will be zero growth. You KNOW that will NOT happen. In fact, the growth is higher than expected. Please just stop lying. Someone must have sent the Democrats this false deficit talking point because they all started using it in unison, expecting us to somehow believe they all turned into deficit hawks overnight. Yeah, right.

One of the leading Democrat snipers was a former massage parlor visitor named Gordon Hintz, who ran to X and called Tony Evers a “dick.” It turns out that Hintz, whom voters elected Winnebago County Executive for some reason, is the former Democrat legislative leader who was accused of pointing at a female legislator, Michelle Litjens, hurling obscenities, and saying, “You’re f—— de*d!” I guess I didn’t think Michelle Litjens and Evers would ever meet in the Venn diagram of life, but here we are.

They both have earned the honor of being trashed by a guy who once received a ticket “for visiting a massage parlor in Appleton that was the subject of a prostitution sting,” according to the Oshkosh Northwestern. As an aside, Politifact once reported that “Hintz pleaded no contest to sexual misconduct” in a “fact check” that was headlined, “In Context: Attacks on new Wisconsin Assembly Democratic leader.” Got that? In a story about Republicans being concerned that Hintz verbally attacked a Republican female and said, “You’re f—— de*d!”, the media turned it into a story about attacks on HIM. If you want to understand why Democrats win even when they do crazy stuff, this is a good example. The media runs cover for them.

But now Hintz was positioning himself as the scold who knows better than Gov. Evers, and Molly Beck, Dan Schafer and all the rest were retweeting him like he’s got moral authority. God help us all.

No wonder voters just think politics and government are completely broken. No wonder they turn to candidates like Trump who promised something different. (I’d throw the very odd Francesca Hong into that mix except she is literally government and just voted to snatch people’s tips and overtime from them.)

Meanwhile, legislative Republicans were unified except for Chris Kapenga, Rob Hutton, Lindee Brill, and Steve Nass, but two of those guys are quitting anyway.

Oh, and except for Tom Tiffany positioning against almost every elected Republican legislator in his own party, you know the folks he needs to be excited about his candidacy, spread the word in their local communities, and keep control of the Assembly and stuff. But we should all move on from that now.

The Convention

With the excitement of Tony Evers turning on Democrats echoing in their ears, Republicans headed to their state convention in the Dells. I was going to go cover it, like I usually do, but they have a convicted wife batterer in charge of an entire congressional district and on their executive committee, and he just publicly called me a “pig,” and was swanning around up there, and no one seemed to care (well, not no one), so I didn’t feel like it. Turned out I didn’t need to go anyway because I could just follow Ben Yount on X. He had the best dispatches, and his picture of the cold beer at the Brew Pub almost made me wish I had gone. I wasn’t the only one who skipped it. I went on Scott Walker’s X page, and he was posting photos while eating ice cream at Oscar’s with Tonette. It sucked that Waukesha place burned down, so glad they reopened. Turns out, though, that was Friday. By Saturday. Walker was at the convention, dutifully firing up the crowd.

Maybe Gordon Hintz and Ken Sikora should meet for a beer at the Brew Pub. They might discover they have a lot in common.

I decided I’d rather go to a farmer’s market, and shift my energy toward positive things, even though Tom Tiffany did in fact deliver Virgal’s pickles, and he’d, by far, be the best governor, and it’s not his fault some other Republican leader runs around calling a woman with a very large social media following a pig. After the farmer’s market, where I purchased a “happy” bracelet because it was such a gorgeous day, I went to a croissant cafe in Oconomowoc, and a woman I’ve never met rushed up, said she reads my page, and praised me for calling out the pig caller. She was really pumped up about it too. Turns out women really don’t like it when women are called pigs by guys convicted of domestic violence-related battery and my social reach is a lot larger than these guys seem to think. Then, a second woman gave me a fist bump. All before my raspberry croissant was fully eaten. So that was nice. Please don’t tell the wife beater guy that I ate a raspberry croissant. He might call me a pig again, and I’ve already moved on. In fact, it’s kind of helped my brand. Which is why you should always just say what you really feel and let the chips fall where they may. I do all this for folks like the women in Fresh Baked, not a political party anyway.

But what happened at the convention? That’s important.

Cutting Prime Rib & Other Stuff

Videos on X revealed that Tiffany’s hospitality room looked like a blast. There used to be a Supper Club like this where I grew up, in Ladysmith, in Tiffany’s district. It was called Club 8. Tiffany’s supper club looked like Club 8, which made me nostalgic.

Tiffany’s hospitality room is kind of a metaphor for what Wisconsin would look like under a Gov. Tiffany. He was cutting prime rib (get it? He was CUTTING stuff. Like spending.) There were pull tabs with Tom Tiffany’s face on them. Win Tom Tiffany as governor and you get the whole surplus back! Mandela Barnes’ X page counter-programmed a photo of a woman with pink nails pulling a tab and getting Mandela’s face instead of Tom’s, leading another person on X to point out, “3 Mandelas, congrats! You’ve won higher taxes and a stolen Kia!”

Apparently, there were also grasshoppers and, indeed, his mom Virgal’s pickles. They should have played sheepshead. I’ve long said that Tiffany’s greatest strength is his authenticity, and they are doing a good job highlighting it, when his comms team isn’t retweeting Drake’s blinged-out gloved hand and calling him the “dam man.” Apparently I wasn’t their target demographic for that tweet because my reaction was, “Why is Tom Tiffany retweeting Michael Jackson’s hand?” Then someone explained it to me.

Look, you can either be goofy trendy on social media like Francesca Hong or you can be the guy whose mom crochets and cans, but not sure how they go together.

Wisconsin Democrat Party leader Devin Remiker was really peeved and accused Tiffany of stealing his hospitality room supper club theme. While you are struggling to pay those increased utility bills thanks to Tony Evers’ PSC, the leader of the Wisconsin Dems is bickering about hospitality room themes. Remember in November. The difference is that Tom Tiffany actually goes to supper clubs like Club 8 (the guy ran a boat company and was a dam tender, dontcha know), whereas Devin Remiker probably goes to Starbucks in Madison for an iced caramel macchiato. Oops, never mind. That’s Sarah Godlewski.

Washington County Exec Josh Schoemann showed up at the GOP convention speaking about being neighborly and literally everyone ran on X and said what a great guy he is and that he has a bright future, and all of that is true. Research the Walker vs. Green primary in 2005 to see why.

Brian Schimming, beleagured and always amiable GOP leader, stressed that Trump likes him and turnout is the whole game, after fending off the umpteenth quarterback sneak attack from Republicans and Turning Point guys who are telling everyone else to unify. A bunch of convention attendees then sat on their hands, according to Ben Yount, because, you know, time to unify and stuff.

Ron Johnson, who is a reminder that there is a magic formula for Republicans to win statewide in tough years, took the stage and gave a sobering message. Republican turnout has sucked and that needs to change. Wake up, people. Which is what I’ve been saying because I talk to lots of people and know where the polls are at. Ron also indicated that Democrats have crossed from normal opposition to outright “war” mentality. He’s right. Just ask Tony Evers. A lot of them want a lot of us de*d. They aren’t your father’s Democrat party anymore.

This is true. Even when I get called names by Republican leaders, I pause to realize that, if I was hit by a Greyhound bus tomorrow while walking to Fresh Baked for coffee, most Democrats would go on Facebook and cheer. Most Republicans would go to my funeral and say, “How sad that Jessica was hit by a bus. How can we help her daughter?” Then it would turn out a Democrat was driving the bus. There is a difference.

A group of Republican Congressmen then held a panel and described all of the good things the Republican-controlled Congress is doing for folks. Which is true, and the third Congressional District better re-elect former NAVY Seal Derrick Van Orden because he’s a pragmatic guy with common sense, who is running against a leftwing political operative who thinks Eau Claire is racist, loves Zohran Mamdani, and ran comms for Minocqua Brewery loudmouth Kirk Bangstad. The Future of the Free World could hinge on that race. Plus, Van Orden was captured on video driving his Harley to Congress the other day by TMZ, which was kind of cool.

Eric Toney, a gentleman DA from Fond du Lac with integrity who is running for AG, was focusing on supporting cops for National Police Week and reminding people he is the son of a cop. This is your cordial reminder that AWOL AG Josh Kaul hasn’t fixed the crime lab. He’s made it worse. Toney would fix that.

Can you imagine any of the Democrats riding a Harley? If poor Tony tried, it would tip over. Just look how he holds a fish.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon then took the stage and endorsed Tiffany (which is great). She also endorsed Mike Alfonso, because you know, a 26-year-old former podcast producer who skips every debate is more qualified than the former Marine who spent 444 days as an Iranian hostage, built a business, ran the Marathon County GOP, and ran his local school board. Why attend a debate with hard-working local GOP volunteers, though, when you can go on Boeing-funded YouTube road trips and hobnob at DC cocktail parties with transportation lobbyists who are helping fund your campaign! I mean, c’mon. Congress is supposed to be fun.

Glenn Grothman, who is really an underrated congressman, then took the stage and reeled off a bunch of immigration stats. His point is that Republicans are protecting the country and securing the border, while Democrats, including the Wisconsin governor candidates, are so radical they don’t even want to get attempted killers out of this country. This is your cordial reminder that Democrat frontrunner Francesca Hong wants to abolish ICE, prisons, police and capitalism. I’m not even exaggerating. Glenn is right.

To be clear, I think Tom Tiffany has a pathway to win. It’s just a difficult one, which everyone not spinning so hard they’re going blind knows. I think he needs Francesca “anti-capitalist” Hong or Mandela “I went crazy on video” Barnes, though. That’s his best chance. You know Republicans can cross over in the August primary and vote for Hong, right? Since Tiffany will handily win as he doesn’t have a competitive primary…they certainly could help her get through the primary. Brian Schimming reminded everyone that the Democrat frontunner is a socialist. Sometimes the other side does you favors.

Everyone tried to preach about unity at the convention, which is nice in concept until leaders call women pigs on Facebook and try to make hard-working Republican legislators look falsely like big-spending RINOS. But, you know, that was yesterday, so who cares. Anyway, the Democrats are in total disarray.

That all pales compared to what Democrats will do to Wisconsin if they get their trifecta. Republican Sen. Pat Testin and Rep. Tony Kurtz, who are good guys who tried to help taxpayers and schools, took the stage and reminded everyone that Democrats would probably jack up the top income tax rate to 17% and create government-run grocery stores. Since I’m old enough to have crossed Checkpoint Charlie and see the empty shelves on the government-run grocery stores of Communist East Berlin, I get what they mean.

As Spencer Pratt said, this is a red alert, folks. And then I walked to city beach in Oconomowoc to get a slurpee because it’s a nice day outside and there are better things to do.