Jay Weber Show transcript 7-30-24 7:40am
Some of you have expressed interest in early in person or mail-in voting…as well as which way you should vote on the two confusing amendment questions that are on the ballot, statewide.
Well-you can start voting in-person today-depending on your community’s rules.
I’d remind you that different municipalities have different rules as to when they are open and when you can vote early…so…you’d have to check on that.
But- this is the partisan primary to choose the candidates for the state legislature and u-s congress. That means virtually everyone is going to have at least-some- important race or another on their ballot…as well as those two referendum questions.
This is the ballot that will decide which republicans and democrats advance in their respective primaries. For example: up on Northeastern Wisconsin, where Mike Gallagher is retiring from congress- voters have that three way race between Roger Roth, Andre Jaquez, and Tony Weid to sort out.
In Derrick Van Orden’s district, there’s a three-way race on the democrat side, I believe, that will determine who his challenger is in fall. There are all sorts of primary races for the state assembly and senate, given the dramatic redistricting maps and all the changes that were made to district boundaries because of that.
So, there are important decisions to be made- to set up the fall races ‘down ballot’.
Again-early voting starts today. The actual election day, if you want to vote in person, is august 13th. Two Tuesdays from now.
And then there are the two constitutional amendments on the ballot that will determine whether there should be ‘shared responsibility’ when it comes to ‘who gets to spend’ undedicated federal funding that flows into Wisconsin
Right now-that is up to the governor, alone, and given how gov Tony Evers has co-opted and abused billions in covid funding- setting a lot of it aside to be used as his personal political slush fund-
The right way to vote on those two questions is ‘yes’. At least if you want more responsible, reasonable, and bipartisan spending of emergency and ‘undedicated’ federal funds.
The back story on this is that Gov Evers, instead of use federal covid relief money as intended, decided to separate a chunk out for ‘further use’. At his discretion.
As in only on lefty projects that he thought were important and-or could by himself and the democrats votes.
Folks- four years later-Tony Evers is still sitting on at least a billion dollars in federal funding that was supposed to go to Wisconsinites, small business owners, distressed public groups, etc.-
That he never gave out.
Instead, he’s kept it and is sitting on it until he can use it to -his- political advantage.
In fact, another example of this came up yesterday. The governor’s office put out a tweet, in which gov Evers highlighted a story about a childcare facility closing in Waupaca. And he wrote: it’s a shame to see another childcare center close when funds are readily available to help. We've got to do more to help prevent our state's childcare industry's imminent collapse before it's too late.
It’s the typical hollow political preening that leftists like Tony Evers do-rather than do something concrete. Well, State Senator Van Waangard of Racine replied to Evers by saying: you're right. You have over $1 billion left in covid relief funds to use for this.
That’s a perfectly appropriate retort- from Waangard: Tony Evers is still sitting on over a billion dollars in covid relief money. He’s given chunks to planned parenthood. He’s given chunks to other leftist entities that he’s found ‘worthy’. He’s abused and played favorites with billions in federal funding—as he has only given ‘lip service’ to things like this: a childcare center failing due to lack of funding-
Which is what that covid money was meant to be used for!!
What sort of tone-deaf jackass intentionally misappropriates funding like this- then turns around and pretends as if he can’t do anything about ‘affordable childcare’...when he can?
This is your governor, folks, and he has already proven that -one person alone- should not oversee how chunks of federal funding that flow into the state are spent.
Voting yes on the two referendum questions adds accountability-and bipartisanship- to the process- because it requires legislative leaders to agree with and approve how those federal funds are used.
No more political slush funds for governors-on either side of the aisle. The truth is- these referendum questions aren’t even ‘partisan’, really. The WI dems and their left-wing activist groups are only trying to make them so.
The vast, vast majority of voters-regardless of what side of the political aisle they are on- want checks and balances on how federal funding is spent in WI…and want to know good decisions are being made. They want to know ‘one person’ isn’t abusing federal funding or picking and choosing who gets the funding based on their political biases or what they think will buy them votes.
If you want responsible govt and taxpayer oversight-you’ll want to vote yes on both questions. Only liberals who want Tony Evers to continue to be able to keep a private slush fund would vote no….and since early voting starts today- boy-where their organized activists out in force on social media yesterday- trying to trick voters into voting ‘no’.
It’s incredible how organized these left-wing activists can be-around pushing a series of lies and misdirection’s.
It’s one thing to be a dishonest person or rationalize to yourself why it is you have no problem with lying to other people…. but how the left gets entire groups of liars to engage in group gaslighting is interesting to me. There’s more than one sociology thesis here: how they can all come together and decide that ‘they all need to lie and trick others -for the good of society’.
But all these two referendum questions ask is: who in state government is responsible for spending federal dollars? Do you want-one person- alone- deciding how he or she can best use ‘your tax dollars’ for his or her personal political benefit?
Or do you want those tax dollars used for the bipartisan purpose they were sent from dc for: to be used for ‘this emergency’...or ‘this relief’.
Because Tony Evers has put on a master-class in how- having a system that leaves this up to one person- is ripe for abuse.
Vote yes on both of those referendum questions.
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audio version of the segment here > Wisconsin's early voting starts today. VOTE YES on the two referendums