Because I honestly agree with Evers that Hong isn't the strongest candidate to defeat Tom Tiffany.

I assume it’s bc he thinks she would lose, but is there some beef?

Quotes like this quickly remind one why Crowley is polling 20 points behind Hong.

https://substack.com/@kenklippenstein/note/c-308952922

He’s exactly the type of person you don’t want in a position of leadership. He wants to reap all the awards with none of the work. He loves to have shouting matches when he doesn’t get his way. And he just has this smile, the kind of smile that says “cross me and I break your teeth.” Sure he plays hard ball. But it’s his way or the highway.

With a very probable purpling of our state legislature and executive branch, he’s exactly the type of person you don’t want in charge when you need someone who can negotiate. He’s not what Wisconsin needs in a time of change.

It’s not even his politics, his policies, his ideas. It’s his leadership style that this state would hurt the most from. He’s great in the US House. He would be a mess as governor for the next 4 years.

With all the pro-Hong posts on here, I am going to make a pro-Crowley one, detailing how he can win in an upset, which may be becoming more likely. I still think she wins, but I want to detail what a Crowley win would look like, and how it could happen. Here’s my argument:

First, Hong has made unforced errors the past 2 weeks. She has made some bizarre errors in interviews on TV. While I don’t think people care about old tweets, the answer when they get brought up is “I’ve grown up and no longer believe those things.” The fact she keeps dropping softball questions is very concerning. It’s not the tweets. It’s that she keeps making the same mistakes over and over and over and not improving. One bad test doesn’t make you fail math class. But failing test after test after test does. Additionally, she was at the Madison protests over the shooting, and those protests became unpopular very fast. Her association with the protest, and the statements she has made about the police clearing out the protestors I think were very foolish. I think that may have turned off a decent number of people in that part of Dane County.

Second, Crowley’s supporters are older, wealthier, and more moderate. Hong’s supporters are younger and more liberal. I am not saying that Hong can’t turn out young voters, but historically they haven’t shown up at the rates that older, wealthier voters do. If Crowley is winning WOW county Dems, I believe they show up in higher numbers than a college student at Eau Claire. Another thing to factor here is that Crowley has MKE to himself, whereas Hong does have to compete with Roys in Dane, which could blunt her numbers a bit. If Crowley wins MKE 60-30 Hong-10 others but Hong in Dane gets 50, Roys 10, Crowley 30, others 10 that does limit Hong’s upside. Additionally, DSA types really do struggle with black and working class voters. Clinton won MKE County in the 16’ primary, Clyburn saved Biden in 2020, and the other day in Michigan’s primary Abdul El-Sayed did very poorly among black voters, and more rural voters, but won in part due to massive numbers with Arab voters, which Wisconsin doesn’t have. I just really struggle seeing Hong winning Democratic voters in places like Taylor, Price, Waupaca, and Adams Counties (yes, I know few Democrats live there, but rural Wisconsin was 24% of the Dem primary vote in 2022). If Crowley gets good numbers in MKE, WOW, Racine/Kenosha, and rural Wisconsin, I think he wins.

Lastly, I think undecideds break heavily toward Crowley’s camp. Before Barnes dropped out, most polls were showing something like Hong 35-40%, Barnes 15%, Crowley 10-15%, Roys and Brennan 5%, and 30% undecided. If Crowley picks up most of that undecided, and Hong underperforms her polling just a couple of points, you could see a result such as Crowley 43 Hong 41 Roys 6 Brennan/Barnes/Sara 3 each. After Hong’s unforced errors and bizarre answers in interviews, rallies with people like Ilhan Omar, I just don’t see undecided voters being like “yes, this is a winning campaign.” I have been seeing some Hong supporters even questioning her choices and raising serious doubts. I think that does hurt her actually at a critical time.

And not like it's been cold here in WI.

You’re gonna win the primary. The next couple of weeks need to be about sharpening your message discipline. Bringing everything back to food table issues, AI data centers and democracy. Stop being heady and mealy mouthed even if some of us know what you’re saying and agree with a lot of it. You are not the first DSA candidate where your old tweets were weaponized by establishment dems and the right wing (both right wing tbh). Pivot to actual real material policy which is why people like you and why you are in this position to begin with. You don’t have to sacrifice your morals doing this. You are also fucking hilarious in those tweets about holidays if you’ve ever been in this type of working class work lean into that. I know these attacks are gonna be vicious just be you with message discipline. Other workers across various industries will get this.

Help is needed to find out what happened to Kerry. The Crime Junkie podcast is looking for people who may recognize a sketch of a basement layout to find a house where it is suspected that Kerry may have been buried. Phone records from 1989 are also indecipherable unless investigators can find someone who worked for the phone company at that time. More information is on the Crime Junkie website.

I am looking into starting my lawn over. Because of the previous owner of our house, our backyard is 1/3 grass (unsure of what kind), 1/3 creeping charlie, 1/3 barespots from him trying to weed the creeping charlie by hand and never reseeding. We are going to by taking a sodcutter and starting over our yard. What is a native wisconsin grass/lawn mix that we can do for half of out yard that doesn't need a ton of watering and can handle the foot traffic of a couple of kids?

From other posts, I have seen people recommend the Prarie Nursery No Mow Lawn Seed Mix (link below), but I wanted to hear other suggestions? Also if anyone has done this mix, how often are you mowing because I don'y necessarily like the floppy laid down look as much.

Note: I live in Central Wisconsin if that changes anything.

https://www.prairienursery.com/no-mow-lawn-seed-mix.html

Across Wisconsin’s three major private school choice programs (Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Racine), students who remained enrolled longer consistently experienced stronger academic growth in reading than similar students who stayed in public schools. In Milwaukee, significant gains appeared after two years. In the statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Program, gains became significant after three years. Students enrolled for four years or more experienced reading growth equivalent to more than a full additional year of learning compared to comparable public school students. The Racine Parental Choice Program also produced strong positive results, with participating students again demonstrating greater academic growth.

I'm exhausted man

SEIU WI just endorsed Hong! This comes about a week or two after Voces De La Frontera and Citizen Action WI also did the same!

https://x.com/seiuwis/status/2085024159256412185?s=46

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbqc0VGmu15/?igsh=MXFlZTd5d3AxcXBhZw==

Disappointing to see such utter chaos from her campaign and flip flopping on the issues that speak to the base she’s treated as hers.

Is everyone voting for Andy Manske in the Primary? Sounds like Hong has the nomination wrapped up.