The currently competing Olympian Sinisa Lee is Hmong-american and was widely supported and celebrated there when she won gold in the last summer games.
Despite a very late start, Democrats have the advantage of a well qualified candidate with national name recognition. Imagine the difficulty if in late July you were trying to mount a campaign for Mike Pence or Dan Quayle. Or even Shady Vance, who has been stepping on rakes since he got the VP nod.
Many people even know her biography, at least as a prosecutor, senator, and current vice president. We just need to flesh out her own policies and goals as president since her previous campaigning was intended to boost Biden, not Harris. Which should be easier, or at least more palatable, than Trump, who has a plan to dismantle democracy, take away every constitutional right, and declare himself dictator for life.
Wisconsin, iirc, is gerrymandered up the wazoo in favor of Republicans. So everything Dems can do to get out the vote is important, so they can fix this!
we are gerrymandered, but the new maps our freshly minted progressive Supreme Court forced into existence (not through a ruling but through political pressure of an impending ruling which would have possibly been more legally shaky but also more fair than what we got) means that we have the best shot we've had in nearly 15 years of leveling our state legislatures in both assembly and state Senate.
That's a big deal for he future, and it means that folks who live in rural areas or smaller cities who had essentially lost hope that their vote might count need to be told of the good news and linked into the larger effort to turn back the tide in this state. i think it's doable.
he's done some really good grassroots work to build coalitions among different factions of the electorate. from rural to urban and between, and between moderates and far left. i think Wisconsin sees the opportunity and will ( like much of the electorate across the country) take a lesson from the recent French elections, where coming together to prevent the greater threat becomes the rallying cry. we can have our internal squabble at the victors table.
I took some, but I wasn't too happy with how they turned out.
Any additional photos can be found on thorugh my website/portfolio. If there's something you'd like to buy, shoot me an email at dominicgwinn (at) proton (dot) me!
Wisconsin Dems have been absolutely awesome for the last few years. I'm watching them from Minnesota, with joy in my heart (one of my kids live in Madison, and she is joyful, too).
When I lived in an area with a large Hmong population, the Veterans Day parade always had a big contingent of Hmong veterans, always in uniform, flanked by Hmong teens in traditional Hmong celebration clothing, dancing with jingling coins and blowing flutes. I am grateful I got to see it.
Ben Wikler is incredibly good. I send the Wisconsin Democratic Party some monies every month. I see what he has done up there and then I think about the Texas Democratic Party and I just get sad. I still donate to the Texas party, but jeez. C’mon folks, can’t win a race if you don’t have a candidate running.
Texas has a whole different issue set (WI at least has a good governor as opposed to a mean old crook with a crazy Lt Gov and a 2x-indicted AG).
But at least you know you have two nationally visible, committed Dems - I bet if you reach out to either office they can tell you where to start next.
You all are going to need volunteers CERTIFIED in each county where they're supposed to be helping people to vote, according to Beto, if you're going to get anywhere against the voter suppression
Now *I* want a cigarette.
Dang "quitting" bullshit.
No photo of the real star, the ice cream? Bummer!
I took the mere mention of "cigarette" as an opportunity to let Mr Jones in the door.
he just looks like such a sweetheart.
Ta, Dom. Excellent photojournalism I'm very glad to see and read.
I would have loved to see that photograph of the kid with the foot high cone of ice cream.
Oops! So sorry! I misspelled her name, Sunisa.
"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 '𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦," 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩. “𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦.”
𝘈𝘴 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴.
Dom is clearly unqualified to serve on the Supreme Court.
The currently competing Olympian Sinisa Lee is Hmong-american and was widely supported and celebrated there when she won gold in the last summer games.
Despite a very late start, Democrats have the advantage of a well qualified candidate with national name recognition. Imagine the difficulty if in late July you were trying to mount a campaign for Mike Pence or Dan Quayle. Or even Shady Vance, who has been stepping on rakes since he got the VP nod.
Many people even know her biography, at least as a prosecutor, senator, and current vice president. We just need to flesh out her own policies and goals as president since her previous campaigning was intended to boost Biden, not Harris. Which should be easier, or at least more palatable, than Trump, who has a plan to dismantle democracy, take away every constitutional right, and declare himself dictator for life.
Dictator? Try King DonOLD the First.
Aethelred the Unready, move over.
Wisconsin, iirc, is gerrymandered up the wazoo in favor of Republicans. So everything Dems can do to get out the vote is important, so they can fix this!
we are gerrymandered, but the new maps our freshly minted progressive Supreme Court forced into existence (not through a ruling but through political pressure of an impending ruling which would have possibly been more legally shaky but also more fair than what we got) means that we have the best shot we've had in nearly 15 years of leveling our state legislatures in both assembly and state Senate.
That's a big deal for he future, and it means that folks who live in rural areas or smaller cities who had essentially lost hope that their vote might count need to be told of the good news and linked into the larger effort to turn back the tide in this state. i think it's doable.
Your Dem director Ben Wikler is a rock star
he's done some really good grassroots work to build coalitions among different factions of the electorate. from rural to urban and between, and between moderates and far left. i think Wisconsin sees the opportunity and will ( like much of the electorate across the country) take a lesson from the recent French elections, where coming together to prevent the greater threat becomes the rallying cry. we can have our internal squabble at the victors table.
Oh, I hope this works out! My mom was from Eau Claire, and my daughter's partner has family in Milwaukee, so I have lots of family ties there.
No pictures of your ice cream?
I took some, but I wasn't too happy with how they turned out.
Any additional photos can be found on thorugh my website/portfolio. If there's something you'd like to buy, shoot me an email at dominicgwinn (at) proton (dot) me!
https://www.dominicgwinn.com/Photos-By-Year/2024/2024-Photos
Wisconsin Dems have been absolutely awesome for the last few years. I'm watching them from Minnesota, with joy in my heart (one of my kids live in Madison, and she is joyful, too).
I think the western Wisconsites probably get a bit tired of us swarming across the border for door knocking, but c'est la vie.
When I lived in an area with a large Hmong population, the Veterans Day parade always had a big contingent of Hmong veterans, always in uniform, flanked by Hmong teens in traditional Hmong celebration clothing, dancing with jingling coins and blowing flutes. I am grateful I got to see it.
"He was big, tall, bespectacled, everyone knew his name and he was so damn jovial."
Shit Dom! That was a face eating Leopard!
/goes back to reread
Oh! "bespectacled", never mind.
Ben Wikler is incredibly good. I send the Wisconsin Democratic Party some monies every month. I see what he has done up there and then I think about the Texas Democratic Party and I just get sad. I still donate to the Texas party, but jeez. C’mon folks, can’t win a race if you don’t have a candidate running.
Texas has a whole different issue set (WI at least has a good governor as opposed to a mean old crook with a crazy Lt Gov and a 2x-indicted AG).
But at least you know you have two nationally visible, committed Dems - I bet if you reach out to either office they can tell you where to start next.
You all are going to need volunteers CERTIFIED in each county where they're supposed to be helping people to vote, according to Beto, if you're going to get anywhere against the voter suppression
Rep Jasmine Crockett talks with Ali Velshi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLcuWBeQJY
Beto O'Rourke talks with Marc Elias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kq5obBcuf4
Oh, I agree. The problem, in my experience, is with the state party leadership and the national party just using the state as an ATM .
𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴.
AKA MAGATs