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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06.
It's a Thursday morning, August 21st, 2025.
And it is indeed another beautiful morning to have you here up north back live on Lake Wissota from wherever you're spending your mornings listening across the civic media radio network or catching us on YouTube, Facebook, podcast, the app, the website, however you did it, we're glad you did it.
Thanks for spending your Thursday morning right here.
I got a question for you.
What do you know about Wisconsin Lieutenant Governors?
I mean, here, we'll do a little trivia.
Who was the Lieutenant Governor for Tommy Thompson?
How about for Jim Doyle?
Remember Scott Walker?
Who is his Lieutenant Governor?
How about Tony Evers?
That's a trick question.
Who is his Governor in his first term or Lieutenant Governor in the first term?
How about the second term, the one right now?
Who's the current Lieutenant Governor?
We'll talk all about that in a couple of minutes because we have a candidate for Lieutenant Governor joining us during our seven o'clock hour, Sarah Godelowski, Wisconsin Secretary of State.
Former State Treasurer is looking to add a third constitutional office to her resume and serve as Lieutenant Governor for Wisconsin next year.
That's because the current Lieutenant Governor, I'm gonna give away one of the answers here, Sara Rodriguez, the current Lieutenant Governor under Tony Evers is now a candidate for governor next year with Tony Evers not seeking a third term.
So we'll ask Sarah Godlowski a bit more about why she's seeking the Lieutenant Governor role coming up this morning and talk more about those past Lieutenant Governors.
We'll see which ones you remember.
So all of that is coming up.
We'll also check in with Todd Alba.
He was in Wisconsin Rapids yesterday, just as I was for the WFHR 85th anniversary celebration.
So we'll talk about his time at the parking lot party up there at the radio station.
We'll also talk about back in the state capitol how Governor Tony Evers is not wasting any time changing the way business is done at the capitol.
Now that the state supreme court has struck down one of the many ways that Republicans in the legislature have been obstructing him from doing his job implementing laws and rules, things like that.
We'll get a rundown of this weekend's Wisconsin events with Sherita Booker.
We'll replay our conversation with Dan Schaefer.
about a very liberal US senator coming to western Wisconsin soon to campaign for a congressional candidate already endorsed by so-called blue dog Democrats.
And economic data shows the Trump presidency is doing exactly what experts had warned us about.
There is a widening gap between the super rich and the rest of us.
Trump's trade war has weakened the US dollar.
Consumers are paying the price with higher
prices on store shelves not lower as Trump had promised.
We'll talk about all that with Sean O'Malley about your money in the markets.
We'll talk to Joseph Peckie, Chad Holmes as well, Brittany Merlot's forecast too.
In fact, Ms.
Merlot has given us a state forecast for today that says that the summer sun will stay bright this week.
A completely different air mass will take over for the weekend.
It will be bringing in breezy fall-like temps, then maybe sparking up some rain before it arrives.
Our state forecast for today is short and sweet.
Partly sunny and pleasant, highs 75 to 80, a southeast wind at 5 to 10.
Then for tonight, increasing clouds, lows in the upper 50s to low 60s, and a light south wind.
That's the state forecast.
She'll tell us much more about that, about just under an hour from now.
Along the way, of course, we'd love to have your comments and your feedback, several different ways to do that.
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It's just about 6-11.
Let's check in with Parker Olson, who produces this fine little program down in Madison Studio A2.
Mr. Olson, how are you?
Doing pretty good
Pat.
Having a good time.
My
god, your voice got so high there.
You must really be in a good mood today.
Not really good.
Yeah.
No, that's great.
Be careful there.
These are new headphones.
We don't want to hurt these things.
That's that's all right.
I think we both are a little a little more well rested, you know, travel days are always interesting days.
I mean, I hit the wall hard yesterday.
Yeah, I bet.
Yeah, you know.
I mean, look, it's it's good to be out and about as good to see other folks like we did in Wisconsin Rapids.
But, you know, after after a night in a hotel and getting back to your own bed, there's just there's nothing like it.
No, your own bed is one of those special things in life.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
So we've got a lawn that is we had to do some aerating for it.
So now we need to kind of keep it wet because you get those little dirt plugs.
Yeah, you know,
when you're doing the lawn and then you've got to water them so that those little dirt plugs kind of go back into the ground and everything.
But we don't sprinkle the lawn very much.
We don't water our lawn very much.
We're up on the lake here.
we don't kind of have that suburban mentality where every square inch of the lawn has to be perfect.
You know, and it's fine.
I mean, it's perfectly fine.
We just don't go overboard with it.
But that also includes because we don't use the sprinkler a lot.
I finally had to use it.
First off, I'd take a lot of dust off of it.
I've been sitting in the garage for a little bit here.
And it clearly had aged a little bit.
It was kind of tough to to connect the hose and everything.
And that time I got it done.
I mean, water is spraying in 18 different directions because it's
not quite what you want.
I'm guessing
it now it had collected a little dirt and dust and everything else.
And eventually we we got it done.
and we'll continue moving the sprinkler around today.
But it's just funny because up and down the street, there are people who have paid a lot of money for these nice sprinkler systems.
There's heads that are spaced, you know, every so far apart, and then you're just doing their thing.
The lawns are perfect.
And then they see either me or Sherry trudging our hose with our one little old sprinkler thunk.
We'll just put it here.
See what it does.
Is it sprinkling in a full circle?
Is that a quarter?
Is that a crescent?
What exactly are they doing over there?
It's very
spotty.
Yeah, very spotty.
Can they not?
Do we need to take up a collection and get them a second sprinkler?
No, we're fine.
This is how we want it.
Well, our neighbors, who actually just moved out,
Um, so I can say this without fear of them hearing and then saying something to me, um, they had been watering their lawn.
And mind you, Madison is like kind of a ton of rain, as you know, as, as they water their lawn, like every night during the night they do it.
And they were complaining about not being able to grow grass.
I'm like, I don't think that's true.
There's some other kind of issue, you know, maybe it was, you know, maybe maybe their their house and their lawn are over, you know, what was once a battery factory or something.
There's got to be something in this.
Well, if you're watering that often, and you're still not able to grow grass, my favorite is going anywhere in the rain.
And in the rain, you're seeing that somebody's automatic sprinkler system still comes on anyway.
You know, let's say it's 5530 in the morning.
and it's raining and you see in the sprinklers just going to town and you're like, I'm glad we don't pay for water here.
We've got a well and that's fine.
But to me, the concept of a water bill is very alien.
Yeah, never had to deal with that.
That's one of them city problems that people have is a water meter and everything.
You're on a
lake.
You don't got to worry about water.
uh no see that's the other thing a lot a lot of people with their sprinkler systems they just run a line down to the lake and you know suck it up that way so i mean there's there are a lot of positives to lake life don't get me wrong but you know one of them is that i i don't feel the need to have the perfect lawn
We have a perfectly good, if you had a cabin up on a lake, you'd have the lawn that goes along with it.
And I'm very happy with it.
We've got all kinds of great landscaping.
My God, the landscaping.
That Sherry's been working on over the years.
She comes to get me as I'm watching the Brewer's game last night.
And we'll get to that in a second.
She's like, you got to see this.
And I don't remember what kind of flowers they were.
I'm sure she told me.
And I'm sure, well, you know, husbands do that sometimes.
And she said, look at the bees.
And at first you see like, you know, four, five, six bees on this patch of flowers, patch flowers about five feet by five feet square, roughly, in that part of the landscaping.
And then you kind of refocus your eyes.
And there have to be 100 honey bees on there, just doing their thing.
I mean, so many of them, we have the happiest pollinators on Lake Wissota right now.
Because the way that she set up the landscaping is that
different things bloom at different times of the summer.
So all summer long spring and summer long at some point something is like, like, last week, it was the hydrangeas.
I mean, they looked like a fourth of July fireworks display.
These hydrangeas had blossomed so big.
You know, we had the lilacs before that and we had bryolorets and all that.
And these, these flowers are blooming late and the bees are just soaking it up.
So, you know, so, so before we get
people thinking like my lawn looks like something out of the Adams family, it does not.
It's perfectly good.
We mow it regularly.
It is a perfectly fine one.
It's just that the landscaping and the flowers that Sherry has added is what really sets it apart.
So
Sherry is doing the heavy lifting between the two of you is what I'm hearing.
That's been true for 40 years now.
Yes.
Okay.
That's a very fair statement.
Because I mean, look, priorities, the the Cubs brewers, they were on the TV.
You know, that's true.
I mean, things have to get done.
Well, while I'm well, while I'm doing the dishes and things like that.
And it was a little tough watching the Brewers lose again to the Cubs four to three.
The Brewers now have a three game losing streak.
They have not had many of those this season.
And I don't know, I don't Jacob Mizorovsky.
I don't know those first couple of games.
I mean, he got put on the All Star roster.
He was looking
like the next big thing and now he looks like a Faberge egg, you know, just very fragile.
I mean, not at first, he retired the first six batters in a row.
Yeah, and then he recovered too.
He recovered.
Yeah.
But he then walked the first three batters in the third inning, walked the first three batters, bases loaded.
So here comes Michael Bush.
The count gets up to three balls in one strike.
So you know what, Mr. Rowski has to put one right down the middle.
Michael Bush knows it and drives it into the gap and left center field.
It clears the bases.
The Cubs go up three to one and the Brewers try to come back, but ultimately fall short by a score of four to three.
Colin Ray, the former brewer, gave up only three hits to the brewer hitters through six innings.
So now the Cubs have improved to seven and five against the Brewers so that even if the Brewers win this afternoon, the Cubs will still have the season series tiebreaker.
But as for that game this afternoon, finally, the fifth and final game in four days at Wrigley Field,
The pregame coverage will begin at 12.45 this afternoon on several civic media stations around Wisconsin.
And then there's no rest.
There's no day off.
It's right back up to American Family Field for a series against the San Francisco Giants starting tomorrow evening.
And through the weekend, San Francisco for three games.
And then Arizona comes to town.
And the D-backs will play the Brewers for four games next week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday nights and Thursday afternoon.
So, you know, this five game stretch was rough, but it is only the beginning.
Got to come home and hope that some home cooking turns things around.
Yeah, I think so.
I think that this is the most glad I've ever been to be done with a road trip and headed
home.
Without a doubt.
So we'll talk about that list of Lieutenant Governors.
We'll see what you know.
But first, Sharita Booker is going to tell us about things going on this weekend from the heart of America's up north.
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All right, it's time to get the handle on what is happening this weekend for some of the events large and small around Wisconsin this weekend with our social media manager, Sharita Booker.
Sharita, hi.
How are you?
Good, Pat.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thanks getting ready for the weekend here and we're going to start like.
Like happens a lot because the Summer Fest grounds, the festival grounds in Milwaukee, they have so many different festivals throughout the course of every summer and this weekend it's Mexican Fiesta.
Yep, Mexican Fiesta kicks off.
Friday and it will run through Sunday at the Summerfest grounds.
There will be tons of live music performances and some of those headliners include Raymix, Lila Downs, Louise Angel, Mariachi Reyna de los Angeles and Julio Caesar.
The cultural pavilion will display an expedition of Mexican art and crafts from more than 150 artisans coming from different states of Mexico.
There will be a Dia de los Muertos Parade Friday at 8pm and a vintage and custom car and motorcycle show.
Saturday from one to six and last but definitely not least there will be tons of food to choose from authentic Mexican cuisine as well as tequila tastings.
General admission tickets are $20 online and $25 at the gate and children under eight are free and if you want more information or to buy your tickets ahead of time visit mexicanfiesta.org.com
I'm sorry, MexicanFiesta.org.
MexicanFiesta.org.
Got it.
And let me say again, and I know sometimes we talk a little too much about fine alcohol for an early morning show, but when you talk about tequila tasting and people go, oh, that thing with the lime and the salt, it just burns so much.
I'm just here to remind you the high end stuff.
You don't go through all that.
You just get to sip it and it's good.
You know, same, same goes for a lot of those things.
You pay for it, don't get me wrong.
So when you hear tequila tasting, remember there will be different kinds and if it's a tasting, you know, you don't have to buy a whole bottle, just take a little sample and see if it's something that you like.
Wait, weren't you the one telling me you're a tequila drinker?
I am.
What am I doing here?
You, you give them some words of advice about a tequila tasting.
Yes, honestly, I feel like the more expensive the smoother it goes down.
But my favorite is Don Julio 1942 and that bottle is like over $100.
So that's something you would not take a lot of right away.
So.
No, I would not.
I would not make a nightly old fashioned with that.
No, I would not.
Though I will say I have had tequila old fashions again with with the good stuff.
Oh, so good.
Yes.
In fact, if you're ever up in Eau Claire, head to the Lake Lee at the Oxbow Hotel.
They make a Oaxaca old fashioned.
That is, it's just, it's perfect.
It really is.
So I didn't
even know that was a thing.
It is.
Yes.
So give that, give that a try.
Put a little Wisconsin twist on one of your favorite beverages there.
All right.
So let's move from Mexican Fiesta.
Oh, I like your next choice.
Oh, you guys always talk about Milwaukee.
Fine.
Let's go on up to Cumberland.
because it's rutabaga fest time.
Yup, and it's their 30 or their 93rd annual rutabaga festival and that'll run today through Sunday.
There will be deep fried rutabaga fries, rutabaga mash and other creative creative takes on the veggie.
The event will feature a hot pepper eating contest, a fun run, a beanback tournament, carnival rides.
kids tractor petal pool and a craft fair.
There will also be live music with performances by Maiden Dixies, which is tonight, Wicked Garden on Friday and Tandy Blue on Saturday, as well as Raffae Carlson.
And if you're wondering why rutabaga, like me, here's a little history on that.
Cumberland earned the nickname rutabaga capital of the world because in the early and mid 1900s, its sandy soil and cool climate made it ideal for rutabaga farming.
The crop was grown on a large scale and shipped nationwide and became central to the town's farming
and economy.
But for more information on this event, visit cumberlandchamberwi.com.
And for folks that have never been there, it's in Barron County.
It's about 20 minutes west of Rice Lake.
And of course, Barron County, I mean, Chris Krusey is one of one of the more popular folks that has ever come out of Barron County, always puts on a good show.
So if you're anywhere in northwest Wisconsin, you might want to consider a trek to Cumberland for Rütebege Festival.
There we got that on there.
Now.
Sharita really got me on this one.
I saw that it is, it is UFA Championship weekend.
And I was like, are we talking about Ultimate Fighting?
We are not.
We are not.
What are we talking about?
Ultimate Frisbee.
Ultimate Frisbee time, of course, of course.
Tell us more.
So that's kicking off in Madison Friday and Saturday.
There will be two semifinal games featuring the four UFA division championships that include Atlanta Huzzle, Boston Glory,
Minnesota Windchill, and Salt Lake Shred.
Saturday morning, we'll start with two youth clinics followed by History and the Making, which is the very first all-star game between the Western Ultimate League and the Premier Ultimate League, which is the top women's and non-binary professional leagues in the world.
The weekend will wrap up Saturday night with the 2025 UFA Championship game, as well as the Papslite Post Game Party.
Single-day tickets start at $15 and weekend passes start at $25.
So for more information on the grab your tickets, visit watchufa.com.
All right, here's what I got off their website.
Ultimate Frisbee is on a field 80 yards long.
The end zones are 20 yards long.
Ultimate Frisbee is seven players to a side.
You score much like football or rugby to get the Frisbee and the other team's end zone.
Unlike football and rugby, you can't run with your Frisbee.
So it's a lot of this back and forth without it being, you know, intercepted, basically.
I think I would have really enjoyed this as a younger person.
me too.
Like I'll play with my kids, but obviously it's not that serious for
us.
List of other fairs to tell you about the Central Wisconsin State Fair, of course, is going on in Marshfield through Sunday, the Manitowoc County Fair, the Wapaka County Fair.
Now those ones started yesterday.
Today, the Adams County Fair, the Burnett County Fair, Marinette County, O'Connell County, and Price County, those county fairs all start today.
The Florence County State Fair, little tiny Florence County way up north.
Their county fair begins tomorrow.
And from over at TravelWisconsin.com, we learn there are things like the Blanchardville Cruise Inn today, the Medford Park Fest, Mason Concert in the Corn, that's way up on your way to Ashland.
Loyal Corn Fest, we've talked about
that in Clark County and Tigerton Lumberjack days which Rob has mentioned several times and in Plattville the chalk and cheese festival coming up on Saturday so with all of this you got no excuse to park yourself on the couch this weekend.
Sherita Booker thanks as always for getting our our weekend started with this list of events hope you have a great day.
Me too but.
We'll be back right after this you're up north.
decombobulation area, who's working on a new column.
And I like how you describe the column because it really describes the political feel right now.
How do you describe the column?
So I put out a call for a mailbag column before I went on vacation, and just so happened that pretty much all of the questions that people sent me were about one topic, were about the governor's race for next year.
I think, you know, might have something to do with the column that I wrote earlier this summer, perhaps.
Perhaps.
But a lot of interest, I think, is certainly among reconpopulation-era readers.
So I characterize it as my too early assessment, my too early breakdown of the field for governor, both on the Democrats.
on the Democratic side and on the Republican side.
Because it is.
I mean, by our own admission, it's way too early for this.
But we also know, as we learned from the residential raise last year, it's possible for these things to start too late.
So, you know.
you'd almost rather be in a place, especially if you're, if you're at Ser Rodriguez, this is a good place to be right now.
I mean, David Crawley, the Milwaukee County executive has talked about jumping in, but he hasn't yet.
Senator Kelder Royce has talked about jumping in, but she hasn't officially yet.
No, no other Republicans have jumped in than the two who are relative unknowns across, you know, most of the state of Wisconsin.
So, you know, if you're, if you're happy, if you're Ser Rodriguez, Lieutenant Governor, I think you're
I'm moderately happy if you're Tom Tiffany, because again, I don't think he actually wants to run for governor, but maybe is now feeling the pressure given the public opinion polling, which by the way, I think it's just based on name ID.
Not any kind of love for the guy.
Yeah, I think it certainly seems like he's running, right?
Like I was out of town for much of it, but I saw some of the social media stuff that he was doing at Wisconsin State Fair and all of that.
And like that's the type of thing you're going to do if you're running as a statewide candidate.
It seems like he's probably headed in that direction.
And I think the main thing in the Republican side is a Trump endorsement.
Like there was this poll that the Daily Caller pellet put out that showed Tiffany at the top of the field with like 40 percent to like, you know, somewhere between 10 and 15 percent for, for Barry and and showman.
And then they said, if Tiffany were to get a Trump endorsement, it was something like 60-some percent of the Republican voters would back Tiffany.
So I think the whole thing on the right for their gubernatorial primary is a Trump endorsement.
That's the whole ballgame.
There are already three Democrats in Wisconsin's third congressional district who are itching to run against Derek Van Orden.
And for one of those candidates, Becca Cook, who was the nominee last time around for the Democrats against Derek Van Orden, she's already getting some big name help from other members of Congress who are coming into Western and Central Wisconsin.
Yeah, I'm fascinated by the Rebecca Cook campaign right now.
I think she's running such an interesting race, and I think she has this event coming up this weekend in Verroqua with Bernie Sanders.
She just had an event last weekend, or maybe yesterday, I forget, I don't know the exact timing here, with the newest Michigan center, Alyssa Slotkin.
She's been endorsed by the Blue Dogs.
She was at this centrist think tank.
convention a couple weeks ago.
So if you're looking for somebody who's actually approaching the Democratic Party wanting to have a big tent with lots of different voices for representing lots of different, you know, kind of groups and constituencies and whatever it might be, I think what Cook is doing right now with this is really interesting.
And I think with Sanders in particular, we've kind of reached this moment now where, you know, Bernie Sanders maybe in 2015 when he was coming on the scene as a, you know, as running for president.
as a democratic socialist and the way that people had reacted to that at the time.
I don't think people have the same kinds of negative or wary or divisive reactions to Sanders that maybe they once did.
We're seeing in the New York mayor's race, even Andrew Cuomo is trying to campaign in certain ways to promote a connection to Bernie Sanders or a piece of legislation that he signed.
Obviously Sanders has not endorsed Cuomo or endorsed Mondami in that race.
It is very interesting to see the approach that Cook is taking.
And really, you know, if we're talking about Democrats needing to kind of rebuild that big tent, which is something that I've talked about a lot since the 2024 election, I think this is what it looks like.
I think this is inviting people from all across the ideological spectrum to come campaign.
And I'm really fascinated to see how the rest of her campaign plays out in the race to unseat Derek Van Orden.
I lost track of how many times you said either interesting or fascinating.
Because look, let's call it what it is.
The whole reason there are three Democratic candidates in this race already is that there are folks who believe that Becca Cook has been too close to the blue dogs, has been too close to a moderate position when there are progressives and liberals in that district that want to be
to stake a position more in line with Bernie Sanders, and yet here's Bernie Sanders now campaigning with Becca Cook.
I mean, Becca has been approached by me and by other shows at Civic Media to come talk to us.
She has declined those invitations and I think perhaps it's, again, to keep up this appearance of being moderate, not beholden to the party machinery.
They're definitely establishment Democrats that have preferred either Emily
or Laura Benjamin, who are already in the race, which is again, here's that word, fascinating, that Bernie Sanders is looking at this and embracing Becca Cook's candidacy.
I don't know if it's a left versus center thing or if it's more of an electability thing has has has Bernie Sanders and others taken have they taken a look at the field and said well there may be other Democrats but they believe that Becca Cook as the last nominee who came close is the one who's more electable and you know we won't worry about you know her more moderate positions.
Right, and I do think what she the way she's running as you know really emphasizing kind of her working class background is you know
Certainly an extension in a certain way of kind of like Bernie Sanders progressivism it might not be you know This is the the social democratic socialism or whatever you want to characterize it as but I think that the divide in the Democratic Party is less of this Progressive versus moderate that we saw maybe ten years ago certainly animated in that primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders I feel like the Democrat the divide in the Democratic Party right now is almost on action versus
action or something along those lines or focusing on the working class versus focusing on, you know, more neoliberal friendly corporate interest or whatever want to buzz words you want to throw in there for that kind of thing.
And I think even if Cook, you know, has expressed more moderate views on certain things over the years, I think I do think the working class connection that she has, you know, can be seen as an extension of a Bernie Sanders style of leadership.
But she had a campaign ad last year where she literally was standing in the middle of the road with a drone shot and making the case for somebody who was moderate and for people who are closer to the far left of the party.
That was a maddening image of, you know, are you going to fight for us or are you just going to be squishy in the middle?
But for that third congressional district, as Ron kind knew as a Democrat and as Steve Gunderson knew as a Republican before him, that middle of the road is quite often the only way that that road leads you to Congress.
that's right and you know it's about winning right
you've got it
at the end of the day you know you can have all the purity tests that you want but if you don't win it's it's not going to matter uh so i think you know cook uh outran expectations i mean we have to consider that piece of it as well you know the fact that she uh outran you know not only Kamala Harris but Tammy Baldwin who did
pretty well for a Democrat in western Wisconsin in that third congressional district and for Cook to have better numbers than each of them.
I think part of that is, I think because Derek Van Orden is a weak candidate, but I think also it has something to do with the campaign that Cook is running and I think what she's doing right now, I'm going to say it again, it's very fascinating.
Dan Schaefer talking to us from the Recombobulation area.
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I mentioned earlier that Lieutenant Governor candidate, Sarah Godluschi, will be joining us about 7.30, and I asked, what do you know about Lieutenant Governors?
And I just wanted to see, again, for those of us who are wonks, you know, we can rattle these things off in our sleep, but others, not so much.
Who was Tommy Thompson's Lieutenant Governor?
And some of these you're gonna go, oh, of course, of course, Scott McCallum, who later became governor himself when Tommy moved to the George W. Bush cabinet.
And then for a time, Scott McCallum had a lieutenant governor, Margaret Farrow.
And then Jim Doyle became governor.
A lot of folks on the Democratic side still remember Barbara Lawton, still think very fondly of her.
Scott Walker, you remember his lieutenant governor?
That was Rebecca Clefish.
And then Tony Evers in his first term,
had Mandela Barnes as Lieutenant Governor, who then decided instead of running along with Evers for reelection, he was going to run unsuccessfully for U.S.
Senate.
And so we needed a new Lieutenant Governor.
And that's when Sarah Rodriguez stepped up and ran in his career, serving as the current Lieutenant Governor.
Because again, here in Wisconsin, you don't run as a ticket.
And so the person who wins the governor's primary
is on the ticket with whoever wins the lieutenant governor primary.
And sometimes those folks are in sync and sometimes they are not, but it's not their call to make.
It is up to the voters and we have wide open races for governor and lieutenant governor next year.
Governor Tony Evers is jumping right into changing the way things are done at the state capitol after a state supreme court now controlled by progressives.
struck down a way that Republicans in the legislature had been obstructing the way that he does his job.
And you'd have to go back a couple of few weeks now for me to explain this very, very unknown but powerful committee in the legislature called the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules, or JCRAR, something that I'd served on, which was supposed to be a check on a governor's power, because when you pass a bill into law,
You know, that bill can't write out everything that might be needed to make that law take effect.
That's what rules are called, and executive branch agencies, the DNR, the Department of Transportation, whatever, they write the rules that put these laws into effect.
And the legislature, using that committee, had been taking it upon themselves to essentially veto or
needlessly delay the rules that anybody from the Evers administration was writing.
And again, it wasn't so much a check on governors anymore as it was an obstruction.
And this state Supreme Court looked at that and said, nope, that is not a constitutional way for legislatures to act.
You already passed the bill into law.
Once you pass the bill into law,
the executive branch through their agencies and through their governor, they get the opportunity to write the rules as they see fit.
Well, Governor Evers is now moving forward on policies as written here by Jesse O'Poyne in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to
have some of these rules put in place without legislative approval.
He has sent a letter to members of his cabinet asking them to submit administrative rules to the Legislative Reference Bureau to be published and implemented, basically bypass the legislature.
Evers had said previously that, quote, no small group of lawmakers should have the sole power to stymie the work of state government and go unchecked.
And so
Evers is not only for that one case that the court case was about, but for other matters involving rules that help implement state law, he's going directly to having those rules published and bypassing the joint committee.
Could that set up problems later, say with a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature?
Perhaps, but for now,
the impediment put up unnecessarily by a Republican legislature has been removed, that kind of abuse of its power.
Today's history lesson is next.
You're up north.
That is Jackie DeShannon, who is 84 years old today.
Singer, songwriter, as a singer.
She had that, put a little love in your heart.
She had what the world needs now is love, sweet love.
But her songwriting wasn't always that light and breezy.
For example, it was Jackie DeShannon who wrote Betty Davis Eyes.
for Kim Carnes back in the 1980s.
Jackie DeShannon, 84 years old today.
Actress Kim Cattrell from Sex in the City.
She is 69 years old today.
Former quarterback for the Bears and yeah, even the Packers and the Vikings too, right?
Jim McMahon.
He's 66 years old today.
Oh, look who's got a special, who's a special birthday boy today?
Parker.
It's Craig Council.
Craig Council turns 55 years old today.
What a nice present it would be if we could hand them a big old L this afternoon.
That's
true.
You know, I want to... There's a lot of animosity for Craig Council in Milwaukee.
Yes.
I'm... I'm okay with them.
After he's done being the Cubs manager, I will love him again.
After he's done being the Cubs manager.
Here's the thing that people go, well, if you were offered a contract to be the richest manager in baseball, the highest paid manager in baseball, you'd take it even if it was from the Cubs.
My position would be, no, he was wanted by the Mets and several other teams.
And you know, even if it wasn't the highest, he was going to be one of the highest paid managers.
He was going to be fine regardless.
I'm on the side of folks that are going to keep the hell that hold that against them.
I just am.
I think that that was a you could have made you could have made better choices.
That's
all
I'm saying.
But happy birthday.
55 today.
Race car driver Paul Menard is 45 years old today.
Hey, the Winklevi the Winklevoss twins have a birthday today.
Cam and Tyler Winklevoss are 44 years old today.
They are the ones who co-founded ConnectU, which they say Mark Zuckerberg ripped off to create Facebook.
They are now big into the Gemini crypto exchange, and they have already given a million dollars between them to Bill Barion, the businessman running for governor on the Republican side here in the state of Wisconsin.
Olympic sprinter and champion Usain Bolt is 39 years old today.
Oh, wow.
And I mean, Usain Bolt, 30, 39, he could still beat you in a race.
He'll still beat you in a race when he's 99.
I mean, I remember watching some of those races, and it was secretariat ask in his speed that he has.
It's just unbelievable.
Let's see, Roger put up on Facebook, a couple of notes here that Jean Dolores Schmidt, better known as sister Jean, chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola University in Chicago, turns 106 today.
Wow.
So happy birthday to six sister Jean 106 years old today.
This is the also the anniversary of the birth of the late Harold Reed, who was the bass singer for the Statler brothers he'd been born 86 years ago.
The soundtrack to the hit romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle topped the album charts this week in 1980 1993.
It's
so important to make someone happy.
Make just one someone happy.
I
will always claim that every man has one romcom.
that as much as we make fun of the genre, that it's your go-to rom-com.
For me, it's sleepless in Seattle.
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, but especially this soundtrack.
I mean, it's got Jimmy Duranty on it here.
What more could you want?
It's a great soundtrack from 1993.
It was the number one album this week, 32 years ago.
This is the anniversary of the birth of the late country singing legend Kenny Rogers born this day in 1938.
On this day in 1959, President Eisenhower signed the executive order that made Hawaii the 50th state in the union.
The late sports casting legend Jack Buck was born on this day in 1924.
Now most folks remember him for his 1988 World Series call of Kirk Gibson hitting a home run and he yells, I don't believe what I just saw.
But of course, anybody close to Minnesota Twins territory remembers Kirby Puckett's home run, closing out game six.
Into deep left center for Mitchell, and we'll see you tomorrow night.
Still chills.
every twins maggots shows here and we'll see you tomorrow night.
There will be a game seven after all singer Casey Musgraves is 37 years old today.
And
one more count Basie.
was born this day in 1904.
Count Basie passed away in 1984.
And although I always associate his song, April in Paris with this great scene out of Blazing Saddles, it is a song that stands on its own just fine.
Here's a little April in Paris from Count Basie.
I'm digging.
Isn't that great?
I just love this one.
This is Brazilian blowout day, a celebration that commemorates the well-known hair straightening procedure.
Getting a Brazilian blowout will keep your hair silky throughout the summer when done correctly.
It will keep your hair from frizzing while maintaining its natural smoothness.
The stuff I learn in this segment.
Okay, interesting.
This is National Spumoni Day, an Italian ice cream treat that incorporates cream and fruit and nuts.
Never had it.
Don't know that I ever will.
And let's see.
And then we've got to tell you that after the news, we'll get the updated forecast from meteorologist Brittany Merleau.
And then also in our next hour, we're going to talk to Sarah Godlowski, Wisconsin Secretary of State, who is now running for Lieutenant Governor.
And then tomorrow, we'll be talking to Dr. Jill McMullen of TOMA, who was recently interviewed by Pete Buttigieg.
I'm Pat Kratlow.
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