Over the weekend, a Minnesota man assassinated former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman. He also murdered her husband and injured some other political targets. According to Channel 3000, the suspect, Vance Boelter, had a list of approximately 70 politicians he intended to kill, including Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin. Much like with last year’s attempt on Donald Trump’s life, MAGA pundits immediately took to social media to claim that the assassin is a Democrat. Todd takes some time to set the record straight. According to people in Boelter’s life, he is a Trump supporter, but regardless of that, there is no place for violence in our political system. MAGA leadership consistently callously politicizes tragedies like this, weaponizing them for political purposes before addressing the humanity of these situations. 

At the bottom of the hour, State Senator Kelda Roys returns for her weekly Joint Finance Committee update. After addressing the horrible violence of this last weekend, she dives into one of the most disappointing items being shot down by the state legislature: the lack of funding for the Universities of Wisconsin. As longtime listeners will know, this issue is very close to Todd’s heart. Sen. Roys agrees that the continued closures of UW campuses do not appear to be in our state’s best interest. 

After that, Todd and Sen. Roys move to a broader political discussion following the weekend’s Democratic Party of Wisconsin Convention. 

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