It’s Time for Action, Ozaukee County
We have a lot planned for the days up to April 7th, Election Day.
First, join Ozaukee Indivisible’s No Kings Rally today, Saturday March 28, in Grafton. It starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 11 a.m. We will be peacefully protesting along both sides of Highway 60, from Cheyenne Avenue to Port Washington Road.
We then need you to take that energy and help us canvas for our local candidates and Judge Chris Taylor for the State Supreme Court. Judge Taylor will be joining us on Saturday, April 4, at 9 a.m. at our office. Please help us give her a big Ozaukee Democrats welcome.
We are also planning a watch party at the office on election night, April 7, starting at 7:30 p.m. Please watch for more information coming out soon on this fun gathering with your OzDems friends.
Like many of you, I don’t mind watching reruns. I have watched the entire Breaking Bad series and Schitt’s Creek series twice. I rewatch movies I love; A River Runs Through It and Major League come to mind. The rerun I am really tired of, however, is the regurgitation of the 2020 election lies. If Democrats chronically cheat in elections, did we somehow forget to do that in 2024? On Monday, Trump declared, “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating.” The next day, Trump, his wife Melania, and their son Barron all mailed in their ballots to Florida.
According to Daily Beast: “At his press conference on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked to square the president’s attacks on the mail-in option while using it himself. ‘Look, I think some states have handled mail-in balloting well,’ Johnson said. ‘Florida is a good example of that. They don’t allow fraud. They have great systems. That is the concern, especially in a state like California. States where they just send mail-in ballots to everyone for no reason whatsoever.’” Funny he would mention California, one of eight states and Washington, D.C., that conduct elections by mail, and not the two states that also conduct elections by mail that Trump won, Nevada and Utah.
Everyone reading this knows the pattern: Trump and Republicans win, no fraud; Dems win, the system was rigged. If I hear one more time how you need an ID to buy a beer, but Democrats don’t want you to show an ID to vote, I swear I will drive to that legislator's office and have him or her please show me the last time they had to show an ID to buy a beer. Many of them are older than me. As Democrats have said, “The objection is not to the ID. My real ID does not prove that I am a citizen of the United States. My passport does.”
So we will see where this SAVE Act lands. Once again, the fear being if the Republicans lose the US Senate and the House, Trump will go to prison. As he should. How about his latest manipulation of the stock market? As CNBC reported, “moments before Trump bleated out his market-turning post about ‘talks’ with Iran, S&P 500 futures and oil futures flashed an unusual burst of activity. A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.”
So, what happened in the moments before Trump’s Truth Social post? Writes Paul Krugman, “The story would be baffling, except that there’s an obvious explanation: Somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits.”
Krugman makes a much broader point regarding Trump’s corruption: “You can’t trust a corrupt government to protect national security. And our government is now utterly corrupt: It’s hard to find a single senior official, from the president on down, who treats public office as a grave responsibility rather than an opportunity for personal self-aggrandizement and profit.”
The Trump administration cannot be trusted to take care of anyone but themselves. That is why they are so frantic to disenfranchise voters, to kick them off the rolls, to force them to buy a passport, etc. Trump and his administration knows what they are doing is illegal on many fronts. The Republicans in Congress are doing nothing to stop them. As long as they are in power, they will continue to get away with it. It is our job to stop them.