Thank you Wigderson Library & Pub and Badger Blogger and Badger Blog Alliance, especially Jiblog, for helping start Statewide awareness of the Special Referendum problems in Madison. Special thanks to Sanity in Mad City and Dummocrats for helping to focus attention on the election issues this last weekend prior to the vote. I found one out of State posting at Rosenblog.
There are 190 Cities in Wisconsin and they are free to use taxation to raise revenue in any way that does not explicitly counteract State Law. The Cieslewicz administration has consistently demonstrated a willingness to try new and unique polices, and once they are allowed in Madison, they can be copied anywhere else in the State. Recall that local minimum wage, smoking prohibition and phosphate bans all started in Madison prior to being adopted by other Wisconsin cities. Any checks on city government behavior must come from the State, so it is wise for the Chippewa Valley and the Fox Valley and the entire Milwaukee metro area to pay attention when Madison attempts a big money grab.
Just prior the Referendum Ballot story breaking, Bryan Smith at Sanity in Mad City posed me a few questions about music. Bryan, these are your answers. There are no music files on my computer. Recorded music is stored in my jukebox. The last CD I bought was King Crimson Discipline because I really enjoyed the times I watched the guitar work of Adrian Belew up close. There is no music on at the moment and I’m administratively replacing the five song list with five memorable moments of unrecorded music since this blog began in February 2005.
Ratdog at the Orpheum, Groovulous Glove at King Club, The Junkers Reunion at the Crystal Corner Bar, Dale Watson at Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon and today.
Moma Digdown’s Brass Band marches a twisting line as they move through the crowd playing the same instruments that played at Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural. Eight guys with only horns and percussion and righteous exquisite exorbitance. It’s literally live music outside in the nice warm air with no strings attached. I purchase a $1.00 button from the International Socialist Workers Party table that reads “I’m a Shameless Agitator”.
