Articles In This Issue

• Mike’s Conservative Club - May 12th Kickoff Event Summary - Mike Herl

• Progressive City Management Has Failed - David Blaska

• No Kings - and Yet… - by Tom Stiglich

Mike’s Conservative Club - May 12th Kickoff Event Summary

Mike Herl, Contributor, Four Lakes Voices, June 16, 2025

Back on May 12th, we had our first gathering of like-minded folks who appreciate Conservatism. Again, for lack of a better name, we simply call it Mike’s Conservative Club.

To kick things off, we had Dane County Board Supervisor, Jeff Weigand, who represents Dane County’s 20th District, speak at our inaugural gathering at Kavanagh’s Supper Club. During Jeff’s 90-minute talk, we learned a lot about the updated make-up of the board following the spring ’25 elections, topics that are near-and-dear to Jeff that he is working on currently and then he took questions from the participants.

Jeff confirmed that he is still the only moderate to conservative member on the board and he really does not have any allies that are willing to work with him. He shared with us some extraordinary dollar amounts for projects that Dane County spends our tax dollars on annually.

Progressive City Management Has Failed

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - June 16, 2025

The tectonic plates of American politics are twitching more than usual these days. Realizing that anti-Trump didn’t work last November, Democrats and their political party are absorbing, however reluctantly, dribs and drab of common sense.

The national party recently defenestrated the insufferable David Hogg — America’s version of that Swedish scold, Greta Thunberg. Now, two old government labor union feather bedders have been squeezed out of national party leadership as well. They would be Randi Weingarten, leader of the 1.8 million-member American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Both, it should be noted, supported Wisconsin’s Ben Wikler for national chairman.

The teachers union shut down schools during the Covid-19 scare, despite evidence that kids didn’t get sick. Also presided over the free fall in test scores. Both were inimical to the real workers — the truck drivers, waitresses, and farmers that have gone over to the party of Trump.

Today, The New York Times forcefully rejected progressivism.

No Kings — and Yet…

Tom Stiglich, Creators Syndicate - June 15, 2025