Letter to the Editor, Sheboygan Press
Published April 26, 2025

We didn’t have to wait long to see the results of our state’s $100 million judge shopping spree — a farcical decision empowering an imperial governor to unilaterally fund a public institution for 400 years — impressive for a 250-year-old country.

In Wisconsin, we hire more than 100 legislators to hammer out somewhat sensible agreements acceptable to the majority about hard subjects like abortion, redistricting, union contracts and school funding. The results are laws.

The fact that a major political party spent well more than $60 million to elect a judge to override those laws reminds me of the ironic motto once painted on the side of Sheboygan’s late Honest Bob’s Motorcycle Shop: “We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you.”