The race for the 48th Assembly District is heating up, and someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do….<\/p>\n
A few years ago I worked hard for Vicky Selkowe in her aldermanic race against the very conservative Larry Palm. Now she touts his endorsement.<\/p>\n
But that is minor compared to her other lurch rightward.<\/p>\n
During the recent county executive race she endorsed Zach Brandon.<\/p>\n
Zach.<\/p>\n
Brandon.<\/p>\n
This was no random endorsement. She was also on his campaign committee. Brandon you might recall, was one of the most conservative members of the Madison Common Council.<\/a><\/p>\n Selkowe’s Brandon endorsement is indefensible, and here’s why.<\/p>\n Brandon has long been a proud Democratic Leadership Council member: \u201cI am a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, is that OK?\u201d (In response to a Republican inquiry in which they understandably thought he was one of theirs!<\/a>)<\/p>\n His DLC credentials define Brandon. You’ll even find those credentials here<\/a> (note that the DLC has subsequently taken down their membership list given that it said membership has become an albatross around the neck of many a Dem). He has never renounced those ties. That disgusting Republican trojan horse, you might recall, was established with Koch bros. cash (More on Koch bros. funding of DLC<\/a>;\u00a0Thomas Frank even wrote about it in his 2004 book, <\/a>What’s the Matter with Kansas<\/a><\/em>; yet more here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The DLC is the organization that brought you NAFTA, WTO, welfare \u201creform,\u201d school vouchers and other neo-con ideas brought to the fore by conservative Democrats.<\/p>\n And we know what Koch ca$h hath wrought in the state of Wisconsin….<\/a><\/p>\n Brandon is very beautiful though. Paul Ryan writ small.<\/p>\n So I suppose one shouldn\u2019t personally fault Selkowe for falling in love with him. But politically, by cozying up to a shameless Koch disciple, well, sorry folks, she is no friend of the teachers and other public servants she professes to defend.<\/p>\n Furthermore, she has cozied up with the likes of other rightists such as Mark Clear (another very conservative city council member who was always in league with Brandon in trashing anything & everything that made Madison not Peoria) and the Madison Professional Police Association (the organization that led a nasty campaign against a fearless progressive, Brenda Konkel, in 2009<\/a>).<\/p>\n Folks, it is time to start connecting the dots: Scott Walker <–> Koch Brother$ -> DLC Dems -> Brandon -> Selkowe.<\/p>\n Way, wayyy too close for comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vicky Selkowe cozies up to the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12,13],"tags":[1013,939,1012,1010,1011,1015,1014,1016,1009],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dane-county-politics","category-madison-politics","category-politics","tag-democratic-leadership-council","tag-koch-brothers","tag-koch-industries","tag-madison-professional-police-association","tag-mark-clear","tag-paul-ryan","tag-scott-walker","tag-vicky-selkowe","tag-zach-brandon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}