{"id":91,"date":"2009-05-16T03:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-05-16T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T03:11:11","slug":"zombies-vs-democracy-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/zombies-vs-democracy-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies vs. Democracy, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madison&#8217;s cops are getting political, i.e., out of line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/opinion\/450115\">again<\/a>. My suspicion is that this is more of a warning shot across the bow by Madison&#8217;s Mayor Pave. He has ousted a long line of progressives since his re-election. Now he is ramping up the velocity and viciousness of the ejections to include not just outspoken opponents, but *anyone* who happens to wear the progressive badge&#8211;even eminently pliable ones like Verveer. So even the Boy Scouts are fair game. <\/p>\n<p>His latest Boy Scout target is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/mad\/top\/451251\">Carl DuRocher<\/a>, current chair of the Transit &#038; Parking Commission. Nicest guy in the world.  His crime was in looking out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=\/tct\/2008\/12\/13\/0812150086.php\">bus riders&#8217; interests and following Robert&#8217;s Rules of Order<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if the alder who represents him will finally stand up for one of her constituents. Already several of the 6th District Alder&#8217;s constituents have been dumped from various city commissions for the crime of <*gasp*> doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>The drumbeat has also begun against a hardworking citizen Parks Commissioner as well as a Water Utility Board member (both also of the 6th Aldermanic District). (More on those soon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zombies continue to move against democracy by ousting local progressives from various city committees &#038; commissions.<\/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":[20,12,13,4,1],"tags":[27,24,29,32,30,31,28],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-politics","category-society","category-uncategorized","tag-democracy","tag-madison-police","tag-mayor-pave","tag-parks-commission","tag-transit-parking-commission","tag-water-utility","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}