Amid all this noise about Clancy’s loyalty, no one has publicly examined Anderson on the same grounds. Let’s try that now: loyal Democrats vote, and Anderson doesn’t. Well, that was easy.
But maybe… is there more?

We’re not sure what will happen. Clancy’s campaign is sending large groups of volunteers to canvas. At the same time, Brostoff is leveraging his reputation to flip voters against Clancy and we’re seeing expensive mailers for his opponent, paid for by dark money groups.

While Milwaukee Beagle does not endorse candidates, we also do not shy away from having opinions. Not every Democratic race can be clearly split into a Corporate Democrat vs an actual progressive candidate, in this case, the contrast between District 9 candidates Priscilla A. Prado and Deisy España could not be starker. The establishment is on the side of Prado and true progressives have backed España.

If “frequently votes for Democrats” is the qualification, Wisconsin Assembly District 19 candidate Jarrod Anderson isn’t much of a Democrat at all.

Landlord Dems now run our city. Having inherited power over a de-industrialized wasteland, they imagine they can build a professionalized economy of real estate, finance, and insurance - downtown, of course, and in areas being gentrified.

As Milwaukee Beagle has said since our beginning, the RNC was not the overwhelmingly positive experience that Mayor Johnson and Visit Milwaukee sold it to us as. Economic underpromises aside, we must also discuss the violence of cops and Republicans. Despite the efforts to chill free speech, folks were able to rally in resistance. The RNC is behind us and now the real fight to keep the fascists out of office begins.

Palestinian solidarity activists in Milwaukee have been threatened, spat on, and subject to trespassing and vandalism in their homes. Five of them were beaten, restrained and dragged into custody by police. Some Zionists even went to Marquette under the cover of darkness and armed with a pistol to desecrate a Palestinian memorial.

Everyone with a brain and a heart knew that inviting the Republican National Convention to Milwaukee was a bad idea. We were promised an economic boon and safety (for the fascist attendees, at least.) We’ve gotten shuttered stores and put up checkpoints out of a shitty World War II film. And now a loved and well-known member of our community is dead – at the hand of out-of-state police who shouldn’t be “working” outside of the state-mandated “safety zone.”

Now that the Fascist Convention is here, it could be useful to remind ourselves that whatever happens, Mayor Cavalier Johnson bears the full responsibility and we need to hold him accountable for inviting these fascists to our city. We have the receipts Cavalier Johnson. Whatever happens during this convention you are to blame. We are not going to let you hide from your broken promises and responsibility.