Mike Hallquist

Can we agree after this campaign that doing doors in statewide and even local politics is hugely overrated theater? It’s 2026 and not 1975. Most people don’t answer and are cranky and bothered if they do. Almost none of the 2,000 people who opened wanted to talk about “issues.”

Buy guns. Use cash. Hide them well.

Since David Crowley became Milwaukee County Executive the Bucks and the Brewers have become World Champions!

Gas under $2.50 a gallon in Glidden, WI this weekend. Even CNN reports that 2026 is on track to be the cheapest year for gas since 2020. Promises made, promises kept. ⛽️⬇️

A playbook from the right we're seeing more and more often: - Bogus complaint is filed - Bogus complaint becomes "news" through a bad-faith actor in right-wing media - Campaigns run ads based on the bogus complaint - The complaint never actually goes anywhere because it was never legitimate to begin with, it gets dismissed and quietly goes away But the intended damage had already been done. It was never about any actual problems or any actual accountability, it only existed to serve the campaign. We need to be more vigilant about calling these ginned-up "complaints" what they actually are: Wasting public resources on blatant media manipulation.

There are SO MANY polices of Tiffany's I disagree with. I disagreed with him before the campaign, and I'm in even more disagreement after months and months of his campaign. I disagree with his support of the war in Iran, his support of tariffs, his support of DOGE, of voting for the catastrophic health care cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill, a bill that represented one of (if not the) largest transfer of wealth to the rich in our nation's history. I vehemently disagree with his attempts to overturn a free and fair election in 2020, going farther than any other Wisconsin politician in those profoundly damaging, anti-democratic efforts that should be disqualifying for any politician running for office at any level. I disagree with his proposals for state government, and the inevitable austerity that comes from having your one economic policy be tax cuts, ones that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. He's shown that he would not make needed investments in public schools, in health care, in child care, and in local government, where his attacks on Crowley's record are so painfully out-of-touch that I genuinely worry about whether or not there will even be a real future for local government in this state if Tiffany were to be elected. I disagree with he and his campaign's lack of respect for the First Amendment and the freedom of the press. I disagree with Tiffany's own repeatedly stated opposition to birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment and wanting to upend the very promises that are core to what makes this country great. I disagree with his obviously-too-cozy relationship with the billionaire backers funding his campaign, and how he's the most bought-and-paid-for candidate this state has ever seen. I disagree with his misguided rhetoric on property taxes and not accurately identifying the problem of the state underfunding local needs and passing the problem downstream to school boards and local government. I disagree with his stance and record on abortion rights, extreme even by Republican standards. I disagree with his record on conservation and the environment and the "Toxic Tom" reputation he developed in the state legislature. I disagree with so much of what he and the Republican-controlled legislature did throughout the 2010s, in lock step with Scott Walker and Robin Vos on every issue from eliminating bargaining rights to advancing extreme partisan gerrymandering to refusing to fix lead pipes to voting for the colossal boondoggle that is Foxconn. I disagree with how he's made so much of his campaign one that is running decidedly against the state's largest city and economic engine in Milwaukee. I could keep going and going and going but that's all just off the top of my head. Really an unbelievably awful candidate, running a more despicable campaign than even what my very-low expectations were when he first launched. He would be an outright disaster for Wisconsin.