Wow.

Waukesha — that’s the City of Waukesha, elected a Democrat over a bride of TABOR supporting State Representative. Holy cats. Did I mention it was the Republican stronghold of Waukesha?

I’m stunned. Pleasantly. pleasantly. stunned.

Now don’t get your hopes up. It’s a non-partisan race so Waukesha Republicans didn’t actually have to pull a lever with a D on it (I think they outlawed those out there).

In Brown Deer, 3 of the 4 candidates supported by the teachers union won. That’s Brown Deer. The home of Citizens for Reactionary…er, Responsible Government Brown Deer. The home of yeah, we voted for Bush Brown Deer.

In Whitefish Bay 54% voted for the referendum to bring our troops home. That’s Whitefish Bay as in “yeah, we elected Alberta Darling, so what Whitefish Bay.” They asked:

Should the U.S. now begin withdrawing troops from Iraq and continue steady withdrawals until all our troops are home?

Glendale said no to Republican activist and to their former Mayor Jay Hintze. Holy cats.

In other news, cities that put multiple school spending initiatives on their ballot got wallopped but districts who showed wisdom and restraint (Yorkville) passed their school referendums. Let this be a lesson. If you want to pass a referrendum for kids, don’t bother trying to do everything at once.

Judicial candidate Jane Carroll pulled out an impressive win. She’s good on the issues and will likely make a good judge.

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Election Results
Bill Christofferson’s The Xoff Files: Happy Days are Here Again - Xoff’s insightful take on last nights elections

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Links: 24 of the 32 troops out resolutions passed yesterday
Here are the vote totals For more info/texts
Madison.com: Jeff Nichols - Message on War could be no clearer

Grumps from The Happy Circumstance: By The Numbers- The Referenda- 2-1 Say Withdraw