{"id":6977,"date":"2018-01-10T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:19:09","slug":"paul-soglin-officially-enters-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/paul-soglin-officially-enters-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Soglin officially wants to be governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season on Wisconsin Democratic Primaries<\/em>, Madison\u2019s mayor has ended months of \u201cwill he\/won\u2019t he\u201d speculation and officially entered the 2018 gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n

Paul Soglin joins a crowded field that already includes 2012 candidate Kathleen Vinehout, state school superintendent Tony Evers and Milwaukee-based entrepreneur Andy Gronik (whom we interviewed last summer<\/a>). In total, 17 Dems have declared or filed so far, and one of them will almost surely be taking on incumbent Scott Walker, hot off his embarrassing failure of a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

Soglin, 72, is expected to draw support from the Berniecrat crowd, at least according to the Milwaukee State Journal<\/em><\/a>. The longtime Madison mayor has a well-publicized past as a left-wing radical and once traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro. However, recent years have seen the Soggy Bottom Boy becoming more of a grumpy old man than an iconoclast.<\/p>\n

For starters, there\u2019s his confusing war on homelessness<\/a> in Madison, which is less focused on getting people off the streets than it is just sweeping them under the rug so it looks pretty. And then there\u2019s the Taco Bell Cantina stuff<\/a>. In December, Soglin vetoed a liquor license for the proposed State Street fast food restaurant, for which he was met with widespread groaning and eye rolling. Not so much for the veto itself, but for the manner in which he defended it: \u201cIf the license were associated with something of value \u2014 a new hotel, a fine restaurant \u2014 that\u2019d be another thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s what\u2019s really going to win you those votes, y\u2019know: Aloof, condescending dismissals of things by a Madison liberal. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll go nuts for that in Wausau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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