Pat Garrett

Defending freedom with @WILawLiberty! The political snark & commentary is of my own doing.

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

🚨FREE SPEECH VICTORY: WILL secured a settlement with the Pittsville School District to protect the First Amendment rights of a parent who received litigation threats from the district and visits from law enforcement following a social media post.

@WILawLiberty will continue to defend the liberties of parents in Wisconsin and beyond!

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

Big WIN for @WILawLiberty and @CoryJBrewer!

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

🚨FREE SPEECH VICTORY: WILL secured a settlement with the Pittsville School District to protect the First Amendment rights of a parent who received litigation threats from the district and visits from law enforcement following a social media post.

@WILawLiberty will continue to defend the liberties of parents in Wisconsin and beyond!

[Dan Lennington @DanLennington]

NEW LAWSUIT v. USDA: Dairy farmers forced to support radical environmental agenda blaming them for climate change. It's wrong & unconstitutional. Proud to represent @DevaCowlover, Adam Faust, and Chris Baird pro bono. Details from @WILawLiberty: https://t.co/MtBR71XkvT

[Iowa Field Report.com @IAFieldReport]

🚨LEAKED AUDIO: @RobSandIA says his proposed changes to state government will only happen AFTER his term because Republicans need to, “take their medicine.”

Sand preaches “better and truer,” but behind closed doors promises retribution. #iagov

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

🚨 Did you know every gallon of milk you buy currently funds extreme climate policies that drive dairy farmers out of business?

Like thousands nationwide, three Wisconsin dairy producers are subject to mandatory federal “Checkoff” fees, fees legally restricted to milk advertising, but are now suing the USDA because those funds are being illegally diverted to activist climate ESG groups. More below👇

[New Fashioned Conservatives @NewFashionedPod]

New look, same great takes from @JustinEPhillips and @Robin_Vos_Stan. We’re celebrating our pods one year anniversary!

Thank you to our fans and listeners! Today we cover Trump’s WI visit, and the latest from the Dem gov candidates!

https://t.co/Qi40ZBoCO9

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

So she's polling better than Joni 2020. Cool.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

PPP poll | 6/3-6/4 RV

US Senate Iowa 2026
🟥Ashley Hinson 46%
🟦Josh Turek 46%
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Favorables (net)
🟦✅Turek (+4)
🟥❌Hinson (-5)

(Poll commissed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee)

Link to poll: https://t.co/iMrHXo047k

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

For your weekend listening!🎙️

“We’ve seen a decline in educational outcomes since the COVID-19 pandemic… the United States stagnates in the bottom half of industrialized nations.”

How do we fix this? @WillFlandersWI looks at success stories across the country, like the “Southern Surge” in literacy, to build a better model for Wisconsin students. Full education episode available below:

[Will Flanders @WillFlandersWI]

More than 25% of MKE kids attend a private school via school choice to escape one of the worst performing school districts in the country. These low-income kids do better on state tests, go to college more & get in legal trouble less. Ripping this away is what’s out of touch.

[Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD @TonerousHyus]

Iowa primary turnout

2018: GOP - 105k Dem - 182k
2026: GOP - 224k Dem - 192k

Shoving this into Adam Carlson’s spreadsheet. That’s a R+36 overperformance folks

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

Randy Feenstra just called @ZachLahn to concede.

[Will Flanders @WillFlandersWI]

When looking at the school staffing data in Wisconsin, it's no surprise that many charter schools are near the top in having the fewest staff per student. These schools have $1000s less per kid & often get better results by focusing on outcomes instead of growing bureaucracy.

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

🚨 America’s future is at stake. Education is in decline!

Hear the latest "If You Can Keep It" podcast as @RickEsenberg and @WillFlandersWI detail the crisis in Wisconsin education: plummeting test scores, classroom chaos, the threat of AI, and more. Listen to the full episode below👇👇

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

So only 28% of this sample was clueless. Pretty solid.

[OSZ @OpenSourceZone]

How would you describe James Talarico?

🔵 Liberal: 60%
🟡 Moderate: 24%
🔴 Conservative: 4%

Slingshot Strategies poll | 5/27-5/28

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

A+

[Tom Tiffany @TomTiffanyWI]

Milk cows, not taxpayers.

[The Heartland Post @HeartlandPostWI]

EXCLUSIVE: Francesca Hong, the leading Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, said that, if elected, she would deploy the National Guard to arrest ICE agents in the state.

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

@Bobby_LaVallley @ComfortablySmug

[WILL @WILawLiberty]

ICYMI: Government discrimination at the USDA just got sent to pasture. @WSJopinion highlights how WILL and Wisconsin farmer Adam Faust fought back against federal race and sex preferences, securing a major settlement. Read more below👇

[Pat Garrett @PatJGarrett]

Great flag. Difficult to get people on the phone. Only intense feelings are being voiced to pollsters.

[Bill McCoshen @BillMcCoshen11]

Don’t look for any WI partisan primary data in the @MULawPoll poll on Tuesday. @PollsAndVotes said on #Upfront today the poll is 450 adults, not 800 registered voters as usual.