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Breaking down the La Crosse mayor debate with UW-L political scientist Chergosky
UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky, in the WIZM studio Friday for La Crosse Talk PM, breaking down the mayor debate, while also discussing what you wish you knew before moving to the area and creating fake social media profiles.
La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here or subscribe to La Crosse Talk PM wherever you get your podcasts.
Less than 12 hours after WIZM hosted the four candidates for La Crosse mayor, Chergosky, along with WIZM’s Brad Williams, spent a good portion of the show covering different aspects of the forum, including the mic drop answer from one candidate and some of the other key questions.
We also hit the La Crosse Reddit question of the day: What do you wish you’d known before moving to La Crosse?
The third thing we covered was the controversy of public officials making fake social media profiles to either bash opponents or policy, or talk themselves up, as a story out of Oshkosh shows two school board members doing just that. It’s also something that’s happened in the area, when the Holmen School Board president did something similar.
walden
February 8, 2025 at 8:47 pm
The NPR panelist’s question regarding La Crosse Police being available to assist enforcement of Federal immigration laws, if assistance was requested, was unfortunate. Since La Crosse has no “immigration problem” per se, raising this issue was nothing more than a “purity question” or dog whistle to sort the candidates politically using a hypothetical issue of no local importance in what is supposed to be a non-partisan race.
Overall, the candidates were at least articulate even if they actually said little of substance. There was little to no attempt to create a sense of differentiation. They all stated in effect they are running for a mayoral position that should be replaced by a professional administrator. So they were being quizzed on matters they don’t even want to be a part of solving.
The Midwest is typically “behind the curve” on national issues and so it appears La Crosse is destined to make every unforced error already made in so many other politically liberal cities. La Crosse…enjoy your high taxes, underperforming schools, vacant downtown storefronts and high crime, rampant homelessness, soviet style subsidized apartment buildings, beaucou drugs and your bike paths. Holmen, Campbell and Shelby thank you.