Grothman

I for one am glad that Senator Glenn Grothman is not running for U.S. Senate. Not because I was worried that he was going to beat Senator Herb Kohl, but because I really was nauseated at the attempts out there before the race even started to make Grothman into something he is not.

In this intro piece for the then candidate Glenn Grothman, Brian Fraley of DailyTakes calls Grothman a populist conservative.

Populist? Not even on a good day could you consider Grothman a populist.

Here is how Marriam-Webster.com defines populist:

1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people

Grothman isn't a fighter for the common people and he certainly doesn't believe they have any wisdom. If fact, he acts like he would only be satisfied if he had the final say on everything and didn't have to interact with the common people much less listen to their wisdom.

This is a guy who thinks he and a few of his buddies at the state level should have the final say on how much local governments can spend. And if you want to debate that policy with him, better make sure you have an invitation because he thinks most of the people out there don't have anything valuable to say.

And of course Grothman gets to decide who worked hard enough to go to college.

So I'm glad we don't have to listen to folks trying to make Grothman into some kind of moderate or populist for the next few months. And hey, now Grothman has plenty of time to work on more versions of the TABOR/TPA for the next session.