It should not go unnoticed or unremarked that yesterday, throughout the day and yet today the fact that Republican candidate Tom Tiffany running for the office of Wisconsin Governor who with his pilot survived a plane crash Saturday night in the waters of Lake Wausau received no mention whatsoever via Google Breaking Local News in…
(20 points each) The City of Madison faces a $7 million budget deficit in 2027. Dane County faces a $15 million budget deficit in 2027. The State of Wisconsin faces a $3 billion budget surplus in 2027. Liberals and Progressives hold a majority in the Madison Common Council and the Dane County Board of Supervisors.…
If elected to the Wisconsin Assembly from District 79, I will work to inflict harsher penalties on drivers convicted of Driving Under the Influence. Here’s why. As a nurse’s aide while completing a mid-life college degree and seminary training, I became care giver for a quadriplegic woman who had lived in the same room for…
This is my campaign business card. I’ve got quite a few of them. The red isn’t because I’m Republican. It’s because I like the color. The letters are white. The hat is blue more or less. You get the idea. If I hand you a card or you get one in the mail you can…
What do you believe? Why do you believe it? Is it because someone else told you what they believe and it sounded good? Is it because you want to believe what you believe no matter what? Let me tell you something. The odds are twenty to one against my beating Democratic opponent Lisa Subeck for…
The issue of Data Centers is huge. That’s because Data Centers are huge. Each Data Center requires enough electricity to power one million homes. Data Centers use one to three million gallons of water per day or more to cool circuits and equipment. That demand on ground or surface water is not the only consideration.…
Why do taxpayers who have no children attending classes in the Madison Metropolitan School District pay property taxes payable to the Madison Metropolitan School District? a). As enrollment declines, salaries and expenses increase. b). The State of Wisconsin is stingy. c). Madison declares itself a ‘destination’ school district though no one moves to Madison so…
(Submitted 08/21/26 to Wisconsin State Journal as Letter to the Editor) Given the fact the price tag for social unrest in Madison over the last few weeks will approach or top $1.5 million once damages are assessed in terms of overtime, cleanup, subsidized accommodation for those engaged in unlawful assembly and financial loss to businesses…
People who cannot help themselves are the people who need our help the most. Those people are not defined by race or sex, ethnic background, personal preference or minority status. They are individually defined by wheelchairs and canes, braces and invisible challenges that make each and every day a struggle for life and meaning. Disabilities…
There’s a leak in the basement. I will fix it myself. I have the tools and the experience. I’ll save some money. I’m confident I can do the job. Speaking of money, if elected to the Wisconsin Assembly from District 79, I will seek to rejuvenate a modified version of Assembly Bill Number 1 as…
This morning at 4am I got out of bed to see the results of the Primary Election. You don’t just get out of bed at 4am without a reason. So I did. The numbers were in. I got 839 votes as the uncontested Republican candidate for Wisconsin Assembly District 79. I am very grateful. I…
This is an homage to Connie Ferry. Connie doesn’t live in Assembly District 79. Connie lives way up north in Two Rivers and Connie Ferry for fifty-one years owned and operated Connie’s Diner – Where The Food Is Finer. I’ve got one of Connie’s t-shirts. She sold them for a couple bucks over the counter.…
They come with regularity now a few days before the Primary Election. The 6″x11″ full color glossy mailers for Francesca Hong as the Democratic candidate for Governor of the State of Wisconsin are accompanied by yard signs springing up in this neighborhood of Assembly District 79 in which I am the Republican Assembly candidate. Francesca…
Our cat threw up this morning. When things like that happen you need to clean it up. Then I turned on the news and saw and heard the Independent Police Monitor of Madison declare, “I will burn this city down,” after an altercation with Madison police. She thrust a bleeding finger into the camera and…
You’ve elected Lisa Subeck to represent you in the Wisconsin Assembly from District 79 for ten years. She’s running for that office again and I’m running against her. I’m a Republican. Let me ask you what you’ve gotten for your vote in Lisa Subeck. She’s run unopposed in three of the last four elections and…
Policies, platforms, issues and pronouncements all begin at the kitchen table. That’s where the best ones begin, because that’s where they all end up. My first and foremost campaign issue is Property Taxes. My first and foremost campaign promise is to work to reform and reduce Property Tax structures in the State of Wisconsin. The…
It’s a distress call. It means the enemy is right here. Our position has been overrun. It is also a command. Broken Arrow. Our situation is critical. We are the coordinates. Bring it now. Broken Arrow. If what happened in Madison a few days ago had happened in Madison a few decades ago, the police…
Seven years ago, on July 19, 2019, I received Certification of Registration from the United States Copyright Office for a work I completed that year entitled The Great American Novel. Over five years contiguous to that date I labored in my spare time to restore a century old wooden freight wagon taken decades ago from…
Independence Day What does it mean to you? Not what does it means to our Nation, 250 years old today. What does it mean to you? What’s the problem? Where do find yourself chained? What happened to that feeling of Independence and Self-Reliance that made you believe you could do anything and if you…
Why should you vote for a Republican candidate in a Democratic district? We’re talking about Wisconsin Assembly District 79. First, if you vote Democrat because you’re a Democrat and I’m not you’re saying a lot about yourself. You’re not saying anything about me. You’re saying that party politics mean more to you than anything else.…
I want Lisa Subeck to help me. I want to understand what she means when she says, “our system is fundamentally flawed” regarding criminal justice and specifically cash bail. In an interview on the WKOW 27 News program Capital City Sunday, Subeck said, “I do acknowledge that our system is fundamentally flawed and a cash…
Housekeeping for the next session of the Wisconsin Assembly: Re-Introduce Assembly Bill 1 to include: $300,000,000 for Special Education; elimination of state income tax on tips and overtime pay; tax rebate checks to all Wisconsin workers and establishment of State Disaster Recovery Grant Program. As with all housekeeping, its awkward to try and clean the…
The Story of Madison, Wisconsin will be written in short chapters, years from now between the bigger stories that serve as the main attraction. The story will run something like this. People came here out of courage and determination, people who had nothing much to lose and a great deal to gain or so they…
400 Years Ago Publication of William Shakespeare’s First Folio St. Peter’s Basilica consecrated in Rome First Thanksgiving celebrated in America Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII Present Day Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers edits and signs legislation to guarantee a 400 year annual school district revenue increase. 400 Years From Now Wisconsin…
Forward is the Official Wisconsin State Motto. Unfortunately, approximately one half million licensed drivers in Wisconsin have gone Forward under the influence of drugs or alcohol and currently have at least one DUI conviction on their driving record. There is a drug or alcohol related accident involving injury or fatality every two hours in Wisconsin, resulting…
I live in Madison. So does most of Assembly District 79. Issues involving one involve the other and vice versa. That’s politics. One of the issues in Madison is body cameras for police officers. The Madison Common Council won’t approve them. They say the city can’t afford them. What the Madison Common Council can’t afford…
When I lived on a farm in Iowa a one room schoolhouse stood not far away on a gravel road in the same township. A friend attended that school in the last graduating class which included students of all grade levels before he went on to college and eventually management and ownership of what became…
Try this on. See how it fits. Fixed Income in the State of Wisconsin means Fixed Assessment. If you’re a Senior Citizen: if you’re Disabled or Retired; if you’re a Retired Career Veteran with twenty years or more in service to your country and all Veterans Disabled In Service are exempt from real estate property…
On the occasion of your State Convention in Madison this weekend at a location noticeably omitted from initial news reports, allow me to offer these few words of congratulation and caution. As the Republican candidate facing your incumbent Democrat Lisa Subeck of Assembly District 79 in the November 3 General Election it is my duty…
The Wisconsin Democratic Party held their convention in Madison last weekend. I wrote them a letter, an Open Letter and emailed it to each Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly. Today is a good day to publish it here under a separate title. “What’s That Smell?” also submitted today to various news outlets as a…
Today I received notice from the Wisconsin Elections Commission to acknowledge receipt of 256 valid signatures as determined by their staff on my nomination papers as the Republican candidate for the office of Representative to the Assembly District 79 in the General Election to be held November 3, 2026. My Declaration of Candidacy is recorded…
Memorial Day There are two pieces of paper on my desk. I keep them where I can see them for two very different reasons. One is a litany of what happened on July 3 in the year 1863 outside a small town in Pennsylvania. Six thousand Union soldiers formed a battle line over a distance…
My thanks go out today to Janet who volunteered to circulate nomination papers for me and notified me yesterday she had a completed sheet for me to pick up. She left them on her door in a bright green shopping bag so I’d be sure to see them. Beautifully complete. Every signature clear and sharp…
My bike is a 2005 Honda Shadow Spirit with low miles. Fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventeen miles to be exact to this date. That’s 15817 on the odometer. She’s not for sale. I bought her from a U.S. Marine at the Van Nuys Airport in California. He ran an aircraft cleaning service. We worked…
I’ll make you a promise. You elect me to serve as State Representative from Assembly District 79 and I won’t stop going door to door. This is what it takes to get on the ballot. Candidates go door to door to collect signatures and candidates go away. That’s the way it works. If you elect…
I will go door to door again today, gathering nomination signatures to obtain placement on the ballot as a Republican candidate for the Wisconsin Assembly in District 79. I need at least 200 signatures authenticated by the Wisconsin Election Commission. The deadline is 5pm on Monday, June 1 for the November 3 election. Before May…
The incumbent comes out swinging. Unfortunately, her punches are wild. A friend sent me an email circulated by the incumbent of District 79 yesterday under the Subject Line “Another challenger in my race”. Odd usage. I didn’t know the incumbent owned the race. Without a challenger there is no race. “I have another opponent, this…
The Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth for a reason. The Sun is driven by nuclear fusion. Before the City of Madison is “thrilled” by the prospect of a Nuclear Fusion facility within its City Limits, I want the Mayor and the Common Council and the Engineering Department and anyone remotely responsible…
A Wisconsin flag would be a nice thing to have, I thought, during the campaign for Wisconsin Assembly. A nice thing to put out in front of the table where I might sit collecting nomination signatures or handing out information, a nice backdrop going forward in the campaign to Election Day November 3. So I…
Out in Cross Plains, Wisconsin there is a quiet little place called the Red Mouse. Not so quiet. Not so little. Tuesday night the Republican Party of Dane County held a Pint & Politics gathering at the Red Mouse, a gathering attended by an estimated one hundred or more party members and state candidates, including…
The other night I attended a banquet sponsored by the Republican Party of Dane County in downtown Madison at Monona Terrace. A fancy event for which tickets cost a three digit figure per person. Those who entered the glittering hall dressed for the evening, suits and evening attire, but this being Wisconsin a few showed…
Slavery is still the issue. One hundred and seventy-two years ago, in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin the Republican Party was born in answer to slavery in the United States of America. Slavery is still the issue. Faced with a National Debt of over $39,000,000,000,000 (trillion) equal to $357,070 per taxpayer and growing elements of division…
There’s a big stone house in the center of Madison, Wisconsin. It’s your house. You pay the bills. But that isn’t what makes a house a home. The big stone building with a lady on the top is Home to all the Hopes and Dreams and Aspirations of a people who live in Wisconsin. Frozen…
When they asked me how the election went April 7, I answered: “I won. I lost. I won.” Let me explain. I won by running. I had the unique and extraordinary experience of walking door to door with my own name, my own willingness to serve and attempting to explain that to people who first…
Disenfranchise. It’s a big word. It gets bigger. Disenfranchised. Disenfranchisement. While we’re trying to say that three times real fast there’s a lawsuit pending against the City of Madison because a bag containing 193 absentee ballots went unnoticed or if they were noticed went disregarded and subsequently uncounted in an election and some of the…
This web site will continue. It is designed in its present form to precede an election in which I am a candidate for the Dane County Board of Supervisors from District 7. The election is tomorrow, April 7. I encourage you to vote. If you do vote you are exercising a right purchased for you…
I put the door hanger with my information in place and a man across the street going to his car asked loud enough for me to hear: “Lost cat?” I walked toward him and said, “Political candidate.” I handed him my information. He looked at it. “You’re the guy running for county board?” “That’s me.”…
I love words. I’ve been using them a long time. I cherish them as mysterious, often invisible messengers when spoken of meaning and thought ranging from sacred to profane. Words are like children. They should be cherished and nurtured, but in this world words can neglected. Words can be abused. I’m offended when that happens.…
“Customer Service Is Our Number One Goal”. I read it on the side of a service truck. I walked by the truck as I campaigned door to door and the truck sat parked at a curb. What better political slogan? It might have said, “Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed’, but that wouldn’t be politics. Not really. Politics…
Thirty steps. Will you take them? Thirty concrete steps up from the street to the front door. The house is built on a hillside, a steep hill, a long way up, built overlooking the entire neighborhood. Thirty steps. Will you take them? Will you climb all the way up to ring that doorbell and leave…
I drove out into Dane County yesterday to see what I could see, to see beyond the boundaries of District 7 for which I am a candidate on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. It’s a big county. District 7 is completely within the Madison City Limits and almost entirely comprised of long established neighborhoods,…
A man called me on my Campaign Phone Number yesterday. He left a message. My Campaign Phone Number is 608-628-1313. That’s the one he called me on. I’ll try to do him justice. He said, “Hi. I got a flyer on my door this afternoon from someone who says he’s going to pay over $15,000…
Let’s talk about the proposed renovation of the Dane County Veterans Memorial Coliseum. OK. I’ll talk. You listen. An entertainment production company has entered into a ‘formal agreement’ with Dane County to spend $100 million on the Coliseum, transforming the 59 year old venue into a ‘state of the art’ location for concerts and public…
At the end of World War Two approximately 8 million U.S. service members returned to the United States. They returned at the rate of 22,000 per day between 1945 and 1946 and following that period the number of veterans reentering civilian life totaled nearly 16 million. They all needed homes whether they returned to the…
Door to door to door to door. The incredible contrast of deep snow, gale force winds and ice four days ago, followed by sunshine, temperatures fifty degrees warmer and dry pavement now beckons the candidate into the neighborhoods of District 7. It isn’t so much the distance along tree lined streets with every branch ready…
Property taxes favor one particular breed. Wolves. Wolves love the scent of increased property taxes. Wolves watch for stragglers. They watch for the weak, the vulnerable. Wolves watch for the elderly. Wolves circle the herd, waiting for their chance. They keep up the pressure. Wolves keep their eyes on the prey. They hunger for the…
Property taxes are the single greatest financial burden we carry living in the City of Madison and the County of Dane. Our property taxes this year will exceed what we pay for Food, Health Insurance, Utilities, Homeowner’s Insurance, Car Insurance, Vehicle Registrations, Clothing, Dental, Household Maintenance or Repair, Travel, Automotive Repair individually or to a…
On a day like today a lot of people go to Vilas Zoo which occupies 28 acres in Madison, all within Dane County District 7, for which I am running as a candidate for the Board of Supervisors. On a day like today the Zoo also attracts hundreds of long distance runners participating in the…
This is one of the reasons I became a candidate for the Dane County Board of Supervisors. This house sits in Dane County District 7. It is not an investment property. It is not going to be flipped for sale in sixteen months for a huge percentage profit. It is not going to be bulldozed…
These are work gloves. They become part of you. Some people never wear them, wouldn’t know what to do with them, wouldn’t touch them, couldn’t sit at a keyboard or slide a mouse around the desk with them on and therefore can’t imagine what they’re good for, except something to avoid, something other people might…
I got a phone call last night. It came on the phone I established for my campaign. You have to have a separate phone if you run for office. Election officials don’t want you to enter a personal phone number on the election forms. So I got a separate phone. The number is 608-628-1313 in…
These are boots. They are my vintage Dunham Mountain Masters. They are my campaign boots. They’ve been around. I wore them initially on a two-week 180-mile hike from Indianola, Iowa to Dubuque with a 40-pound pack, camping along the way in corn fields and pastures, the occasional back yard and once by permission in the…
The old adage goes something like this. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Sounds good enough, but if it becomes a homage to the status quo, then count me out. Everything is worthy of review and examination and at least preventative maintenance, even if it appears to be running well. Trouble is a county…
It used to be Opportunity. For a long time, that’s what came knocking in the Land of Opportunity. There’s still a knock, but these days it’s different. Necessity is knocking now. Dane County entered 2026 with a $31 million dollar deficit haunting a $916 million dollar budget. That’s a lot of money. It divides into…
YES John E. Fons is a candidate for Dane County Supervisor – District 7 – Spring Election, April 7, 2026 YES John E. Fons wants your vote. YES YOU get something in return. YES John E. Fons promises to vote for YOU on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. He promises to uphold solid business…
John E. Fons Has seen the best in people John E. Fons Has seen the worst in politics John E. Fons Knows the difference John E. Fons Wants the best for the people of Dane County John E. Fons Wants your vote Dane County Board of Supervisors April 7, 2026 Spring Election Vote John E.…