It’s the third rail of Republican politics in Wisconsin right now.
Do not praise anything that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has done, especially his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
But there was Ryan Owens, a Republican candidate for attorney general, doing just that last year in a podcast produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison political science department.
“We have to keep our eye on this,” Owens told the “1050 Bascom” podcast on April 6, 2020.
“The governor, to his credit, was ahead of the game when it came to the ‘safer at home’ order,” Owens said of the Evers administration’s March 2020 measure closing schools and nonessential businesses due to COVID-19. “We can quibble around the edges about the treatment of religion and things like that with it, but he was well ahead of a lot of states when he issued that order, to his credit.”