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Pwn.

pwn3ed that n00b

3 straight 1337 pwns

I am sure he does not give two shits about what this paper says, but I absolutely guarantee if he runs again, he will have the support of all of the liberals and progressives on the board, some conservatives, as well as Kathleen Falk. Stop playing journalists and actually, GO to Board meetings, or CONTACT other liberal people on the Board before you make such stupid articles.

Support of all the liberals and progressives? Ha! As someone who has heard at least one quite respected supervisor call him a loser, I doubt that's true.

Man, you people are mean. Not cool. Make your crits, but this level of personal attack is childish. High School. Hey, Badger Herald: You're not in High School a-ny-more. Grow up.

I haven't been keeping up with Wyndham's political career, but like most people who spread themselves thin, and like most who are barely 23 years old, he's bound to make a few mistakes. From working with him on various projects, I can say without reservation that his heart is in the right place, that he is rarely if ever mean-spirited (in spite of coming up against libel/slander that isn't always "all in good fun"), he has an open mind and an optimistic outlook, and sometimes his creative (albeit grandiose) ideas actually come to fruition in a pretty amazing way. I also know that he often chooses County Supervisor duties over [perhaps more appealing] social plans, and I'm fairly certain that if anyone contacted someone who's worked with Wyndham on the Board, they'd have similar things to say.

Tru dat.

"I also know that he often chooses County Supervisor duties over [perhaps more appealing] social plans"

????

Ooooohhhh, give him a gold star! The board is his job Bessie, doing it is not worth applause.

this ed board sounds like an anonymous comment. unprofessional.

"Man, you people are mean. Not cool. Make your crits, but this level of personal attack is childish. High School. Hey, Badger Herald: You're not in High School a-ny-more. Grow up."

agreed. maybe this is why so few people actually make the decision to put themselves out there and run for public office.

"This is, of course, all in good fun. But you deserve it. Lots of people deserve a lot of criticism, including us."

Waiting for the personal attacks on the Editorial Board members to be published...

"Oh, Wyndham. It was so adorable to watch you run for Dane County Board of Supervisors in April 2008. Your campaign was like watching a 10-year-old try out for “American Inventor” and being patted-on-the-back by George Foreman. (“I love the manure digesters you drew, little man! Thanks for coming all the way to Los Angeles!”) You insisted at first you were running as a joke. We believed you.

But then gradually, as it became clear Conor O’Hagan’s campaign was the political equivalent of “Norbit” taking out Oscar ads in the Hollywood trade papers, the unthinkable became very possible. The joke stopped. We did the best we could to convince students in District 5 that someone — anyone — would be better than you and O’Hagan.

But the next thing we knew, you won that election in a landslide, and County Supervisor Manning it was. Rofl-copter! Have you sold The Wonderful World of Disney the rights to your story yet?

Truth is, we always secretly preferred you to O’Hagan, in the same way people on “Fear Factor” “prefer” to eat cow brains instead of pig intestines. (They’re less acidic, and they don’t suggest wading into Lake Mendota to pick up garbage.) And we liked the fact that you showed up to your debate against O’Hagan dressed like a politician, instead of a high school junior who just raided out the clearance rack at American Eagle. You were the lesser of two evils in the most precise sense of the phrase."

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"Even your solid proposal for a secondary school arts initiative has fallen through. We must conclude that your one serious independent idea was, like all the others, just talk. Today a little 8-year-old girl came into the Herald office crying, asking when she would be able to draw and sing and paint like Wyndham promised. “We don’t know,” we told her. “Probably never. Go home and watch television for the rest of the night.”

This is, of course, all in good fun. But you deserve it. Lots of people deserve a lot of criticism, including us. And some people just don’t belong in public office. (Last time we checked, though, the WUD Music Committee is short a few people — they’d be glad to have you back.)

There’s a chance, though, that you’ll at least be successful at helping obtain manure digesters for the county. Manure digesters are indeed an important tool for cleaning up the environment. But a more difficult act of clean-up awaits: when the Board of Supervisors, whose prestige and public trust you have seriously undermined, has to clean up after a political career that should never have begun, but which will — mercifully — be over soon."

I'm just wondering what any of this has to do with a policy-driven critique of Wyndham's record. It's mostly just all unfunny jokes of why you think he isn't a good fit for public office. But even after rereading this, I have picked up on almost no real information as to why you think he is such a bad Supervisor. It's mostly just personal insults.

I have my disagreements with Wyndham (as I do with almost all public officials), as do others, but maybe giving some type of real justification for your vehement opposition would be more appropriate than just making crude jokes that attack his character.

We get it. You don't like PD and its endorsed officials. Just say that next time, because this was awful by almost any journalistic standard.

Uh, Kyle this piece isolates 4 distinct criticisms of Manning. Considering how much of the article is devoted to retelling history, that seems like a pretty solid policy focus to me.

"(disagree with the editorial) and I'm fairly certain that if anyone contacted someone who's worked with Wyndham on the Board, they'd have similar things to say."

I bet you're wrong. BH, how about a follow up?