What killed RightWisconsin? Urban Milwaukee Editor Bruce Murphy and I had a nice discussion about what caused me to pull the plug on RightWisconsin*.
“It was like going electric at the folk festival,” Wigderson jokes, referring to the famous incident in 1965 where Bob Dylan was booed off the stage by audiences. “But there was more than one Pete Seeger ready to wield that ax.”
But while Dylan had changed his style, Wigderson hadn’t. “I still had the same political views. I hadn’t changed,” he noted in an interview with Urban Milwaukee. “But everyone else had.”
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(*Never could get everyone to agree with eliminating the space between Right and Wisconsin.)
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