Blue Book
John JohnsonElections, housing, and demography in Milwaukee & beyond
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Lessons from Wisconsin’s Last Competitive Democratic Primary
On Tuesday, Wisconsin’s Democrats will choose their nominee to replace Governor Evers. Primaries like this one provide a unique glimpse of divisions within a party, but they don’t happen very often. The last time Democrats held a seriously...
Rating the Battleground Districts in the Wisconsin Legislature
The 2026 general election will decide which party controls Wisconsin’s state government, with a trifecta for either party realistically in play. Now, with campaign finance reports from the first half of the year in hand, it seems a good tim...
How Much Does it Cost to Run for State Legislature?
Wisconsin candidates are required to submit their next campaign finance reports by Wednesday, July 15th. These will record all their fundraising and spending through June 30th. The gubernatorial candidates fundraising hauls will draw the mo...
The farthest you can get from a road
This newsletter has been on hiatus for a good reason. I’ve been on paternity leave since early April. Regular dispatches will resume in the coming weeks.
Some evenings, while the baby was sleeping, I amused myself by calculating the answer...
Tracing the Rise of Milwaukee's Billionaire Landlord
In commercial mortgage-backed securities issued by three banks throughout late 2024 and 2025, Youssef “Joe” Berrada—by far, Milwaukee’s largest landlord—is reported as having an “approximate” net worth of $1.027 billion and liquidity of $94...
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John is a research fellow in the Marquette Law School's Lubar Center where he studies housing, demographic, and voting trends in Wisconsin. See more at johndjohnson.info
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