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FILE - William Garcia, the La Crosse County and 3rd CD Democratic Party chair in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk PM on Sept. 4, 2024.

La Crosse County and 3rd US House District Democratic Party chair William Garcia in studio trying to make sense of all the chaos that surrounds President Donald Trump’s first days, the Dems’ involvement in local races and Goonies turns 40 this year.


La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Find all the podcasts here or subscribe to La Crosse Talk wherever you get your podcasts.


Started and ended the show with Trump’s first 10 days in office. We began with his administration’s strategy of overwhelming with chaos. The impossibility of anyone or anything trying to keep track of what’s going on. We ended with DEI. Trump blamed just about everything, including DEI, on the nearly 70 dead from an Army Blackhawk helicopter crashing into a passenger jet.

In between that, we hit on some of the past and present legislative policies in Wisconsin, including Gov. Tony Evers lowering the standard on lead in water to help replace pipes, as well as the state allowing free tax filing. We also hit on how funding for reading, PFAS and emergency rooms couldn’t get passed in the last two years, despite being in that budet.

Then we got into the La Crosse mayor forum coming at 6 p.m. Feb. 6 at the UW-La Crosse Student Union, plus how the La Crosse County Democratic Party is involved in local elections, like mayor, school board and city council.

After that, we paused a bit to chat about our other passion: sci-fi. A new Spiderman series dropped on Disney, but we also talked about the latest Star Wars show Skeleton Crew, as Garcia compared it to Goonies — which actually turns 40 this year.

Host of WIZM's La Crosse Talk PM | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Hometown: Greenville, Wis | Avid noonball basketball player and sand volleyballer in La Crosse

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  1. Roy

    January 31, 2025 at 9:07 am

    The problem is not that Rick Solem/WIZM chooses to host Ivan Garcia railing his leftist propaganda weekly as Solem remains silent or even agrees with Ivan. Bars are full of guys like Ivan and they can BS all they want. It’s a free country.
    The problem is that Rick Solem/WIZM never makes any attempt to have a contrasting guest on regularly to offer answers to Ivan’s diatribes and give another side to the story.
    It’s here that Solem/WIZM is failing to serve the community it is licensed to serve.

    If you add up the airtime that WIZM has given Garcia/the Democrats to spew their distortions, Republicans have quite a lot of hours that they could rightly claim, free of charge, on WIZM because of Solem’s indiscretions. He doesn’t get it.

    • walden

      January 31, 2025 at 11:35 am

      Roy, Your comments are spot on but they do get it and they do know exactly what they are doing.

      The Republican party in La Crosse bears major responsibility here also; it is a joke, it is virtually invisible.

  2. Bill

    January 31, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Garcia can dismiss Trump’s comments all he wants, but the facts are:

    That tower in DC was running about 10 people understaffed the night of the crash because during the Obama administration, new DEI requirements ordered that many non-white employees be employed there,( It was too white) and since then, recruiting has failed to find enough non-white qualified employees.

    DEI can dictate their racist edicts all day, but if the qualified minorities cannot be found, the liberal government in charge would rather run understaffed as they were the night of the crash.

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