Waukesha County Board Downsizing: How Low Can They Go?

I'm not anxious to drive up the traffic counts over there on the right side of the local blogging world - - but find your way into their matrix and read through their hilarious thrashing about determining the Politically Correct number of supervisors if and when that great big ol' 35-member Waukesha County Board of Supervisors is downsized.

35 elected representatives, even as the population is growing in the county? Way too much democracy. And those pesky elections? All that voting? Stop it , for crying out loud!

Some want 11, some want more - - the numbers 19 and 25 have been spoken for. It's such a daggone puzzle that the CRG, the original anti-government crowd, suggested slowing down and thinking it through. Well, you can imagine how that's going down.

So a wacky contest of sorts - - part politics, part numerology - - has broken out on the Right fringe to choose the Right number, and at the same time to figure out just who's speaking for the smaller-is-better crowd in Waukesha. To win, you gotta have the right number. But what is it?

Thirteen is available, but it's got a taint. Seventeen is still on the board. Why no one's bet on 21 yet is a real mystery, but who said the slash-and-burn government crowd was a rational bunch?

Sources report that the most-desired number is actually 24, but Kiefer Sutherland is rumored to have sent key Waukeshanians a coded reminder that 24 is a quorum-defeating even number, and that odd is where the movement should remain, for consistency's sake, until and unless further instructions are received.

Look for this issue to be debated ad nauseum at this weekend's BlogoSummit at The Country Springs Hotel conference center, in Waukesha County.

Attendees are advised not to waste their time looking for the springs near Waukesha, a locale that used to be called "Spring City." Sprawl has dried them up.