Waukesha County Supervisor Walter Kolb is playing host again to the Waukesha Republican Party campaign headquarters at his property on highway 164 and Pearl Street, right across from the porn shop. In front of the Republican headquarters will be the usual assortment of campaign signs. Also in front of the GOP headquarters are [...]
Hotline is reporting that if the RNC throne ever becomes vacant, Wisconsin’s Reince Priebus would be a serious contender.
Reince Priebus: The current RNC general counsel and WI GOP chair, Priebus is perhaps Steele’s closest ally on the committee. Priebus has his own fans on the committee, and if Steele decides against running, Priebus would be [...]
Reports everywhere are saying businessman Terrence Wall is dropping out of the race for Senate, leaving Dave Westlake and Ron Johnson as the remaining candidates. After Johnson’s endorsement by the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s convention, there really weren’t many options left to Wall for assembling a winning coalition. It will be interesting to see if [...]
Publication: Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date: May 13, 2010; Section: Opinion; Page: 10A
Republicans should drink some tea
Rove poor choice for state party dinner speaker
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.)
It seems like yesterday I started getting emails from people talking about a “tea party” [...]
Received an e-mail today from Chip Englander, campaign manager for the Neumann campaign, touting this article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. If this is the best press Neumann can point to, he is in real trouble.
Walker could further shore up support with the Republican Party endorsement, which would let him tap funds the state [...]
State Representative Mary Hubler (D-Rice Lake) announced that she is not running for re-election. In her press release, she listed a number of accomplishments but failed to mention how she provided cover for a five-time OWI so he could keep his seat in the State Assembly. Aren’t Democrats proud of their close association [...]
Candidate for governor Mark Neumann will answer whether he would ever consider running as an independent on Charlie Sykes’ program on WTMJ-AM Thursday morning.
On Wednesday morning WISN-AM’s Jay Weber discussed the controversy regarding some phone calls made by Mark Neumann’s campaign for governor to delegates to the upcoming Republican state convention. The calls [...]
Does Dick Leinenkugel’s run for Senate make him a Seasonal Republican Brew? Maybe his campaign should be called Novemberfest. – Nick Schweitzer on Twitter
The Assembly passed a resolution to curb the veto powers of the governor on a party-line vote, 50-48. Only Democrat Bob Ziegelbauer voted with the Republicans not to limit the governor’s veto power. Rep. Annette Polly Williams did not vote.
I guess the Democrats think the next governor is likely to be a Republican.
If [...]
Dick Leinenkugel goes out the revolving door at the state’s commerce department and is likely a Republican candidate for US Senate against Russ Feingold. Former Democratic consultant Bill Christofferson points out the family connection for Leinenkugel to the Tommy Thompson camp and says if Leinenkugel is in, Thompson is out.
Dick Leinenkugel just resigned [...]
