Republican Party of Wisconsin Reince Priebus announced today his wife gave birth to a baby girl:
God blessed Sally and I as we welcomed a beautiful little girl into our lives this morning! Grace Avalyn was born at 9:45am – Weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. and 18.5 inches long. Thanks for all of your well wishes [...]
From the state GOP press release. And then I got a fundraiser e-mail right after.
Priebus Statement on MA Special Election and Democrat Policies
MADISON—Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement regarding the Massachusetts Senate special election and what it means for Republicans in 2010:
“American voters have made themselves clear. Three months [...]
My column in today’s Waukesha Freeman:
Sullivan recall not best option Ousting official over smoking ban misuses voters’ choice
Belly up to the bar and sign a petition. At least that’s what some bar owners and the Citizens for Responsible Government Network are hoping. On Tuesday, they launched an effort to recall [...]
A test for the Wisconsin GOP will be if they can recruit a candidate to take on Senator Russ Feingold that is better than Robert Lorge.
So far I am leaning towards running against Feingold for US Senate, but supporters urge Lt. Governor or 8th Congress in 2010. Too early yet.
Somehow I don’t think Feingold supporters [...]
It ain’t just in audio anymore. This week Senator Kit Bond of Missouri questions the Obama plan to close the detention center at Guantanamo. Nobody wants them here, but that seems to be part of the Obama Administration’s plan. And you can’t just release them to fight again.As Senator Bond points out, [...]
Why don’t they fight?
Last week at a town hall meeting with Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, the theme seemed to be one of frustration, including with the Republican Party. I wrote my column for the Waukesha Freeman (two quarters and its yours) on that very subject:
While the audience was politically right of center, judging from the applause [...]
Disappointing news this weekend as we learned State Representative Bill Kramer (R-Waukesha) is accepting the legislative pay raise. Kramer told the Waukesha Freeman that he plans to invest the money into his business.
I sympathize with Kramer when calls giving back the pay raise towards the state budget deficit as “gimmicky.” I would even go [...]
Former Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch told the Chicago Sun-Times Rep. Jeff Wood showed “remarkably poor judgement” when he was arrested for drunk driving.
Rep. Mike Huebsch, the former Republican speaker who clashed with Wood, said the lawmaker showed “remarkably poor judgment” in driving drunk.
“And you can’t explain the illicit drugs,” Huebsch said. “That’s inexplicable as to [...]
South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson recently resigned from a club with a “whites only” membership policy after a newspaper learned of his membership in the club.
According to The State,
Dawson said he began working to change the club’s admissions practices in mid-August after reading about the deed in an article in The [...]
Assembly Republicans picked their leadership team:
Assembly Republicans today elected Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald of Horicon as minority leader and Rep. Mark Gottlieb of Port Washington as assistant minority leader.
“Our focus is going to be getting back in the majority,” Fitzgerald told his colleagues.
Fitzgerald defeated Rep. Scott Newcomer of Hartland; Gottlieb beat Rep. Leah Vukmir of Wauwatosa.
Of [...]
