WTMJ-TV news in Milwaukee aired a report (video) on the Barrett campaign’s use of an Ozzy Osbourne video in their press release on Friday.
MILWAUKEE – Mayor Tom Barrett’s gubernatorial campaign claims they really wanted to send reporters a YouTube ad slamming Republican opponent Scott Walker.
Instead, their e-mailed press release web link led to [...]

Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Aug 19, 2010; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10A
Neumann-Walker race could have domino effect
Other races around area might feel impact
Primary elections are tricky elections to predict because the smaller they are, the less likely anybody will do any polling. You have to go by “feel” and what you see for campaign activity. You should [...]

Well, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s columnist on race, Eugene Kane, has weighed-in on whether an accidental re-tweet” by a Walker staffer was some sort of racially coded message.
Let’s face it: When the first black president is in town and campaign staffers for the leading Republican candidate for governor start making references to “Soul Train,” that [...]

Our friends at the state DOT have decided to toss the horse’s head into the bed of the Oconomowoc Common Council, saying the train station was a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
The state Department of Transportation has dropped plans for a high-speed rail station in Oconomowoc, claiming city officials said they didn’t want one.But city officials disputed that [...]

Another reminder Brookfield residents will have a chance tonight to weigh in on the proposed train station for the proposed high-speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison.
Brookfield-Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Common Council Meeting- Meeting starts at 7:45. Public comment is the first item on the agenda at 7:45.
2000 N. Calhoun Road, Brookfield, WI
Milwaukee County Executive Scott [...]

Mike Tate and the Democrats, desperate to come up with something to pin on Scott Walker to try to erase his eight-point lead over Tom Barrett, is going for the race card over the re-tweet on Twitter sent by Walker spokesman Jill Bader yesterday.
It’s now official. If you dare show an African-American [...]

Just a reminder that the City of Brookfield Common Council is having a public meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) night to discuss the proposed high-speed rail station.
Brookfield-Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Common Council Meeting- Meeting starts at 7:45. Public comment is the first item on the agenda at 7:45.
2000 N. Calhoun Road, Brookfield, WI
If you haven’t seen [...]

Jill Bader, the communications director for the Walker campaign, accidentally sent out the wrong link on a Twitter tweet. Instead she sent out a link to a video of a dance show in Detroit showing a mostly African American crowd dancing to “C’mon’n Ride It (The Train).” The Democratic Party, which has little [...]

I’m guessing Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett just loves the news on WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Aaron Rodriguez revisits the outrageous hit piece by Brendan Conway of WISN (I commented on it at the time). Rodriguez points out that WISN is ignoring a similar story about Barrett’s campaign for governor.
Last week, it was discovered that [...]

As long as we’re on the subject of Waukesha and it’s interesting mayor, let’s clear up a few misconceptions that I have heard on Mark Belling’s show and elsewhere.
1) Tuesday on Belling’s show, he said the mayor was elected to stop the Great Lakes water application, and now he’s surprised that residents of Waukesha [...]