State Representative Jeff Wood countered the efforts to oust him from the state assembly with an amendment to the expulsion resolution that listed the arrests of every state legislator since the birth of the republic, pointing out none of them were expelled.
Wood actually drafted a wildly entertaining 12-page amendment to Nass’ resolution, in which he [...]
Are we having fun yet? Cory Liebmann, formerly of the self-described “partisan” organization One Wisconsin Now, has launched another fishing expedition, this time going after Mayor Ed Thompson of Tomah Wisconsin.
“Copies of all email from any email account that you use for official city business from 11/5/08 through 2/5/10 that fit the [...]
Early last year, Democratic sources were wondering whether Vukmir would give up her Assembly seat to challenge Sullivan. They had a right to be concerned.
Despite an Assembly ban on fundraising during the state budget deliberations last year, in the last campaign finance reporting period Vukmir raised over $73,000 more than the incumbent Sullivan. Worse for Sullivan, 60 percent of Vukmir’s contributors live in the Senate district. Only 18 percent of Sullivan’s contributors live in the district.
Sullivan has a slight lead in cash on hand, $94,310.71 to Vukmir’s $84,212.02, but Vukmir has already spent $37,770.78. Sullivan’s report shows a campaign not yet up to speed. In the same reporting period, Sullivan only spent $6,571.30.
In an interview Tuesday night, Vukmir said, “Even in this difficult economy, people are eager to give.”
Former meteorologist and current State Representative Jim Ott (R-Mequon) was asked by the Waukesha Freeman about the effect of Climategate, and what it means for Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force.
Ott questions in a Tuesday news release how Gov. Jim Doyle’s Task Force will respond in light of the e- mails.
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Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Sep 24, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10A
Hard at work
Legislature busy with secondary issues
The economy is in the tank. Wisconsin has lost 140,000 jobs since the recession began and unemployment is over 8.4 percent. The state treasurer’s office is a disaster area. The state crime lab can’t find 12,000 DNA samples from convicts. [...]
Eating at your favorite local restaurant may be just a bit more eye-popping soon. The state senate is expected to take up the Topless Mom Act, a.k.a. the breast feeding everywhere bill.
The state Senate is expected to take up a bill Tuesday that bars anyone from bothering breast-feeding mothers.
The bill would protect mothers who breast-feed [...]
State Senator Bob Jauch is an argument for term limits, and proves it again when he compares Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce to the KKK.To steal a line from Jim Rowen, people who carelessly throw around KKK labels or images are contemptable idiots. I’m sure Rowen would agree with me in describing Jauch’s behavior as [...]
Christian Schneider over at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Blog catches the “reformers” of trying to give the Democrats an eight-seat head-start.
Translation: All districts have to be competitive, except for the ones that are majority-minority, which (rightfully) can’t be touched. If you consider the six Assembly districts currently represented by minorities, then add in [...]
Does this mean that the governor’s people are more afraid of losing the state senate than they are hopeful of gaining control of the state assembly?
Shouldn’t the governor being mining for Republican legislators in the Assembly to create more vacancies there?
Bruce at Badger Blogger caught this. The proposed hospital tax is about to be dropped from the budget negotiations.
Democrats may be ready to jettison their demands for a proposed hospital tax, one of the key sticking points over a deal to fix the broken state budget, leaders said.
A spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader [...]
