Johnson campaign scrapes the bottom of the barrel for campaign staff

Last week I noted Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson had hired Darren “purposeful distortion” Schmitz to serve as a consultant to his campaign, and now Johnson has gone out and scraped the bottom of the campaign staff barrel again, hiring Mark Stephens, the former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign. Stephens helped [...]

Neumann gets first in-state endorsements

Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann, whose campaign until this point had not garnered a single in-state endorsement from any elected official or Republican operative of any consequence, finally got not one, but two endorsements, from former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker John Gard and former Wisconsin State Treasurer Cate Zeuske. In addition to endorsing Neumann’s gubernatorial campaign, [...]

Mark Neumann and Tom Coburn: two peas in an ideological pod

According to a spokesman for the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Mark Neumann, Neumann and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn – the first public official to endorse Neumann – are “ideologically speaking, two peas in a pod.” Seeing as how Neumann and Sen. Coburn are “ideological peas in a pod,” I can’t help but wonder if Neumann [...]

Make a donation to help Blogging Blue’s “Ten in ’10″

Take a look over there on the left of your screen.

See that list of candidates under the heading, “Donate to our Ten in ’10″? I know you see it, and I’d like you to consider making a donation to any or all of the candidates/organizations on that list. There’s a lot of good candidates [...]

A conversation with Henry Sanders

I recently had the chance to sit down and chat with Democratic Lieutenant Governor candidate Henry Sanders, a small business owner from the Madison area. During our conversation, I was struck by Sanders’ laser-sharp focus on what he believes to be the most important issue in the 2010 election cycle – job creation. A [...]

Netroots Wisconsin announcement

What:

Netroots Wisconsin will be a gathering of the Cheddarsphere and others doing political and journalism outreach on the Internet. We are a regional conference of Netroots Nation. Please join us, and please come to the web site to propose sessions and give us ideas for how we can make Netroots Wisconsin suit your own [...]

Some thoughts on the 7th CD

Xoff over at Uppity Wisconsin and Mike H over at Letters in Bottles have excellent writeups on the race in the 7th Congressional district. As xoff notes, Democrats are trying hard to hand the Democratic nomination to State Sen. Julie Lassa, and he notes that while we’re not likely to see a contested Democratic primary, [...]