Day: July 1, 2012

From my email inbox comes this heartfelt appeal for funding from Joanne Staudacher, running as a Democrat for the 53rd State Assembly district. As you may have heard, I’m running to represent the 53rd District in the Wisconsin State Assembly. I am facing a primary on August 14 and will…

Five years ago Blogging Blue came into being. It’s been a crazy five years (to say the least), but I wanted to say thanks to all of you who’ve commented and contributed so much to the dialogue here over the years. You all are a great group of passionate political…

In what should have been no brainer legislation, our US Congress once again played political brinksmanship with House bill HR 4348, not passing it until just days before the affected programs expired. The combined bill (why can’t we actually do bills that cover only a single topic or at least…