Day: September 11, 2012

Five days after his Senate campaign’s political director sent out an email purporting that Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin lacked “heartland values” because of her sexual orientation, Republican “Tea Party Tommy” Thompson offered an explanation for his campaign’s attacks on Baldwin. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson said Tuesday that…

According to a report from the Associated Press, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, who was tapped to serve as Republican Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate, will begin running ads in support of his Congressional reelection campaign. Contracts formalized Tuesday with at least one Milwaukee television station show that Ryan’s congressional…

I always like to link to this song on this day, because, dammit, we need optimism and hope with our remembrance. Further, this speech, by far the best George W Bush ever gave, needs to be read aloud, twice, by every Republican everywhere (and a lot of Democrats, too, including…

According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is willing to blow up his agency’s budget in order to hire back deputies Clarke had previusly laid off due to surging overtime costs in the facilities Clarke is responsible for overseeing. Overtime at the jail…