Posted by
Zach on September 2, 2010, at 5:59 am
Someone should tell the Republican Party of Wisconsin that just because wannabe journalist Chuck Sykes says it on his radio show doesn’t make it so: The Wisconsin Republican Party is retracting its blasting of a fundraiser for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because the event never happened.
The state [...]
Posted by
Ed Heinzelman on September 1, 2010, at 9:10 pm
Here’s a link to the Hill’s 50 Wealthiest Legislators in Washington!
Somebody there missed Herb Kohl…since the 50th person is at $5.1 million, Senator Kohl should certainly have been on this list. The Milwaukee Bucks alone should put him near the top.
Wisconsin didn’t do too badly:
#26 Representative Jim Sensenbrenner is the Wisconsin [...]
Posted by
Zach on September 1, 2010, at 6:43 am
This is just hilarious…. Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Weston) raised a few eyebrows when he called for an audit into student governance matters at UW-Stevens Point at the behest of his son, Jeff Decker.
The younger Decker raised issues on the legality of the allocation of student fees.
But Jeff Decker, 31, said [...]
Posted by
Zach on September 1, 2010, at 5:37 am
On Saturday, a Republican campaign office in Cudahy was vandalized when an unknown individual punched out a glass window, which is now boarded up. In his statement condemning the vandalism, RPW Chair Reince Priebus, ever the partisan hack, took the opportunity to attack Democrats for the mess he asserts they’ve made in Madison and [...]
Posted by
Zach on September 1, 2010, at 5:13 am
Former Wisconsin Commerce Secretary (and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate) Dick Leinenkugel is leading an effort to start an angel investing group in Vilas County, where he has a vacation home. Among those involved is G. Steven Burrill, founder of Burrill & Co., a San Francisco investment bank focused on life sciences companies that [...]
Posted by
Zach on August 31, 2010, at 9:35 pm
A lot’s been made elsewhere on the blogosphere about the fact that the website of PACUR, the plastics company owned by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson was edited to change the company’s history to be more consistent with Ron Johnson’s version of his “life story,” but Annie K. of eau snap! astutely pointed [...]
Posted by
Zach on August 31, 2010, at 5:59 am
Yesterday Democratic Lt. Governor candidate Henry Sanders, Jr. released an editorial making the case for the state to implement Best Value Contracting as a means of ensuring Wisconsin’s taxpayers get the most possible bang for their bucks, both in the short term and especially in the long term.
Here’s the text of Sanders’ editorial: [...]
Posted by
Zach on August 31, 2010, at 5:33 am
Under John Chianelli’s watch, problems at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex were rampant, finally boiling over when allegations that a violent male patient had sexually assaulted a female patient, resulting in that female patient becoming pregnant, despite the fact that she was supposed to have been getting birth control injections. Last week Wednesday [...]
Posted by
Zach on August 30, 2010, at 5:13 am
This is just a great story… When the levee along the Industrial Canal failed back in 2005 and the wall of water drowned much of New Orleans’ Lower Nine, the area north of Claiborne Avenue – the poorest section of the neighborhood – was hardest hit. Not surprisingly, the stretch has been slowest to [...]
Posted by
Zach on August 28, 2010, at 7:58 am
Image courtesy of Carlsontoons.com
This is what August 28 should be best remembered for:
Have a great Saturday!
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