Getting 60 signatures can’t be that hard, can it?

Really?!?!? Fun fact: the new rules to get on the ballot as a candidate for Chair of the WI Dem party are more particular than the requirements to get on the ballot for U.S. Senate!

For the record, getting on the ballot as an official candidate for Chair of the Democratic Party of Wiscosnin [...]

13 Democrats join Republicans in voting to classify Wisconsin sharp cheddar cheese as junk food (UPDATED)

This will never stand up to Federal scrutiny, but it still sucks… The Assembly approved, on a bipartisan vote of 68-26, a bill requiring at least two-thirds of the purchases in the state’s FoodShare program to come from a list of state-defined healthy foods, with Republicans arguing that the benefits outweighed the opposition of some [...]

President Obama proposes cuts to Social Security

Yeah, consider me underwhelmed by this… Seeking an elusive middle ground, President Barack Obama is proposing a 2014 budget that embraces tax increases abhorred by Republicans as well as reductions, loathed by liberals, in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs.

The plan, if ever enacted, could touch almost all Americans. The rich [...]

Aide to State Rep. Hulsey reassigned

Wait….what?!?!? After spending much of the fall explaining why he pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge, Wisconsin Rep. Brett Hulsey (D-Madison) appears to be in the middle of more turmoil.

His full-time legislative aide took vacation and is being reassigned to another job following an incident where she felt threatened by Hulsey’s plan to [...]

Don’t be surprised if Lena Taylor breaks ranks with Democrats

According to a report by Steve Schultze of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Democratic State Sen. Lena Taylor (pictured, right) has agreed to cosponsor Republican State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo’s revised bill to shrink both the size of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and the Board’s pay/overall budget. Sanfelippo’s revised bill would put the matter before [...]

What’s the Deal with Progressives and Sexism?

Two of my favorite liberal women talked with me about my earlier post: What’s the Deal with Progressives and Agism?

I was so tuned into the issue of agism in progressive politics, partly because I am of the generation of Americans being dissed, that I may have overlooked another issue entirely.

But it was pointed [...]

Barack Obama & Mitt Romney: mirror images on drone strikes (VIDEO)

Prior to Monday’s presidential debate between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, a debate that focused primarily on foreign policy, filmmaker and president of the Brave New Foundation Robert Greenwald co-authored an editorial for the Huffington Post opining that America deserved to hear Mitt Romney and President Obama talk about drone strikes in [...]

The Chicago teachers strike: which side is President Obama on?

As I write this, the Chicago teachers strike continues with Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel threatening to take the striking teachers to court to force them back to work.

What I’m wondering is which side of the Chicago teachers strike President Barack Obama is on – the side of Emanuel, his former Chief of Staff, [...]

Priceless!

Cost to attend a general reception for President Barack Obama? $250 Cost tot attend a photo reception and VIP reception? $5,000 Cost to attend a roundtable discussion with President Obama? $25,000

Scratching together $25,000 so you can tell President Obama what you think of the fact that he didn’t come to Wisconsin to support public [...]

Democratic Rep. Brett Hulsey pleads no contest to disorderly conduct charge

This is just odd to me… State Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, pleaded no contest earlier this month on a charge of municipal disorderly conduct after an altercation with a 9-year-old boy at Spring Harbor Beach that left the child’s parents feeling “uncomfortable.”

According Madison police, on July 4 Hulsey rode his bike to the beach, [...]