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What follows is a guest blog by the former Communications Director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Ed Garvey and Charlie Sykes make a perfect match, since they both are hideous liars.

That Sykes is a liar need not be debated in this space at any length. Just ask the nun who caught him making [...]

Dan Sebring ready to beat Gwen Moore with a $50 campaign war chest!

Heh…

On a related note, I’m still banned (it’s been over a year now) from commenting/asking Sebring questions on his Facebook page, and I know I’m not alone in being banned. Apparently Sebring cannot tolerate opinions that dissent from his own, which strikes me as a poor quality for an aspiring elected official to [...]

Walker health care “plan” would cost WI taxpayers $50 million per year

According to a new report from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed rejection of a federally funded expansion of state health programs will cost Wisconsin taxpayers about $50 million per year. The new report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau immediately became part of the debate over Walker’s budget proposal for Medicaid [...]

Sen. Tammy Baldwin endorses Mike Tate for DPW Chair

This certainly can’t hurt Mike Tate’s chances of being reelected as Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Wisconsin loses over 22,000 private sector jobs in April

Yep, Gov. Scott Walker’s “laser focus” on creating jobs in Wisconsin is sure paying dividends… And another set of employment data – this one preliminary and subject to revision – showed Wisconsin losing an estimated 22,600 private-sector jobs during April of this year.

In related news, according to the state Department of Workforce Development 62,072 [...]

Republican legislators behave badly during Dalai Lama’s address to Legislature

Bluecheddar has the lowdown… While some of us were transfixed, hanging on every word either in person or via Wisconsin Eye, others were less than enthralled. A number of Wisconsin representatives appeared to be asleep or using cell phones.

According to one observer, “the ones who fell asleep (or at least appeared to be asleep) [...]

State hires Boston firm to create job database!

I just copied that headline verbatim from jsonline…well except for the exclamation point…that’s mine.

From the short article:

The state agency (Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development), which administers taxpayer-funded job retraining funds, said it expects to award a contract to develop an online database and job matchmaking service to Boston-based Burning Glass Technologies.

The [...]

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 [...]

Bipartisan Drone Bill Introduced in Madison

Late last week, Rep. Tyler August (R-Lake Geneva), Rep. Frederick P. Kessler (D-Milwaukee), Rep. Dave Craig (R-Town of Vernon) and Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) introduced a bill that would ensure drones do not threaten the privacy rights of people in Wisconsin. A number of other states already have similar laws restricting the use of drones [...]