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Posted by Zach on September 2, 2010, at 5:59 am

So who’s running the Republican Party of Wisconsin, dumb and dumber?

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.

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Posted by Zach on August 8, 2010, at 7:31 pm

Feingold’s ad used a made up name….so what???

Cue up the right-wing outrage brigade, this time in the form of right-wing squawker Charlie Sykes, thinks it’s newsworthy that Sen. Feingold used a fictional name in his most recent TV ad. However, as Jay Bullock notes over at his place, perhaps Sen. Feingold’s campaign used a made up name in the ad because [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 14, 2010, at 6:32 am

Walker to appear on “Sly in the Morning” show

From the SEPAC blog comes news Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker will be appearing on WTDY’s Sly in the Morning radio show this Tuesday, March 16th: Madison area leaders and members should note that radio host Sly will have gubernatorial candidate Walker on his program on Tuesday, 3/16 at 8:35 a.m. to quiz him [...]

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Posted by Zach on January 22, 2010, at 6:01 am

Sykes, Wagner & Belling give Wall three enthusiastic thumbs down!

This was a big week for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall. While formally kicking off his U.S. Senate campaign with a series of events that were closed to the public, Wall had to contend with with continued reports regarding the fact that he had not paid Wisconsin state income taxes for four of [...]

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Posted by Zach on July 27, 2009, at 9:49 pm

Charlie Sykes: no fan of Dave Westlake

Yesterday on Sunday Insight, host Charlie Sykes and his panel discussed the 2010 U.S. Senate election here in Wisconsin, a race that thus far is shaping up to be Sen. Feingold versus Republican challenger Dave Westlake. During the segment, Sykes opined that Senator Russ Feingold will get a “free ride” in the 2010 unless [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 29, 2009, at 10:34 pm

Waterboarding for Walker

From the first post at Heartland Hollar comes a novel fundraising idea for Scott Walker’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, which kicked off this week:

s you may know, Scott Walker is “officially” believing in himself as governor again (or did he ever stop) and he is going to need a lot of charity from people [...]

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Posted by Zach on July 2, 2008, at 6:06 pm

Summerfest Says No to Virtual Killing Simulation

Thanks to a phone call campaign coordinated by Peace Action Wisconsin, a virtual urban warfare game that allowed Summerfest goers as young as 13 to climb into a Humvee simulator and fire machine guns at life-size people displayed on a computer screenhas been shut down by Summerfest officials. Obviously I’m glad the folks from [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 7, 2008, at 3:46 pm

Journal Sentinel Wins Pulitzer, Sykes Does Not

Earlier today, it was announced that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dave Umhoefer won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for his investigation detailing pension deals for county workers. This is the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a member of the staff of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, while its predecessor the Milwaukee Journal won five [...]

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Posted by Zach on February 12, 2008, at 10:03 am

Clarke Plays the Blame Game

As first noted by capper over at whallah!, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is playing the blame game once again, and this time he’s blaming everyone but himself (conveniently enough) for the recent spate of shootings in Milwaukee. In an email to Chuck Sykes, Clarke blames Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Common Council President [...]

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Posted by Zach on January 30, 2008, at 8:13 pm

“What is Torture?” Redux

At the beginning of January, I asked the question, “What is torture?” in response to Charlie Sykes’ assertion that waterboarding isn’t really torture, or that maybe it is, but he’d support it as long as it worked, and so when I came across this little nugget on YouTube, I couldn’t help but be reminded [...]

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