House votes to censure Rangel

By a vote of 333-79, the House of Representatives voted yesterday to censure Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel after Rangel was found guilty on 11 counts of violating House rules, including failing to pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic and improperly using his office to raise money for an educational center bearing [...]

Dan Sebring alleges vote fraud, refuses to concede

Despite losing to Rep. Gwen Moore by 82,000 votes on Tuesday (A result I rightly predicted, by the way), Dan Sebring, the far-right Republican challenger to incumbent Rep. Moore in the Fourth Congressional District, has refused to concede the election, alleging vote fraud on Facebook before taking the post down. Here’s a screenshot of the [...]

A few thoughts on the 4th CD candidate forum

Yesterday afternoon the League of Women Voters sponsored a candidate forum at the Kelly Senior Center for the three candidates in the 4th Congressional District. Turnout was good to hear incumbent Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, Republican challenger Dan Sebring, and independent challenger “Eddie” Ayyash share their thoughts on the issues folks in the 4th CD [...]

Will Tammy Baldwin and Gwen Moore sign on to protect Social Security?

On October 15, Congressmen Raul Grijalva, Jon Conyers, and Dan Maffei (along with a number of their fellow Representatives) sent a letter to President Obama expressing their strong support for Social Security and noting their opposition to any efforts to privatize Social Security, either in whole or in part. The letter goes on to note [...]

Gwen Moore & her two opponents to appear at candidate forum

So says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Milwaukee County League of Women Voters says the three candidates for the Fourth District congressional seat will appear at a forum at 1 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Cudahy Senior Center, 6100 S. Lake Drive.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is being challenged by Republican Dan Sebring and [...]

Is Rep. Gwen Moore in trouble? Nope.

According to his Facebook page, far-right Republican House candidate Dan Sebring seems to think Rep. Gwen Moore is in trouble this year: The ward by ward primary election analysis is in. For the sake of argument lets say it was an opinion poll. Votes in favor of Gwen Moore – 50.98%…votes NOT in favor of [...]

Finally a Fest worth attending

With the lunacy of the Glenn Beck for profit rallies, or the \"tea parties\" The latest in Racine has Paul Ryan (R-Wall St) talking to a “grassroots” rally. Wall st’s favorite son, trying to explain that the people in his district had to lose their jobs for the greater good.

Once a year a stream [...]

Local politicos holding fundraiser for Chris Moews

Found in my email inbox: Please Join U.S. Representative Gwen Moore Along with State Senator Lena Taylor and State Representative Sandy Pasch With County Supervisors Theo Lipscomb, John Thomas, and Gerry Broderick

In supporting Chris Moews, Candidate for Milwaukee County Sheriff

Thursday, August 26th 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

At Brocach Irish Pub 1850 North Water [...]

Tim John nails the point on central city unemployment!

I started working on this blog about a week ago and then set it aside when Tim John posted that he was attending Drinking Liberally. I thought I’d talk to him a bit and add any new information before posting. Well he showed up but I got distracted by other conversations. Well after reading Eugene [...]

Gwen Moore’s raising a lot of out of state money!

Moreso than any of her opponents, incumbent Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore raised a lot of money during the last reporting period (January to the end of June). For the period, Rep. Moore raised $458,115, while her closest opponent, Republican Dan Sebring, raised only $20,574. However, while Rep. Moore raised a lot of money to [...]