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Mark Pocan endorsed by former Gov. Jim Doyle

On January 12, 2012 By

From Mark Pocan’s Congressional campaign comes news that former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle has endorsed Pocan’s campaign:
“In my time as Governor I’ve seen a lot of legislators at work. Mark’s ability to get things done for working people truly stood out,” the Governor said. “As chair of the budget committee during the [...]

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Doyle Did It Without An Overreach

On December 5, 2011 By

Lest we forget, Governor Jim Doyle managed to extract concessions from the state employee unions without the massive overreach that is going to cost Governor Walker his job.

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The Cullen/Schulz show

On July 29, 2011 By

Tim Cullen & Dale Schultz are currently on a \"Bipartisan\" road tour.

REEDSBURG — Greenwood’s Cafe in downtown Reedsburg this week hosted an unusual example of retail politicking, as Sen. Tim Cullen pressed the flesh and listened intently to constituents who couldn’t possibly vote for him.

The Janesville Democrat had come to [...]

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fiscal conservatives – part 4 (train edition)

On July 20, 2011 By

In our continuing series of fiscal conservatives we now have a Wisconsin train edition. As reported Wisconsin taxpayers are now having to pay millions for passenger trains.

Wisconsin taxpayers could wind up paying more to keep existing passenger train service from Milwaukee to Chicago than they would have paid to [...]

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Reason #1 why we need competitive districts…

On May 6, 2011 By

This is that we redistrict our legislative districts in Wisconsin. Representative Steve Nass is at it again.

H/T to Democurmudgeon!

Rep. Nass-TY recently introduced introduced legislation to bring back racist sports team names and logos.

Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has [...]

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Dane County Exec – Update

On December 27, 2010 By

Due to the Holiday I have been a little lax in updating the race for Dane County Exec.

In the time since I have last posted…Jonathan Barry declared then undeclared all in a few days. Thus leaves an opening for a right wing candidate to surface from in the race.

In [...]

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Doyle administration pushing ahead with labor contracts

On November 13, 2010 By

It’s good to see Gov. Doyle isn’t listening to Scott Walker and is still doing his job….
Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration has agreed to no-pay raise contracts with six unions covering thousands of state workers and is finishing more agreements at a time when Governor-elect Scott Walker is calling for those negotiations to [...]

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Crazy Train Part 2.

On November 5, 2010 By

Governor Jim Doyle yesterday, put a \"temporary\" hold on the Madison – Milwaukee train. This helps Scott Walker fulfill one of his campaign promises to stop the train. While it appears that Governor Doyle was listening to the “will of the people” and acquiescing to the next Governor wishes, [...]

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Tale of Two Cities ….

On November 1, 2010 By

Fridays Journal Sentinel had dueling stories on the front page and I am not even sure they understood the irony.

The first story comes from Racine. The Spending Revolt tour bus was in Racine for a “stop spending my children’s money” rally.

Most spectators, though, were drawn by rhetoric for [...]

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David King: Gov. Jim Doyle a “crackhead”

On October 24, 2010 By

Listen as David King, the far-right Republican candidate for Secretary of State, refers to Gov. Jim Doyle as a “crackhead” during a recent campaign speech:

(Audio courtesy of JSOnline.com)
Classy!

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