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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 July 15, 2010, at 8:37 pm

Ron Johnson forgets one of the Great Lakes,distorts Sen. Feingold’s record

In his most recent ad, an ad the Associated Press has labeled “misleading,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson makes the claim that Senator Russ Feingold actually supports oil drilling in the Great Lakes because in 2005 Sen. Feingold voted against an energy bill widely speculated to have been largely written by energy companies, [...]

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Posted by Zach on June 3, 2010, at 5:37 am

Another elected official exaggerates his military record

No doubt you’ve by now heard of the controversy surrounding statements made by Connecticut Attorney General (and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate) Dick Blumenthal, who, as he characterized it, “misspoke” on several occasions by saying he had served in Vietnam when he actually hadn’t. Obviously inflating one’s military record is unacceptable, and many conservatives were [...]

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Posted by Zach on May 13, 2010, at 9:09 pm

Kyle Maichle plays fast and loose with the facts

Over at his Mike Tate hate blog, Kyle “North Shore Exponent” Maichle has a new hit piece attacking Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett via a YouTube video. In his YouTube video, Maichle asserts Barrett is no friend to public safety, and to bolster his case, Maichle notes Tom Barrett furloughed Milwaukee Police officers while Milwaukee [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 23, 2010, at 5:34 am

Walker exaggerates role in bringing GE to Milwaukee County

Have you heard Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker’s claim he helped bring GE Healthcare’s $85 million headquarters in the Milwaukee County Research Park in Wauwatosa in 2004? It’s a claim that’s been made in a recent comment at this very blog by staunch Walker supporter Aaron Rodriguez, but there’s just one problem – it’s [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 18, 2010, at 9:38 am

Westlake flip-flops on fundraising

Back in January, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake announced he was suspending all his campaign’s fundraising, and that instead of formal campaign fundraisers, his campaign would raise money through the sale of blaze orange t-shirts on Westlake’s campaign website. However, in a stunning reversal, Westlake has resumed formal fundraising for his Senate campaign, [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 5, 2010, at 5:57 am

We need a fact check on aisle three!

A recent blog entry by campaign flack Bob Delaporte on Terrence Wall’s campaign blog attempted to make the case against a Feingold Flip-flop on Reconciliation (notice I wrote attempted to make the case, as opposed to succeeded in making the case), and in attempting to make the case, Delaporte wrote: And for some historical [...]

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Posted by Zach on February 25, 2010, at 5:31 am

Scott Walker will eliminate WI unemployment? I think not!

In a recent press release, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker announced his plan to create 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses in Wisconsin by 2015. That sounds positively wonderful, except for the fact that it’s simply not realistic. In making his claim that he’ll create 250,000 jobs, Walker is claiming he’ll be able to [...]

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Posted by Zach on February 13, 2010, at 6:41 am

Why can’t Terrence Wall tell the truth?

I’d like to know why Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall has an aversion for telling the truth.

In the first TV ad of his burgeoning U.S. Senate campaign, Wall demonstrated he’s perfectly content slinging mud and telling lies in order to further his own ambitions, as his TV ad has been thoroughly debunked [...]

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Posted by Zach on February 2, 2010, at 6:08 am

Walker crashed the GAB system? Uh, not really!

Over the weekend, the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Scott Walker issued a press release claiming there were so many donations to Walker’s gubernatorial campaign that the Government Accountability Board’s online system could not process them all. According to Walker’s campaign manager, Keith Gilkes, “We ended up having to ‘unload’ our report because we brought [...]

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