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.

Mike Tate for DPW Chair

Recently Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) Chair Mike Tate (pictured, left) announced he will be seeking a third term as Chair of the DPW.

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Tate about his campaign for a third term as DPW Chair, and the obvious first question I asked was why he decided [...]

Rowan Viva to challenge Mike Tate for DPW Chair

According to Facebook and at least one progressive blog, it appears Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DOW) Chairman Mike Tate will have a challenger for his position at the coming DPW convention in June.

Rowan Viva, who according to her LinkedIn profile currently works as the “Director of Voter Protection” for the State of Wisconsin (as [...]

Wisconsin Democrats call Governor Walker out on his failed promises

Remember when gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker drove around in a 1998 Saturn, eating ham and cheese sandwiches and promising to create 250,000 jobs? It’s hard to forget, because his thrifty lifestyle and “250,000 jobs” claim probably got him elected. And remember when Governor Walker said he’d focus “like a laser” to create those 250,000 jobs [...]

Waukesha Dems to host holiday potluck; DPW Chair Mike Tate to attend

Mike Tate, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, will join the Waukesha County Democrats for the Annual Holiday Potluck on December 20th at the Waukesha Labor Temple. In between bites, I plan to grill Tate for info about next year’s State Convention. Word on the street is that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin will [...]

Again with the mixed messaging…

This is a week old, but it’s worth discussing… “Scott Walker will see the inside of a jail cell before he sees the inside of another term!” yelled Wisconsin Democratic Party Chariman Mike Tate to great cheers at his party’s state convention this past weekend.

When Newsradio 620 WTMJ’s Wisconsin’s Morning News asked Kenosha Assemblyman [...]

I don’t blame Mike Tate

I first met Mike Tate in 2003. For a while, the Howard Dean campaign in Wisconsin was almost entirely being run out of my living room, with my wife and me organizing fundraisers, visibility events, MeetUps (remember those?), and whatnot. But I was an amateur, no matter how many conference calls I was on with [...]

I beg to differ about President Obama

“The Obama campaign has always been here for us in Wisconsin.”

So said Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) Chairman Mike Tate last week.

While Tate may be right in saying President Obama’s reelection campaign has “always been here for us in Wisconsin,” the candidate himself most certainly has not “always been here” for us in [...]

It’s all about accountability

Earlier today Phil Scarr from Blogging Blue opined that the leadership of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) should face consequences if the recall effort against Republican Gov. Scott Walker fails.

Here’s what Phil wrote: Should the battle to recall Governor Scott Walker fail, we should expect Mike Tate & his entire leadership team to [...]

A note on Kathleen Falk

Though I wasn’t a supporter of former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk in the Democratic gubernatorial recall primary for my own reasons, she deserves a ton of credit for all the hard work she’s done both during the protests of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on public employees and during the effort to recall Gov. [...]