Yes, Apparently You Can Buy The Presidential Nomination

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently published an article about the most recent Marquette poll for the Democratic presidential race. They were surprised by the significant support that Senator Bernie Sanders is currently showing in Wisconsin. He has a double digit lead with 29% of the voters. Surprising? Well Yes and…

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County Executive Candidates Are Making My Decision Easier

(editor’s note: I started this article over the weekend but the news this afternoon has an effect on what I am writing. I intend to stick with my original thoughts as much as possible and add the newest info at the end) After incumbent County Executive, Chris Abele, announced that…

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An All White Democratic Debate? Well almost…

Senator Kamala Harris was one of the Democratic Presidential Candidates who had made the minimum requirements to participate in this Thursday’s debate. She was the only person of color at that point. So when she dropped out it looked like we were going to have an all white panel. And…

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McConnell CRYING: Really, this is how you want to appeal to me?

Long time readers know that I am losing patience with liberal fund raisers and liberal groups that come at me with negative or misleading email come ons. And this election season is no exception but I have put most of them aside and tried to ignore them. But today I…

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Duncan Hunter: May Resign?

WTF? After denying any wrong doing and originally pleading not-guilty to charges of misuse of campaign funds, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R- CA) is accepting a plea deal on one count. But it isn’t apparent if he’ll resign from the House of Representatives. Hunter and his wife were charged last summer…

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Grass Roots Fundraising My Ass!

Now I’ll admit that I’ve gotten fundraising requests from many of the presidential candidates for minimal amounts…even as low as $1. But many of the local candidates for state, county, and city offices are starting to stretch for bigger and bigger dollars and specifying minimums. I think that sucks and…

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Abele Actions Scream Out For Campaign Finance Reform.

I have been a very vocal advocate for campaign finance reform. You can find several posts here on BB…but the basic tenets are: only eligible voters can contribute to campaigns…and only to campaigns that they are eligible to vote in. A few corollaries, but that’s about it. But then there’s…

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Official Business or Campaign Come On?

Yes…I am questioning this again! I’d say this was campaign propaganda…but maybe that’s just me.

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A Perfect Example Of Why We Need Laws Around Official Use of Social Media

Yeah, you are probably tired of my harping about legislation around the use of social media by elected officials and other government employees. But here is the perfect example on why we need such clarity. @realDonaldTrump is monitored by media and foreign officials the world over because President Trump uses…

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This Isn’t A Survey…It’s A Push Poll and a Fund Raiser.

This ‘survey’ from the Biden campaign has been popping up in the Blogging Blue Twitter feed for a few days. I didn’t pay any attention but when a similar come on from Senator Elizabeth Warren popped up I decided to give them both a try. Of course they are both…

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