Category: Democratic Party of Wisconsin

[Update: I was out of the country when this finally went down so I was behind the curve. I wasn’t even able to watch the Super Bowl so I missed Taylor Swift’s big win there. So thank you to dekerivers (see comments below) for getting me up to speed. As…

Since I am on most of the state and local Democratic mailings lists, it should come as no surprise that this past week I got an invite to a ‘birthday party’ fundraiser for US Representative Gwen Moore. I have addressed this issue before, in November of 2020 in fact, when…

I am not going to re-write this article but I will admit that this comes as something more than just a surprise: Wisconsin’s longtime Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette abruptly resigned on Friday, saying he was leaving three months into his 11th consecutive term “to focus on my…

Wisconsin State Representative Janel Brandtjen is a cancer on state politics and has become a pariah on both sides of the aisle. But given her greed and ambition and the support of a former president it wasn’t surprising that she ran for state senate to replace a retiring GOP stalwart….

Both the Democratic and Republican parties of Wisconsin are trying to give an extra boost to their get out the vote efforts for the non-partisan spring election by adding advisory referenda to the ballot. This spring in particular because there is going to be a very nasty race for the…

From former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s “Stick it to ’em”, to Scott Walker’s ACT 10 attack, and on to the continued shared revenue cut backs for Milwaukee coming out of GOP Madison, suddenly there is some bi-partisan making nice going on as RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says Milwaukee has it all….

So essentially, the fall campaign for US Senate in Wisconsin starts now and Mandela Barnes will be the Democratic Candidate against the incumbent insurgent Ron (mouthwash will kill COVID) Johnson. Sarah Godlewski withdraws from Wisconsin U.S. Senate Democratic primary: State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski dropped out of the Democratic U.S. Senate…

Despite running fourth in the polls, it is a little surprising, that with just a few weeks to go before the fall Wisconsin Primary on August 9, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson has left the race for US Senate..and…endorsed Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes. “We ran out of money. So I…

From his FaceBook account: Today I announce I will not seek re-election to the State Senate. Representing the 27th Senate District has truly been an honor and I have been humbled by those who have placed their trust in me to represent their values in the legislature for over 20…

With the surprise announcement from democrat Ron Kind that he’s not running for re-election in the 3rd congressional district, the buzz has started about who will step up to keep the seat blue. My pick is democrat Katrina Shankland, Assembly Rep for the 71st district out of Stevens Point. Shankland…