Ashland County board supervisors broaden call for repeal of Act 1.

A pair of northern Wisconsin elected officials, Ashland County board chairman Pete Russo and board supervisor Charles Ortman, took their case for a repeal of Act 1 to the airwaves on WOJB community radio on New Year’s Day. Russo and Ortman first called for a repeal of the new ferrous mining law, (passed…

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Sean Duffy Aid

As we showed earlier in the week, Sean Duffy telling us of his financial woes. The poor guy is trying to make it on $174,000/yr. As Zach pointed out, it is hard to have 6 kids and 2 homes these days. In case you missed the video(the republicans have tried…

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Has Sean Duffy ever been in the Real World?

There is nothing I can say that will add to this, so I will let freshman Representative Sean Duffy and one of his constituents do all of the talking. From Wispolitics: Duffy’s exchange with a constituent at his townhall meeting in Amery Wisconsin follows: Constituent: I’m a builder. I haven’t…

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Earmarks in Action!

Per Bob Jauch: In 2002 Congressman Obey obtained $80,000 earmark requested by Ashland County Sheriff following tragic death of teenager. President Bush singled out this earmark as example of wasteful spending. Two lives were saved yesterday. Convince them the money was wasteful. Full Story here: “if it had not been…

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