Tag: Dale Schultz

I have a ton of respect for retiring Republican State Sen. Dale Schultz. (A boat dock on Lake Ellen, WI) “Like many Wisconsin families, I’m taking time with mine this week to enjoy our annual summer vacation at a cabin on a lake. However, I felt it important to pen…

It’s amazing how freeing not having to run for reelection can be for an elected official. Wisconsin state Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, will not ride off quietly into the sunset. In an appearance on the Devil’s Advocate radio show (The Mic/92.1 FM) last week, Schultz told hosts Mike Crute…

Although it doesn’t always pay to tilt at windmills, the decision by Wisconsin Assembly Democrats and Assembly Minority Leader Representative Peter Barca to refrain from offering a single amendment to the biennial budget is downright perplexing. On the one hand I can understand the futility of offering up amendments that…

Over at LacrosseTribune.com. Matt Pommer is speculating that Democratic Rep. Ron Kind may be looking ahead to a run against Gov. Scott Walker in 2014. Pommer cites Kind’s recent statements accusing Gov. Walker of “budgetary and fiscal malpractice” in rejecting addition federal money for health care for Wisconsin’s poor as…

On Tuesday Republican Senator and former Majority Leader Dale Schultz appeared on the Drive Home With Sly, where he spoke out against the control that conservative radio station WTMJ has over conservative Wisconsin politicians, but especially those in southeastern Wisconsin. H/T to Uppity Wisconsin.

Senator Dale Schultz recently said he will be voting against Mary Lazich\'s plan to rig the recall elections. Even though the Lazich plan was illegal anyway, that is a minor detail and drew outrage from the hate right. Now the righties have have dangerously ramped up their threat to Senator…

In the wake of losing two of his most staunch supporters, now Governor Walker is calling for cooperation and bipartisanship in Madison. Voters “want us to do more working together,” he said Wednesday in an interview in his Capitol office. “I’m not pretending that everything is going to automatically be…

This is an interesting read… So even as a Republican, Schultz, not Republican leader Scott Fitzgerald, is the most powerful man in the Senate—he is the balance of power in Wisconsin, and if he’s interested, he could team with Democrats to form a majority coalition, or even switch parties outright….

I know Jeff has already shared his thoughts on yesterday’s elections, and while I agree with much of what he wrote, I wanted to share my own thoughts on what happened yesterday. So here are my thoughts: I know folks on both sides of the political spectrum are furiously spinning…

While the results from last nights election were not what we were hoping, they were also not clear cut. There was good news and bad news. Here are my thoughts about the GOOD NEWS of what we can take from last nights results! * Jess King is now a Wisconsin…