Tag: Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Well isn’t this special…. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has paid a $23,000 fine to federal regulators for campaign finance violations during the recall campaigns of 2011 and 2012. Those violations include failing to keep required payroll logs in 2011 and 2012 and underreporting its spending in 2011 by about…

All day yesterday, I was ruminating on the upcoming Supreme Court primary and the great opportunity it presents for Democrats to vote Rebecca Bradley out of the race altogether. Even though the race is non-partisan, she is clearly one of Walker’s “tools” and would pretty much put an end to…

Meh. Here’s yet another example of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has received commitments from four Democratic state parties, including in the crucial proving ground of New Hampshire, to enter joint fund-raising agreements with the campaign just as the nomination battle…

Earlier today Democrat Russ Feingold signed the Badger Pledge and asked Sen. Ron Johnson to sign as well. The Badger Pledge, which is modeled after the successful bipartisan agreement used in the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, would seek to limit the amount of third-party spending in Wisconsin’s 2016 U.S. Senate…

This weekend Democrats elected Martha Laning as the new Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. As has been noted here and elsewhere, the race to succeed former Chair Mike Tate was not without negative and attacks, with yours truly having been at the center of some of those attacks….

Over at Cognitive Dissidence, DFL: DATA, FACTS, LOGIC has an interesting piece up outlining just how easy it may end up being for political consultant Jason Rae to end up as the next Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, thanks almost entirely to Milwaukee County’s convention delegates. As noted…

If you have a chance, you all should click over to Wisconsin Soapbox and read his excellent piece about how to bring about the revival of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin. Here’s a snippet. Wisconsin Democrats for so long were not a viable party. Sans wave years in 1932 and…

The Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Right to Work bill on Friday by a straight party line vote of 62 to 35. Since the bill already passed the state senate last week, Governor Walker has announced that he will sign the bill on Monday at Badger Meter in Brown Deer….

I think this blog post sums up why so many progressive activists in Wisconsin are so fed up with Mike Tate and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is in danger of becoming the 25th “right to work” state by early March, with hearings held today, a Senate vote coming…

Yesterday three of the four announced candidates for Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) Chair – Jason Rae, Jeff Smith, and Joe Wineke – came together at Camp Bar in Shorewood to speak to Democrats and share their ideas on how they’d move the Democratic Party of Wisconsin forward if elected…