Scott Suder lands lobbying job to save Scott Walker from embarassment

How convenient that former Republican Rep. Scott Suder found a sweet lobbying job that will allow him to not join Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, saving Gov. Walker the trouble of having to explain why he’d give someone as ethically challenged (and that’s putting it mildly) as Suder a hefty raise…

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Jeff Stone’s sweeping assault on democracy

On Friday, May 31, Republican Rep. Jeff Stone introduced AB 225, a comprehensive (and in my opinion reprehensible) piece of legislation that would drastically impact elections and political campaigns here in Wisconsin, and most certainly not for the better. Brendan Fischer of PR Watch has posted a very comprehensive post…

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Verify the “Verify the Recall”

There has been much written about the recall verification process, from me pointing out that the fraud people are complaining about is NOT fraud, then Phil points out that statistically there will be very little fraud, then Steve points out that maybe the Fraud they did find is not exactly…

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Jeff Stone: tribes don’t deserve any input into mine that will affect their reservations

Republican State Rep. Jeff Stone is a grade-A moron. Considering the highly negative impact the proposed mine will have on native americans living in northern Wisconsin, the tribes involved ABSOLUTELY should have a seat at the table as the impact of the proposed mine is discussed and debated.

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Stone & Clarke mulling runs against Abele? Yes please!

According to a report by Steve Schultze of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Republican State Rep. Jeff Stone and Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a Republican too afraid to run as what he really is, are both considering challenging incumbent Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele in 2012. While I’m hardly a…

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Wisconsin Voter Suppression – Step by Step……

H/T to Dane 101. This is too good not to share as widely as possible, thanks for putting this together! The “Keep Wisconsinites From Voting Democratic” Bill passed yesterday, but not before the republicans voted down EVERY single amendment offered up by the democrats! Here is a step by step…

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What is the difference?

Yesterday in Madison, they debated the \"Keep Wisconsin from voting act\" in committee. During this committee hearing, there were two events that happened and I am trying to figure out the difference between the two. Event number 1. Protesters disrupted the meeting. Protesters disrupt meeting Three protesters hijacked the Joint…

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Yet another reason why I’m glad Jeff Stone lost

Because he and his campaign staff were blindly oblivious to what was happening in Milwaukee County: The votes were still being cast Tuesday afternoon, when the campaign manager for county executive candidate Jeff Stone placed a call to Interim County Executive Mayor Pratt, asking if she could come to his…

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Chris Larson & Jason Haas to highlight Jeff Stone’s plan to give away the airport

Tomorrow Democratic State. Sen. Chris Larson will be joined by Milwaukee County Board District 14 Supervisor Candidate Jason Haas at the Main Terminal of Mitchell Field at 8:45 a.m. to discuss their opposition to Republican County Executive candidate Jeff Stone’s secret plans essentially to give away the county-owned airport. After…

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Stone hires convicted felon to help his County Executive campaign

I can’t wait to see how the usual suspects on the right justify this… For years, LaMonte Harris was the right-hand man to Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee Jr., rallying support and proclaiming the innocence of the now-incarcerated politician. Harris, who has also spent time behind bars, says he lent a…

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