Remember that time Gov. Scott Walker’s administration engaged in a little political plagiarism?

While conservatives (and especially Gov. Walker’s reelection campaign) have been making a big deal of the supposed “plagiarism” (though it wasn’t really plagiarism) in Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan, it’s important to remember that Gov. Walker isn’t unfamiliar with plagiarism, according to this 2011 report indicating Gov. Walker’s…

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Why is Scott Walker still running against Jim Doyle?

As part of a nearly $250,000 ad buy, Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign released on Friday a television ad linking Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke to former Gov. Jim Doyle, under whom she served as Commerce secretary from 2005 to 2007. With Doyle and Burke represented in a deck of playing…

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About Kathleen Falk’s Union Endorsements

There are still many people who are upset that Kathleen Falk has received the endorsements of WEAC / Emily's List and AFSCME / John "Sly "Sylvester , the full membership of IBEW and (most importantly) Yours truly! Lets look at a few objections: Q. I want Russ Feingold to run….

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Scott Walker should hold himself to the standard he demanded for Jim Doyle

Over at Uppity Wisconsin, xoff has done a great job of pointing out the hypocrisy of Scott Walker (as if there was any doubt he’s a hypocrite). In this case, Scott Walker’s hypocrisy stems from statements he made in 2006 after Georgia Thompson, a mid-level state employee appointed by then-Republican…

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Mark Pocan endorsed by former Gov. Jim Doyle

From Mark Pocan’s Congressional campaign comes news that former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle has endorsed Pocan’s campaign: “In my time as Governor I’ve seen a lot of legislators at work. Mark’s ability to get things done for working people truly stood out,” the Governor said. “As chair of the budget…

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Doyle Did It Without An Overreach

Lest we forget, Governor Jim Doyle managed to extract concessions from the state employee unions without the massive overreach that is going to cost Governor Walker his job.

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The Cullen/Schulz show

Tim Cullen & Dale Schultz are currently on a \"Bipartisan\" road tour. REEDSBURG — Greenwood’s Cafe in downtown Reedsburg this week hosted an unusual example of retail politicking, as Sen. Tim Cullen pressed the flesh and listened intently to constituents who couldn’t possibly vote for him. The Janesville Democrat had…

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fiscal conservatives – part 4 (train edition)

In our continuing series of fiscal conservatives we now have a Wisconsin train edition. As reported Wisconsin taxpayers are now having to pay millions for passenger trains. Wisconsin taxpayers could wind up paying more to keep existing passenger train service from Milwaukee to Chicago than they would have paid to…

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Reason #1 why we need competitive districts…

This is that we redistrict our legislative districts in Wisconsin. Representative Steve Nass is at it again. H/T to Democurmudgeon! Rep. Nass-TY recently introduced introduced legislation to bring back racist sports team names and logos. Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, has drafted legislation to repeal the law, which allows any school…

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Dane County Exec – Update

Due to the Holiday I have been a little lax in updating the race for Dane County Exec. In the time since I have last posted…Jonathan Barry declared then undeclared all in a few days. Thus leaves an opening for a right wing candidate to surface from in the race….

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