Tag: Jim Doyle

It’s good to see Gov. Doyle isn’t listening to Scott Walker and is still doing his job…. Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration has agreed to no-pay raise contracts with six unions covering thousands of state workers and is finishing more agreements at a time when Governor-elect Scott Walker is calling for…

Governor Jim Doyle yesterday, put a \"temporary\" hold on the Madison – Milwaukee train. This helps Scott Walker fulfill one of his campaign promises to stop the train. While it appears that Governor Doyle was listening to the “will of the people” and acquiescing to the next Governor wishes, despite…

Fridays Journal Sentinel had dueling stories on the front page and I am not even sure they understood the irony. The first story comes from Racine. The Spending Revolt tour bus was in Racine for a “stop spending my children’s money” rally. Most spectators, though, were drawn by rhetoric for…

Listen as David King, the far-right Republican candidate for Secretary of State, refers to Gov. Jim Doyle as a “crackhead” during a recent campaign speech: [audio:http://media.journalinteractive.com/audio/David-King-Crackhead-Comment-short.mp3] (Audio courtesy of JSOnline.com) Classy!

The High Speed rail from Milwaukee to Madison has been an issue in the upcoming election season. Bruce Murphy breaks it down so simple even Scott Walker could understand. As Murphy points out to the true blue “conservatives”: All transportation is subsidized. The state spends more than $2 billion annually…

Seriously….this is why I was never Gov. Jim Doyle’s biggest fan: Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration lacks the legal authority to use a $127 million accounting trick to help cover a shortfall in state health programs for the poor, the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget and audit offices report. The finding means the…

Here’s an ad I put together as my take on the recent ad run by the Republican Governor’s Association tying Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett to incumbent Gov. Jim Doyle:

The Clean Energy Jobs Act, legislation geared towards cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the state’s green economy appears to be dead after Democrats in the State Assembly failed to take up the legislation in an all-night session that began late Tuesday night and went into Wednesday morning. Governor Jim…

Earlier today, I noted commerce secretary Dick Leinenkugel was resigning his position, and I noted it was clear Leinenkugel had his eyes on running for elected office. While I believed at the time Leinenkugel was preparing to run for governor, multiple sources are reporting Leinenkugel is actually planning on running…

I can’t help but wonder when the folks in Scott Walker’s gubernatorial campaign are going to come to the realization that they’re not running against Gov. Jim Doyle in 2010. Sure, I get it…they want to tie Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to Gov. Doyle, but at what point does Scott…