What does $11 buy you? (VIDEO)

This is a great ad from Mary Burke’s campaign, highlighting just how ridiculous Gov. Scott Walker’s “tax cuts” are for the average Wisconsin taxpayer.

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New poll shows Mary Burke with 5-point lead over Scott Walker

According to a new poll released Tuesday by Gravis Marketing, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has a 5-point lead over Republican Gov. Scott Walker. A poll released Tuesday showing Mary Burke ahead of Gov. Scott Walker by five points has widened the Democratic challenger’s lead in Brad Jones’ model of…

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Governor Walker Says Candidate Burke Should Fess Up On Jobs Plan

Considering the obfuscation and tap dancing around the issues we’ve seen from Governor Walker on the dubious goings on in his Milwaukee County Executive office, his various campaigns, and his activities as governor…I found it amusing that the Governor would suggest that candidate Burke fess up: Asked if Burke should…

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Burke jobs plan plagiarized from other candidates

*Sigh* Really?!? Really?!? Large portions of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan for Wisconsin appear to be copied directly from the plans of three Democratic candidates who ran for governor in previous election cycles. Burke’s economic plan “Invest for Success” copies nearly-verbatim sections from the jobs plans of…

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Progressives Behaving Badly – Milwaukee County Edition:

I am on the Grassroots North Shore email list and look forward to the information that they forward and the activities that they arrange. As a result of that affiliation I have also been receiving emails from North Shore for Mary Burke. I received their latest email last Thursday and…

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Governor Walker Still Can’t Manage

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article comparing/contrasting the positions of candidate Mary Burke and Governor Walker on the just announced $1.8 Billion projected deficit in the 2015 – 2017 Wisconsin State budget. Governor Walker in one of his most captain obvious moments said: Walker said the projections also reflected…

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Mary Burke vs. Scott Walker on school vouchers

Mary Burke vs. Scott Walker on school vouchers….discuss. As we draw closer to casting that ballot, Governor Scott Walker and gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke are speaking out on a variety of hot button issues including the state’s school voucher program. The program offers taxpayer-funded tuition subsidies for students to attend…

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Thanks Debbie!

Apparently DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz thought it would be a great idea to come to Wisconsin and say something exceptionally stupid, causing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke to then distance herself from Wasserman Schultz’s remarks. Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ripped into Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s record…

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Gender matters with Burke & Happ at top of Democratic ticket

This is an exellent read…thanks to commenter Duane12 for sending me the link. “The gender is interesting,” said Happ, who got 52 percent of the vote in a primary against two men. “I think women are saying, ‘Listen, we want more representation in our elected officials.’ Because we are woefully…

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PolitiFact? More like PolitiFarce!

How desperate have the folks at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s PolitiFact gotten? So desperate they’ve taken to determining the accuracy of statements Mary Burke made about her preferred beer. During a “getting to know you” Q&A with ABC News, Democrat Mary Burke fielded a question that hardly will change the…

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