Progressives United endorses Democrat Kelly Westlund

From my email inbox comes this bit of news that Democrat Kelly Westlund, who’s challenging Republican Rep. Sean Duffy in the 7th Congressional district, has been endorsed by Progressives United. Progressives United officially announced their endorsement of Democratic Congressional candidate Kelly Westlund. Westlund is challenging Rep. Sean Duffy in the…

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Progressives United endorses Mary Burke

Earlier today Progressives United, a group founded by former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, announced it was endorsing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke and would begin raising money for her immediately. Progressives United said the group got into the race after polling the group’s members in Wisconsin and, with some 3,000…

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I Voted ” No “

Russ Feingold’s PAC, Progressives United, is asking us to vote on whether or not they should support Mary Burke for governor right away.  I voted no for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it’s not clear at all that Mary Burke can be accurately described as a progressive….

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Wisconsin For Falk SuperPAC runs deceptive ad asserting Feingold support of Falk (UPDATED)

UPDATE: In response to this entry, the Wisconsin For Falk Twitter account popped off a tweet clarifying their group is not a super PAC. No doubt they’ll be taking up the issue with Sen. Russ Feingold’s Progressives United group, who has also referred to Wisconsin For Falk as a super…

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