Tag: Sheila Harsdorf
Republicans in state Senate vote to give over $217,000 in taxpayer money to GOP donor
As reported by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, on Tuesday the Wisconsin state Senate voted to pay $217,499 in taxpayer dollars to a Hudson steel company whose CEO donated to Sheila Harsdorf, the very same Republican state senator who introduced the bill to provide the money. J & L Steel…
Republican State Sen. Mike Ellis: “Green Bay Preble is a sewer”
Watch and listen as Republican State Sen. Mike Ellis of Neenah expresses his feelings about Green Bay Preble High School, calling it a “sewer” while holding court with Republican State Rep. Robin Vos and Republican State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf. The video I posted was edited and re-posted with the permission…
The sordid history of Americans For Prosperity in Wisconsin’s elections
I’ve already documented the efforts by Americans For Prosperity (AF) to confuse Democratic voters in the 2nd and 10th State Senate districts – where incumbent Republican State Senators Rob Cowles and Sheila Harsdorf face tough recall elections – with a mailer telling them to send in their absentee ballots by…
Why is Sheila Harsdorf hiding from Shelly Moore?
From RiverTowns.net comes news that a candidate forum in the recall election in the 10th Senate District has been cancelled due to Republican State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf’s refusal to attend: AAUW members have announced they are officially canceling a 10th Senate District forum they had been attempting to organize. Ann…
428,000 and counting
Today on JSonline today they broke down the costs, to the taxpayers of Wisconsin for the republican plan to run fake Democrats and force primaries. Madison – A plan by Republicans to run fake Democratic candidates in this summer’s recall elections would cost taxpayers upward of $428,000, according to election…
Olsen recall petitions filed, Harsdorf petitions to follow
From The Plum Line comes news that organizers of the effort to recall Republican State Senator Luther Olsen – who called Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to weaken public employee unions “radical” – have filed their recall petitions with the state’s Government Accountability Board. According to Graeme Zielinski of the Democratic…
Recall signature gatherers attacked, signatures stolen
It’s common to hear many on the right refer to union members who dare to exercise their Constitutionally-protected first amendment rights to free speech and assembly as “union thugs” and “goons,” as if the right would never dare resort On Saturday, March 19, two individuals were gathering signatures in support…
DNA makes for strange bedfellows
In what has to be a clear-cut instance of hell freezing over, Chris “Capper” Liebenthal and Owen “Boots and Sabers” Robinson actually agree on something, and that something is a proposal to collect DNA samples from every individual arrested in the State of Wisconsin, whether those individuals are actually convicted…
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