Tag: Wisconsin recall elections

I’m no statistician, or political or social scientist, but it seems pretty clear to me that there’s every reason to feel optimistic about defeating Scott Walker in 2014. The numbers seem to support my optimism. In the 2012 gubernatorial recall election, 1,335,585 people voted for Walker while  1,164,480 voted for…

On Monday, May 14, 2012 (before the recall election) Governor Scott Walker proudly announced an investment in Plexus Corp. of Neenah, Wisconsin. He said that with the support of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), Plexus Corp. would create “up to 350 jobs in Neenah” and “reflect the positive direction…

Many of you probably know that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin has an ongoing conversation on how to select candidates for public office. One group prefers selecting a single Democratic candidate and going all in to support that candidate and avoiding a primary. We saw a bit of this when…

I first met Mike Tate in 2003.  For a while, the Howard Dean campaign in Wisconsin was almost entirely being run out of my living room, with my wife and me organizing fundraisers, visibility events, MeetUps (remember those?), and whatnot.  But I was an amateur, no matter how many conference…

During the May 8 primary election here in Waukesha County, things went slowly, but smoothly. But since our embattled county clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, appeared to be in charge of that election, even though she was not “supposed” to be, some Wisconsin voters were concerned that she may once again be in charge on June…

Even though Lori Compas did not defeat Scott Fitzgerald in the June 5 recall election, she received 32,870 votes in an extremely red Wisconsin district. Regardless of the outcome, Compas ran a campaign to be proud of, a campaign powered by middle-class Wisconsinites rather than big-moneyed special interests. Compas, a…

The first time I met Lori Compas was in December of 2011 at a monthly OconDems meeting. I’ll never forget how excited we all were to shake the hand of the woman who had the guts to even attempt to recall Scott Fitzgerald. None of us knew what to expect…

On Friday night, veteran journalist David Shuster broke the news that Governor Scott Walker is “the target of the John Doe investigation.” Many of us had questions about his report; Shuster kindly met with some Wisconsin bloggers and other media on Saturday night via conference call to explain his findings…

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen (R) plans to send Special Agents and Assistant Attorneys General to monitor election day goings-on at select Wisconsin locations. Unfortunately, according to Rep. Jon Richards, Van Hollen will send nine teams to Milwaukee and Madison, but NO teams to Washington or Ozaukee Counties, and…

As more and more Wisconsinites become aware that Governor Walker has appointed a “deer czar” who will likely privatize deer hunting, they become “very, very anxious.” So said Representative Donna Seidel during a recent phone interview. “Here in Wisconsin we have a long-standing tradition of deer hunting on public land…to lose…