Tag: Wisconsin State Assembly

From this morning’s email, Chris Walton, Chair of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County, announced that his is running to replace newly elected Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley in the State Assembly’s District 17! Friend, I’m excited to let you know that I am exploring a run for the Wisconsin…

This totally missed my radar. I didn’t realize the special election to replace the late Bob Gannon in Wisconsin Assembly District 58 was coming up quite so soon…but it’s basically a month away on January 16th 2018. And I am particularly penitent that I missed that fact that there is…

Apparently Republicans in the State Assembly may move to limit on debate on legislation, because less debate must equal more democracy. Republicans who control the state Assembly are considering formal rules to limit debate, sparking cries from minority Democrats that the GOP wants to silence them. The Assembly is expected…

There was a little article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that went pretty much unnoticed and as far as I know, uncommented on. But apparently a gentleman from a more rural area of Southeastern Wisconsin had a fixation on how we all vote here in the big city of Milwaukee….

from the inbox: Are you ready for a new voice in Milwaukee politics? As residents of Bay View, we’re committed to the City of Milwaukee – the heart and soul of our state. We love Bay View, our neighbors here, and our City as a whole. And we know our…

One of the more exciting side effects of the biased redistricting of Wisconsin’s various political units has been the appearance of new progressive voices on the scene. One of the most visible races in this new environment is the Wisconsin 11th Assembly District. The newly drawn lines for the 11th…

Or from the desk of Joseph McCarthy i can not keep them straight these days! We have written recently of the ill advised attack on the UW School for Workers, by Representative Steve Nass (and/or) his spokesperson Mike Mikalsen. They censored a little art show that was being planned by…

A few weeks back, Representative Bill Kramer revealed that he brings his loaded Glock to work with him. Unsurprisingly, people here in Waukesha are still talking about it. At every event I attend lately someone invariably brings up the subject. My friend, Marga Krumins, recently addressed the issue and summed…

The Republicans who lead the Wisconsin Assembly have been arresting anyone in the gallery of the Assembly who demonstrates anything like free speech.  They arrest people with cameras, and they arrest people with signs, and they are even arresting people with small sheets of paper.  According to the Republicans of the…