Democrat John Lehman has claimed victory, but the election has yet to be certified and with only a few hundred votes separating the candidates, Republican state Senator Van Wanggaard has not yet conceded. The recall battle in Senate District 21 was one of four lower-profile recall elections that took place on Tuesday. Democrats and labor groups failed last summer to capture control of the Wisconsin | Read More »
Workers’ Voices, a front group for the AFL-CIO, has been billed as the “largest union super-PAC” even though its own website declares it is not an exclusively union-oriented organization. “Workers’ Voice represents and fights for all working families, union and non-union,” the site proclaims. It is no real secret, however, that the super-PAC is the creation of the AFL-CIO. Filings show that the group is | Read More »
MILWAUKEE – A paper trail running through state and federal agencies now shows that a self-described “non-partisan organization” may in fact be connected to partisan campaign activity here in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Jobs Now!, according to U.S. Department of Labor records, has received $769,000 in funding from the Service Employees International Union. The current address listed for Wisconsin Jobs Now! is a shared office suite in | Read More »
MILWAUKEE – Sitting in the pressroom before Friday night’s televised debate between Governor Scott Walker (R) and Mayor Tom Barrett (D) the question was: will Tom Barrett do anything to change the momentum of the race? Since emerging from a divisive primary fight on May 8 that saw him trounce Big Labor’s candidate of choice, Kathleen Falk, Barrett has been working to shift the momentum | Read More »
Desperate to find a message that will stick in the final weeks of the recall campaign, Wisconsin Democrats have resorted to politicizing a legal probe into the actions of former Milwaukee County government employees who worked for then-county executive Scott Walker. The probe, known as a John Doe investigation, started two years ago at the request of Walker’s county administration. Its original purpose was to | Read More »
Seizing on any opportunity they can find, liberals in Wisconsin have embraced the fictitious “war on women” and twisted it into “Scott Walker’s War on Women” in an attempt to convince voters to oust the governor well before the end of his term. The imaginary war apparently resonates well with focus groups and in polling ahead of the June 5 recall election. Unfortunately, it is | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries By: Brian Sikma Kris Barrett, the politically active spouse of Tom Barrett, current mayor of Milwaukee and the Democratic nominee running against Gov. Scott Walker, has been caught using her taxpayer funded e-mail account to lobby and campaign for Democratic candidates and causes. Mrs. Barrett is a public school teacher and last year she was employed by Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin’s | Read More »
Just released campaign finance documents show Big Labor both inside and outside of Wisconsin pouring just over $7 million into the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker and four GOP state senators. In the 2011 recall campaign combined total spending by unions and progressive groups reached $14.7 million, or just over twice what labor unions alone have managed to raise or spend in what is | Read More »
By: Brian Sikma Washington is broken. For decades elites in both parties have traded control back and forth. With but few exceptions the wise old men in both parties have disagreed not about the path the country should take, but how fast that path should be traveled. The end result: Americans now have a federal government bigger than ever before, spending more than ever before, | Read More »
By: Brian Sikma This week Wisconsin Democrats may have done more than anyone else to defeat their recall effort aimed at removing Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and three state senators from office. Driving the debate in Wisconsin for the past several weeks was legislation to overhaul the state’s outdated mining regulations. At stake was a proposed iron ore mine in the northern | Read More »
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