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 »
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 »
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 »
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 Driving the debate in Wisconsin for the past several weeks was legislation to overhaul the state’s outdated mining regulations.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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