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Not One Dime For Herb Kohl: Mission Accomplished!

Nobody Even Sent Him a Buck Out of Team Loyalty

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 18th, 2011 at 01:57 PM  | 

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Have You Seen Me?PLEASE BE IT TO YOUR ATTENTION
URGENT MESSAGE OF BUSINESS

MY NAME IS MR HERBERT KOHL AND I AM A UNITED STATES SENATOR OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE IN AN URGENT TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS TO REMOVE $1 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS FROM MY CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2012.

All kidding aside, it’s unfair to compare the 2012 re-election campaign of Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) to a Nigerian scam artist, because no Nigerian scam artist would ever go an entire quarter without making a single dime. But that’s where Senator Kohl’s fundraising stands, according to The Hill:

After loaning his campaign account $1 million late last year, a signal that he’ll run for another term in 2012, Sen. Herb Kohl’s (D-Wis.) report showed no fundraising actvity in the first quarter of this year.

Kohl, who still hasn’t officially announced his 2012 intentions, didn’t raise any cash during the first three months of the year, nor did he loan his account any additional funds. Kohl, who owns the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, has the ability to self-fund.

That’s right: during a three-month stretch in which his home state of Wisconsin was Ground Zero of the national political conversation – with emotions running high over Scott Walker’s battle with the unions, with progressive and union activists pouring money into a previously sleepy judicial election, while on the GOP side Paul Ryan increasing elevated himself to a national figure setting a budget agenda the President is merely following – Senator Kohl didn’t report receiving a single political donation. Not a penny, not a dime, not a pfennig. Nobody in the entire state looked at this landscape and thought, “hey, I should show my support to an incumbent Democratic Senator up for re-election next year.”

One has to assume that Kohl isn’t running, and that he’ll clear the field for Russ Feingold to try to recover his old job. (Whether Ryan is interested in that job is another day’s story). If he is running, well, you can see for yourself what enthusiasm he generates.

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  • Doc Holliday
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  • http://www.campaignfreedom.org seandparnell

    Kohl also didn’t receive any contributions in his two prior reporting cycles. Odder still, his 3rd quarter report seems to show that his campaign went into business selling flavored milk, some $36,000 worth at wholesale value: http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/890/10020681890/10020681890.pdf#navpanes=0

    I assume it’s some sort of campaign or publicity stunt (Wisconsin is a huge dairy state, of course) but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a campaign finance report quite like this.

    Sean Parnell
    President
    Center for Competitive Politics
    http://www.campaignfreedom.org
    http://www.twitter.com/seanparnellccp

    • Dan McLaughlin

      That’s really bizarre.

    • makemyday

      is the address of the Wisconsin State Fair Park. The dates on the receipt correspond to the dates of the 2010 Wisconsin State Fair. There appeared to be only one area or booth that sold “flavored milk” and that was in area 1 of the fairgrounds which was fairly close to the cattle barns and off the beaten path of the fairground traffic.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    NT

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com thoughtfulconservative

    He’s got loads of it. Hard to find any one to run against him because of it.

    His motto, “Nobody’s senator but yours.”

  • tribalseeds

    As much as I dislike Herb Kohl and Feingold, I would be very disappointed if Paul Ryan was the nominee and likely next senator of Wisconsin. The GOP establishment and media have hyped him up for the past few years, without much grassroots following.

    Contrary to popular belief he hasn’t been all that conservative. He supported a lot of spending during the Bush presidency, and even voted for the bank bailouts. Many of those videos have been wiped clean from youtube, but you can still find them if you look hard enough.

    I would rather a real tea party candidate or true republican be chosen instead of Paul Ryan.

  • freemanja1991

    Tommy Thompson?

    Besides I thin Paul Ryan is too set where he is, and could be majority leader of speaker someday (soon, as in 10-12 years).

    • audax
  • philhoganjr

    The former congressman from the first district lost to feingold in ’98. Close one too…50.5% to 48.5%.

    I believe he’s waiting in the wings for Ryan to announce he has no interest before he jumps in.

    The establishment doesn’t seem to excited about him. Probably because he’s lost many times before, most recently to walker in the governor primary.

    Neumann seems like a guy to get excited about. Unapologetic conservative. Former businessman. He ain’t Ron Johnson, but he’s been competitive before statewide. And with the winds blowing the way they are, I have to think he’d b at least even money against kohl or feingold.

    • roscopico

      If indeed Kohl wakes from his extended nappy-time to actually run for re-election. Based on Dan’s article above, as well as the general speculation he’s ready to cede the seat in order for the “maverick” Feingold regain his mavericky glory.

      Mark Neumann was in Washington recently? I don’t remember the function, but Belling was on it. The gist was that Neumann was trying to curry favor from RNC types, and besides Belling relaying the info it was unreported.

      Here’s the deal with Neumann: he stuck around too long in the gubernatorial when it was clear to all who weren’t smoking dope the Neumann effort was doomed. He burned a ton of his own cash in the governor’s race, and forced (the Heroic and Honorable) Scott Walker to spend money defending attacks from the right… that money would’ve been better used to stomp on the liberal candidate.

      Neumann is a good guy, and I’d vote for him over any Statist.

  • renny

    Webb’s out, this one’s moribund, maybe we should be less surprised and more “Bring it on!”

  • redtillimdead

    He never fundraises. He self-funds all of his campaigns

  • gawken

    I will put it in the Goodwill bin tomorrow

    • Dan McLaughlin

      That official portrait of Kohl is probably from like 15 years ago.

  • http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com thoughtfulconservative

    One of the reasons the rank and file in WI aren’t too excited about Neumann is that he seemed to use liberal facts against Scott Walker in the campaign and alienated many Walker supporters.