Monday, March 19, 2012
Mahlon Mitchell, a 15-year veteran of the Madison Fire Department and current president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, will run as a Democrat in recall election.
Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, announced Monday that he is running for lieutenant governor in the recall election against incumbent Rebecca Kleefisch. A 15-year veteran of the Madison Fire Department, Mitchell lives in Fitchburg. "I’m running because Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch have destroyed and divided Wisconsin by catering to corporate special interests instead of the workingmen and women of this state," Mitchell said on his website. "Now, we need to bring our state back together and work to create the jobs tens of thousands of Wisconsinites need." Last year, when Gov. Scott Walker proposed a law that stripped most public employees of their ability to collectively bargain, Mahlon led …
Monday, November 14, 2011
United Wisconsin says Monday's attack was "coordinated and deliberate."
Updated at 8:35 p.m. Monday to indicate that site is back online. Just hours before the official start of the drive to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office, the group spearheading the effort said that its website was the victim of a cyberattack on Monday. United Wisconsin, the group working with the Wisconsin Democratic Party in the effort to recall Walker, said Monday evening that its website went down at about 2 p.m. The site was back online about six hours later. "Early this afternoon, United Wisconsin's website www.unitedwisconsin.com, was the victim of a cyber attack. Our web team reports that this attack was coordinated and deliberate its target," the organization said in a statement. The FBI and the Wisconsin attorney …
Saturday, November 5, 2011
David Brandt 'fulfills friends last request' according to papers filed, but state democrats say it's a ploy to confuse voters.
A Muskego man has filed the first request with the Government Accountability Board to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. On the application, David Brandt indicated the reason as being "to fulfill my friend's last request." Papers were filed by Brandt registered under a committee called "Close Friends to Recall Scott Walker." The Wisconsin Democratic Party had planned on filing papers on Nov. 15 and have cried foul on the move, calling it a 'dirty trick' to "to deny democracy we have seen out of Scott Walker’s Republican Party and the extremist groups who finance his rent-to-own government," according to a release on their website. With this earlier filing, Walker can now begin raising money to defend efforts to unseat him in the …
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Dispute is part of ongoing feud between party spokesman and online news organization.
The battle between the spokesman for the state Democratic Party and an online news organization escalated this week when one of its reporters was booted out of a party meeting in Madison. Kirsten Adshead, a writer for the Wisconsin Reporter, said she attended a Democratic-sponsored training meeting on Tuesday night regarding the attempt to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. The state Democratic party is holding meetings across the state to prepare for the circulation of recall petitions on Nov. 15. Adshead told Patch that she signed up for the leadership training session online, gave her name and used her wisconsinreporter.com e-mail address. When she arrived at the meeting, she told volunteers that she was a reporter. After signing in, …
morninmist
7:28 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012
The only record Kleefisch has that of being a puppet to Walker!==so what does she run on?---name calling and demeaning comments! NO surprise from the Tea candidate!! The Raw Story @RawStory Wisc. Lt. Gov. Kleefisch: Gov. Walker rival Kathleen Falk had to get ‘a sugar daddy’ for recall election http://t.co/NBqm7ZmJ #wirecall .....Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s “Women Against Walker” group said … more ›