Maybe one-third of Democrats will show up at the polls and vote for a candidate with little name identification who has spent very little money. But all the signs point to Tony Evers, and if he ends up victorious, his fellow candidates have only themselves to blame.
The Dem guv candidates put down Gov. Scott Walker and highlighted their liberal credentials in what was likely their last candidate forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Seven of the eight seven contenders sought to distinguish themselves from the field in
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So Walker has no interest in seeing the inside of any of the state facilities where record-breaking numbers of citizens are incarcerated at the cost of a billion taxpayer dollars a year, and where thousands of state citizens work in a system where he’s at the top of the organization chart.
Democratic gubernatorial candidates took different approaches to funding public schools at a Madison forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin told the Madison audience he’d want to reduce public education’s reliance on the property tax for funding and
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As the primary election nears, I find myself worried about progressive disunity, and the threat that it could help deliver a third term to Scott Walker.
As he seeks a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker’s campaign strategy has evoked laughter and apprehension – laughter because he is so shamelessly contradicts his own past in seeking to make nice with the progressive forces lined up against him, yet apprehension because his 10-1 money advantage and slippery history raise worries he can deceive enough voters with another change of skin.
To their credit, several Dem gubernatorial contenders have mounted campaigns that think big about what a governor and a state can do.
Maybe one-third of Democrats will show up at the polls and vote for a candidate with little name identification who has spent very little money. But all the signs point to Tony Evers, and if he ends up victorious, his fellow candidates have only themselves to blame.
The Dem guv candidates put down Gov. Scott Walker and highlighted their liberal credentials in what was likely their last candidate forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Seven of the eight seven contenders sought to distinguish themselves from the field in a variety of ways in their second downtown Madison event
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So Walker has no interest in seeing the inside of any of the state facilities where record-breaking numbers of citizens are incarcerated at the cost of a billion taxpayer dollars a year, and where thousands of state citizens work in a system where he’s at the top of the organization chart.
Democratic gubernatorial candidates took different approaches to funding public schools at a Madison forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin told the Madison audience he’d want to reduce public education’s reliance on the property tax for funding and shift it to either the income or sales tax, but
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As the primary election nears, I find myself worried about progressive disunity, and the threat that it could help deliver a third term to Scott Walker.
As he seeks a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker’s campaign strategy has evoked laughter and apprehension – laughter because he is so shamelessly contradicts his own past in seeking to make nice with the progressive forces lined up against him, yet apprehension because his 10-1 money advantage and slippery history raise worries he can deceive enough voters with another change of skin.
To their credit, several Dem gubernatorial contenders have mounted campaigns that think big about what a governor and a state can do.