Faced with defeat in 2008, Gableman's campaign unleashed a vicious ad targeting Louis Butler, which resembled the Willie Horton ad that supporters of former President George H.W. Bush used to smear Mike Dukakis in 1988.
"While Vos is surely a toady to Trump, the reason that the speaker and his GOP colleagues are willing and able to go to extremes has a deeper explanation in the nightmare that is gerrymandering."
"Last week he voted against temporarily suspending the debt ceiling, a reckless move."
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"Republicans are seeking to 'sow seeds of division and hate' by identifying the very discussion of racism as a threat."
"The tradition of undergraduate representation on the council is an important one."
Wisconsin wasn't always a two-party state; it once had four viable parties.
"By all accounts, the recall was a disaster for the Republicans in California."
"Instead of expanding her appeal, Kleefisch launched her campaign with an embarrassingly predictable rehash of the messaging Trump lost with in 2020."
"This week, Nelson will be at The Cap Times Idea Fest for a 6 p.m. Friday discussion."
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"If only we could reveal the truth — not from the mouth of a Trump critic but from the lips of a Trump loyalist. Well, the wait is over."
"There won’t be a new New Deal without a strategy to get around the filibuster and enact legislation that strengthens the hand of American workers."
"Every House Republican voted last week against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act."
Sara Nelson has emerged as perhaps the strongest advocate for moves to protect worker rights by the Biden administration, and she will be speaking at Cap Times Idea Fest.
"Pocan has introduced the COVID Defense Act, a plan to transfer 1.3% of U.S. military spending to global vaccination efforts."
"This is a matter of hoping, pleading really, for a legislator to abandon what was always a dangerously irresponsible and politicized approach to a deadly threat."
"Kind was a dutiful representative who generally sided with the Democrats. But he broke with his party on some of the biggest issues that arose during his time in Congress."
"Evers' message was an important one. But no one is going to accuse him of being too blunt."
"I considered Bryon and Boatswain this last weekend, when our Australian shepherd, Nipper, died after a bout with the usual ailments of an aging dog."
