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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 7 Comments
The Best Bumper Sticker of the Year, Worst Bumper Sticker of the Year and Best Tweet of the Year competitions have left me on the verge of blogger burnout, but I soldier on, because that’s just the way I am.  And the internet never stops. The Worst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 19 Comments
Thanks to reader Heather, who writes: Seen on a parked Prius in Sister Bay, WI Oh, the comments I could make! In a follow up e-mail, Heather wrote: In forgot to tell you; on the other side of the bumper was the obligatory “coexist” bumper...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2011 8 Comments
The great hope for Wisconsin Democrats has been that former Senator Russ Feingold would run in a recall election next year against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.  Since Democrats are likely to get enough signatures to force a recall, Democrats also will need a strong candidate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2011 29 Comments
They just can’t help themselves.  Despte throwing everything the had at it, the Wisconsin Democrat/Union coalition lost the Prosser/Kloppenburg statewide election, and then failed to pick up the three seats needed to take control of the state Senate.  Having lost, Democrats declared victory. Democrats have convinced themselves...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2011 2 Comments
… who said the Tea Party was a bunch of violent extremists, that Kloppenburg would beat Prosser, and the Dems would take back the Wisconsin Senate? Why so skeptical?  They have journalism degrees, and you don’t. Taken by the wife yesterday in Swansea, Massachusetts:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2011 12 Comments
In late April I documented how the Democratic Party of Wisconsin was running misleading push-calls to people who had signed petitions to recall Democratic State Senator Robert Wirch.  The WisDems were trying to get people to say that they didn’t understand what they were signing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 28, 2011 34 Comments
As mentioned yesterday, Dane County Sheriff David Mahoney is leading an investigation into allegations that Justice David Prosser put a “chokehold” on Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and counter-allegations that Bradley initiated physical contact. One of the witnesses was Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, who has a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2011 29 Comments
Two protesters in the Madison, Wisconsin Capitol building strapped “U” shaped ultra-secure bicycle locks around her necks and locked themselves to a metal railing. As reported by JSOnline (h/t reader Leonard): Authorities removed two protesters who locked themselves to the railing of the Senate gallery Thursday. The action took...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 13, 2011 9 Comments
Republicans in Wisconsin are planning to put the collective bargaining provision into the state’s budget legislation, if the Wisconsin does not act soon to revoke Judge Sumi’s ill-advised injunction against the law, as reported by JSOnline: The Legislature will put Gov. Scott Walker’s limits on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2011 12 Comments
As of this writing, JoAnne Kloppenburg has not yet announced whether she will file a court challenge to the recently concluded recount, which found her losing (again) by just over 7000 votes.  A court challenge must be filed by Monday Tuesday. As documented here, Team...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2011 21 Comments
As explained both here and by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the theories of election fraud propagated by the Kloppenburg campaign based on gaps and holes in ballot bags are absurd because the numbers have not changed much from the election night reports (including by the city of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2011 9 Comments
The recount is wrapping up in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, the last county to finish the recount.  False hope was created by an AP headline Tuesday stating that Kloppenburg was in the lead based on mid-afternoon vote totals, but that headline was misleading because Waukesha still was counting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 16, 2011 22 Comments
By demanding a statewide recount, and insisting that the recount continue to the end even as it became clear she had no chance of success, JoAnne Kloppenburg has seen her public persona devolve into a caricature of a bitter partisan lacking the necessary judgment for the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 15, 2011 1 Comment
Via Wisconsin State Journal [if embed doesn’t work for you, check out the video at the link]: In other news, it’s Sunday, and Kloppenburg is still losing it. I like this commentary, It’s Not About Counting Votes: Still, the recount continues. Why? Because the Democrats...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2011 9 Comments
As previously reported, the Recall Wirch effort obtained an estimated 18,300 signatures to recall Wisconsin Democratic State Senator Robert Wirch, far in excess of the 13,537 needed. As further reported, the Wirch campaign has engaged in misleading “push-calling” to petition signers in an attempt to create...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2011 5 Comments
I reported on Friday how Democrats were using call centers to make suggestive and misleading “push-calls” to people who signed recall petitions against Democratic State Senator Robert Wirch.  The problem apparently is not limited to Wirch.  A group which filed recall petitions against Democratic Senator David...
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