Sunday, May 20, 2012
Political signs along right of way are illegal, potentially dangerous, and will be removed.
With a major recall election set for June 5, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is reminding citizens that state law prohibits the placement of any type of sign – including political, commercial or garage sale signs – on state highway right of way. "We certainly don’t want to discourage anyone from participating in elections, but signs within highway right of way are a public safety concern," said Deb Brucaya with WisDOT’s Bureau of Highway Maintenance, in a news release. "Improperly placed campaign signs can distract motorists or obstruct their view, especially at intersections. And when people enter an intersection or highway right of way to install a sign, they’re putting their own safety at risk, as well as risking …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Jim Ward has collected double the maximum number of signatures required to get his name on the ballot against incumbent District 28 State Sen. Mary Lazich in November, according to a press release.
Jim Ward, who is running for State Senator in the 28th District, which includes parts of Greenfield, announced that he has collected double the maximum number of signatures to get his name on the ballot in November, according to a press release. He turned in his nomination papers to the Government Accountability Board on Thursday. Once the signatures are certified, his candidacy will be official. Ward will be running against incumbent District 28 State Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin). “I found that while going door to door many people were eager to sign my nomination papers,” Ward said in the release. “I also had great support of dozens of volunteers who collected signatures from neighbors, friends and family. I found that people on both …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Now that the recall primary is behind us and messages from both sides are more targeted, Wisconsin voters are starting to get more decisive.
Gov. Scott Walker is up by six points against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll of likely voters. The results of the poll were released Wednesday during a segment of the on-going "On the Issues" series with Mike Gousha and Professor Charles Franklin. Polling of 704 registered voters took place between May 9-12, and the poll results include responses from 600 likely voters in the pool with a 3.8 percent margin of error. Only 3 percent of those surveyed said they are undecided. The voting sample was split at about 52 percent women, 48 percent men and 89 percent white and about five percent each for African Americans and Hispanics. Before the primary, registered voters had Barrett leading by…
Facing a recall election, the governor says new jobs numbers released Wednesday are a more accurate reflection of how the state is doing. Tom Barrett calls announcement a political stunt.
Gov. Scott Walker released a new set of job numbers Wednesday morning that showed the state gained 23,300 public and private jobs during 2011, up from a previously-reported drop of 33,900. The new numbers come from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, part of a national report due to be issued on June 28, according to an Associated Press report. With Walker pushing up the announcement so that it comes three weeks ahead of the June 5 recall election, reaction has been predictably and wildly mixed. Walker's campaign said the numbers more accurately reflect what is happening in the state. The data is comprised of reports issued to 96 percent of Wisconsin employers and makes the numbers "much more reliable," according to a news …
Monday, May 14, 2012
The 28-day residency requirement in the Voter ID law and the unique summer election cycle could cause a low college student turnout, so Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett met with students Monday afternoon to energize young voters.
In a normal election year, college students are encouraged to go out and vote at their nearest polling location, but the new Voter ID law and the unique summer election schedule will completely change how political parties get out the college vote. Milwaukee Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett met with UW-Milwaukee students and faculty Monday afternoon to remind them not only to get out and vote in the June 5 election, but to vote using the same address they used in the May 8 primary election. Because of the new 28-day residency requirement included in the Voter ID bill, students that voted from their campus location in May will have to request an absentee ballot to vote from that same address when they go home for the…
Sunday, May 13, 2012
President's campaign sends e-mail to Obama supporters urging them to vote for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in June 5 recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is actively getting behind the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker from office, The Huffington Post reports. The campaign is focusing its efforts on educating and registering voters in advance of the historic June 5 gubernatorial recall election. Tripp Wellde, the Wisconsin state director for the Obama campaign, sent an email to supporters Thursday night, urging them to support Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's Democratic opponent. The Obama campaign also hosted "Own Your Vote" events around the state this weekend, described as "organizing phone banks and knocking on doors to make sure Wisconsinites are registered and ready to own their vote on Election Day," according to The Huffington Post…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
A holler away from Gov. Walker's home, the Democratic challenger gets his populist effort under way, and says that Tosa 'is up for grabs.'
On Wednesday, basking in the glow of a sweeping victory in the Democratic recall primary, Tom Barrett met with and accepted the backing of his former opponents. On Thursday, he launched his campaign proper from the front yard of a home in Wauwatosa, the first stop on what he promises will be an old-fashioned face-to-face, meet-the-people effort across the state. Barrett spent close to an hour chatting with about a dozen and a half supporters seated on lawn and deck chairs at the home of Lynn Broaddus and Marc Gorelick in the 500 block of North 68th Street. One thing he did not mention was the proximity of the Broaddus-Gorelick home to another well-known Tosa residence. Scott Walker and his family live an easy lob over the back fence, two …
A new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker has 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett comes in at 45 percent.
If the recall election were held today, a new poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker could come out the winner. According to Rasmussen Reports, Walker would pull in 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett would garner 45 percent of the vote. Two percent would choose someone else and two percent are still undecided. Rasmussen surveyed 500 likely voters by telephone on May 9, the day after the historic recall primary election, when both Walker and Barrett beat out real and "protest" challengers. With a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percent, though, perhaps the points between the candidates more closely mirrors the results of a recent Marquette University Law School poll that shows Walker and Barrett in a dead heat. Survey results for…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Gov. Scott Walker accepted invitations to participate in two debates, while Mayor Tom Barrett accepted four invitations. All would take place before the June 5 general recall election.
The day after the historic recall primary election in which both Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett got the decisive nod from their supporters, just how many debates the two will participate in seems to be, well, up for debate. After the Walker campaign announced Wednesday that he would participate in two debates with his opponent, Barrett's campaign issued a press release saying the mayor had accepted invitations to four debates. Barrett called Walker out, challenging him to accept the same invitations. "Scott Walker loves to launch misleading attacks on jobs in news conferences and press releases, so let's meet face to face and compare our records and our visions on jobs before the people of Wisconsin," said Barrett in a …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, meanwhile, earned the most votes in the Democratic gubernatorial primary with nearly 1,900 more than Kathleen Falk.
Of the impressive 41.3 percent of the registered voters who turned out for Tuesday's special primary election, a majority of Greenfield voters showed their support for incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Fifty-two percent, or 4,659 of 8,960 votes, were cast for Walker, whose only opposition Tuesday was Arthur Kohl-Riggs, who received 79 votes. In the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who was declared Tuesday's winner, carried Greenfield with 2,937 votes, well ahead of runner-up Kathleen Falk, the former Dane County Executive who received 1,071 votes in Greenfield. Kathleen Vinehout received 82 votes, followed by Doug La Follette's 58 and Gladys Huber's 23. In the lieutenant governor Democratic primary, …
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