Seriously! For running in the Republican primary. With the Republicans running fake candidates in the Democratic primaries, I think that this was a necessary maneuver. Announcement: WSJ: Arthur Louis Kohl-Riggs, a Capitol protester who is running for governor as a Republican, initially did not have the 2000 signatures needed to get on the ballot, according to [...]

The fine folks over at DailyKos commissioned a poll by Public Policy Polling (which I trust) on the recall in Wisconsin. The results were slightly alarming: Tom Barrett (D): 45 (49) Scott Walker (R-inc): 50 (46) Hari Trivedi (I): 2 Undecided: 3 (3) Kathleen Falk (D): 43 (48) Scott Walker (R-inc): 50 (47) Hari Trivedi [...]

A kind of late response to John Smalley’s column at the Wisconsin State Journal defending their policy to punish employees who signed the petition to recall Walker. Mr. Smalley says: People accept work-related policies and restrictions all the time. If you want to sell high-end clothing, you can’t wear cut-off jeans to work. If you [...]

Remember how some on the right were falling all over themselves to say that a huge chunk of the recall signatures were phony?  Well that turned out not to be the case.  And now, the fine folks over at PRWatch have called out some of those people: MacIver Institute Predictions Wrong Upon receiving the signatures, [...]

In all seriousness…a building that looked like this would be amazing. Think Progress has some cool background details on this structure and other green buildings. As far as the general issue of whether Madison approves enough development, I’m with Paul Soglin on this (PS=Paul Soglin; CT=CapTimes) PS: If you read those comments, many of them [...]

So a Forward Lookout spy has forwarded me a scan of a Mary Burke attack mailer…If it’s too small to see, you can click on it to make it big. The interesting thing about this piece is that it simply takes Mary Burke’s person experience and then says Michael Flores doesn’t have the same experience. [...]

The Wisconsin State Journal obviously. “We were surprised and disappointed,” Smalley said of finding the staff members’ names by searching a database of signatures at iverifytherecall.com. “We apologize to our readers for the lapse in judgment by several staff members.” Only one of the employees who signed a petition, chief photographer Steve Apps, is involved [...]

If a Republican was currently president would the Department of Justice be investigating this case and would the president have offered words of support like President Obama? Well… President Obama reacted to the death of Trayvon Martin in deeply personal terms, and his ability to thread the needle on such a highly charged issue won [...]

Seriously good column in the Daily Cardinal: “Safety tip” for spring break: don’t be a rapist This is why “safety tips” are a sham. Safety tips get trotted out as an example of how people who are assaulted deserved it or did it to themselves. Safety tips are used to justify sexual assault, as though [...]

In case you haven’t seen this, the Wisconsin State Journal* has a rather helpful voter guide up for the upcoming Spring elections. Check it out. Here is their description of the tool: The Wisconsin State Journal has compiled a comprehensive Dane County voter guide for the April 3 election. Our staff asked all candidates to [...]

There was a bit of tension at Madison’s Alcohol Licensing and Review Committee over some language used by an applicant… Dane101 has a summary (emphasis mine): Verveer asked about Wells’s statement in his application that My Buddies staff would plan music events and not use outside promoters. Wells volunteered that there wouldn’t be any hip [...]