At first blush you would think that the Senator for West Allis may have made a mistake — after all, when other legislators across the state are scrambling to raise money and scrape together enough cash to run a competitive campaign, why would someone pay themselves a salary?  But that is exactly what State Senator [...]

State Senate candidate Jim Sullivan (D-Wauwatosa) has raised three times what incumbent State Senator Tom Reynolds (R-West Allis) has raised in the first half of this year. In his campaign finance report, Sullivan discloses he raised a whopping $86,000 while Reynolds raised just $27,000. What does this mean?  Could the GOP be abandoning Reynolds since [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in its relentless attack against Governor Jim Doyle, featured an unfaltering article against him while above the piece was a huge picture of Doyle’s opponent, Mark Green. Green smiling and appearing statesman-like in the picture was standing not too far away from Perfecto Rivera, Chairman of the [...]

How wonderful that Sheriff David Clarke Jr. has made two arrests in the last week!  Are you as impressed as I am?  Just one question:  how many arrests has he made in the last four years?  Hmmm, could this be election year grandstanding?   Something tells me yes, just like utilizing the mobile command post and [...]

It's got to be embarrassing for Marquette University Law School to have someone on staff who is so disconnected from reality.   The real question is, how did Rick Esenberg ever get on staff in the first place? A few weeks ago, Esenberg penned a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel column equating my year 2000 vote for the pension [...]

In the reporting period from January through June, Wauwatosa Alderman Jim Sullivan raised an impressive $87,000 for his state senate campaign.   Now the only question is what his quirky opponent, State Senator Tom Reynolds raised.  Reynolds failed to file electronically. Here's the problem for Reynolds — if a candidate raises a certain (low threshold) of [...]