It's really quite shameless, but Attorney General candidates Kathleen Falk and Paul Bucher are coming out in favor of criminalizing first time offenders of drunk driving. While it may seem like a sound solution on the surface, the reality is that most of the problems out there are with repeat offenders.  If Falk and Bucher [...]

Milwaukee Rising blogger Gretchen Schuldt (formerly of Watchdog Milwaukee) has the smoking gun connecting State Senator Tom Reynolds with the discredited smear campaign against Jim Sullivan.  Reynolds directed campaign manager JJ Blonien (who Reynolds now just calls a "campaign consultant") to spread the bogus information from a few years ago which fantacized that Sullivan voted [...]

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was all smiles during the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Fiesta Tailgate at Miller Park in July. Yep! The Sheriff was right at home serving up the drinks to the folks of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Grinning ear to ear while blowing off the suds from the tops of those [...]

Hat tip to blogger Bill Christofferson who exposed the connection between State Senator Tom Reynolds campaign manager, JJ Blonien was the source for the recent attempt to revitalize a 6 year old bogus smear against Reynolds opponent Jim Sullivan. Xoff's story, Smoking gun shows Reynolds campaign is behind smear effort, explains how despite Blonien's claim [...]

I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.  I really did.  But Boots and Sabers blogger Owen Robinson has fallen short on journalistic ethics.  Robinson has propogated bogus and unsubstantiated claims made by buddies of State Senator Tom Reynolds who are accusing Reynolds democratic challenger, Wauwatosa Alderman Jim Sullivan, of voting twice in [...]

With all of the lies and distortions that have become nearly prevalent in politics in the past few years, there doesn't appear to be a case that is more clear cut than the one of GOP activist and State Senator Tom Reynolds booster Bob Dohnal should have filed against him. Dohnal tried to claim that [...]