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 Tom Reynolds did.

In a line listed simply "printing services", State Senator Tom Reynolds gave himself $6000.  That's a lot of packer schedules and fliers.

At a time when other candidates such as JB VanHollen (who is running for the Republican nomination for Attorney General against Paul Bucher) are lending their campaigns $350,000, why would Reynolds be so bold as to not care if he shows lower numbers on his campaign finance reports?  There are only three possibilities; either he is stupid, overly confident, or naive.

Either way, Reynolds got trounced in the money raising arena when his democratic challenger, Jim Sullivan, raised almost three times what the incumbent State Senator raised.

Perhaps Reynolds is just sporting his bravado knowing that the district trends republican.  But that trend isn't going to bail him out.  The tides are changing in that district and Reynolds has done some pretty nutty things that embarrass even republicans who have to admit that they voted for the guy.