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HEADLINES
Wednesday, March 10,
2010
CONTACT: Graeme
Zielinski, DPW Communications Direcotor
(608) 260-2427, graemez@wisdems.org
The Old Inside Out-ski Neumann’s An Outsider? Because He Can’t Get Elected? MADISON-In a new television blitz beginning today, wealthy home builder Mark Neumann rails against "insiders." Heady rhetoric from someone who has mounted four Congressional campaigns, a U.S. Senate campaign and now a big-bucks bid to become Wisconsin's governor. "The only reason Mark Neumann is on the outside looking in is that voters don't want him on the inside working for special interests," Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said Wednesday. "The only thing an extremist politician like Mark Neumann is outside of is the mainstream."
Wednesday, March 10,
2010
CONTACT: Graeme
Zielinski, DPW Communications Direcotor
(608) 260-2427, graemez@wisdems.org
Walker Broken Promises Hit the Small Screen Claim About Salary Exposed MADISON-Scott
Walker blatantly misleads the public about his broken promise to return
his executive pay in a new television commercial scheduled to begin airing
Thursday that doesn't tell the public about the $40,000 raise he gave
himself in 2008.
To learn more about Scott Walker’s phony claims and see what real Wisconsinites are saying, go to http://bagscottwalker.com.
Wednesday, March 10,
2010
CONTACT: Graeme
Zielinski, DPW Communications Direcotor
(608) 260-2427, graemez@wisdems.org
Tommy Continues to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Reports that Thompson’s Tax Lives On…and On MADISON
–While Tommy Thompson is in Washington D.C. listening to “lots of
people in Washington” and working on behalf of corporate
interests, his taxing legacy lives on… and on. “New financial projections released Tuesday suggest the sunset year for the Miller Park stadium sales tax will be between 2016 and 2018, at least two years later than originally thought.” “Long
after Tommy’s departure, his taxing legacy of sticking it to taxpayers
lives on,” said Mike Tate, Chairman of the Democratic Party of
Wisconsin. “Today’s story is a reminder of the tax and spend
record Thompson will have to answer for when he gets on the campaign trail
this year.”
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
CONTACT: Sam Roecker
312 504-0550, samr@wisdems.org
Statement of DPW Chairman Mike Tate on Latest Scott Walker Stimulus Hypocrisy Scott
Walker Again Not Walking the Walk
Monday, March 8, 2010
CONTACT: Graeme
Zielinski, DPW Communications
Director
608-260-2427, graemez@wisdems.org
Lobbyists Look for a Friend in U.S. Senate McCoshen: Thompson has “the right people in the room.” MADISON- Yesterday, Republican “Uber-Lobbyist” Bill McCoshen went on Mike Gousha’s “UpFront” TV program and all but announced that Tommy Thompson is running for U.S. Senate, saying “this is the most serious I've seen him.” McCoshen said Thompson has “the right people in the room,” and “I'd want the people around me that he's got around him right now.” He didn’t say who those “people” were. “Who’s in the room? Corporate lobbyists,” said Mike Tate Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, “Where is the room? Washington D.C. Tommy’s campaign is off to a really bad start and it’s only going to get worse because the last thing Wisconsin voters want is a friend of special interests in the U.S. Senate.” As the Associated Press reported in 2007, McCoshen signed a “secret agreement” with investors in an Indian Gaming casino in Kenosha. The deal, initially signed in 1997 and revised in 2000, called for the firm to receive $4.5 million once the project was approved by Thompson and then $42 million over the next several years for what a report by state gaming investigators called virtually no work. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has also reported that “As a lobbyist, he also has represented many controversial firms, including liquor interests, the auto title loan industry, a video lottery firm and Wal-Mart.” News reports last week revealed that one of Thompson’s colleagues at the DC lobbying shop he works for, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, said, “lots of people in Washington” want him to be Wisconsin’s next Senator. For his own part, Thompson told reporters that the election would be decided by issues “that are not that particular to Wisconsin.” Bob Wood, a former Thompson operative and current President of Washington’s most elite GOP lobbying firm, Barbour, Griffith, Rogers, has registered websites for Thompson’s campaign and McCoshen said they are all planning to set up an exploratory committee in the coming weeks so and that he expects Thompson to announce his candidacy at the Republican convention in May. An exploratory committee would allow Thompson to raise money from many of the corporate interests he represents. Last week, Politico reported that Thompson has already collected over $200,000 in pledges from donors. Thompson has spent the last five years as Washington DC insider who has made millions of dollars working on behalf of special interests including health insurance and pharmaceutical companies and the finance industry. Thompson recently told the media on camera he doesn’t know how many corporate interests he works for.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
CONTACT: Graeme
Zielinski, DPW Communications
Director
608-260-2427, graemez@wisdems.org
We Would Hide, Too: Walker Eats Caviar, Toasts Bush, Cowers From Press MADISON-Scott
Walker and his rich cronies will be dining on caviar and hummingbird
wings tomorrow in a posh Milwaukee ballroom with John Ellis "Jeb"
Bush, but don't expect to see any footage of their champagne toasts to the
Bush economic policies that
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