Friday, June 1, 2012
Supporter of Gov. Scott Walker was arrested for disorderly conduct after a verbal altercation with a few Barrett backers at Milwaukee rally with Clinton.
A vocal supporter of Gov. Scott Walker was arrested for disorderly conduct Friday during a rally for Democrat Tom Barrett that featured former President Bill Clinton. During the morning rally at Pere Marquette Park in Milwaukee, the Walker supporter was holding a sign that read "Support Scott Walker NOT Union Thugs." In the middle of the crowd, he would put his sign in front of other signs supporting Barrett. One Patch reader gives her take on the events: "My husband and I were at the rally standing six feet from him 15 minutes before the rally began, during, and when he was arrested as the rally ended," she writes. "Even before the rally began he was screaming at people near him that held recall signs. Get out the vote volunteers flanked …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
After reading to about 20 preschoolers in Hudson on Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker spoke to the local media about education, the upcoming recall elections and the War on Women.
After reading to about 20 preschoolers in Hudson on Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker spoke to the local media about education, the upcoming recall elections and the War on Women.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Municipalities across the state have submitted an estimated price tag for holding a special election if the recall effort moves forward.
Freedom isn’t free, and neither are recalls. On Tuesday, organizers for the recall effort against Gov. Scott Walker submitted more than one million signatures on petitions. That's a ton of signatures, not figuratively, but quite literally 2,000 pounds of stacked paper in document boxes were delivered via a small moving van and unloaded by a team of volunteers outside the Government Accountability Board offices in Madison. A statewide recall election of the governor could cost more than $9 million and as much as $17 million with a primary, according to numbers released by the GAB on Jan. 6. How does that break down locally? Depending on the community you live in, the total cost for the election could amount to the price tag of a weeklong …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Organization plans multiple stops throughout the state to support six Republican lawmakers targeted in the recall elections.
The Tea Party Express will be rolling through Wisconsin starting next week to support the six Republican state senators targeted in the upcoming recall elections. The group, which has organized rallies throughout the country that feature speakers such as Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Michelle Bachmann and Ann Coulter, will hold rallies from Aug. 5 through Aug. 8, the Monday before the recall elections that have thrust Wisconsin into the national spotlight. “Wisconsin has become ground zero in the fight between corrupt big-union bosses and the fiscally responsible conservatives, which are trying to usher in legislative policies that will fix their state’s budget,” the organization states on its website. Levi Russell, a spokesman for the Tea…
Friday, April 8, 2011
Assistant district attorney gets extra 4,000 votes over incumbent Kathleen Stilling after excluded Brookfield votes counted.
It’s not as monumental as the change in the state Supreme Court election results, but the Waukesha County vote snafu that lead to the city of Brookfield being excluded in the reports given election night to the media also gave Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Lloyd Carter a bigger lead over incumbent Kathleen Stilling. Carter won the election by about 67 percent of the vote. But, when the updated totals from Brookfield were added in, his lead of 31,841 votes over Stilling was extended to 35,859 over the Waukesha County Circuit Court judge who was appointed by former Gov. Jim Doyle in 2010. The numbers reported Tuesday night showed Carter had received 63,129 votes and Stilling obtained 31,288 votes. That changed when the Waukesha…
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Incumbent Elmbrook School Board member Kathryn Wilson won re-election, outpolling Sandra Schultz for a three-year term.
Incumbent Elmbrook School Board member Kathryn Wilson won re-election Tuesday, defeating challenger Sandra Schultz for a three-year term. Wilson finished with 55 percent of the vote, according to unofficial, unaudited final results from the school district. That translated to 6,814 votes for Wilson and 5,609 for Schultz. The total number of votes for write-in candidate Nancy Kormanik was not available Tuesday night, largely because the city did not tally them, except for Kormanik's 38 total absentee votes. However, Kormanik's total tally in the other three communities that vote in Elmbrook School Board races was about 100, and a win appeared highly unlikely. Wilson said she was pleased to get the chance to champion improvements in …
Monday, March 21, 2011
Six candidates running for three Elmbrook School Board seats offered differing views on ways to solve budget gaps.
Differing educational and fiscal views emerged as six Elmbrook School Board candidates answered questions at an election forum Tuesday night. Only one candidate (Nancy Kormanik) expressed opposition to adding a 4-year-old kindergarten program, while four favored adding 4K and one (incumbent Kathryn Wilson) did not clearly endorse or reject it. Two candidates (Ken Moe and Sandra Schultz) strongly opposed closing an elementary school to help close budget gaps, while the remaining candidates said a school closure likely would be needed. Voters on April 5 will elect three members to serve on the seven-member School Board. The winners serve three-year terms with a $3,600 annual salary. Residents can watch the election forum on the district's …
Deb Strzelecki
6:17 pm on Wednesday, June 13, 2012
He was getting into peoples' faces and shouting even before Clinton arrived. Causing a disturbance in public is what constitutes "disorderly conduct," which is what he was arrested and cited for. Educate yourself about local ordinances before posting, please. more ›