You go girl!

integrity in elections, right?

Dear Don:
Pasch was not a part of the 14 senators who left the state. Those were elected senators. Pasch is a senate candidate. Please know your facts before you post.

This whole thing of entering fake candidates is despicable and a slap in the face to the democratic process of elections; it really borders on being un-American. Obviously Pasch will win the primary if entering a fake candidate is legal. And with how upset many people on the right are about this disgrace, looks like her chances will get better to win a Senate seat.

I'm gonna be very upset if the Dems stoop to this level in a retaliation attempt.

The question here is does Sen. Darling know about this, and does she approve? It's not just a cynical maniuplation of the electoral process, but actually costs money, which Sen. Darling apparently is fine doing, as long as it doesn't go to help people and programs which need it, like teachers and schools.

Sounds like the Gop is running scared.

" Neither Darling , her campaign staff or the Republican Party of Wisconsin returned calls from Patch ". And this is a surprise how ? She 's famous for not getting back to the people that were her support, and voted her in office .

Another example of how the Republicans will stoop to any tactic to delay payback for what they are doing to the people of this state. I only hope this opens more people's eyes about how desperately we need to break the Republican stronghold and get back to bipartisan solutions -- not this sick dictatorship where a radical few take power and push their agenda into law. Alberta Darling may have once been a moderate, but she has sold out to the far right and is now their puppet. She listens to no one else.

Does the Democratic Party have any say at all as to who officially runs for office with them? Can a political party "oust" a registered candidate for misrepresentation? Do voting members of the Democratic Party have any say in this? Can anyone register as a candidate in any party regardless of behavior, point of view or platform? This issue reminds me of the "bait and switch" tactics used in false advertising. I don't understand why it's tolerated...or is it?

If you high and mighty Dems will exam the last election cycle you will see you did the same thing so get off your high horse.

Wait until the Koch Bros. decide you're not paying enough for your electricy and double your rate. Who you gonna call ? LOL The recalls have nothing to do with the unions. You're drinking too much Kool-Aid. The people of Wisconsin woke up to the fact that the people they elected weren't representing them, but instead big business. That's why the recalls. You TP/GOPers always chant the same old mantra and expect people to believe it. You believe in the saying that if you repeat a lie often enough someone will believe it. I think the people of Wisconsin have their eyes open now. We'll see come July. Remember the saying ,"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me ".

Senator Stepford was quoted in the Journal saying as she supported this stunt. I wonder how much it will cost?

The stategery seems to be spreading--the Democrats are running 'fake Democrats' to force primaries as well...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/123688454.html

Darling's and Walker's budget will give Wisconsin the first surplus in over a decade...without raising taxes. Than you Governor and Senator for turning this state around after the horrible Doyle years.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/123763069.html

RAK, I retired from private business and I am lost as how you think that the public sector doesn't pay towards their benefits. Those benefits represent wage concessions. Period. In the trade unions we negotiate a gross wage. The membership decides where the wages are assigned. The check, pension, health, trade promotion and training. Now we could get insurance cheaper but by belonging to a union our moral conscious demanded insurance from a company that paid a living wage. The structure of most union construction companies was the field was union the office was not. The office was only too happy to get a 401k and live with insurance benefits sub par to the field as long as they got it on the check. Now the office makes 30% more than the field, and its the fields benefits that are too expensive. So much for saving.

But they don't have better salaries, and so as it works in the real world, they negotiated these benefits. Not that any one would accuse Walker having character, but these benefits were negotiated in good faith.

I don't know about you, it's not a good idea to depend on a cop or firefighter over 55 trying to protect you.

Instead of your whining, crying and childish resentment over what public employees are getting, why don't you man up and advocate unions in the private sector? Why don't we all have what you think unions have?

If you are smart enough to notice, with the decline of unions so has gone the middle class, making that small group of white men obscenely richer. But since it is a group of white men, you seem to have no problem with that. Those are the people vacuuming your pockets.

Of course Walker testified under oath before Congress that ending collective bargaining had nothing to do with reducing our costs. So if you think it does, then maybe Walker should be brought up for charges.

Early exit polls show strong support for Huber in part due to low Shorewood turnout.

Kloppenberg has already declared Pasch to be the winner by 204 votes...