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Kathleen is proud to be the only Democrat to have earned organizational endorsements in the race for governor.

Republican Party of Wisconsin Communications Director Ben Sparks released the following statement regarding Sen. Cullen’s announcement he will not run for governor: “Given his track record of running away from tough challenges, it should come as no surprise that Tim Cullen has dropped out of the race for Governor. Just last year, Cullen was one of 14 Democratic State Senators who chose to abandon their constituents for an Illinois vacation instead of balancing Wisconsin’s budget. Regardless of what liberal candidate the Democrats end up nominating, Wisconsin families have shown they'll continue to stand with Governor Walker, who in his first...

A moral victory, if nothing else. And it really might be nothing else: This guy won reelection three years ago with 67 percent of the vote, so tossing him out in a recall election will be unlikely. But who knows? Without Obama at the top of the ticket for Democrats and with the locals (hopefully) irritated at the fleebaggers’ fleebaggy ways, 51/49 to remove isn’t impossible. At the very least, it’s a shot in the arm for Wisconsin conservatives on the eve of tomorrow’s supreme court election. If they can still make Democrats squirm, they’re not licked yet. Dan Hunt,...

Via HoosierPundit, a glimpse at the enormous self-regard that fleeing Democratic state lawmakers have for themselves: Indiana Democratic state representative Dave Cheatham explains why he fled across the state line rather than stay in the state capitol and provide a quorum for a labor-reform bill: CHEATHAM: The thing that sticks in my mind, I guess, more than anything else — and this is something that has happened. My wife teaches first grade. This past week, one of the kids in her class, a little first grader’s dad is getting sent to Afghanistan. And he was really sad. And she said,...

State Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville (left), says he proposed a constitutional amendment partly to prevent others from stalling legislation as Senate Dems did last month and partly as an olive branch to Republicans upset over the tactic. The amendment would remove a 20-member quorum requirement for fiscal bills. Cullen, along with the 13 other Senate Dems, fled to Illinois last month to prevent a vote on a budget repair bill that stripped nearly all collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Cullen, a former Senate majority leader, said he fears they have now set a precedent whereby the practice could...

We put a hurting on Tom Petty’s “Free Falling” two weeks ago, which I posted later that week, changing it to “Fleebagging.” Last week, we destroyed Wings’ “Band on the Run” so thoroughly with our “Dems on the Run” cover that my video edit program went on strike before it would repurpose the clip from the NARN stream. But this week, we have the real deal in terms of a song spoof of the runaway Democrats from Wisconsin — and this time, we made the wise choice of not performing it live. Set to Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns, and Money,”...

You gotta love the irony when one of the Wisconsin fleebaggers says something like this in response to the Wisconsin Senate passing a bill to strip collective bargaining from public employee unions: What Republicans did was an affront to democracy. Never shall a voter doubt which party stands for the working class, and which for the rich An affront to democracy? No. An affront to Democracy is the Democrats refusing to participate in that democracy and running to another state. THAT'S an affront. But this? No way. The fleebaggers basically made the case for the Wisconsin Republicans when one...

One day short of the three-week anniversary of their departure, Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller said it's time for Dems to come home and take the fight over collective bargaining rights to the ballot box. Miller, D-Monona, said it was "stunning" that Senate Republicans took less than 30 minutes to vote to end collective bargaining rights for public employees that have existed in Wisconsin for more than 50 years. He called it a disrespect to the people of Wisconsin that will not be forgotten, promising there will be political consequences. "It’s time for us to join the fight back in...

Right now the lefties are ahead. Freep away.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach says all 14 missing Senate Dems would return to the Capitol if Republicans pulled collective bargaining changes from the budget repair bill and instead put them in the guv's budget proposal. It's the latest suggestion for trying to break a partisan impasse that has gripped the Capitol since Dems fled to Illinois Feb. 17. Meanwhile, discussions continued between the guv's office and Senate Dems as talk swirled around whether a deal could be reached. Among the items said to be at play: the proposed inflationary cap on wage increases and the required annual recertification votes for public...

Thanks to JamesTHarris for putting this clip up on Youtube. Sit back and enjoy a Fleebagger Meltdown even though it is painful to listen to...

Paycheck mailed to Erpenbach With the paychecks for Senate Democrats cut off until they return from their boycott, Sen. Jon Erpenbach got creative. Erpenbach, D-Waunakee, appointed two of his staff members his power of attorney, which would allow them to collect his pay. On Feb. 22, GOP leaders voted to require members pick up their paychecks in person on the Senate floor. Erpenbach, who like his 13 Dem colleagues fled the state to stall a vote on the budget repair bill, is in Chicago. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald put the check in the mail instead of turning it over...

Recall Wirch - http://www.recallwirch.com/ Elections are for hiring. Recalls are for firing. Bob Wirch should be fired for not upholding the duties he swore to uphold. By fleeing the state, he refuses to represent the citizens of Wisconsin 22nd State Senate District in Madison.