John Norquist
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Jeff Wagner is AM 620 WTMJ talk radio's second-banana, but that doesn't mean he can't create a laughingly large contradiction that veers into genre self-parody.
On his Monday program, Wagner was belly-aching about the year-long closing of the I-94 airport connecting spur due to regional freeway reconstruction and expansion - - a project that he and the other conservative talkers have long-supported.
Yet he complained and he whined just like the kids in the back seat on a long road trip to Grandma's house: "Are we there yet, are we there yet?"
"A year...a year," Wagner whinnied, as if he didn't know the basics of highway construction.
And a reality he helped make concrete.
Keith Gilkes is leaving his post as the governor's chief of staff to return to his own political consulting business.
Is there more to it, like preparing for a John Doe investigation instead of a recall? Maybe. Some of my friends certainly think so. And they may be right. A lot of Walker staffers are already knee-deep in it.
But I did the same thing as Gilkes, returning to my own consulting business after a two-year break as chief of staff to Mayor John Norquist. "I don't do government, I do politics," I used to say, usually being careful to attribute the line to the late, legendary Dem consultant Paul Tully.
Gilkes' Facebook page offers a clue as to why he might be leaving, under employment:
Keith Gilkes is leaving his post as the governor's chief of staff to return to his own political consulting business.
Is there more to it, like preparing for a John Doe investigation instead of a recall? Maybe. Some of my friends certainly think so. And they may be right. A lot of Walker staffers are already knee-deep in it.
But I did the same thing as Gilkes, returning to my own consulting business after a two-year break as chief of staff to Mayor John Norquist. "I don't do government, I do politics," I used to say, usually being careful to attribute the line to the late, legendary Dem consultant Paul Tully.
Gilkes' Facebook page offers a clue as to why he might be leaving, under employment:
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Continuing to build a strong presence here, The Congress for the New Urbanism brings historian John Gurda, former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, and former CNU communications manager Steve Filmanowicz to the Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Pl., Milwaukee, for a series of talks tonight.
I'm expecting a good crowd and a great program.
Detains,
here.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
What a line-up:
CNU Wisconsin presents a double feature
Monday September 12, 2011
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