Reid Ribble

Jamie Wall enters 8th CD race

October 5, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Jamie Wall is the first, and perhaps will be the only Democrat, to get in the race against freshman GOP Rep. Reid Ribble in the 8th Congressional District, in the Green Bay area.

Politico says, "Democrats think he's a great recruit-Wisconsin bred, grew up on a dairy farm, first in his family to go to college (Madison grad/Rhodes Scholar) and now a business owner... Democratic strategists say he can wage a serious challenge to the freshman congressman. They plan to attack Ribble for moving outside the district and for not voting in recent Wisconsin elections. Ribble beat Steve Kagen last year."

More from Green Bay Press Gazette and The Hill.

Wall, 40, lost a 2006 primary race to Kagen, who was elected and served two terms.

'Stop the madness,' says RoJo; But his anti-regulatory bill IS the madness

September 17, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Senator Ron Johnson has found a House member loony enough to join him as a co-sponsor of his bill to stop ALL new government regulations until the national unemployment rate goes down to 7.7 per cent, or the world ends, whichever comes first.

Great news, Wisconsin!  RoJo's not our only certified nut case.  The House member who signed on is Reid Ribble, a freshman Republican from Wisconsin,

Never mind that no one has credibly made an argument that regulations are what's costing us jobs, or that removing regulations would create them.  (Note the word credibly; RoJo might make that argument, but it has no basis in fact."

Johnson said Thursday that the growth of regulation has been a “bipartisan problem” pre-dating the Obama administration but he and GOP colleagues who joined him Thursday assailed the president’s record on regulation.   

“What this bill does is say stop the madness,” said Johnson.

Senator, you ARE the madness.

Quote, unquote

September 14, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

“Northeast Wisconsin is my home and always will be, and that fact has made serving the people of Wisconsin more meaningful than words can describe,” Ribble said. “I said last year when asked from time to time about this issue that the Constitution doesn’t care where I sleep at night -- and with my schedule that’s about all I’m doing at that house … sleeping.” -- Rep. Reid Ribble, explaining why it's OK for hin to live outside the Congressional district he represents.