Original Author:
Kenneth Quinnell
Florida independent reports Buchanan, who is turning into the Chris Christie of Florida, isn’t running for Senate:
Though polls have suggested that Buchanan would be a competitive candidate, the congressman isn’t without some controversial baggage. Buchanan has long been plagued by rumors that he pressured employees to donate to his campaign, offering them reimbursements in return. Though most of the more than 14 lawsuits against him have been thrown out, his former business partner (along with a car dealership he once owned) were recently fined almost $68,000 for an “extensive and ongoing” campaign contribution scheme.
Buchanan is kind of a useless member of the House and would be a useless member of the Senate if he had any chance of winning, which he doesn’t.
RPOF Chair Dave Bitner Dies
Original Author:
Kenneth Quinnell
As much as I disagreed with just about everything Bitner stood for, this is not what I would wish on any enemy that isn’t a mass murderer. My thoughts and well-wishes go out to his family and friends.
At ThinkProgress.org, journalist Matt Yglesias points to a little noticed component of conservative political mantra that's holding back the national economic recovery -- one that's clearly at work right here in Wisconsin: Cuts in public-sector employment that offset private-sector job growth.
Imagine for a moment if Boston, Denver, or Seattle [or, we might add, Milwaukee] — cities of roughly 600,000 residents — simply disappeared. Well, since the recession officially ended, about 600,000 public sector jobs previously held by 600,000 real people have disappeared from the economy — consistently offsetting some of the gains made in the private sector. Indeed, today’s stunner headline that ZERO jobs were created in August was the result of 17,000 new private sector jobs being offset by 17,000 more government jobs being axed.
Yglesias expands on this fact:
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