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• David Clarke: Touts Leadership Lessons in Mayoral Bid
  David Clarke fondly recalls his days growing up in Milwaukee’s Berryland Housing Project. "I remember walking to great neighborhood schools. I remember the churches were full. I remember being able to go outside and go play down the street, and being able to ride your bike all over the ne... <more>
  
  
• Sen. Panzer: Sometimes Peacemaker Looks to Build GOP Nos.
  Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer and Assembly Speaker John Gard go into 2004 with a major economic development compromise in hand. But sharp divides remain between the Republican Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle in an election year the GOP hopes will boost legislative numbers to possible... <more>
  
  
• GOP Legislative Leaders Preview 2004
  Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer and Assembly Speaker John Gard go into 2004 with a major economic development compromise in hand. But sharp divides remain between the Republican Legislature and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle in an election year... <more>
  
  
• John Norquist: Wrapping Up 16 Years as Milwaukee Mayor
  After 16 years as Milwaukee’s mayor, John Norquist is resigning four months early, on Jan. 2, to become head of the Congress for the New Urbanism in Chicago, a group he helped found a decade ago. Known as a leading proponent of new urbanism in America, Norquist says he is proud... <more>
  
  
• Kerry Political Director: Sees Dean-Kerry Race in Wis.
  Luis Navarro, John Kerry's national political director, discounts the insider buzz about the Kerry campaign staff changes, the hype over Howard Dean's maverick campaign. Navarro, who was national political director of the health-care workers union SEIU before joining Kerry, proclaims that Di... <more>
  
  
• Scott Walker: Keeping his Eye on the Prize
  And for now, the Milwaukee County executive is running for re-election in the spring to finish the job he started only 18 months ago. He has no problem with the basic question. Why run for a full term? ``We're still going to have pension problems, we're still going to have sick le... <more>
  
  
• Peg Lautenschlager: Fast Start as AG
  Affable Peg Lautenschlager has quickly established herself as the new attorney general and a rising political star while downplaying the fact that she's the first female AG in state history. She's more likely to talk about being the wife of a cop than a history-making legal beagle. ... <more>
  
  
• David Riemer: Riemer Dreams of Milwaukee Co. Exec. Upset
  David Riemer, the Harvard-educated, longtime government policymaker, shocked everyone -- probably even his own boss -- when he recently announced he was running for Milwaukee County executive against Republican Scott Walker. His detractors labeled him ``Riemer the Dreamer'' even before his uphill ru... <more>
  
  
• RNC Chair Ed Gillespie: Wisconsin ``Critically Important''
  Ed Gillespie talks like the political consultant he used to be, and that will be music to the ears of some Republican operatives. Gillespie is the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, succeeding Marc Racicot, who's now leading the Bush-Cheney re-electi... <more>
  
  
• Tim Michels: Major Overachiever Aims to Win Senate Seat
  You could call Tim Michels a major overachiever. Major was his last Army rank. And since he left the military a decade ago, he's been busy. Winning elections is about providing a contrast to your opponent. Here is how Michels, a first-time U.S. Senate candidate, sums it up: "Within the la... <more>
  
  
• Mark Grebner: Michigan Voter List Monopolist Bashes Wisconsin Process
  Mark Grebner is a Michigan voter list consultant and an elected county supervisor in East Lansing now doing business in this state as Wisconsin Voter Lists. Grebner, who disdains suits and wears his hair long, says Wisconsin elections officials are about to make the same ... <more>
  
  
• Mark Racicot: Moving Wisconsin to the "W" Column
  Despite the best efforts of Gov. Tommy Thompson and multiple visits by George Bush and Dick Cheney, Wisconsin went for Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. Now, with the lessons learned from that election in hand, the Bush/Cheney campaign considers Wisconsin an important state again, ... <more>
  
  
• John Kerry: Seeking That Ol' JFK Magic In Wisconsin
  A Massachusetts senator. An important Democratic primary in Wisconsin.   In 1960, John F. Kennedy's showing here helped propel JFK to the Democratic nomination and to the presidency.   In 2004, John Kerry is hoping for history to repeat itself.   But many political analysts ... <more>
  
  
• Scott Hassett: Touts the New DNR
  Scott Hassett, a Madison hunting and fishing attorney with Republican roots, didn't come up through the Department of Natural Resources ranks. That, he says, helps him take a fresh approach to managing one of the state's most complicated -- and criticized -- agenc... <more>
  
  
• Joe Trippi: Dean the Insurgent Surges in Wisconsin
  Joe Trippi is a veteran Democratic campaign operative, but he's never been part of anything quite like Howard Dean's presidential campaign. Trippi 's watched his candidate go from obscure former Vermont governor to frontrunner in New Hampshire to political celebrity who can draw thousands of people ... <more>
  
  
• Ted Kanavas: Republicans Won’t Let Property Tax Issue Go Away
  Ted Kanavas is an entrepreneur and a politician. Kanavas, a Republican state senator, was co-founder of a software company. And now he's a senior enterprise executive with Harris Data. He's also co-chair of the Senate Committee on Job Creation, which has wrapped up a series of informat... <more>
  
  
• Ed Huck: Property Tax Game More Politics than Policy
  The Alliance of Cities was in the thick of the property tax freeze debate, and veteran cities advocate Ed Huck was making the sometimes eye-glazing arguments about the problems the freeze could have on the ability of cities to borrow and spur regional economic development. Huck, the alliance and ... <more>
  
  
• Jeff Plale: Freeze No Vote Puts New Dem Sen. On Hot Seat
  State Sen. Jeff Plale, D-South Milwaukee, thought he had put elections behind him for a little while after his spring victory in the special election to fill out the term of state Sen. Rick Grobschmidt. But now Plale is fending off a potential recall threatened for ... <more>
  
  
• Bob Welch: `Father of Freeze' Aiming for First-Tier Sen. Race
  State Sen. Bob Welch, R-Redgranite, is a familiar face to Republicans, going back to his failed 1994 bid against millionaire Herb Kohl. Now he's becoming a familiar voice, thanks to a series of controversial radio spots touting the Republican property tax freeze. Welch is paying for them wit... <more>
  
  
• DNC'S Terry McAuliffe: Wis. Key to Bush's Defeat
  Democrats clearly are counting on Wisconsin to help them defeat President George Bush next year, keeping alive a long Badger state winning streak. Al Gore narrowly beat Bush here in 2000, making it 16 years since Republicans have claimed the presidential prize in Wisconsin. ... <more>
  
  

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