Press Releases

MADISON - Having marched in lockstep with previous Republican efforts to slash funding to Milwaukee Public Schools, Jeff Stone now stands poised to support the most devastating cuts in the system's history.

MADISON-Though Scott Walker knows no compromise or reason, there might be three Republicans who might be able to get us out of this Walker-made mess.

MADISON-On Presidents Day 2011, we remember what Republican executives from history understood that Scott Walker does not.

MADISON-In the face of massive, but peaceful, protests against the divisive power grab by Scott Walker and his Republican followers, GOP spokesmen Rush Limbaugh and Milwaukee's Charlie Sykes have used the airwaves to distort the movement to partisan ends.

MADISON-Scott Walker claims to be a Packers fan, but it doesn't look like the actual World Champion Packers are fans of his.

MADISON- Today on Face the Nation, Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan claimed that the President’s budget locked in high spending levels and disputed $400 billion in cuts to non-security discretionary spending. But the reality is that President Obama’s budget would bring non-security discretionary spending to the lowest level since the Eisenhower Administration.

MADISON – Day six of peaceful Rally for Rights continued at the State Capitol. Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) commended all who gathered on both sides of the issue Saturday for taking part in their democracy and exercising their rights of free speech and peaceful assembly.

MADISON-Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate in response to Republican efforts to tarnish the massive-and, as law enforcement officials have affirmed, peaceful-revolt to Scott Walker's unprecedented power grab.

MADISON- Following is the statement of Senator Herb Kohl.

We concur.