Press Releases

March 11, 2010

Thompson Kicks Off Campaign by Headlining Fundraiser at DC Lobbying Firm

MADISON – As reports surface that “lots of people in Washington” are pushing Tommy Thompson (R-DC) into the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, a new report out today by Wispolitics.com says Thompson will headline a fundraiser May 12, with D.C. lobbyists, at Washington’s most elite, GOP lobbying firm – Barbour, Griffith & Rogers. The fundraiser is billed as reception for the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

March 11, 2010

Walker Still Can

MADISON-Speaking at his alma mater, failed Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker today blamed his well-publicized and deliberate attack on the work of the Milwaukee 7 economic group on its very successes. He previously had attacked the work of the group to bring jobs to Wisconsin as "putting lipstick on a pig," a reflection of his larger hostility to jobs-creation programs and policies.

March 10, 2010

Tommy Continues to

MADISON –While Tommy Thompson is in Washington D.C. listening to “lots of people in Washington” and working on behalf of corporate interests, his taxing legacy lives on… and on.

March 10, 2010

The Old Inside Out-ski

MADISON-In a new television blitz beginning today, wealthy home builder Mark Neumann rails against "insiders."

March 10, 2010

Walker Broken Promises Hit the Small Screen

MADISON-Scott Walker blatantly misleads the public about his broken promise to return his executive pay in a new television commercial scheduled to begin airing Thursday that doesn't tell the public about the $40,000 raise he gave himself in 2008.

March 09, 2010

DPW Launches BagScottWalker.com

The DPW today launched BagScottWalker.com to expose Walker's brown bag charade.

March 09, 2010

Statement of DPW Chairman Mike Tate on Latest Scott Walker Stimulus Hypocrisy

MADISON-A day after raising champagne toasts in a Milwaukee ballroom to the Bush economic legacy, while pretending to a "brown bag" mantle, Scott Walker attacked federal recovery dollars even though he has desperately relied on these resources to keep his horribly mismanaged budget and capital projects afloat.

March 08, 2010

Lobbyists Look for a Friend in U.S. Senate

MADISON- Yesterday, Republican “Uber-Lobbyist” Bill McCoshen went on...

March 07, 2010

We Would Hide, Too

MADISON-Scott Walker and his rich cronies will be dining on caviar and hummingbird wings tomorrow in a posh Milwaukee ballroom with John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, but don't expect to see any footage of their champagne toasts to the Bush economic policies that took from working people to give to Lehman Brothers bankers.

March 05, 2010

Only a Matter of Scale

MADISON-Monied special interests and Scott Walker are holding vigil this weekend for their much-anticipated visit by former Florida Gov. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, who on Monday will pay tribute to the economic devastation of the Bush legacy at a $2,000 per-table-fundraiser.