Press Releases

October 29, 2008

Brett Davis Supports Third-Party Attack Ads Flooding Airways

MADISON – Republican Brett Davis opposed measures to reform campaigns by regulating third-party attack ads, the same ads that are now benefiting his campaign by smearing his Democratic challenger John Waelti on the airwaves.

October 28, 2008

Tiffany Hypocrisy: Candidate Falls Silent As Third Party Groups Help Him

MADISON – As an out-of-state advocacy group spends tens of thousands of dollars to run “issue ads” attacking state Senate candidate Jim Holperin, Holperin’s opponent Tom Tiffany has refused to repudiate the ads for the lies they contain, even after he condemned similar ads that were running against him.

October 28, 2008

Brett Davis Voted Against Health Care for Children with Autism

MADISON – State Rep. Brett Davis voted against Legislation to require insurance companies to cover the costs of this Autism Spectrum Disorder therapy. The important Legislation passed the State Senate overwhelmingly but fell three Republican votes short of passing the Assembly, thanks in part to Brett Davis.

October 28, 2008

Why Won

MADISON – Republican John Gard continued to hide any and all details about his shady consulting company Gard Business Group this week, dodging a direct question from the Appleton Post-Crescent on his business dealings and clientele. According to today’s Post-Crescent, “The former speaker is guarded about who his clients are, except to say that they are based in Northeastern Wisconsin.”

October 27, 2008

DPW Calls on Local TV Stations to Pull NRCC Ad Spreading Lies About Congressman Kagen

MADISON – The Democratic Party of Wisconsin today called on Green Bay-Fox Valley TV stations to immediately pull a negative political ad running by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that contains false, misleading, and deceptive statements about Congressman Steve Kagen’s record.

October 27, 2008

Scott Walker Says He

MADISON – Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, a state Co-Chair of John McCain’s campaign, yesterday joined an ever-growing chorus of Republicans who have rejected McCain’s negative robo-calls that have been flooding phone lines in Wisconsin and other states with dishonest, hate-filled messages about Barack Obama.

October 27, 2008

Democratic Party Calls on Madison TV Stations to Pull False Ads Attacking Trish O

MADISON – Today, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin called on three Madison area television stations – WMTV, WKOW and WISC – to pull political ads that contain "false, misleading, and deceptive statements" about Assembly candidate Trish O'Neil. The ads are paid for by a group calling itself the Coalition for

America

's Families, which is funded by unknown special interests and anonymous donors.

October 26, 2008

Special Bush-Cheney-Gard Edition

Reason #12 – Dick Cheney Called Gard “Exactly the Type of Person We Need in Washington”

October 24, 2008

Candidate Jo Egelhoff Deleted Own Editorials to Hide True Positions from Voters

MADISON – Jo Egelhoff, Republican candidate for the 57th Assembly District, admitted to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday that as she announced her run for Assembly, she deleted numerous editorials that revealed her true thoughts on the issues most important to Appleton residents.

October 24, 2008

John Gard Supported Taxpayer Funded Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Before He Opposed Them

MADISON – John Gard supported legislation to fund benefits for children of non-resident immigrants in 2003, despite the fact that he claims in a recent campaign ad that he is absolutely opposed to taxpayer funded benefits for illegal immigrants.