Press Releases

MADISON – In an effort to highlight key considerations for voters in Western Wisconsin, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin last week launched its You Need to Know campaign.  The series will share hard facts about Republicans Howard Marklein, Travis Tranel, Lee Nerison, Ed Brooks and Dennis Clinard, facts voters must keep in mind when they go to the polls November 2nd.

MADISON – Millionaire Senate Candidate Ron Johnson, who has become one of the latest Republicans to benefit from the attack ads aired by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is heavily invested in companies — foreign and domestic —  that pay dues to support the Chamber's negative attack campaigns through foreign business councils, a review of Johnson's stock holdings shows.

MADISON — A new report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today reveals that millionaire Senate Candidate Ron Johnson has benefited from a fund-raiser and thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a tea party crony who got millions of dollars in construction projects from nonprofit organizations while Johnson sat on the various boards that managed the nonprofits.

MADISON — Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson has dodged 15 debates during the election, rarely releases his schedule to the media, and is basing his run on an $8 million ad campaign that explains precious few of his extremist stands on the issues. Never in Wisconsin history has a candidate actually admitted that his campaign is based on so deliberately misleading the voters — until Ron Johnson.

MADISON - Scott Walker has blamed the state for fraud in the Wisconsin Shares program but news is breaking that he has failed to staff Milwaukee County's child care fraud investigation unit and has left at least $1.4 million that could have been used to root out fraud unspent.

MADISON —U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson made the incredible claim to CNN that he's only visited Washington D.C. three times, all during his Senate run and that, "I've gone three times just to familiarize myself, you know, meet with some groups," he said. "That's it."

  MADISON - Scott Walker was once again hiding behind a hand-picked lawyer, who bills taxpayers at $395-per-hour, to hide a damaging 2008 report that Walker previously had withheld from his own county administrator.

MADISON — Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson, who has launched an attack dubbed “misleading” by the AP for falsely claiming the Recovery Act created jobs in China, in fact, has stock holdings that support job growth in China, including China Mobile, a firm that issues stock but is owned and controlled by the People’s Republic of China.

MADISON- After ducking any and all debates with her Democratic counterpart, Republican lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch on Wednesday "abruptly" canceled a television interview with Milwaukee's WTMJ 4 after debuting a misleading ad that inadvertently drew attention to her and Scott Walker's taxpayer-funded health care, and other gross hypocrisies.

MADISON - Proving they will say or do anything to get elected, while taxpayers have paid tens of thousands of dollars in health care costs for Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch, they are seeking to deny Wisconsinites the same benefits that they have utilized themselves.