Press Releases

MADISON-Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate following Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald's announcement to the Wausau Daily Herald's editorial board that he is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

MADISON-Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate following news that "Tea Party" extremist, and Scott Walker and Paul Ryan disciple, Mark Neumann was headed to Republican spokesman Charlie Sykes's radio show today to announce his latest losing candidacy.

MADISON-Paul Ryan, author of the plan to end Medicare, is leading Wisconsin Congressional Republicans in tax hypocrisy, calling the payroll break for workers a "sugar high" while defending tax cuts for billionaires and hedge fund managers.

MADISON-The author of the plan to end Medicare has also distinguished himself by promoting the very tax loopholes he decries publicly.

MADISON-Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate following Russ Feingold's announcement about his decision to not run for elective office in 2012.

MADISON – A newly released poll from Public Policy Polling shows that also-ran former Governor Tommy Thompson is increasingly vulnerable on the right, greatly diminishing his chances of success in earning the Republican nomination in the Wisconsin Senate race.

MADISON-Wisconsin Democrats on Wednesday launched a (tongue-in-cheek) plan to draft Paul Ryan for the Republican presidential nomination, in light of a recent swirl of breathless stories about the architect of the plan to end Medicare.

MADISON-After Standard & Poor's placed blame squarely on the House GOP for failing to deal responsibly with the American debt limit, John Boehner, the leader in the so-called "Republican Downgrade" of U.S. long-term Treasury bonds was headed for an undisclosed location today to raise campaign cash for Reid Ribble, a freshman follower of the GOP march off the cliff.

KENOSHA-In what must be a first in Wisconsin politics and at the same time he defended an agenda that puts "the upper class" first,  Chicago corporate lawyer Jonathan Steitz mocked Wisconsin fish fries in a debate Thursday.

MADISON -- The truth behind the false and manufactured smears against Sandy Pasch was revealed in full today at the Milwaukee Press Club, when Sen. Alberta Darling confessed to the media panel that "I'm not sure (I'm going to win)."