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Speaking to constituents recently, Tea Party extremist Sen. Ron Johnson attacked minimum wage workers.

MADISON – With the Senate Banking Committee voting on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the President’s nomination will now go to the full Senate for approval.  In anticipation of this, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate released the following statement:

MADISON-Embarrassment Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Moon), gave a confused and jumbled response to interviewer Al Hunt's questions about the debt ceiling, indicating he supports cuts to Social Security and funding federal payments at 60 cents on the dollar, including tax refunds and farm payments.

MADISON –Ron Johnson is still refusing to answer questions about the $10 million deferred compensation payoff he received from his Oshkosh firm, Pacur, a sum that closely resembles the nearly $9 million Johnson used to finance his Senate campaign.

MADISON-A new analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that the effort joined by Wisconsin's Republican Congressional delegation to repeal health care reform will result in the end of prescription drug coverage for seniors.

WISCONSIN DELLS-His D.C. lobbyist cash paid for plenty of signs to limn the sparse crowds at the annual Wisconsin Republican convention here, but Tommy G. Thompson's run for the U.S. Senate was soundly rejected by his own party in humiliating fashion, with Thompson losing a straw poll to a nobody former state senator, with him dissed by extremist U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.and with him under attack by Scott Walker's own political machine.

WISCONSIN DELLS-Under heavy security and with sparse crowds at their annual convention, Wisconsin Republican leaders gave conflicting signals about the internal discord racking their party and their attempts to defend the Scott Walker-Paul Ryan overreach.

MADISON – Senator Ron Johnson yesterday voted against a Democratic bill that would have stripped big oil companies of multi-billion dollar annual tax subsidies.

MADISON- At a press conference in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Ron Johnson broadly endorsed the budget proposal presented by fellow Tea Party Senator Pat Toomey.

MADISON-Wisconsin's Republicans must be celebrating the Chinese New Year today, given their record and their willingness to cede the 21st Century to the emerging power.