Press Releases

MADISON — U.S. Senate Candidate Ron Johnson, who claims that "government doesn't create jobs," has saved at least $1.1 million as a result of getting at least two government-subsidized loans in the 1980s, during a time when the cost of borrowing was substantially higher than today, according to research from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

MADISON — Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson will remember the “single greatest assault on the freedom” of American citizens in generations — the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, by shooting trap and attending a Republican Party of Wisconsin fund-raiser in Eau Claire.

MADISON — Senate candidate Ron Johnson takes his attack on Wisconsin families to Door County today, Friday. After eight years of failed Republican economic policies and the economic collapse led to layoffs and job loss across Wisconsin, Johnson will no doubt highlight his opposition to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

MADISON — Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson’s foreign investments include thousands of dollars in two firms linked to the Iraq “Oil for Food” scandal under Saddam Hussein.

MADISON— Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson, who opposes the Recovery Act that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families and created or saved 63,000 jobs across Wisconsin, has announced a new extremist stance: Opposing any effort to save the jobs of teachers. 

MADISON — Former career political consultant and current FOX NEWS pundit Dick Morris, who Ron Johnson has reputedly credited as the inspiration for his U.S Senate run, will visit Wisconsin Saturday, no doubt using his establishment connections to help Ron Johnson’s candidacy as he did on FOX NEWS earlier this week.

MADISON— The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has released a new Web ad highlighting Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson’s latest political double talk and hypocrisy.
 

MADISON — The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has released a new Web ad highlighting Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson’s latest distortion of reality to suit his agenda. Less than a week after denying climate change and attributing it to “just sunspot activity or something in the geologic eons of time,” Johnson has apparently discovered a new explanation: Greenland.

MADISON – On the 75h Anniversary of Social Security, will Ron Johnson — who will repeal health care reform that will benefit seniors and refused to defend government programs such as Medicare that serve as a lifeline to thousands of Wisconsin seniors — finally explain his plans to repeal and cut Medicare benefits and privatize Social Security - handing it over to Wall Street banks that drove our economy into the ditch?

MADISON - Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate on the 75th Anniversary of the Social Security Act and the "Father of Social Security," Wisconsin's Edwin Witte: