Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Now that the recall primary is behind us and messages from both sides are more targeted, Wisconsin voters are starting to get more decisive.
Gov. Scott Walker is up by six points against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll of likely voters. The results of the poll were released Wednesday during a segment of the on-going "On the Issues" series with Mike Gousha and Professor Charles Franklin. Polling of 704 registered voters took place between May 9-12, and the poll results include responses from 600 likely voters in the pool with a 3.8 percent margin of error. Only 3 percent of those surveyed said they are undecided. The voting sample was split at about 52 percent women, 48 percent men and 89 percent white and about five percent each for African Americans and Hispanics. Before the primary, registered voters had Barrett leading by…
The superintendent quelled a rumor that board member Lynn Robson stood to gain financially from the St. Croix Meadows dog track sale because of her husband's association with Greystone Commercial.
During the Superintendent's Report portion of the last Hudson School District Board of Education meeting held on May 8, Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten took some time to quell a rumor. The rumor circulating was that David and Lynn Robson—a member of the school board—stood to benefit from the St. Croix Meadows sale to the Hudson School District because David Robson is an associate at Greystone Commercial. Bowen-Eggebraaten presented a letter the district received from attorney Dennis J. Neeser representing the property sellers. The letter begins, "You have inquired on behalf of the Hudson School Board of any financial or beneficial relationship between the ownership group of the Track and Greystone Commercial Real Estate Company, or …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
St. Croix River Crossing Project Director Jon Chiglo explains the term "extradosed bridge."
St. Croix River Crossing Project Director Jon Chiglo describes the term "extradosed bridge," talks about how the design was selected and speaks to the safety elements that will be incorporated into the bridge. What do you think of the "extradosed bridge" design? Do you think the St. Croix River Valley will still be the "focal point" of the area when the new bridge is built? For more coverage of the St. Croix River Crossing Project click here to view our Topics Page.
Local Republican officials Duffy, Harsdorf and Knudson are scheduled to speak at the Republican rally a week before the recall election.
The Republican Party of St. Croix County has announced plans for a rally at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29 at Lakefront Park, according to a press release issued Monday morning. U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy will be the featured speaker. State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf and State Rep. Dean Knudson also will speak at the event. The event will serve as a kickoff point for the party's get-out-the-vote effort for the June 5 gubernatorial recall election between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Both Duffy and Knudson are up for re-election in November. Duffy is facing Democratic challenger Pat Kreitlow and Knudson is facing Democratic challenger Diane Odeen.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
President's campaign sends e-mail to Obama supporters urging them to vote for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in June 5 recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is actively getting behind the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker from office, The Huffington Post reports. The campaign is focusing its efforts on educating and registering voters in advance of the historic June 5 gubernatorial recall election. Tripp Wellde, the Wisconsin state director for the Obama campaign, sent an email to supporters Thursday night, urging them to support Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's Democratic opponent. The Obama campaign also hosted "Own Your Vote" events around the state this weekend, described as "organizing phone banks and knocking on doors to make sure Wisconsinites are registered and ready to own their vote on Election Day," according to The Huffington Post…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
The Gateway Corridor Commission is taking a few extra months to study the remaining seven options for transit between St. Paul's Union Depot and Hudson, WI, along Interstate 94.
The Gateway Corridor Commission is postponing its decision on a preferred mode and route for transit between St. Paul’s Union Depot and Hudson, WI, to August or September, said senior transportation planner Andy Gitzlaff. The commission had previously planned to select a preferred alternative by early summer, however, members voted Thursday to continue to study the remaining seven alternatives a few months longer, he said. The time will be used to look at ways to increase the ridership numbers for the bus rapid transit options and to narrow the routes that would travel along East Seventh Street and Hudson Road to reduce their property impact, he said. Once the study is complete, the commission will likely narrow down the number of …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
A new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker has 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett comes in at 45 percent.
If the recall election were held today, a new poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker could come out the winner. According to Rasmussen Reports, Walker would pull in 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett would garner 45 percent of the vote. Two percent would choose someone else and two percent are still undecided. Rasmussen surveyed 500 likely voters by telephone on May 9, the day after the historic recall primary election, when both Walker and Barrett beat out real and "protest" challengers. With a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percent, though, perhaps the points between the candidates more closely mirrors the results of a recent Marquette University Law School poll that shows Walker and Barrett in a dead heat. Survey results for…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
State voters delivered a June 5 rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial race and a Mahlon Mitchell-Rebecca Kleefisch matchup in the lieutenant governor's race. But protest candidate Isaac Weix carried St. Croix County.
Protest candidate Isaac Weix, an Elmwood resident, carried St. Croix County in Tuesday's Democratic recall primary election. Weix (41.9 percent) defeated Mahlon Mitchell (39.4 percent) and Ira Robins (15.3 percent) in St. Croix County. Mitchell won statewide with more than half the vote. --- Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett emerged from their primaries on Tuesday and will face off against each other on June 5, in a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial election. In November 2010, after incumbent Jim Doyle chose not to run for re-election, Walker defeated Barrett with 52 percent of the vote to become the state’s 45th governor. Walker (97 percent) easily beat protester Arthur Kohl-Riggs (3 percent) in the statewide totals. …
Gov. Scott Walker accepted invitations to participate in two debates, while Mayor Tom Barrett accepted four invitations. All would take place before the June 5 general recall election.
The day after the historic recall primary election in which both Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett got the decisive nod from their supporters, just how many debates the two will participate in seems to be, well, up for debate. After the Walker campaign announced Wednesday that he would participate in two debates with his opponent, Barrett's campaign issued a press release saying the mayor had accepted invitations to four debates. Barrett called Walker out, challenging him to accept the same invitations. "Scott Walker loves to launch misleading attacks on jobs in news conferences and press releases, so let's meet face to face and compare our records and our visions on jobs before the people of Wisconsin," said Barrett in a …
With Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett tapped by voters as their candidate to remove Gov. Scott Walker from office, his Democratic primary opponents rallied behind him Wednesday creating a unified force hoping to take the governor's office.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett — now the Democratic nominee to challenge for the state’s top office — said he would be worried about the fact that Gov. Scott Walker received nearly as many votes in Tuesday’s recall primary as all four Democratic candidates if not for a show of solidarity Wednesday. Barrett cruised to an easy victory Tuesday night in the Democratic primary, defeating Kathleen Falk 58 percent to 34 percent. On the Republican side, Walker garnered more than 620,000 votes, nearly as much as all four Democrats in the primary and the most in 60 years of Wisconsin gubernatorial primary history, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With just four weeks before Walker and Barrett face off in a historic recall on June 5, Falk, …
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10:30 am on Friday, May 18, 2012
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