Final Election Thoughts
OK, last crack at this....even MORE elections thoughts.
* If Scott Walker had been the nominee, how would the election have been different? Walker is a far better candidate, has a Milwaukee base potentially eating into the Democrats base, and the illegal money transfer would not have been an issue. But then again, the Milwaukee County financials woes would have come into play.... I have to wonder though. I always thought Walker is a formidible candidate for any office.
* Dawn Marie Sass is the new State Treasurer. It really was a Democratic year. You think even a hundred people met her on the campaign trail? (Jack, best wishes. You are a class act.)
* What if all the outside groups had put even ten percent of their effort into Assembly races for the Democrats? Doyle would have both houses to govern with....hmmmmm.
* Does John Gard become a lobbyist in Madison or a Bush appointee in Washington? Or does he just wash cars in Peshtigo? Bets?
* I have estimated there are about 40-45 new jobs for Democrats at the State Capitol, with the Senate going Democratic and more Assembly Democrats elected. Look for lobbyists to hire more Democrats as well. Democratic Governor, Democratic State Senate, Evenly Divided Joint Finance Committee, Close Margin in the Assembly - I don't think Foti is "golden". Add to that hundreds of jobs in DC for Dems as well. Looks like good news for Democratic activists.
* Who pays for the dismal GOP election performance? Rep. Mike Huebsch? Rep. Mark Gundrum (author of the marriage amendment, which turned out Democratic voters)? Rep. John Gard? Sen. Dale Schultz? The State GOP? What do YOU think?
Final question: Who was the biggest winner of the state 2006 elections?
posted by Mark Pocan @ 8:36 PM
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4 Comments:
Does John Gard become a lobbyist in Madison or a Bush appointee in Washington? Or does he just wash cars in Peshtigo? Bets?
Washing cars in Sun Prairie is always an option as well.
What if all the outside groups had put even ten percent of their effort into Assembly races for the Democrats? Doyle would have both houses to govern with....hmmmmm.
Moulton's seat got left on the table. It was unavoidable really, there were just too many hot races in the area. Somewhere the decision was made to concentrate outside resources on the senate as a achievable goal and the assembly candidates were shorted. For the local community it was just too much to have two white hot senate races and another hot assembly race. There just wasn't enough left beyond that.
I volunteered to drop lit for Mike Turner. I also asked for stuff for Kreitlow and was handed a big honkin' pile of lit and assigned a ward. And I thought... a whole freakin' ward... but there just wasn't any extra shoe leather to go around. Kreitlow's stuff was heavy weight professionally printed stuff with the union bug and Mike was so broke ass he'd have been lost without the laser printer. I walked an entire ward solo, it took me three afternoons to cover it all.
Mike worked really hard with no money and no support. Incumbents never lose and we came one 51%-49% race away from running a table of really well funded Republican incumbents. But it was just a little too much to ask of the locals.
So yeah, I agree with you. A little outside attention to some assembly races would have paid off.
I would probably send your resume to Sen. Judy Robson and Rep. Jim Kreuser (Democratic leaders) as well as any office you would like to work for. Good luck!
Had Scott Walker supported full public funding of campaigns when he was a state legislator he would not have had to drop out and likely would be governor today.
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