- Kathleen Falk was born in Milwaukee and raised in Waukesha County with deep German and Irish roots in Wisconsin.
- Kathleen earned over 1 million votes in her statewide race in 2006; in fact, she earned 50,000 more votes in 2006 than Tom Barrett received in his statewide race in 2010. In 2006, Kathleen lost by about one-quarter of one percent: Barrett lost in 2010 by about 5%.
- In Northern Wisconsin, Kathleen received both a higher percentage of total vote cast in 2006 than Barrett did in 2010 (7.6% higher) and a higher number of actual votes (29,094 more) than Barrett did.
- Kathleen was an environmental attorney helping citizens all across the state for over 20 years before serving as the highest elected official in the state’s second largest county for 14 years. She knows how Wisconsinites differ in various parts of the state and how we share the same values.
- Wisconsin voters do elect Dane County “liberals” to statewide office: for example, Jim Doyle and Russ Feingold won statewide office repeatedly. Recent polling also shows Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin leading several Republican challengers in her senate race.
- Kathleen Falk is an experienced statewide campaigner and proven fundraiser.
Kathleen Falk forWisconsin
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You think we Wisconsinured might be ready for or first female governor? Are we ready yet for someone who stands for women and working families?
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DeleteWe will know next Tuesday. Go Falk!
ReplyDeleteFrom the virulence of the attacks against Falk on a supposedly progressive blog that shall go nameless I am guessing that Barrett's internal polling shows the race tightening.
ReplyDeleteThus the reappearance of Barrett surrogates, like former Madison Mayor Dave Cheslevobitch, to launch attacks on unions and their leaders. What's next Dave, Red-baiting? I am so glad I never voted for him. At least I got that one right.
https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2012/05/02/marquette-law-school-poll-shows-barrett-leads-falk-in-recall-primary-walker-and-barrett-within-single-percentage-point/
DeleteOne important fact you missed Jeff, Falk will turn her back on the people of Wisconsin and will do the work of the unions who have bought and paid for her. You left BB because they refused to support your union bobblehead Ms Falk, now is time to admit why you honestly support her, she is a union puppet and does not care about all of Wisconsin at all. Thank You Scott Walker for bring fiscal sanity back to our state.
ReplyDeleteThat Walker support here, amounts to an add for Falk. Gareth is correct. There are a couple progressive blogs that are anti-Falk and I was also wondering why as they never fully explained their positions.
DeleteSo representing the working people is bad and representing the out of state corporatistas is good. Yup, I think we got us a troll here.
DeleteYou are correct capper Falk will represent the unions, but the vast majority of the workers in this state are not in public unions and we know she will turn her back on all of us.
DeleteI must be old, as I still think of Feingold as from Janesville. That's where he first was elected and was re-elected -- but after moving to Madison, he lost!
ReplyDeleteJust saying: Don't diss Janesville, which has given Wisconsin great leaders for a long time, ever since its origins as a center of reform.
Tom Barrett lost because he was a lousy campaigner and shrunk from attacking the asshole that is Scott Walker. Does he have it in him to take the fight to Walker this time. I'm thinking I like Falk.
ReplyDeleteBarrett lost because the GOP won. It happened across the board. Feingold lost too and the GOP picked up a lot of seats at the same time. This is obvious and it is not because of anything Barrett did or didn't do.
DeleteTom Barrett lost because of the Democratic disarray then, too, with the low turnout due to WEAC, which refused to endorse the Democratic candidate for governor against Walker.
ReplyDeleteI have not forgiven WEAC leaders nor anyone who allied with that (in)action and now WEAC's continued contribution to Democratic disarray. Is WEAC going to cost us the recall election, too, and our efforts to take back the Wisconsin that it helped to hand over to Walker? Looks like it.
Tell WEAC leaders to stop being the lousy campaigners. Tom was great then but could not counteract the WEAC message to teachers to stay home from the polls.
Let Tom and the other candidates be great again, without all of this disarray for which we have no time, so that we can get out the vote and get Walker out.
You are suggesting that WEAC told its members not to vote for Barrett and that was why he lost. Now you are telling WEAC members to vote for Barrett. Why not let them decide who to vote for?
DeleteDon't you think that Barrett might have gotten more support from the teachers if he hadn't threaten to take over the school system?
DeleteThere was a pretty serious rumor that WEAC was planning on campaigning for Falk, but if she lost the primary, that WEAC wouldn't actively promote Barrett, they would only attack Walker.
DeleteBut that's the leadership. The membership stood up at the last WEAC assembly a week or so ago and made it clear in no uncertain terms that WEAC is to positively campaign in favor of the Democratic candidate.
I'm sick of all the sniping among democrats and want no part of it. I'm definitely going to vote for the dem in the general election. As I see it, there are at least three solid candidates and, at the end of the day, I am far less passionate about who wins the primary as I am about getting Walker out. So I've decided to vote for Kohl-Riggs on Tuesday. Who knows, if other dems who are sick of dissension join me, he may just pull off an upset.
ReplyDeleteI am still deciding between two candidates and I don't care if people "snipe".
DeleteOn an earlier thread, I asked two very serious questions about Falk, and all I got in response was sniping and accusations that I was aligning myself with Charlie Sykes. So I'm giving up. Good luck getting real answers to the hard questions. I just don't think it's possible in today's political world.
Deletewhat were they kevin i will answer
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer -- one of my questions was how Falk was going to explain quitting mid-term just as the budget s--t was hitting the fan. In the earlier thread, you just threw the question back at me and asked why it should matter. This morning, I went ahead and voted absentee for Kohl-Riggs, so it's all a moot point now.
DeleteWhile I have been less than impressed with this blog's treatment of the primary, I really appreciate most of what you report. Super post on the GOP/tea party splintering!
Kevin, sorry I was busy yestrday and am getting used to the new comment system here.
DeleteI truly do not think it is that big of a deal. Maybe i am a little skewed because I live in a village where our president resigned and before he did held a bunch of secret meetings with a couple people on the boardto figure out the best way to get theirself appointed candidate to replace him.
The way Falk did it was the best way to make sure her predecessor was elected. besides, did barrett run on the fact he wanted to be Governor and only elected Mayor for 2 months?
Falk or Barret??? Why not just vote the Teachers Union in as Governor! You know, like the unions are part owners of GM.
ReplyDeleteI admit I stole this from a comment made on the JS website, but it sure seems to fit in this blog.
She's losing miserably to Barrett. Time to rally behind the presumptive nominee.
ReplyDeleteYou know something? Now you kinda pissed me off. I know you Walker people want Barrett, but you really shouldn't go over the top like that.
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