Thursday, May 3, 2012
Kathleen Falk is THE most electable candidate!
Despite what some of our friends on the left like to say about Kathleen Falk's statewide electability, a picture is worth 1000 words!
By the way in case it was not clear, Kathleen Falk ran in 2006 against JB Van Hollen for Attorney General which IS a statewide office. Unfortunately, she had to primary Peg Lautenschlager to do so, which meant that many of Peg's loyal supporters refused to vote for Kathleen in the general election(which was a big year from democrats) and Kathleen was one of the few democrats who lost that year. She performed well in every category but hardcore democrats.
Do you think she will have a hard time pulling in the Hard Core left on June 5th?
Kathleen Falk is the most electable candidate statewide and the one candidate we will not have to spend our time holding accountable to their campaign promises when they get elected!
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Falk was the only Dem to lose statewide in 2006.
ReplyDeleteyes, kathleen was the only one of three dems to lose and by a razor's edge in 2006. i remember the race clearly. jim doyle was concerned that peg might be a drag on his reelection. he encouraged kathleen to run. she did. she lost and she lost because she underperformed doyle in dane co./madison and milwaukee. she lost her base because she dared challenge a candidate that drove while intoxicated in a state vehicle as attorney general. and people hold that against her?
ReplyDeleteBelieve the Dem nominee will win.
ReplyDeleteFeel the need to repeat what I wrote at Blogging Blue:
If the race comes down to how Dane County measures up in jobs and the economy, the race is a rout for Dane County Exec Kathleen Falk.
Judged only on jobs and the economy that you single out, where would you rather live: Milwaukee County or Dane County?
Already, Walker, Rove and the Koch brothers are targeting Milwaukee in ads as the war on women wages on.
One TV spot I want to see. Dane County jobs stats v. Walker jobs stats.
As for character between the two ... :) ... let's hope for that battle as well.
We will see on Tuesday what a difference 6 years makes. Travelling the state as much as I do, she doesn't have many people in her camp outside of Dane and Milwaukee counties.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I wholeheartedly disagree with you Chris. Although I will fully support her if she wins the primary. She has far too many people who dislike her to win against Walker. And her campaign against Peg was despicable, using the drunk driving charge against her and all. Other than this keep up the always outstanding work.
ReplyDeleteJeff wrote this one, not I. That said, don't you think that the Republicans wouldn't have pounded on Lautenschlager for the DUI in a state vehicle? I'd rather see a fresh candidate that damaged goods you'd know would lose.
DeleteI don't understand the logic in the reply: Because the Republicans do it, Falk does it?
DeleteThis is not what the democracy that we fought for, nor a good Democrat, look like. The more I see about Falk from her supporters here, the less I like.
Um, no. Meaning you put your strongest candidate forward. There was no way Lautenschlager could have won that race. She's a wonderful woman, but she had shot herself in the political foot and was going to lose. Falk gave the Dems a fighting chance to retain that seat, but the Dems were too arrogant to see that.
DeleteUm, no, that doesn't address that you wrote that if Republicans do it, Falk does it. I find it difficult to believe that, or that she would say that, so you do your candidate a disservice by not being thoughtful before you post.
DeleteIt's too late to fix a lot of that stuff now for the primary, but please be more careful in the month ahead for whomever is our candidate. The righties watch the lib blogs.
No, that's not what I said. It might be what you wish I said, but it's not.
DeleteI also add, that there were many "low information" voters that thought that the Dem lady candidate for AG was the one that got pulled over for drunk driving.
ReplyDeleteFalk gets endorsements from Unions, environmental groups, women's organization and other grass roots groups while Barrett gets endorsments from Democratic party functionaries. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe problem for Barrett is that this election will be won with a big ground game of volunteers. Does Barrett think that having his surrogates slander and insult labor will make their members more enthusiastic to volunteer for his campaign? Really? There is a difference between volunteering and working your ass off because you believe intensely in what you are doing. He'd better hope they have short memories and are very forgiving.
After this election it's time to consider starting a Labor Party to run candidates, first in the safe Democratic districts, districts where 35% wins in a three-way-race and then in more evenly divided districts. Who knows, perhaps the disillusioned 50% of the electorate that doesn't vote might like a third choice.
Imagine what it would be like for a few Labor Party candidates to hold the balance of power in the assembly. Working peopole would have a real voice in negotiations for a change, rather than being mere spectators hoping for the best.
This would make a welcome alternative to the current electoral process in which the corporate Dems take our money and volunteer labor in exchange for promises of "change you can believe in" and then after the election, tell us to be more realistic and piss-off, while they cut deals with Republicans.
So true- and Rahm Emmanuel showing up for Barrett is exactly why Barrett is not the right candidate. Rahm told the base to shove it after the '08 Obama run. (It's what the voters remorse situation could certainly be with Barrett). Rahm sure didn't have a problem cozying up to the right wing- will Barrett?
DeleteWell Said Gareth,....John to add to your point, if Barrett wins he will be more beholding to Rahm Emanuel than to WI labor.
DeleteDane County ain't the rest of the state. Having lived in Madison for many years, and the past 20 years in Green Bay, I can just about guarantee that Falk is not going to win north of, say, Fond du Lac. Be realistic... Barrett is more things to a wider range of voters... that is just the way it is right now.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at Barrett's 2010 numbers from Brown and Winnebago counties and tell me again how strong he will run there.
ReplyDeleteWhy would people dislike Kathleen Falk? She also did not come to herdecision torun against Peg solo....i would bet many of the dems we all know and love were encouraging her to do so.
ReplyDeleteMal, thanks, but I've lived in both and much prefer my Milwaukee.
ReplyDeleteAs for jobs, you must have missed the analysis in the JS -- the pro-Walker JS! -- that debunks that Walkerite line about my Milwaukee and my mayor. It's the rest of you in the state that are dragging us down in Milwaukee. And I quote the labor press re the JS story:
“The City of Milwaukee, under Mayor Barrett’s failed policies, is an anchor weighing on Wisconsin’s ability to create jobs,” claimed the Walker camp, and [Craig] Gilbert debunked that pointing out that the March job losses cited by the Walker campaign were for the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee), not the city of Milwaukee that Barrett was responsible for.
And then when Walker told Mike Gousha on Channel 12 that “a huge chunk of that (job loss) is in the city of Milwaukee,” Gilbert went to the fact book, that two-thirds “of all the jobs in the metropolitan area are actually outside the city of Milwaukee” and how for the last 12 months – the worst job loss in the nation – “most of the job losses statewide have occurred outside the Milwaukee metro area.”
The nail in the coffin: “Taking just private-sector employment, metro Milwaukee actually out-performed the state as a whole over the past 12 months, gaining 500 jobs while the rest of Wisconsin lost 12,600.”
Arguing apples (2006) and oranges (2010) doesn't cut it. By all accounts Falk is behind in both public and private polls. Her campaigned admitted that.
ReplyDeleteThe bickering done here and on other blogs will only lose the race in June. Public unions played it soft in 2010 and when their candidate loses on May 8 some will probably sit it out. The result will be two more years of Walker and an easy glide path to reelection.
Shame!
Oh yeah forgot to add...
DeleteMadison is a great place. But it isn't a big city. It is basically a homogenous community, where public sector jobs (State of Wis. and University) provide massive stability. Milwaukee is a much larger, more diverse and infinitely more complex economy. No one politician is to blame of the variety of challenges Milwaukee faces.
So Madison residents ease up on your disdain for evil Milwaukee, you sound like you are from Waukesha.
You know they have polls on this stuff right? She's behind to Walker (Barret's not) and she's behind Barret. I guess her best chance is that someone decides your definition of electable trumps what the voters elect to do.
ReplyDeleteCan't tell if this is a Walker troll or a Barrett troll...
DeleteI think that a Barrett troll would know how to spell Barrett.
DeleteSnrk. Good point.
DeleteI have no problem with Milwaukee personally, I have a problem when the Milwaukee Mayor writes our sitting Governor who just "dropped the bomb" and asked for an expansion of the dreadful ACT10.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, Kathleen Falk was in Dane County filing lawsuits to stop it.
I do not care where Barrett lives, I care how he has treated labor and how the indications are that he will treat labor in the future.
So Jeff_simpson7, you support Falk. But Barrett by all indications will win the primary - we can argue that point but let's assume...
ReplyDeleteWill you and the rest of your union breatheren pout and let Walker keep his job for years to come or will you suck it up and work to elect the nominee?
If you don't you are a defacto Walker supporter.
Can't tell if this is a Walker troll or a Barrett troll...
DeleteIn my circle of democrats, there a so few know who Falk is, and are uncertain about Barrett. There are a lot of uninformed, albeit frustrated democrats, and republicans. It would be a shame to lose this recall because of democrat infighting.
DeleteIt would have been far better to get behind one strong candidate, whomever that may be.
It's not Walker!
I want to beat Walker but I am dismayed by some who may believe losing is winning. If Falk is the only candidate and she loses the primary then some of you have mentally burned your bridge to Barrett and sit on your hands and watch Walker beat Barrett by a % point. That is my fear. Walker wins by a point because Falk supporters have gone all in and won't support Barrett.
DeleteHes, Anonymous 7:37, I fear the same, because I already have read Falk backers on other blogs saying so -- that they will vote for the winner of the primary but won't work for the winner and won't donate to the campaign.
DeleteThis is not what democracy, and winning Democrats, look like.
Maybe they'd be more likely to support the winner if they felt the winner was supporting them.
DeleteAnd isn't democracy about voting for the person you feel is best, not voting for the one that you're told to vote for.
I like Falk, and will vote for her if she wins the primary (full disclosure, Barrett is my top pick). But the image above forgets one key piece of information...
ReplyDelete2006 was a Democratic wave year. 2010 was a Republican year. It's comparing apples to oranges.
Chris we covered that, 2006 Falk lost the hardcore dem base by primarying Peg. She lost by a sliver, in a down ticket race.
ReplyDeletein 2010, Barrett led the ticket and the WI dems took the biggest beating in the nation.
Where is the evidence what she lost was hardcore democrats? Is there exit polling saying this?
ReplyDeleteRather see her beat that "tool" Van Hollen.
Didn't Dawn Sass win in the year Kathleen lost with 37 counties? Too bad she didn't run.
ReplyDeleteWhen I mention Milwuakee and Madison, I refer to the ads already on the air bashing Milwaukee.
ReplyDeleteNot that these ads are fair and accurate.
But still I'll take Dane County as a solid general election issue against Walker.