Running The Numbers

By Jeff Simpson

In a week and a half, the Wisconsin Democratic Party will be holding their annual convention in Milwaukee.

Approximately 1200 Democratic Party Members who signed up ahead of time to be delegates will get the privilege to vote for the next party chair (I highly recommend Joe Wineke) and there are five candidates running.

Whoever wins the party chair(please please do not vote in Jason Rae), there are four very important numbers that they have to keep in mind.

The first number is 1,121,555.  

That is the amount of votes Mary Burke received.   Let's say there are 2000 people at the upcoming convention, that means there are 1,119,555 people who vote Democratic, when given a reason, who are not at the convention.

How will YOU reach out and treat them.

The second number is 1,259,163.

That number is one more than the vote total that Scott Walker received to win re-election.

How will the Democratic Party raise their vote total so that we take over the Governorship next time?

The Third Number is 99.

99 members in the Wisconsin Assembly and the current breakdown is 63 Republicans and 36 Democrats.   The Democratic party NEEDS to pick up 14 seats.

How do you plan on doing that(PS: its a long slow process is the wrong answer).

The Fourth and final number is 33!

There are 33 seats in the State Senate and currently Republicans hold 19 of them and the Democrats 14.  That means the Democrats MUST take three more seats!   Its Mandatory!

What is the path to success?


Those are the key questions that the new chair of the Democratic Party has to answer! 

Let Him Speak!

By Jeff Simpson

Mike Tate was accused early on of endorsing Mary Burke for Governor.   Tate felt that the criticism was unfair and issued a statement:

Gang- I often promote the FB pages of all Dems running for an office, especially higher profile offices. More of a public service. Did the same thing in 2010, 12 and now. Not an endorsement. We promote Democrats running for office. If another serious candidate for Governor announces you’ll see myself and the party do the same thing. If you want someone else to run, go ask them to do so. Additionally there is no primary at this time and isn’t unless someone else enters it. So much as with Tammy Baldwin last year the party will promote Mary’s candidacy and should another serious candidate enter the race would promote that candidates activities too. Don’t remember anyone complaining about us promoting Tammy prior to her receiving full support of the party. No difference here.

Well, there is another Democrat on the ticket,  Brett Hulsey, and Mike Tate and the rest of the party has done their best to freeze him out.   Brett Hulsey wants and deserves a chance to speak at the upcoming Democratic convention but is not being allowed to.   

As Mike Tate himself said:

Not an endorsement. We promote Democrats running for office. If another serious candidate for Governor announces you’ll see myself and the party do the same thing. If you want someone else to run, go ask them to do so

Well Mike, another Democrat is running for Governor and as head of the Democratic party will you live up to your own words and allow him to speak at the convention or have you shown us that your word is not to be believed ever again?  







I also want to be perfectly clear that this is not an endorsement for Hulsey for Governor, but a sign of respect for someone who not only collected the required amount of signatures to run for office, but also has served as an elected Democratic official for many years.  

Let Hulsey Speak!  

Compare/Contrast - Former President Edition!

Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, brought us another amazing speech. This time by former President Bill Clinton.

   Compare that to last week's Republican Convention where they have two living former Presidents(Father/Son Bush).  When it came time to ask the Republican former presidents to speak...we get this!

He was not invited!  It is almost as if he didn't exist(except for the plethora of Bush advisors now working for Mitt! 

Can Some One Please Explain

Since the Republicans in Wisconsin are now National Heroes and so cocky,

Why do they need to redistrict secretly and unethically, pass unconstitutional and incredibly expensive voter suppression bills,  and lie everytime they give a speech?

Shouldn't they be able to just run on their personality, character and ideas?

Answer here!