Posts Tagged ‘Candidacy’

More details on Ribble’s $130,000 raised

The local paper had an article this past Sunday touting how Reid Ribble has raised more than $130,000 since announcing his candidacy a mere three months ago. Kaukauna roofing contractor Reid Ribble is about to become a full-time candidate and has more than $100,000 in the bank to back his challenge to Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen . After announcing his candidacy in July, Ribble raised $130,290 through September, according to the Federal Election Commission . Candidates are requi


In Brief: Sensenbrenner gets a challenger, Tauscher back with Pack

Menomonee Falls small business owner Todd Kolosso announced his candidacy earlier this week to unseat Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Country Club) in Wisconsin’s fifth Congressional district. While I’ll obviously be rooting for Kolosso, I don’t know that his odds of unseating Rep. Sensenbrenner are that great, given the makeup of the fifth district. Scot Ross over at One Wisconsin Now has an interesting tidbit regarding Rep. Paul Ryan’s most recent campaign finance report: Ryan amassed $104,00


Marquart Endorses Kelliher

Rep. Paul Marquart has endorsed Speaker Kelliher’s candidacy for governor , saying that she’d be a great governor for rural Minnesota: As a rural legislator, I am strongly endorsing Speaker Kelliher to be our next governor because of her outstanding record of achievement for rural Minnesota. As the leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Speaker Kelliher has faced heat on the “bread and butter” issues facing rural Minnesota and delivered results that benefit our senior citizens,


Views on the News – 10/3/2009

Despite his many words and television appearances, our elegant and eloquent President remains more an emblem of change than an agent of it. Virtually everyone in politics and the media who promoted the candidacy of Barack Obama seemed to think that he was a “transcendent” candidate. That somehow he would be able to cross party lines, eliminate racial divides and bring America to some new utopian existence as never before experienced. But Obama has been a failure and it is a virtual certainty


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