Minnesota Gov. TIM PAWLENTY attended a $150 per couple fundraiser Monday in Hartland for Milwaukee Co. Executive SCOTT WALKER’s gubernatorial campaign. New Jersey Gov. CHRIS CHRISTIE will be in Waukesha County Oct. 4 to do a fundraiser for Walker.
Attorney General J.B. VAN HOLLEN and Dem challenger SCOTT HASSETT will meet Oct. 7 for their first joint appearance of the campaign as part of the “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” series at Marquette Law School. See more: http://www.marquette.edu/omc/newscenter/recent.php?subaction=showfull&id=1285011450&archive.
State Rep. SANDY PASCH, D-Whitefish Bay, has been named by Milwaukee Common Council President WILLIE HINES as one of eight members of the city’s Flooding Study Task Force. She’ll be joined by two common council members, appointees of the mayor and the state DNR, the city’s commissioner of public works and the executive directors of MMSD and SEWRPC. See the release: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=211287
Rep. CHRISTINE SINICKI, D-Milwaukee, has been nominated for the state’s 2010 Eleanor Roosevelt Award. See the announcement: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=211288
Sen. LENA TAYLOR, D-Milwaukee, was named Legislator of the Year by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies at its annual convention this week in San Diego. See more: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=211169
The Milwaukee Press Club will induct Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist RAQUEL RUTLEDGE of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel into its into the order of The Knights of the Golden Quill at its Sept. 30 meeting at the Newsroom Pub in Milwaukee. The group will also induct DAVE BALDWIN, owner the Safe House bar and the Newsroom Pub, which houses the Press Club, into the circle of The Knights of Bohemia. See details: http://www.milwaukeepressclub.org/events/details/118
Independent Assembly candidate IESHUH GRIFFIN’s campaign to get the slogan "NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’" on the fall ballot caught the attention of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show." Watch the segment: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-15-2010/slogan-s-hero
