Sunday, October 28, 2018





Exciting news folks!  The next Governor of the great state of Wisconsin is coming to visit and hear from us here in Grant County!  Tony Evers will be visiting us this week.  Mandela Barnes our exemplary candidate and the next Lieutenant Governor of our state will also be in attendance as well as our next representative in the State Assembly, Mike Mooney and our next Senator, Kriss Marion.  This is a rare opportunity and one you won’t want to miss.

Wednesday, October 31st.
9:45 AM
2nd & Main Coffeehouse & Pub
92 E. Main St. Platteville, WI 53818

So come on down and bring a friend or two.  Enjoy some great coffee and meet & speak with the people who will be returning Wisconsin to a peaceful and prosperous state for all.

Friday November 2nd will bring us another great event.  Mike Mooney and Kriss Marion will be  having their last event before the election at the Badger Bar, 35 North 2nd Street in Platteville, from 4 – 7 pm.

Hot, homemade soups and stews with all the trimmings will be provided by the dedicated volunteers of the Democratic Party of Grant County.  Bring friends, especially friends who may not have decided who they are voting for yet.  Let them meet our candidates and realize all that they have to offer for Grant County and SW Wisconsin.

                                      ELECTION DAY  TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6TH

If you haven’t already voted, have a plan to make time to do so on election day.  And we would love it if you would also plan to watch the election results with all of us.  Our Election Watch Party will be held in the downstairs hall of The Ticket, 60 South Court Street in Platteville beginning at 8pm.  Come join us as Wisconsin prepares to move out of the recent dark ages and enter a bright and shining future.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

We Want To Meet You

Greetings folks

If you have questions for the candidates or issues you would like to discuss, need some yard signs or wish to volunteer or donate, please feel free to stop by our Democratic Party of Grant County offices in Platteville.
We are located at 45 N. Third Street and our offices are staffed every day and evening except for Sunday.


Monday, October 15, 2018

Big Food, Big Fun and Big Events

The big election where we begin to turn Wisconsin blue and restore fairness, democracy and prosperity to all Wisconsin is only 3 WEEKS AWAY!!!!  Big changes are coming and there are some big events happening to celebrate those big changes.

On Saturday October 20th beginning at 4 pm and running until 7 pm, our good friends Carlos Vasquez and Carolina Martinez are hosting a STEAK & CHICKEN BUFFET will all the trimmings.  Great food and friends and a great time at this event to support Mike Mooney for 49th Assembly.
Location is the Los Amigos Restaurant located at 135 E. Main Street in Platteville. The price is only $13 which is great for a big steak/chicken dinner. A portion of food and adult beverage sales goes to support Mike Mooney.
On Friday November 2nd from 4-7 pm, there will be a Meet & Greet Event for Mike Mooney for Assembly and Kriss Marion for Senate at the Badger Bar, located at 35 N 2nd Street in Platteville.  Members and friends of the Democratic Party of Grant County will be providing homemade soups and everything to go with them.  This will probably be your last chance to meet, visit and speak with our candidates before the big election so we hope you can all make it.

Monday, October 8, 2018

Legislative Audit Bureau: The Sentinels of State Government




"As Governor, I would get rid of the programs that don’t work and fund the ones that do,” said a candidate at a forum last summer. I am sure people thought just how would you know that?
Many folks think someone is paying attention to details of state government, but they don’t really know. The way we can know is to study the work of the state auditors. The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) helps answer questions about the effectiveness and efficiencies of state government.
Recently, the work of the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau was given the highest possible rating by the National State Auditors Association. An independent, external review team, which included auditors from other states and the federal government, traveled to Wisconsin and spent a week reviewing the work of the LAB.
For fifty-three years, the LAB has assisted legislators, agency directors and the people of Wisconsin in answering questions about how money is spent and how programs are managed. The auditors’ work provides answers to questions such as, did the program meet its goals, did the program follow state law, and how was the money spent?
Long before I became a Senator, I assumed that someone was paying attention to all the different functions of state government. As a Senator and member of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, I understand the critical role of the LAB in assisting the Legislature with oversight. With a state government of dozens of agencies, hundreds of funds and thousands of programs, the 86 authorized employees of the Audit Bureau have a massive task.
Audits of state government, conducted by the LAB, are approved by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee which is made up of legislators from both sides of the aisle and both houses. The Co-chairs are always of the Majority Party and they determine which audits come to the committee for approval. Auditors depend on lawmakers to attend the hearings, read the audits ahead of time and ask questions. They also depend on lawmakers to share the findings with the public and involve the public and their colleagues in a discussion about solutions to the findings in the audit. To maintain the integrity of the LAB and its work, state law forbids lawmakers from interfering in the audit process.
The LAB also maintains a state hotline on waste, mismanagement and abuse that has some of the strongest whistle-blower protections in state law. That protection provides confidence for those who come forward to help the LAB know where to find problems that need to be remedied.
Audit findings are always accompanied by recommendations to address the problems found during the audit process. Frequently these findings are related to compliance with state law. It is up to the Joint Audit Committee to make sure the agencies follow the LAB recommendations. This work can be much harder than you might think.
For example, the law requires the state’s economic development organization validate that any company receiving money for creating jobs actually creates the jobs. A series of audits detailed that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) was not following the law. When lawmakers insisted WEDC follow the law, the agency director pompously retorted, “We are not in the business of validating jobs.”
A few years ago, after the release of an economic development audit that detailed continued problems, two lawmakers called for the elimination of the LAB. These lawmakers, who called for the demise of the LAB, showed staggering ignorance in the vital functions auditors perform.
Without the LAB’s work, our state would not be able to conduct business with the federal government due to requirements for a review. Nearly thirty percent of Wisconsin’s $76 billion-dollar budget is federal money. Without the work of the Audit Bureau our state could not borrow money or, in state terms, issue bonds. Our state has about $14 billion dollars in bonds (debt).
The LAB staff are the sentinels of state government. They point the way to problems, offer recommendations to solve those problems, and give the “all-clear” that everything is working well.
The staff at the LAB is doing a very difficult job in a way that absolutely deserves recognition. For their exceptional work, we all offer heart-felt congratulations and appreciation.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

fake media talk response

Since you good folks on the political right claim that 99.999% of all news sources are the "liberal media" and not to be trusted. Since you are willing to believe that there is a conspiracy, spread across the entire planet dedicated to spreading "liberal lies" and only yourself and Fox "News" have the amazing genius and mental prowess to see through this conspiracy which is the largest single human creation in all of history, I have some questions for you.
Please explain to me sir or madam, just how every single nation on Earth, every single media outlet across the entire planet, every government in this world, decided to and then secretly carried out, a plan to wage an information war on the American Republican Party?
How did 7 billion people keep this secret? How did every single nation on Earth come to an agreement for the first time in world history, not to end war, not to end famine, not to cure cancer but, just to give Republicans unreliable information?
How are 7 billion people benefiting from this and why???
The Republican Party, it's billionaire donors, and Fox "News" have lots of money and power on the line here and have a lot to benefit from misinforming people. Why doesn't that factor into this equation???
Perhaps the answer is that it never happened? Perhaps the Republican Party and it's billionaires donors who own Fox "News" (and some blogs and websites, the other sources of "real" info for GOP voters) have gotten you to believe that the whole wide world is nothing but a conspiracy to give "smart and highly informed" people like yourself misinformation?
Bonus question; What is the definitions of paranoia?
Bonus question #2; What is the definition of megalomania?
"It is easier to fool a person today than it is to convince them that somebody else fooled them yesterday." Mark Twain