There is a Chippewa Valley Candidates Forum this evening in Eau Claire. We thought you should know that four of the invited candidates (all Republicans) have decided to skip this one because they suddenly all developed "scheduling" problems after they found out what the format of the forum was going to be. Our thanks to Jody at The Side Street for pointing this out.

This all seems to fit in with the current Republican need to not have to deal with uncomfortable questions, or press events that aren't staged in their favor. Or maybe they're just afraid of women (since this forum is sponsored by all women's groups). I find it particularly amusing that the candidates (Ron Brown, Rob Kreibich, Dave Zien, and Terry Moulton) are wishing the sponsoring organizations a robust discussion of those important issues when it will now be an all-Democrat forum. I guess this shouldn't be surprising - Dave Zien has pulled out of just about every opportunity to appear in public with Pat Kreitlow, so this is just one more in a stream.

We're going. I'll let you know what happens. More news on this tomorrow.

Thanks to Russ Feingold for speaking out on this deplorable legislation, and to Borges at Kicktime for pointing it out.

The legislation signed by the President today violates basic principles and values of our constitutional system of government.

Read the rest at Kicktime.

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You may remember that a while back we announced a contributor contest, where the first contributor to accumulate 20 Uppity Wisconsin points (by posting to the site) would receive an Amazon gift certificate from us.

We have a winner - as of today, our frequent News Summary contributor Rking has accumulated 38 points - So yeah, we're a little behind in handing out the prize. The gift certificate will go out to him today - and congratulations to Russell King!