state legislature

Senators, Representatives and their families will soon gather to open the 101st Session of the Wisconsin Legislature.

Inauguration Day will bring families and neighbors to the Capitol. The members meet in their respective chambers for the swearing in of new members.

Unsuccessful in the State Senate recalls at getting any fake Democrats nominated, the GOP is apparently testing a new technique in the LaCrosse race to replace Jennifer Schilling, who was elected to the Senate.

The LaCrosse Tribune reports:

The GOP now has a candidate in the race for the vacant 95th Assembly district seat, while the last Republican to run for the seat has changed parties.

Conservative activist David Drewes announced his candidacy Monday with an endorsement from Bill Feehan, La Crosse County GOP chairman.

Nick Charles, who ran for the seat as a Republican in 2010, has registered to run this year as a Democrat. Charles lost to incumbent Jennifer Shilling with 36 percent of the votes in his first bid for public office.

Nick Charles was The Thin Man, was he not?

Comment on Ed Garvey's blog:

As a vilified Wisconsin state employee and member of the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council at UW-Milwaukee, I would LOVE to see some facts/figures on the benefits, health care premium costs and coverage, salaries (including per diems claimed) and pensions of Wisconsin legislators, who, at best, are part-time employees of the state.

I suspect one could not find a better example of feeders at the public trough than our less-than-illustrious assortment of elected senators and congressmen/women.