Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
campaign paid secretive tickets
What's discouraging here is that the campaign is being so secretive about who actually paid for these tickets originally.
campaign company maybe mind obvious turned wonder
You have to wonder why does this company get this treatment? And, why did maybe hundreds of other invitations get turned down? The obvious thing that comes to mind is (the) campaign contributions.
campaign using
It's tremendously problematic for the (Walker) campaign to be using a suite.
appearance campaign confidence corrosive course creates donors effect enormous favors feeds given government growing public state suspicion treated
That creates the appearance of government for sale. It feeds a growing public suspicion that campaign donors are treated differently, that they're given favors in state government. Of course that has an enormous corrosive effect on public confidence in our state government.
business campaign cover official raise
It does raise the question, is the official business really necessary, or is it just cover for campaign fundraising activity?
campaigns kinds people wisconsin
The kinds of people who are donating to Wisconsin campaigns is markedly different than it was in the not-too-distant past.
ask buy expect impossible people public
It's impossible to expect the public to buy that it's all a coincidence. It's too much to ask people to swallow.
confidence giving public vote
The public is giving the politicians a vote of no confidence.
clean
We are going to clean up this building.
districts voters
The way the legislative districts are drawn, representatives handpick their voters and have tailor-made districts.
basically center time worked
This is basically a dispatch center on wheels. This was the first time we worked with the new communications system, and it went very well.
counted democracy election officials paper record review trust voters votes
This is important to democracy, because if voters can't trust that their votes are being counted and election officials don't have a paper record that they can go back and review during recounts, then we're lost.
care deeply feeling great obstacles people
I find that people care deeply but they don't know what to do about it. I think one of the great obstacles has been this feeling of powerlessness.
actual canal less modeled recovery volumes water
They modeled the recovery of the canal for the volumes of water we had in the '04 storms, and there was less water than we had during the actual storms.