WisPolitics Budget Blog

Campaigns are not rocket science; it's more basic blocking-and-tackling and keeping the trains running on time.

Too many candidates make the effort more difficult than it needs to be with inflated and unrealistic expectations.

Which is why Rep. Mark Green's gubernatorial campaign is following a steady pace and collecting poltical chits along the way.

Green has been busy this off-year appearing at GOP legislative fundraisers.

Fundraising is a chore. And fundraising during the off-year, during the short Wisconsin summers, is especially a chore. When someone offers to lend a hand, write a check, cheerlead an election/reelection, it's time well invested.

Mark Green is collecting local regional news coverage, appearing in front of community activists, building familiarity with local Party activists, and taking lists of donors and attendees with him back to his Green Bay HQ.

All the neccessary ingredients for a statewide campaign.

Green's generousity will pay dividends should he win the September, 2006 GOP Primary for WI Governor. Assembly Republicans are in no risk of losing the majoirty next November.

Tough to tell Governor Green to stick-it when he helped raise your election money.