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Xoff is doing some blogging at Uppity Wisconsin.

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This will be the final word on The Xoff Files. What more appropriate time than Election Day to pull the plug? When I started writing for this enterprise in March 2005, I barely knew what a blogger was. Next thing I knew, I were one. Now, Blogger says I've posted 3,380 items. The counter says there have been 375,000 visits to this blog since we turned it on last May. A drop in the ocean. I

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State Sen. Tom Reynolds is home-schooling his kids. Let's hope that his wife is the one teaching math, since Senator Moonbeam seems a little numerically challenged. No wonder he couldn't get his campaign address right. Gretchen Schuldt is on the case.

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AP reports on a Green campaign stop in Pewaukee:Among those appearing with Green was state Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, the author of a proposal that would lower the hunting age to 8. Asked later about that proposal, Green declined to say if he would support it. He said such issues should be discussed after the election.

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If you don't vote, don't bitch, they say. It's just the opposite in Muskego, where two-thirds of the people who signed petitions to recall the mayor didn't vote in the mayor's election. The Journal Sentinel found 25% of signers weren't even registered to vote, and that Muskego isn't unique in Recall World.

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We used to joke about doing a 3 a.m. get-out-the-vote phone bank, saying we were calling from the Republican Party to remind you that the polls opened in four hours. But the GOP is actually using a similar tactic, with repeat robo-calls irritating voters, who think the calls are coming from the Dems. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has been following it. Here's one of his posts that

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I know there's no Fairness Doctrine for radio any more, but doesn't this corporate-sponsored billboard seem a little over the top? It's not about right wing vs. left wing or liberals vs. conservatives. It is totally partisan. (In case you can't tell, that's a donkey getting its ass kicked by the elephant.) Questions: Is this legal? (Probably.) Why would you want to discourage anyone,

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This greeted George Bush at a Colorado campaign stop. ProgressNowAction has more.

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Michael J. Fox, the guy who made Rush Limbaugh go off his meds, will be in Milwaukee for a rally with Gov. Jim Doyle on Monday morning in Milwaukee. [UPDATE: Did I mention it's in Milwaukee?] It's at Serb Hall, 51st and Oklahoma, and doors open at 9:30 a.m. If you want to see Fox firsthand and judge whether he's a faker or really has serious symptoms of Parkinson's disease, call 1-877-646-2006

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The Journal Sentinel endorses J.B. Van Hollen for attorney general. Synopsis: We disagree with him on just about every issue you can think of -- concealed weapons, the death penalty, voter ID. He's just plain wrong on everything. But the AG isn't a legislator, and Van Hollen says he'll just be the top cop, so we endorse him -- although we think Kathleen Falk would do a fine job, too. Van

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Patrick McIlheran sizes up the candidates for gov on integrity and ethics and -- surprise! -- decides he prefers Congressman Mark Green, whom he's preferred all along. Doyle, he says, has some ethical issues. Can't prove anything, just a bad feeling. But Green? [The Democrats']main charge is that Green often voted like a Republican and that his donors were Republican-type donors. Thus he voted

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Cindy Sheenan will speak at a rally sponsored by Peace Action and other groups at 5 p.m. today at 4th and Wisconsin in downtown Milwaukee. A referendum on the war is on the ballot Tuesday in Milwaukee and nine other communities, including South Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and Fox Point.

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Congressman Mark Green almost made it through the whole campaign without having to talk about his vote and mindless cheerleading for the war in Iraq. Someone must have finally asked him a question. WISC-TV reports: Green Defends Vote To Go To War In Iraq Green Says War Has Been Successful WISC TV, November 4, 2006 EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- U.S. Rep. Mark Green said his vote in favor of the war in

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In one of his last acts on his way to the unemployment line, Paul Bucher throws out a pre-election partisan stink bomb: The JS reports: Bucher sees violation by Elections Board DA won't file charges before Tuesday's vote Saturday, November 4, 2006 Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher said Friday he has evidence four members of the State Elections Board violated the open meetings law

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AP via WashPost:Rep. Ney of Ohio Resigns From Congress By DAVID HAMMER, Associated Press, November 3, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, who pleaded guilty last month in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation resigned his seat in Congress on Friday. The Ohio Republican, who had been pressed to quit by fellow lawmakers, sent a letter of resignation to House Speaker Dennis

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I suppose it was inevitable. I just hope this blows up in his face. Green claims he hasn't seen the anti-gay piece and won't comment on it, but it is from his campaign, not some outside group. That means Mark Green is responsible for it. The buck stops with him, not Steve King or Juliane Appling or James Dobson. This is Mark Green himself bashing gays. The Capital Times:Green flier:

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Congressman Mark Green's been assuring us that his inability to spend about $468,000 in illegal interest money won't hurt his campaign. They have enough to execute the campaign plan, even without that money, he's said repeatedly. He said it again to WKOW-TV in Madison. But with a twist: Maybe he'll challenge the election results if he loses. Here's the story: Green said his campaign has not

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Today's NY Times: Insulting Our Troops, and Our Intelligence By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you're stupid. Yes, they do. They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry -- a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service -- and get you to vote against

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"So what's the spin, man? An independent poll by a reliable firm, done for a media outlet, and taken the last three days, has Doyle 6 points up? What does Zogby say about this?" "Not to worry. We'll keep it out of the newspaper." UPDATE: "I thought you said you'd get the story spiked. I read in the Journal Sentinel this morning that Doyle's 6 points ahead." "If you did, it's because you

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Another day, another setback for the litigious team of Tom Reynolds-Bob Dohnal-J.J. Blonien, whose favorite campaign technique is to file complaints and threaten lawsuits against anyone who takes Reynolds' name in vain. Dohnal, who publishes something called the Wisconsin Conservative Digest and picks fights on Reynolds' behalf, was frothing at the mouth last week about how the DA had found

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You may have heard or read about the campaign treasurer for a Republican Assembly candidate in Oshkosh who resigned over the negative campaign being run against the Democrat, Gordon Hintz. Here is the lie-filled, mean-spirited piece of mail that triggered it. The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern reported:Republican Assembly candidate Julie Pung Leschke's campaign treasurer has resigned, citing her

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One more of the wild charges thrown about by State Senator Tom Reynolds demented "brain trust" bites the dust before the election. JS Daywatch: WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2006, 1:36 p.m. By Annysa Johnson Tosa clerk cleared in voting probe An allegation that Wauwatosa Clerk Carla Ledesma illegally altered a voting record on behalf of city alderman and 5th District Senate candidate Jim Sullivan has been

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"I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." -- Sen. John Kerry's prepared remarks, which he stumbled over and blew. Kerry has apologized. When will George Bush apologize for the lives he's ruined? UPDATE:

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A reader asks: How did Doyle lose this endorsement?Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Wisconsin: Mark Green Is Latinos' Choice for Governor of Wisconsin The mission of the RNHA is to build a membership organization to foster the principles of the Republican Party in the Latino community; to provide Latino Americans with a forum to play an influential role in local, state, and national

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At Caffeinated Politics, Deke Rivers wonders why Tommy Thompson hasn't joined the other former govs, from both parties, and Tommy's brother Ed, to oppose the gay discriminatioin amendment to the state constitution. Ed, you'll recall, said he couldn't support Mark Green because of Green's support for the amendment. But Tommy's all over the Green campaign, even pretending Green supports stem cell

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