Dear Me,

In the closing days of the legislative session, Carrie Lynch says Republicans are putting out press releases and sending letters to their own party leaders -- and sometimes themselves -- urging action on some bill or another before everyone goes home to campaign. She says:

It's hard to decide which is worse - Republicans waiting until the last week of session to pretend they want to bring up important issues, Republicans pretending their own leaders are people they never talk to and have to send out press releases in the hopes the leaders will talk to them, or the press actually falling for this like the Wisconsin State Journal did with Rep. Steve Freese's 'call for action' on campaign finance reform and writing a positive story for Freese...

Freese, she notes, is part of the leadership, "yet Freese would have us believe that he has to send press release to communicate with Gard." Dave Zien pulled the same stunt in the State Senate.