The Xoff Files

Xoff is doing some blogging at Uppity Wisconsin.

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 thi...

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 l...

AP reports on a Green campaign stop in Pewaukee: Among those appearing with Green was state Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, the author ...

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...

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 po...

I know there's no Fairness Doctrine for radio any more, but doesn't this corporate-sponsored billboard seem a little over the top? I...

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

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 Mi...

The Journal Sentinel endorses J.B. Van Hollen for attorney general. Synopsis: We disagree with him on just about every issue you can think ...

Patrick McIlheran sizes up the candidates for gov on integrity and ethics and -- surprise! -- decides he prefers Congressman Mark Green, wh...

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...

Congressman Mark Green almost made it through the whole campaign without having to talk about his vote and mindless cheerleading for the war...

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 : B...

AP via WashPost : Rep. Ney of Ohio Resigns From Congress By DAVID HAMMER, Associated Press, November 3, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bob Ney of ...

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 commen...

Congressman Mark Green's been assuring us that his inability to spend about $468,000 in illegal interest money won't hurt his campai...

Today's NY Times : Insulting Our Troops, and Our Intelligence By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you...

"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 Doy...

Another day, another setback for the litigious team of Tom Reynolds-Bob Dohnal-J.J. Blonien, whose favorite campaign technique is to file co...

You may have heard or read about the campaign treasurer for a Republican Assembly candidate in Oshkosh who resigned over the negative campai...

One more of the wild charges thrown about by State Senator Tom Reynolds demented "brain trust" bites the dust before the election....

"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 sm...

A reader asks: How did Doyle lose this endorsement? Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Wisconsin: Mark Green Is Latinos' Choice ...

At Caffeinated Politics, Deke Rivers wonders why Tommy Thompson hasn't joined the other former govs, from both parties, and Tommy's ...

Steve King, the guy who tried to save John and Martha Mitchell's marriage during Watergate -- Martha said by roughing her up to keep h...

The AP report on a Tommy Thompson-Mark Green rally in Milwaukee includes these lines : "Under Green, you'll see the eagles soaring...

Congressman Mark Green talking out of both sides of his mouth? Wanting to have it both ways on the amendment to ban gay marriages and civil...

Would a guy who's surging in the gov's race and says he's now ahead run a commercial attacking Jim Doyle on a position he took...

HEADLINE: Abortion Ad Targets Women Voters Story.

Front page political coverage by the Journal Sentinel focused on the gov's race and rallies with Obama and Tommy T. And it managed to...

Bill Clinton's coming to Milwaukee on Friday, and you can forget the $500 ticket. It won't even cost you 5 bucks. Details: Bill Cli...

-- Working for Change. (Click on cartoon to enlarge)

Bruce Murphy of Milwaukee Magazine has spotted a slight contradiction in Congressman Mark Green's description of just where that $467,00...

There's a new Zogby poll that says the governor's race is tied - or, if you listen to the Green campaign, that Mark Green "lea...

Not only is he not in jail where he belongs, but former Assembly Speaker and convicted felon Scott Jensen is helping to fund legislative cam...

Jim Doyle gets both Madison papers, a rare feat . Today's Capital Times : Editorial: Doyle for governor Over the past four years, no go...

Family ties demand that I plug this, since our son is a field producer for the G4 network and is working on this extravaganza which takes pl...

I've known Bill Hetland, one half of the couple featured in this column, for almost 40 years. I knew him as a talented journalist who r...

Can't take credit for this video, and don't know who did it, but enjoy. UPDATE: I'm told the video is from Matthew and Peter S...

An Xoff correspondent sent this from Saturday's Journal Sentinel , with a comment: "Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green...

In Madison, where the State Journal and Capital Times have spent decades smiping at each other and taking opposite sides on almost every i...

Journal Sentinel headline on its editorial on the gay marriage/civil unions amendment: Overly broad, dangerous, unfair and simply unnecess...

Green Bay Press Gazette : Local Marine killed in Iraq Zimmerman is area's first war casualty since '04 By Nathan Phelps Green Bay Pr...

Different strokes applied to different folks: Judge says Thompson can't remain free during her appeal By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press ...

"We're going to have a Republican House and a Republican Senate and a Republican governor in the state of Wisconsin..." -- Ka...

Here are some excerpts from a letter to the editor of the Capital Times . Eugene Hahn, I regret to say, is the incumbent Republican state...

Does this look presidential to you?

It appears the concerted Republican effort over the last several years (some would say decades) to intimidate minority voters or put up barr...

"They take a prominent Republican and use that as a means to try and make mainstream conservative Republicans like myself look out of t...

I know Sen. Barack Obama has rock star status among Dems right now, but this set me back: Too many people coming to accommodate at Turner H...

"You know your opponent is scared when his main opposition against you is, 'My opponent likes girls.'" -- Rep. Harold E. ...

I don't know if this has been announced yet; I haven't seen anything in the media. Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan, the woman who rui...

The WashPost : Bush Is Reassuring on Iraq But Says He's 'Not Satisfied' By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, O...

-- Scott Stantis, Birmingham News , via Cagle.

Jim Hightower's been roaming the country, promoting lefty causes and candidates, and checks in with what he's observed. His AlterN...

David Montgomery in WashPost : Possibly worse than making fun of someone's disability is saying that it's imaginary. That is not to ...

The White House says that not only is "stay the course" not our Iraq strategy , but it never has been. Think Progress begs to di...

"Wisconsin doesn't need a district attorney; it needs an attorney general, and Falk is the right person for the job." -- The A...

Jessica McBride has a new litmus test for how you tell if a Democrat is a moderate: You ask a conservative. If it's Jim Doyle you'r...

Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner is making an investment to try to remain a part of the majority in the House. He's like to chair a committee ...

GOP legislators in the Eau Claire area have found a new excuse to duck forums with their opponents -- claim bias by the sponsors. This is an...

You wouldn't know it if you listen to Congressman Mark Green or the business groups like WMC that support him, but Wisconsin has done we...

Although I am often accused by the wingnuts of being a complete water carrier for Jim Doyle and the Democrats, I don't think I have ever...