Thursday, May 3, 2012

Russ Feingold

  • WASHINGTON -- A leading national progressive figure is taking a rare step on Thursday, challenging House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on her commitment to protecting Medicare and Social Security.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) called on his colleagues Wednesday to follow up on their upcoming vote on the Buffett Rule and allow the Bush tax cuts to expire.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • GOFFSTOWN — Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold from Wisconsin addressed a crowd of 70 Thursday night, urging the United States to wake up from the slumber he says has overcome the land.
  • (NewHampshire.com (blog))
  • John Kraus, a senior official in Russ Feingolds losing U.S. Senate campaign in 2010, has joined Tammy Baldwins U.S. Senate campaign as communications director.
  • (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  • In a dream field Clinton gets 57% to 14 for Joe Biden, 6% for Elizabeth Warren, 5% for Andrew Cuomo, 3% for Russ Feingold, 2% for Mark Warner, and 1% each for Martin OMalley and Brian Schweitzer.
  • (Politico.com)
  • BOSTON -- Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold is planning to join Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren to call for federal legislation requiring better disclosure of corporate campaign contributions.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • that makes the assertion that former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold supports Kathleen Falk for governor. The ad includes brief audio snippets of a much larger interview Sen.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • Call it the Ron Johnson playbook. In his campaign against Democrat Russ Feingold in 2010, Johnson never wavered from his message that the Affordable Care Act needed to be repealed, and that the nation needed to cut spending at the federal level.
  • (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  • Bush nominated him to the big bench in 2005? The Senate approved Roberts in a 78-22 vote. Good liberals like Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, who no longer serve in the Senate, were among the 22 Democrats who supported Roberts.
  • (San Francisco Gate)

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