Kagen Watch

First off, for those of you who are interested specifically in the prospect of removing Dr. Steve Kagen from the 8th in ’08, check out these blogs dedicated to that proposition:

http://drkagen.blogspot.com/
http://kagenwatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.cankagen.org/
Le me also offer appropriate props to the folks at Obey Out for pioneering the exclusive watchdog model of blogging. Good luck to all of y’all – I’m sure the subject will provide plenty of material.

Reviewing Kagen’s latest FEC reports is alwayys a good time. His answer to the RNC’s rock star 72-Hr GOTV program? Go hire 13 people and pay them to go canvassing in the final days. I wonder if they made a living wage? $13 an hour or so?

Kagen in the Milwaukee Jewish Chronicle earlier this month:

Kagen: “I learned at a very early age that it is politics that promotes change” [So much for families and civil society]

Kagen: “I want to be the doctor in the House that writes the federal standard for health insurance policy. The insurance companies win now because they write their own policies.” [That is a scary thought]

Kagen: being Jewish “goes to the very core of who I am and who my family is: ‘if not now when; if not me, who?’”

Though it “goes to the core of who [he] is,” apparently he and his family are non-practicing: “An Appleton native, Kagen grew up as a member of Appleton’s Conservative Moses Montefiore Synagogue. His wife, Gayle, and their four children, continued their membership until their youngest son celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah.”

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