In an interview about health care with Wisc. Public Radio, Cong. Kagen said yesterday, in reference to the current health reform legislation “The first casualty of war is truth.” That’s only too true, but unfortunately it’s Cong. Kagen who’s peddling misleading statements. First, Kagen, the GB Press Gazette, and the Brown County Dems are all [...]
In their endorsement of Congressman Steve Kagen for re-election in the 8th Congressional District, the paper notes that “Kagen had two of the 21 bills he introduced passed and has shown considerable concern for laid-off workers in his district.” I hopped on Thomas, the legislative information service of the Library of Congress. They show Kagen [...]
The National Rifle Association has endorsed Steve Kagen for Congress in the 8th District. Both Congressman Kagen and GOP challenger John Gard, a former state assembly speaker, received “A” grades from the NRA for their legislative records. In such an instance, the Appleton Post-Crescent reports, “The endorsement always goes to the incumbent when everything else [...]
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Steve Kagen has done it again. Admittedly, it’s hard to top his previous record for a flip-flop. Earlier this month, Kagen was for a bill on Monday and against it on Tuesday. That’s a 48-hour flip-flop. Here, however, we have a 30-second flip-flop. In one breath, Kagen’s new tv ad rails against John Gard’s “negative [...]
We’ve already seen Steve Kagen flip-flop on the general approach America should take to energy policy. He voted against expanded American energy production a number of times in the House. Then as gas prices skyrocketed and the American people started demanding more drilling, Democrats in DC were forced to change their tune. No longer could [...]
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Yesterday, John Gard released a new ad in his campaign to represent the 8th Congressional District of Wisconsin. In it, he points out that incumbent Cong. Steve Kagen has voted 8 times against drilling for American oil. Moreover, Kagen is part of a Democratic majority whose leader, Speaker Pelosi, is staunchly anti-drilling (though they may [...]
The television advertisements kicked off in the 8th Congressional District of Wisconsin this week. Steve Kagen’s first TV ad says he’s “Rejected Money from Big Oil.” Is that a virtue? What else does it mean? It’s hardly a news flash that a liberal Democrat like Steve Kagen is trying to score points by attacking energy [...]
Steve Kagen’s hired a self-admitted sleaze peddler to do his direct mail in the upcoming cycle. In 2006, DCCC and Kagen used The Campaign Network to do its mail box dirty work (though it’s very high quality dirty work – these folks have a shelf of Pollies), including a piece illustrating John Gard with a [...]
Republicans should not be providing political cover for Democrats on gas prices. For the last several weeks, John Gard has been hammering incumbent Democrat Congressman Steve Kagen on gas prices. In press releases and telephone and local town hall meetings, Gard has pounded Kagen’s votes against expanded domestic oil production. Kagen’s response is that typical [...]
Rick Sense of the new and improved Inside Scoop points out that Steve Kagen recently sponsored legislation to loose the lawyers on OPEC. The legislation subjects the OPEC nations to the same anti-trust laws of U.S. companies (how he gets around sovereign immunity is beyond the scope of this article, but an interesting question). The [...]
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