Kathleen Vinehout
Democrat Kathleen Vinehout is a Wisconsin state senator from Alma, in western Wisconsin. The former university professor and dairy farmer was elected to the Senate in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. She ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to run against Gov. Scott Walker in the gubernatorial recall election in 2012.
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Says Wisconsin "doesn't even give" released prison inmates "a bus ticket to get home."
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin is "still 16,000 manufacturing jobs lower than we were during the recession."
Wisconsin children are crossing "condemned bridges in the middle of the winter to get to the school bus."
Scott Walker wants to add 485 positions in management ‘category’ to state Administration Department?
Says Scott Walker is proposing to add 485 employees "in the category of supervisor and management" to his Department of Administration.
"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but…
Gov. Scott Walker bought "80 new, brand-new vehicles" for the state that "we probably don’t need."
Because of Gov. Scott Walker’s budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is "going to pay off debt than ever before in our…
Says 21,000 Wisconsin residents got jobs in 2011, but "18,000 of them" were in other states.