State Sen. Chris Larson — newly chosen as the Senate’s minority leader — has published a new Larson Report, with the headline “Ready To Tackle State Challenges As Democratic Leader.”
From it …
I am humbled by the confidence my fellow senators have in me by electing me their leader. With the elections complete, we have an opportunity to stop divide-and-conquer politics and start working responsibly across the aisle to serve all Wisconsinites. Wisconsin voters spoke loud and clear on November 6. They want Democratic and Republican lawmakers to move the state forward with programs and policies that reflect our shared Wisconsin values.
For the sake of Wisconsin’s future, I encourage members of the Legislature to work together as Wisconsinites by casting off our partisan labels and setting aside any politically divisive agendas.
See the full email here — and his list of our “immediate priorities.”
And here is the press release.
Also, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has more details on some of the behind-the-scenes lobbying that did (or didn’t) happen as part of the selection.
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Hysterical, “work together”!
He should go back to Illinois!!!!
Was my comment from yesterday removed because I called Larson a moron? What else would you call someone that thinks bigger government means more democracy? In the future I’ll keep the language more politically correct for the “sensitive” readers and let his ignorant statements speak for themselves.
Randy G: You are correct. I vetoed the comment because of the name calling. This blog has attracted nearly 1,900 comments since I launched it. I’ve probably vetoed 10 or 15 — most for exactly the reason I did in this case. I will continue to err on the side of allowing free and open discourse.
I am not looking for political correctness, and I don’t fancy myself as oversensitive. I just want to try and keep this blog above the fray, which is getting increasingly difficult in these times.
Thanks again for reading … and please continue to comment on what you see here. This dialog is a big reason why I started South Milwaukee Blog.
I worry about his competency in being a leader who is needed to affect real change which is surely missing in this state.
Can I just say…once a person is elected into a public office people should be able to voice their opinions about them and the things they do in office. You’ve deleted several of my comments citing they were too personal. I still don’t see your point about my comments. I named the elected official and stated how I felt about their actions in office. How is that too personal? I could see if I wrote about their personal life, etc. But…writing about what they do in office or how they behave in office shouldn’t be considered too personal. That’s my opinion anyway.
I have no problem with people writing negative things about politicians. There’s plenty examples of that on this blog (including things written about me). But, as I said above, I draw the line at name calling. There is too much of that in politics these days, and I don’t want this blog to go there.
So I’ll keep vetoing those — and allowing 98-99% of the comments that come in go through.
Erick while respectful of your editing, since becoming Senator, Chris Larson has publicly called some republicans some choice words. He called running out of state a filibuster, the voters called it absenteeism. I had trouble explaining his actions as an elected official to my children.
Hopefully he’s all grown up now and debate the issues on this side of the state line. Hopefully he learned that he represents both side of the argument, towing the line for the good of the people not the good of the party.
Editing, vetoing, deleting is all fine as it is Erik’s sandbox that we all play in. When I have issues in people’s sandboxes is when they are not fair and target only people or things they don’t agree with, don’t like or don’t want to hear and those comments they do or people they do they let it slide.
We all lead by example!
Name-calling is a subjective thing just as what someone finds as offensive others may not!
I took a level 300 creative writing class and was dinged because I didn’t use adult vulgar words, name-calling, and other things as my instructor said my writing was not real because as adults we use and do those things. I didn’t agree, but for the grade did what she asked.