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Sad News: Bob Kastenmeier has died (Original Post) midnight Mar 2015 OP
RIP Dems to Win Mar 2015 #1
He has a few words about Walker ---Feingold... riversedge Mar 2015 #2
We are so lucky that he was actively engaging us to think ahead to better days and not give up midnight Mar 2015 #3
from the interview.... ewagner Mar 2015 #4
The Supreme Court won't hear Wis. Voter I.D. law. I don't know when or how, but midnight Mar 2015 #5

riversedge

(69,537 posts)
2. He has a few words about Walker ---Feingold...
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:21 AM
Mar 2015

the chap was active to his last days. RIP


.....But he's not a big fan of Scott Walker, to put it mildly, and he's particularly concerned about the governor's budgetary attack on the University of Wisconsin.

Yes, Walker is doing well as a possible contender for the GOP's presidential nomination, but "I tell my friends that it's not a good sign when 47 to 48 percent of the people in your home state not only don't agree with you, they hate you — bitterly. This is a big negative that people out of the state don't realize."

Still, the former congressman added, Walker is likely to be one of the two or three who will be "up there" when it comes down to the final selection. He still gives the edge, though, to Jeb Bush.

Meanwhile, he's ecstatic over the possibility that former Sen. Russ Feingold is planning to make a comeback by taking on the man who beat him in 2010, Ron Johnson.

"Russ will have a wonderful chance to win," Kastenmeier predicted.

What I remember best about this Wisconsin political legend is that despite all the heated battles and contentious debates, he was always a gentleman who believed no matter how bitter the politics, the bottom line was to play fair.

He closed the conversation with these words:

"Don't give up the ship," he said. "There are better days ahead."


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midnight

(26,624 posts)
3. We are so lucky that he was actively engaging us to think ahead to better days and not give up
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 10:54 AM
Mar 2015

the ship...

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