Wisconsin: Right wing 'Dems' out to beat progressives Pasch and Zamarripa in Aug. 14 primary

[Scuba]

Beware of the fakes!!!! If Sandy or JoCasta is in your district, be sure to vote for her.


http://www.wisconsingazette.com/milwaukee-gaze/right-wing-dems-out-to-beat-progressives-pasch-and-zamarripa-in-aug-14-primary.html

State Reps. JoCasta Zamarripa and Sandy Pasch, along with their supporters, charge that their Democratic primary opponents’ views are more in line with Republicans than with mainstream Democrats.

Laura Manriquez, who hopes to unseat Zamarripa in the 8th Assembly District, calls herself a “lifetime Democrat.” But she has the backing of Scott Suder, the right-wing Republican Majority Leader of the Assembly.

Manriquez touts Suder’s support as evidence she can work in a bipartisan spirit to get things done. She denies his Tea Party connections, even though he’s a headline speaker at Tea Party meetings around the state and has consistently voted with Gov. Scott Walker.

Pasch’s leading challenger in the 10th Assembly District is Millie Coby, who filled out a questionnaire for Equality Wisconsin in which she linked gays and lesbians to pedophilia. She refuses to take a stance on choice, and she’s a licensed minister in the fundamentalist Church of God in Christ, as well as a member of Christian Faith Fellowship Church, whose pastor is stridently anti-gay.

[midnight]

1. Interesting about the comments that Sandy Pash is a carpet bagger but not Coby..

[dragonlady]

2. Good news for Sandy and JoCasta

Both won their elections with very healthy margins, along with Nikiya Harris in the Senate and Mandela Barnes, Daniel Riemer, and several others in the Assembly who will do good progressive work for their Milwaukee districts. I can't remember an election that I was so happy about--everybody I hoped would win . . . did!

[Scuba]

3. +1,000 Thanks for the update, and congrats to Tanya Lohr, Senate District 20.