Free Republic

Regular readers of these pages will recall our scoop a little over a year ago on what came to be known on Capitol Hill as Memogate. Our publication of Democratic strategy memos on how to defeat President Bush's judicial nominees created a stir in Washington, not least because they showed how Senators Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin and others were taking orders from liberal interest groups, even to the point of delaying a vote on a candidate for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals until it had heard the University of Michigan affirmative action case. More than a year later, it's...

NEW! NORQUIST VENDETTA COSTS CITY TAXPAYERS PLENTY Mar 22nd, 2002 By: RPW (MADISON) – The Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW) strongly criticized Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist today for encouraging a city employee to use local taxpayer-funded resources, including a city-issued check and a city vehicle, to procure state documents to be used by Norquist strictly for partisan political gain. City employee James Rowen, a former chief of staff for Norquist, has filed at least four open records requests with the Wisconsin Department of Administration since January. These requests include a breakdown of all expenses at the governor’s...