Topic: Madison (Wisconsin)

Palin returns with feisty, anti-establishment speech

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Conservative Sarah Palin returned to the U.S. political arena on Saturday after several months absence with a feisty speech attacking both the establishment Republican Party and Democratic President Barack Obama and proclaiming "the 2012 elections begin here."In a ...

Wisconsin Republicans retreat from procedural threat

MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate dropped a threat on Tuesday to deny 14 Democratic counterparts the right to vote in the chamber because they fled to Illinois last month.In an e-mail sent late Monday to his 18 ...
AP reported that there were big, enthusiastic numbers, 12,500, filling into the auditorium, and students waiting in droves to hear Obama chant " In 2008, during the Obama campaign, more than 17,000 students showed up in the liberal college town of Madison.
Tea party activists decry 'gangster government' and hear GOP appeals to help them in NovemberTea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and ...

William F Vilas

At the end of his military service, Vilas returned to Madison, where he became a law professor and a leader in the state Democratic Party. Following Cleveland's election, Vilas joined the Cabinet as postmaster general. When Cleveland lost his reelection bid that ...