▼There’s nothing more important to me than holding powerful public officials accountable. On the day recall organizers turned in signatures against six Republicans, I chased down one of the targets — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald — getting him to answer how the day’s events would affect job-creation legislation.
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▼Rick Santorum, the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Wisconsin ahead of our state’s primary, fired up supporters in Milwaukee by saying Mitt Romney wasn’t a true conservative.
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▼My challenge: personalize the impending legal arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court over the federal health care law. Supporters and opponents told me the health care mandate was a matter of life and death for them.
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▼The state’s Republican party is behind an effort to put fake Democrats on the ballot to force a recall primary. The practice caused quite the controversy.
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▼Gov. Scott Walker and his opponents used new jobs data to strengthen their respective positions for a potential recall election campaign. So, who was right? I decided to cut through the political “spin.”
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▼ONE-MAN-BAND: More than 25,000 of Gov. Scott Walker’s opponents crowded around the Capitol to mark one year since Republicans stripped most public workers of many collective bargaining rights.
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▼We were first to report that Wisconsin was joining only a handful of states when Gov. Scott Walker’s administration made the controversial decision to allow guns in the state Capitol.
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▼It came as a complete surprise when, late on a Friday afternoon, a federal judge issued a written decision striking down parts of the most controversial law in Wisconsin history. I scrambled to get reaction from union sources on the air.
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▼With so much buzz in Madison about the recall effort against Gov. Walker, a photographer and I traveled to Wauwatosa as thousands of cheering supporters kicked off his re-election campaign. Meanwhile, protesters tried to get in on the action.
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▼My February 2011 reports from the Missouri statehouse about Gov. Jay Nixon’s practice of billing others for his travel ultimately compelled state lawmakers to curb his abilities.
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