Sunday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will endorse Bryan Kennedy, Democrat, in Wisconsin's Fifth District over incumbent Congressman James Sensenbrenner -- an amazing reversal of its editorial stance.
"Editorial: It's time to send the congressman home
"Two years ago, we recommended Jim Sensenbrenner for another term representing Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District.
"Today, we simply cannot. Sensenbrenner has been wrong on too much, from an immigration policy that puts him at odds with much of his own party and the business community to failure to exert meaningful oversight over White House domestic spying policies."
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"We recommend his opponent, Democrat Bryan Kennedy. He will be a competent, thoughtful congressman who can restore a sense of dignity and balance to the 5th District. It's time for that after years of folly from Sensenbrenner.
"Sensenbrenner has too often been an obstructionist to good policy. Given the reins of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, he had a chance to lead for the common good during a congressional session when few representatives had even a notion of what that meant. Too often, he didn't. . . ."
The Journal Sentinel -- with, according to recent studies, a remarkable 70 percent saturation of its market and with marked conservatism (read: bias) in its news coverage in recent years -- says Sensenbrenner is WRONG on immigration, WRONG on the USA Patriot Act and for not digging deeper into the NSA domestic spying program, WRONG on "Real ID, which will cost states millions of dollars to implement and which fixed something that wasn't broken."
Sensenbrenner also was WRONG to "waste taxpayers' money by taking more than $160,000 in junkets since 1994, not to mention the more than $200,000 in world travel paid for by lobbyists and think tanks over the past six years." He was WRONG on much more, too; read the particulars in the editorial in its entirety at
http://www.jsonline.com/...
And read what's right -- well, good -- about Bryan Kennedy.
But he still needs your help at http://www.bryankennedyforcongress.com/