10/30/09
Update from Jerry: After several attempts yesterday and this morning to contact Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton to personally apologize, I was contacted by a representative of her office this morning and was told that she accepts the apology I posted on this blog yesterday, and she hopes "this can be the end of it."
10/29/09
I wish to sincerely apologize to Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton for previously posted internet comments regarding her.
Jerry Bader
10/27/09
11:23 AM STATEMENT FROM JERRY BADER CONCERNING THE BARBARA LAWTON STORY:
I HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE SOURCES THAT PROVIDED
INFORMATION YESTERDAY REGARDING LT. GOV BARBARA LAWTON.
THEREFORE I CANNOT STAND BY THE STORY POSTED YESTERDAY.
10/26/09
11:14 AM STUNNING NEWS....Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton's campaign issued a news release today saying Lawton will NOT be a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. According to the release "for very personal reasons, I will not pursue the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010. Wow, wow, wow!!!!!!!!!!
As we exclusively reported for weeks(and now picked up by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The Obama administration has been putting tremendous pressure on Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to challenge Lawton for the democratic nomination. Is this really personal reasons? Was she pressured out? Was she enticed out? She was working her butt off and desperately wanted this. Democrats were largely convinced she couldn't win; Jim Doyle was recuriting candidates (despite his denials) and then you have the Obama administration pressure on Barrett.
If she was pressured out, what leverage did the person(s) applying the pressure on her have to force her out. If she was enticed out, what was the enticement; a job in Washington? And what happens now? We have been told that the ONLY reason Barrett has announced already that he isn't running is the Obama administration pressure. It seems almost IMPOSSIBLE for him to refuse that pressure now.
We have the best democratic sources of any conservative talk show in the state, and we are working them on this story. We'll bring you more as we have it.
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