Randy Bryce Announces Congressional Run For The Wisconsin Seat Paul Ryan Is Stinking Up

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We started DWT a dozen years ago... the spring of 2005. Back then we used to do one post a day. But that only lasted a few months and since then we haven't had a day with just one post in over a decade-- not while I was in a jeep driving around the trackless wastes of Mali on the way to Timbuktu nor while I was laying in a hospital bed (blogging while I was drugged up and attached to industrial speed machinery), getting an experimental full stem cell transplant, and irrespective how big and crucial any one news story ever was. But rules are made to be broken. Today's the day woke iron worker and union activist Randy Bryce becomes candidate Randy Bryce... as he announces his run for Wisconsin's first congressional district, the seat Paul Ryan has held since 1999. And today there will be just one post-- this one.

First, a little about the district: WI-01 is the southeast corner of Wisconsin, a traditionally Democratic seat that Les Aspin help from 1971 until Bill Clinton appointed him Secretary of Defense in 1993. The district stretches from the suburbs south of Milwaukee Airport, basically, Franklin, Oak Creek and Caledonia, along the western shore of Lake Michigan through Racine and Kenosha to the Illinois border. The district then heads west through Walworth and Rock counties, taking in Burlington, Elkhorn, Delavan, Lake Geneva, Milton and Janesville. Once the Republicans took over the legislature, they sawed off some Democratic parts of Rock County and added on some red areas of Waukesha (Waukesha town, Muskego, Genesee, Ottawa, Mukwonago and Vernon).

The district is 81.7% white. Obama beat McCain there 185,855 (51%) to 176,152 (48%) and Romney beat Obama 195,835 (51.6%) to 179,872 (47.4%). Last year Trump won the district 52.6% to 42.3% for Hillary. She was the wrong candidate with the wrong message for this very blue collar district. She lost both Kenosha and Racine counties, both of which Obama won both times he ran. Democrats don't win in WI-01 without Racine and Kenosha counties.

Last Monday night we quote a NY Times story about trouble roiling the Democratic Party. The Times writers couldn't have been more excited to announce that a Democratic candidate in another state had "bucked the left" by saying he "he would not support raising income taxes, even for the wealthy, and opposed 'any move' toward a single-payer health care system." They couldn't have been happier to announce that candidate had been captured by the DCCC and the Democratic establishment and-- now that he'd collected$23,000,000 from the grassroots-- was moving towards some kind of Republican-lite center. That's never going to happen with Randy Bryce, a values-oriented candidate with mature and well thought-out principles he's basing his campaign on. Randy isn't trying to appeal to the working class; he is the working class. And his campaign is based on a platform that calls for making life fairer and more sustainable for Wisconsin's working families. Below is what he told us last night; if you want to help, please consider tapping on the Stop Paul Ryan ActBlue thermometer on the right:

Read more: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2017/06/randy-bryce-announces-congressional-run.html

[LakeArenal]

1. He is absolutely fabulous...

" I can see what people need"

None so blind as those who will not see. Must have been written for you Paul Ryan.

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2. Ryan's opponent in Wisconsin is a union ironworker who just launched the campaign ad of the year

GQ Magazine?Verified account @GQMagazine

Paul Ryan's opponent in Wisconsin is a union ironworker who just launched the campaign ad of the year http://gq.mn/IJPD0pl

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3. @IronStache is his twitter handle.

H. Duff? @hillofbeans17 4h4 hours ago
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@IronStache is his twitter handle.