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Related: About this forumWisconsin Democrats re-elect Martha Laning as chair despite crushing losses
MIDDLETON - Democrats stood by Martha Laning on Saturday, re-electing their statewide chairwoman to a second term despite their crushing defeats last fall.
Laning won another two years in her post after defeating Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy by 722 votes to 569. Madison lawyer Eric Finch received 50 votes and Joe Donovan, a retired small business owner, got 48 votes in the winner-take-all contest.
In speeches on Friday and Saturday, Laning acknowledged that "coming up short last year really hurt" but persuaded delegates not to give up on her plan to organize Democrats.
"I think a lot of people talked to us about a two-year term not being enough to turn things around," said Laning, who promised a different outcome in 2018.
Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/03/following-loss-democrats-decide-leaders/367931001/
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)This is another example of doing the same thing and expecting different results. I've been a member of the WI Dem party for years and see her as being very ineffectional. I haven't seen much in the way of information coming from the party since she has been in office. And there is no element of excitement either.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Not sure how I got on that mailing list, but signing up at http://www.wisdems.org/news (bottom of the page) would probably do it.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)been immediate.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Never again.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I'm not in Wisconsin, so I have no frame or reference.
Hard to understand why the person who brought you nothing but defeat(and therefore can only bring you defeat in the future)would be worth keeping.
Is she one of the people who kept insisting the party had to nominate bland centrists against Walker?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Great strategy.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)lots more training
and the party is not the financial disaster is was a couple years back
in my county there are a number of potential candidates talking....last cycle we had none
i am much more encouraged than i have been in a number of years
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)My Assembly Rep. is a personal friend- lives in my neighborhood, kids at same school, etc. This person has been really, really disappointed with the State party and its apparent "turn out Madison and Milwaukee and ignore the rest of the state" strategy- basically a continuation of the Mike Tate playbook.