{"id":1310,"date":"2005-04-26T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2005-04-26T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T08:31:33","slug":"falk_vs_lautens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Falk vs. Lautenschlager?   Why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/forum\/index.php?ntid=37428&amp;ntpid=0\">Milfred<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk surely had her eye on Herb Kohl&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat until Kohl indicated he&#8217;ll seek re-election next year.<\/p>\n<p>Now Falk may be contemplating a bid for attorney general &#8212; even if incumbent Peg Lautenschlager wants to keep the job.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Falk recently if she might challenge Lautenschlager, she paused for a few moments. Then she carefully responded: &#8220;Wherever I go, people are encouraging me to run.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathleenfalk.com\">Kathleen<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not, I would run for Governor.   <\/p>\n<p>Business\/Politics as usual is a real problem.  I don&#8217;t see any new thinking (taxes, economic development, bright flight from the UW system, local education, broadband, government\/public service efficiency) from the current regime, or from the Republicans for that matter.  If not Governor, then why not challenge Kohl?   I think it&#8217;s time for some new blood in that seat as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milfred: Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk surely had her eye on Herb Kohl&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat until Kohl indicated he&#8217;ll seek re-election next year. Now Falk may be contemplating a bid for attorney general &#8212; even if incumbent Peg Lautenschlager wants to keep the job. When I asked Falk recently if she might challenge Lautenschlager, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}