Tag: Senator Leah Vukmir

Rock River Patriots Meeting Friday July 13th, 2018

The Rock River Patriots will be having a meeting on Friday July 13th, 2018 at 6:00 pm in the Community Room of the Dwight Foster Library in Fort Atkinson.  The library is located at 209 Merchants Avenue. At this meeting, we will discuss the upcoming US Senate Republican Primary between Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson. We welcome Adam Steen to talk about his Congressional campaign for the seat that is being vacated by Speaker Paul Ryan.  His campaign website is: https://www.steenforcongress.com/. We hope to see you all there!

Common Core Hearing A Sham!

Steve Kauffeld is a member of the Watertown School Board and a member of the Rock River Patriots. March 8, 2014 Letter to the Editor, On Thur Feb 6 th , the people’s voice was stymied, by an orchestrated public hearing lead by Sen.Luther Olsen who is chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The hearing was on Senate Bill 619 co-sponsored by Senator Leah Vukmir and Senator Paul Farrow. I try to attend various legislative hearings in Madison and other locations around the state, particularly those I have a vested interest in. Being a school board member, I have had considerable interest in the implementation of Common Core standards in our state’s public schools.   I don’t know what is more galling to me, the political gamesmanship proffered  by Sen Luther Olsen with his AP interview two hours before the hearing was held, stating that this Bill was dead, the preferential treatment given the DPI, CESA administrators, our district school superintendent and their staff and supportive teachers, or the subsequent AP article published in the Watertown Times Fri.   March 7th, page 7, first section. I could write an entire article on the bias shown and misrepresentations printed in that article….