6 results for author: Howard Landsman
ELECTION REFLECTION
If you have an appetite for another presidential campaign post-mortem, read on. GOP claims of a mandate notwithstanding, Vice President Harris would now be president-elect had she gained just under 230,000 more votes in the three “Blue Wall” states. While her top campaign aides insist that she ran a “pretty flawless campaign” and attribute her loss largely to the way people felt about the economy and the country’s direction, she might have won had she not ceded to Donald Trump two issues that voters consistently rated as top-priority: the economy and immigration.
On the economy, Harris could have taken a page out of Karl ...
U.S. Senate Race
MAGA Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde claims that Tammy Baldwin has done nothing good for Wisconsin during her 20+ years in Washington. Yet if he’d spent more time here instead of garnering consecutive “most influential individual” honors from the Orange County (CA) Business Journal, he might know about the dozens of awards for excellent work that Baldwin earned from groups ranging from the US Chamber of Commerce, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, and International Dairy Foods Association to the American Public Health Association, Disabled American Veterans, Coalition on Adult Basic Education, First Focus Campaign for Children, ...
Immigration Successes
With Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign underway, the GOP is accelerating its lies about her work as Vice President. Though responsibility for the southern border rests with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, they call Harris a failed “Border Czar,” deliberately mischaracterizing her early presidential assignment – to address the root causes of migration – while obscuring her accomplishments.
As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on 6/12/24, VP Harris’ 2021 “Call to Action” has triggered major commitments from dozens of companies (including Columbia Sportswear, Target and Gap) to buy items ...
Creating the Greatest Economy Ever?
Donald Trump boasts of creating the greatest economy in America’s history. Yes, the economy was strong during his first three years as president, but doesn’t credit belong more to the strong economy Trump inherited from President Obama than his actions in office?
Remember that, after rescuing us from Bush’s financial crisis, Obama’s first term saw a stunning economic recovery that continued for a decade, with steady employment and wage growth, and inflation that never exceeded the Fed’s 2.0% goal. When Trump took office, inflation was a mere 1.3%, a rate he didn’t beat until his mismanagement of the COVID pandemic crashed ...
Immigration Successes
With Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign underway, the GOP is accelerating its lies about her
work as Vice President. Though responsibility for the southern border rests with the
Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, they call Harris a failed
“Border Czar,” deliberately mischaracterizing her early presidential assignment – to address the
root causes of migration – while obscuring her accomplishments.
As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on 6/12/24, VP Harris’ 2021 “Call to Action” has
triggered major commitments from dozens of companies (including Columbia Sportswear,
Target and ...
Central America Forward
With Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign underway, the GOP is accelerating its lies about her work as Vice President. Though responsibility for the southern border rests with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, they call Harris a failed “Border Czar,” deliberately mischaracterizing her early presidential assignment – to address the root causes of migration – while obscuring her accomplishments.
As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on 6/12/24, VP Harris’ 2021 “Call to Action” has triggered major commitments from dozens of companies (including Columbia Sportswear, Target and Gap) to buy items ...