Endorsements.
Here it is, the most important endorsement that all the candidiates are waiting for, the wisco-disco endorsement. I know that what I write here may make or break the election, so please don't think I take these endorsements lightly.
As you will find, I am voting right along progressive lines, but by no means as a knee-jerk.

Gubernatorial
Nelson Eisman is the only candidate I can vote for without rolling my eyes in this race. It's not that I believe that he will win in an upset, but I believe that every Green Party vote counts for more than just this election, it will effect upcoming elections for at least the next decade.
Eisman has the most progressive, and most importantly, clean ideas about how to run a government. He is not the man to take thousands of dollars from some sketchy source, for example CASINOS, and sell his seat to interests all while acting like a For the People Democrat. For me the number one and two issues in the US today is Publicly Financed Campaigns and Lobby Reform, because when these are fixed, corruption will.... dwindle to a manageable level and the rest of the issues will follow.

Step one in my plan is to have the third party candidate participate in the debate, and the more votes they get this election, the harder it will be in the next 2, 4 years to shut them out.

I was at one time, a huge Doyle fan. I literally had a picture of him in my office (talking to Al Franken from when the latter visited The Memorial Union in 2004), I met his wife and she was wonderful. I especially appreciated that after 9/11, Doyle was supportive of the Muslim population, and we all rallied around him and definetely appreciated his support.
Where'd he go? Why hasn't access to health care gotten better in 4 years? What happened to Milwaukee? What is happening to our schools? Why is college tuition going up?
I understand that there is only so much a Governor can do, but for me the kicker was when he blasted Professor Kevin Barrett for having the audacity to ask a few important questions about an incident 5 years ago, and then go back to his regular job. He joined the ranks of Mark Green on that issue and I just really don't feel that his vision for freedom in America is in line with my own anymore.

Second Congressional District
I really don't like Tammy Baldwin mostly because of her blatant disregard for human life during the Isreali-Lebanon conflict last summer, in which she sided, again with the Israelis for no reason other than she apparently dislikes Arabs. She also voted to cut funding for humanitarian aid to Palestine. Nice. And Magnum has been blessed by Herb Kohl* and doesn't seem like that horrible of a Republican, I mean, he's not against stem cell research.
But it comes down to congressional votes and I think we can mostly trust Tammy to follow party lines and not do anything crazy or draw any attention to herself whatsoever. Most of her money comes from outside the state anyway. She will be a can't hurt....too much, could help vote for me.
In a district this liberal and left-leaning, why can't we get a real fighter, like a Congressional Russ? Can we get any other Lesbian to run?
*a "blessing" is not the same thing as an endorsement, please note.

Senate
1.Is Russ even running or does he just get to stay there out of his own majestic beautitude?

2.I'll be voting for Rae, who the hell is Herb Kohl anyway? What has he ever done for anyone not into sports? We need another message that progressives aren't falling for this crap anymore. We arent' are we?


And now for the unpopular opinion part of my endorsements where I lash out at the Vote No people, and then vote no anyway.

Marriage Amendment
That would be a "no". But not for the reasons you would think. I can't think of why a group of people who have been marginalised by the patriarchical majority would want to partake in one of the most enslaving aspects of said patriarchy, namely marriage, but what the hell, it's your funeral.
If you have a spiritual ceremony, and then draw up some legal documents, why is that not enough? Why do you need recognition from The Patriarchy? Health Care benefits? Adoption rights? Estate rights? All these issues affect way more than just the gay population, and for most people, can't be solved by selling yourself to another human.

Do you know the real reason conservatives are against gay marriage? Not because they are holding back homosexuals, it's because they want to hold back women!!!!!!!!!

They can't figure out who is obtaining who if both parties are of the same sex.

How about we all work towards equal rights, not working to fit better into the System that holds us down?

However, I believe it is wrong to change the constitution to marginalise any group, what if they come for me next, so of course I will be voting no.

Death Penalty
Dude, wtf? No. Oh my God.

Madison School referendum
I'll vote yes, but I really dont think that building a school in Urban Sprawl land is the right message to send to people who want to build more crap Mc Mansions out there.
Send your kids to the decrepent under-funded 50 year old schools the rest of us go to, and spend your tax dollars on making those better instead.