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Kathleen Falk
Candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin

Senator Russ Feingold
Democrat from Wisconsin

Music by Carey Bell, Steve Earle, and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

Kathleen Falk
Candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin
Website

Kathleen Falk was born in Milwaukee, WI and has lived in Madison since 1973. Falk received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973 and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1976.

Kathleen began her professional career as the Co-Director and General Counsel of Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade, a non-profit environmental organization in Wisconsin, and from 1983-1997 Falk served as Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. In 1997, Falk was elected Dane County Executive as a Democrat and was re-elected in both 2001 and 2005.

In 2002, Falk ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Wisconsin. While she was unsuccessful in that campaign, Falk did gain statewide name recognition and in 2005 successfully challenged sitting Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager to win the Democratic nomination.

Sen. Russ Feingold
Democrat from Michigan
Website

Russ Feingold was born in Janesville, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975. Feingold attended Magdalen College at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and in 1979 received a law degree from Harvard University.

In 1982, Feingold was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate where he served until he won the U.S. Senate seat of Republican incumbent Bob Kastenis.

Since being elected in 1982, Feingold has served as an independent voice in the U.S. Senate and is considered to be one of the most progressive members of the Democratic caucus.

Feingold’s “maverick” reputation is largely due to a number of controversial votes he cast including a “yes” for Attorney General Candidate John Ashcroft and a vote against a “motion to dismiss” in the impeachment case of President Bill Clinton. He also voted against the USA PATRIOT Act and the Iraq War.

Feingold is best known for his efforts to reform the campaign finance system in America and was the original co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 or “McCain-Feingold”.

MUSIC:

Carey Bell
“Let Me Stir In Your Pot”
from Deep Down

Steve Earle
“Condi, Condi”
from The Revolution Starts…Now