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Party on: [WI St. Sen.] Schultz has no plans to leave GOP
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 14, 2011 12:58pm |
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| Author | M.D. Kittle |
| News Date | Saturday, August 13, 2011 03:35:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MADISON - Dale Schultz said he woke up Wednesday morning, brushed his teeth and saw the same guy in the mirror he had seen the night before.
Yes, the same tall, middle-aged man with the receding hairline. The guy who could stand to lose 20 pounds. The father whose family urges him to confine his singing to the shower.
Nothing had changed about him between Tuesday and Wednesday, Schultz said.
Particularly his politics.
Schultz, a Republican from Richland Center who has represented the 17th Senate District (including Reedsburg) for 20 years, found it curious that so many people have been talking about his politics of late.
Political rumors ran rampant Wednesday that the Richland Center senator, who has butted heads at times with Gov. Scott Walker and other top GOP leaders, was considering bailing on his party.
Worries were that Schultz would don the "independent" tag, or switch parties altogether - a troubling possibility for Republicans who, after Tuesday's final two recall elections, may hold a majority as thin as 17-16 in the state Senate.
A defection could hurt. But no one need worry - Schultz isn't going anywhere.
"I have no intention of declaring as an independent," he said. "I've been an unrepentant Republican for 45 years, and I don't plan to change that. I may be a different Republican than some of my colleagues around me, but I think that can be a good thing." |
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