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“I often felt that if a piece of Wisconsin swiss cheese had taken the same positions I’ve taken, it would have elicited the same standing ovations.”
-Democratic Senator Russ Feingold in an email to suppporters explaining his decision not to run for President in ‘08.

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It’s the smartest move of his political career…Senator Russ Feingold, no doubt internalizing the push to the center that brought the Democrats back into Congressional power, has taken his hat out of the 2008 ring:
Feingold, 53, conceded that he faced long odds of winning the nomination.
“It would have required the craziest combination of things [...]

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Love him or hate him Senator Russ Feingold (put your cursor over the star to gets lots of great info on the senator) has been absolutely consistent in his position on the Iraq War. From the very beginning he stood up against this war and continued to stand against the misguided foray. He [...]

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You can look at it as a necessary step on the way to the Supreme Court ruling on this very important program, as the Washington Post did:
THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency’s program of warrantless surveillance. The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; [...]

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Senator Russ Feingold has upped the ante for the 2008 Presidential Sweepstakes by announcing that his Leadership PAC, Progressive Patriots Fund, will be creating a 15-member “Patriot Corps” to staff elections in Wisconsin and around the country to help Democrats win crucial offices.
Although the Feingold field program will help Democrats immediately in 2006, [...]

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Do you love Russ? Do you want to know more about Russ? If so, we are having the very first (that we know of) Massachusetts For Feingold meeting and want anyone who is interested to come on down! Check out Mass For Feingold for more information on the group.
The details:
7:00pm, Tuesday April [...]

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Russ Feingold has a great solution to the President’s all too frequent flouting of the law: censure him. Yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Feingold announced that he has created a resolution by which the Senate, and I presume the House, can censure President Bush for pretending he had authority which he [...]

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I am really excited to announce a new group for those interested in seeing real change in America; change that is steeped in progressive traditions but mixed with a great twist of common sense and practicality:
Massachusetts for Feingold!
I know we have a TON of work to do with the upcoming gubernatorial campaign but we wanted [...]

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