By Tom Kertscher 

 

 

Some political notes and quotes from the past several days.

 

-- “The unemployed aren’t bums who don’t have any grit in their craw.” -- U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) told a Milwaukee gathering, according to UrbanMilwaukee.com.

 

Moore also predicted that if Congress doesn't raise the federal minimum wage, President Barack Obama will.

 

-- State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) told the Huffington Post that Wisconsin workers should be allowed to work seven days straight, if they want to, before taking a day off.

 

"All sorts of people want to work seven days a week," he said.

 

-- "I'm guessing" Gov. Scott Walker is "going to be a talk-radio Republican, he's not going to be a moderate, he's not going to be interested in compromise and that'll be a very good base for him to run for president on." -- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor and former Democratic state lawmaker Mordecai Lee, on Wisconsin Public Television's "Here and Now."

 

-- Politico says Walker "has the dual tasks of appealing to voters in his blue home state," in running for re-election in 2014, "while also trying to introduce himself to the nation’s GOP primary voters" for 2016.

 

 

 

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