When: Tuesday, August 3^rd from 5-8 p.m.

Where: Sprecher Brewery at 701 West Glendale Avenue in Milwaukee.

It will be a great opportunity to network with  local business owners, enjoy Sprecher beverages, and share your ideas with me about how you can be better represented in the U.S. Congress.

I look forward to meeting you and sharing my ideas about how we can revitalize our economy, grow jobs, and get a fair return on our federal tax dollars.

CONTACT: Dan Kyle, (414) 698-8310

dan@kolossoforcongress.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Ballot Challenge Against Kolosso Fails

GAB Dismisses Complaint Against Sensenbrenner Opponent

MENOMONEE FALLS, WI (July 21, 2010)—The Government Accountability Board dismissed the complaint filed against Todd Kolosso, the Democratic candidate running against Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner for Wisconsin’s 5^th Congressional seat, and upheld his right to remain on the ballot for the November 2010 election.

“Today’s outcome was not a surprise for my campaign or for the Congressman,” said Kolosso. “It was obvious to anyone who saw the complaint that many of the challenges were completely baseless and were founded on ridiculous claims, such as the idea that anyone who signed their name in print instead of cursive should have their signature thrown out.”

The GAB dismissed a challenge against 51 signatures that were made in print rather than in cursive, as well as challenges based on the claim that certain signatures were dated in the years 2011 and 2016.

“Penalizing someone for poor penmanship is insider politics at its worst,” said Dan Kyle, who collected signatures that were challenged based on dates. “Unless you think I have a time machine, the idea that any of my signatures were dated 2016 and should therefore be invalidated is just silly. The real shame, though, is that taxpayers had to pay GAB staff to review such frivolous claims.”

Todd Kolosso, a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, was born in Slinger and owns a small commercial real-estate business in Menomonee Falls. As the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, Kolosso is committed to growing jobs, protecting local businesses, standing up for family farms, and fighting to make sure that taxpayers in the district receive their fair share of federal dollars.

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Authorized and Paid for by Kolosso for Congress

Nicole Mortensen, Treasurer

N88 W16447 Main St., Suite 100

Menomonee Falls, WI 53051

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MENOMONEE FALLS, WI (July 18, 2010)—In a sign that a Congressional seat Republicans have held for 32

years may not be safe in the current anti-incumbency climate, the Wisconsin GOP mounted a nomination paper

challenge against Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s opponent, Todd Kolosso, hoping to remove him from the ballot.

“Sensenbrenner’s camp can try using political shenanigans to knock me off the ballot, but it’s not going to work,”

said Kolosso. “I have the signatures. I’m in this for long run, and I know I can win. Apparently the Congressman

agrees.”

Todd Kolosso, a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, was born in Slinger and owns a small commercial real-estate

business in Menomonee Falls. As the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, Kolosso is

committed to growing jobs, protecting local businesses, standing up for family farms, and fighting to make sure

that taxpayers in the district receive their fair share of federal dollars.

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Authorized and Paid for by Kolosso for Congress

Nicole Mortensen, Treasurer

N88 W16447 Main St., Suite 100

Menomonee Falls, WI 53051

dan@kolossoforcongress.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 17, 2010

Kolosso for Congress 2010

Time for BP Shareholder Jim Sensenbrenner to Step Down From the Oil Spill Probe

MENOMONEE FALLS, WI (June 17, 2010)—As news broke that Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner has not sold any of the $1.25 million of his holdings in BP and other oil industry stock, his opponent, Todd Kolosso, called on him to remove himself from the House Judiciary Committee investigation into the oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The obvious conflict of interest here is disturbing to anyone who values fairness and accountability,” said Kolosso, who is running to unseat the 32-year incumbent in Wisconsin’s 5^th Congressional District. “It appears the Congressman’s primary interest is in protecting the oil industry and his own portfolio, not in seeking justice for the families, fisheries, businesses, and wildlife that have been devastated by the spill.”

Sensenbrenner’s most recent Congressional financial disclosure statement reveals that he has divested himself of the Kimberly-Clark fortune in stock that he inherited from his family. Worth over $9 million in stocks and other holdings, he has yet to divest his portfolio of BP or other oil industry stock, despite an AP investigative report highlighting the potential conflict of interest should he refuse to recuse himself from the oil-spill investigation.

“The Congressman says he gave away his Kimberly-Clark stock as a gift to his children,” said Kolosso. “He should give a gift to all of our children and either divest himself of his oil industry stock or step down from the investigation and let those who have no conflicts of interest sit in judgment of BP.”

Todd Kolosso, a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, was born in Slinger and owns a small commercial real-estate business in Menomonee Falls. As the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, Kolosso is committed to growing jobs, protecting local businesses, standing up for family farms, and fighting to make sure that taxpayers in the district receive their fair share of federal dollars.

“When the people of the 5th Congressional District vote for me in November,” said Kolosso, “they can be confident that I will honor my pledge to conduct myself according to the highest ethical standards and that I will not put personal profits over the interests of my constituents or my fellow citizens.”

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Paid for and Authorized by Kolosso for Congress, Nicole Moretensen, Treasurer

N88 W16447 Main Street, Suite 100

Menonomee Falls, WI 53051

Where: Kletzsch Park, Glendale(6789 N Milwaukee River Pkwy)

Meet  at 10AM for bags, maps and directions. Wear your Kolosso t-shirts, and bring a friend!

Contact: Sara Dillivan-Graves, saradillivangraves@gmail.com

More unbelievable to me is that he has made absolutely no statement to date that places any blame on BP for the disaster. Perhaps he is not yet certain that BP, or any subsidiary, agent, or employed contractor, had anything to do with the roughly 30,000 barrels of oil that are pouring into the Gulf on a daily basis? Is it really possible that he believes that the oil billowing into the Gulf is a completely natural event?

Apart from the fact that Congressman Sensenbrenner holds BP stock and has voted consistently with the oil and gas industry for the last 30 years, another reason he might refuse to acknowledge BP’s culpability could be that it would require him to reverse his position on climate change and other environmental issues.

He would have to acknowledge that human beings can adversely change the natural world through our actions and that environmental disasters like the one in the Gulf are a matter of critical concern to us all, regardless of party affiliation or ideology.

In Congressman Sensenbrenner’s world that simply is not the case, and anyone who fails to pass his black-and-white litmus test on environmental issues is a raging liberal. Climate change doesn’t exist, pollution will melt away in the future, and the oil in the Gulf will eventually disappear. He stubbornly clings to these positions on the environment despite all evidence to the contrary.

Yet Congressman Sensenbrenner remains all too happy to do a politically expedient about-face on government regulation. He joined the growing ranks of the “I was against more government before I was for it” Congressional caucus and sent President Obama a “strongly worded” letter taking the federal government to task for not doing enough to prevent or clean up the disaster in the Gulf.

Just when you think his shameless flip-flopping and rank opportunism could not get any worse, Congressman Sensenbrenner has also come out in favor of limiting BP’s ultimate liability in this mess at $75 million, or in round numbers, to 12% of BP’s profits in the first quarter of 2010 alone ($6.08 billion).

One has to wonder if he’s more concerned about the birds on the shore, the fish in the sea, or the numbers in his stock portfolio. After all, we know that every dollar is precious to this multimillionaire, three-time lottery winner who is so stingy that he kept every cent of his hundreds of thousands of dollars in lottery-money windfall.

I guess we should be heartened by the fact that on at least one of his stocks he’s taking the same bath the rest of us have been taking for months. Too bad for us it’s an oil bath.

In any event, Congressman Sensenbrenner, an attorney by training, has to ask himself if it is the wisest and most ethical course to sit in judgment of a corporation that, at best, engages in behavior he does not seem to comprehend and, at worst, engages in behavior that he profits from.

When the people of the 5th Congressional District decide that it’s time for their longtime incumbent to go and elect me to represent them in Washington, they can be confident I will honor my pledge to conduct myself according to the highest ethical standards and that I will not forsake my values and principles in the name of political expediency or profit.

I was watching with interest as the “government can’t do anything right” crowd in Congress have been falling over themselves on TV trying to point out how little the administration has done in response to the oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Never mind that many of these same individuals defended the meager response of the previous administration to the natural—as opposed to man-made—hurricane Katrina disaster. Or the fact that our current incumbent, Jim Sensenbrenner, like so many of his colleagues, voted against government funding for repair, housing, food, or anything else for the victims.

Shameless flip-flopping aside, let’s take a minute to personalize the disaster in the Gulf and imagine what might happen if a large tanker truck of oil was driving by your house and, through negligence or carelessness, happened to spill its entire payload onto your back yard.

 My guess is that most people would demand that the responsible party clean up the spill, and I would assume that the company responsible for the spill would agree to make reasonable efforts to clean it up. Not only would the company be facing a serious public relations disaster if it didn’t act, but it would also have a strong financial interest in making amends.

 One thing I am confident would not happen in this scenario is the property owner immediately demanding that the government take care of the problem. That would be both illogical and premature. If the cleanup was taking too long or was not done properly, then the government would certainly have an interest in intervening. But no one would expect the government to be first in line to accept responsibility for the cleanup.

 This is exactly what has happened in the Gulf. The administration expected BP to take appropriate responsibility for cleaning up its mess, and now that it has become clear that their efforts are ineffectual, the government is stepping in. Yet the “we need more government” converts in Congress are saying that the administration should have done more. 

More? Maybe they’re suggesting that the federal government take part ownership of BP? Or that the EPA should be expanded? Or that federal efforts should trump the states’ rights to protect their own coastline? What would the response from members of the “I was against more government before I was for it” Congressional caucus have been if the administration had stepped in with command-and-control efforts like these from the very beginning?

I highly doubt they would have given President Obama three cheers and an “A” for effort. 

To hear folks like aspiring-Congressman Rand Paul talk about it, we shouldn’t even place any blame on BP at all. Accidents happen. That oil slick in your back yard? Things are tough all over! Just put on your boots when you mow your lawn.

When: June 9th, 2010 until June 16th, 2010

Where: United Way  225 West Vine St., Milwaukee, WI 53212     *or*

Mill Building N88 W16447 Main St., Suite 100, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051

Lower level Monday-Thursady or 1st floor lobby Friday-Sunday

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee is experiencing a shortage of personal hygiene products.  Please join together and provide a helping hand to those in need.

Where: Danny Lynch’s, 2300 S 108th St, West Allis (Corner of Lincoln and 108th St)

Map to Lynch’s

Suggested Contribution: $50 (everyone welcome)

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