loftus took the stage for the first time. a crowd of about 125 people who have been anxiously waiting to speak to her and a message throughout that message to the crowd was that she was cautiously optimistic about the numbers. she continually said that she knew it was early, but that she would be hopeful about what was to come next. a short time ago we also saw maryland and braid pay if short visit to susie loftus, who she has endorsed and was a source of controversy when she appointed her interim da over the last couple of weeks, which drew strong criticism from the other candidates running da, saying it gave her an unfair advantage. her campaign said the das office needed a leader and she was the right one to take the job, at least in the interim. now susie loftus again telling her grad she is cautiously optimistic. let s take a listen to what she told them as well. this campaign stood for a very simple mission: we all deserve safety and we all deserve justice. that is wh
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somebody said getting to people together to write a book is like getting three people together to make a baby. [laughter] it really wasn t like that for us. [laughter] i think we work pretty well together. but governor thompson actually reach out to me seven years ago in 2011 and we met out at the esquire club on the north side and had a late breakfast and talked about collaboration, shook hands, never had more of a deal than that. and ended up i interviewed him about the first race for governor. we had to do a sample chapter for ew press, our publisher. and that went pretty well. and the process seemed happy. then he decided to run for the senate. we got sidetracked. and never really got really engaged until about three or four years ago, so it still took quite a while. i did 30 hours about approximately of interviews with him. in various locations, usually out at his house. on the east side of madison. but also in the car sometimes. and then of course i transcribed the tape
but he did call from the car and he will be here shortly. i thought i might take this chance to thank you folks for coming out and one thing we probably were not going to get to in our conversation is kind of how the book came about and what it was like being the co-author. you know, some times two people get together some people say it s like getting three people together to make a baby. [laughter] it really was not like that for us. [laughter] i think we work pretty well together. but governor thompson actually reached out to me seven years ago in 2011. we met out at a club on the north side and had a late breakfast collaboration.ut a we shook hands, never had more of a deal than that. and it ended up i interviewed him about the first race for governor. we had to do a sample chapter for our publisher, uw press. that went pretty well. in the press seemed happy. and then he decided to run for senate. and we got sidetracked and never really got really engage until three or fou