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	Mr. Cop or Not? News Buzz June 7, 2010 http://www.milwaukeenewsbuzz.com/?p=106361 State Sen. Jim Sullivan (D-Wauwatosa) picked up a vote of confidence last week he's likely to add to his quiver of campaign arrows – the Wisconsin Professional Police Association named him one of two Legislators of the Year. jim sullivan This fall, Sullivan faces challenger State Rep. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa). The race will decide if his seat falls back into conservative hands. Like State Sen. Tom Reynolds, whom Sullivan unseated, Vukmir is a conservative Republican who claims Sullivan is too liberal for the district. The WPPA award could boost Sullivan's credibility with the law-and-order crowd. The association lobbies the Legislature on behalf of its "almost 11,000 active and retired members from over 380 locals (unions)," its Web site says. It praised Sullivan and fellow winner State Rep. Chris Danou (D-Trempealeau) for authoring two bills. One would penalize criminal suspects who, in fleeing, cause officers to be injured. The other would provide disability benefits for officers who catch infectious diseases in the line of duty. Danou was a police officer in Onalaska. The WPPA didn't bring up a bill, the Child Victims Act, that Sullivan has opposed since it was first introduced in 2008. The Association supported the bill, which removed the age limit of 35 for victims of childhood sexual assault to sue their alleged molesters. A group representing victims of clergy sexual abuse, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, suggested last month that Sullivan, a Catholic, opposed the bill because he feared church leaders would deny him communion if he supported it. Sullivan denied ever being threatened. Mordecai Lee, UW-Milwaukee political scientist, told milwaukeemagazine.com he's expecting big spending (a combined $2.5 million) in the Sullivan-Vukmir matchup. Lee says he considers Sullivan's territory a "swing district." Wauwatosa Ald. Dennis McBride agreed, telling the magazine the city is divided into liberal (east side) and conservative (west side) halves.
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