The Xoff Files

Commentary on local, state, national, world and inter-galactic politics by Bill Christofferson, who often uses Xofferson or Xoff to shorten his 14-letter last name.

Christofferson, a recovered journalist and ex-political reporter, has been a Democratic strategist and consultant for 20 years. He lives in Milwaukee.

He is the author of a political biography, “The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson,” published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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Free Will

The Forrest Gump of modern global politics, Brian Christianson worked alongside the Nicaraguan Contras and other anti-communist freedom fighters during the Reagan Era. A proponent of the free market and free will, he advised Boris Yeltsin's nascent democrats in 1990s Russia.  Christianson was most recently spotted with a box of chocolates in a mosque in Casablanca.

His dog-eared passport rests in a top dresser drawer at his waterside home on Lake Koshkonong -- a not-so-clear lake in Southern Wisconsin. 

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