House Speaker Paul Ryan called into Charlie Sykes' final show at WTMJ 620 AM Monday and thanked the broadcaster for elevating conservative ideas and politicians, according to jsonline.com.
Sykes is retiring from local radio but plans to write a book and make frequent appearances on the cable news outlet MSNBC.
Ryan said that on Sunday night he and his wife, Janna, joined Gov. Scott Walker and his wife, Tonette, at a supper club and they reminisced "about the enormous impact that Charlie Sykes had on Wisconsin, on conservatism in Wisconsin, the conservative movement."
"Before you came around, the left had arguably a monopoly on information through the media," said Ryan, a Janesville Republican. "And there was really no one challenging the premise of what everybody was being fed in Wisconsin. And you just smashed that model, you crushed it and helped bring a disinfectant into our political system here in Wisconsin that gave rise to what I would call truth."
During the brief interview, Ryan and Sykes reflected on key points in the rise of conservatism in Wisconsin the accelerated with the 2010 tea party wave that brought Walker to the governorship and Johnson to the U.S. Senate.
That wave also washed over Congress and helped catapult Ryan to key Republican leadership.
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