April 2012
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Where in the world is Walker's campaign office? →
Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the things Scott Walker’s campaign doesn’t want the public to know about:
Here’s something almost no one knows: Where his main campaign headquarters is. His staff is trying to keep that a secret.
But it’s not like this is the only thing Walker’s team wants to keep top secret.
His state office does not post his...
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Sunday Dialogue: When To Recall Politicians →
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Wisconsin Politicians & ALEC
Directory of Wisconsin state legislators, with information on ALEC membership (including those whose dues are paid by taxpayers) and those who have sponsored ALEC-written bills:
State Senators (even Lena Taylor sponsored ALEC-written bills)
Assembly
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“Jimmy [Kimmel] got his start years ago on ‘The Man Show.’ In...”
– President Obama at the Correspondents Dinner.
You should be watching this. He’s killing it.
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“We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years,...”
– Thomas Mann, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institute & Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, in the Washington Post (via herblondness)
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WatchDude Awakening: Republicans seek to cut funding for women’s preventive health care and voted against the Violence Against Women Act, but deny there’s anything anti-women about their policies.
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“We have turned school testing into a huge corporate profit center, led by...”
– Gail Collins, A Very Pricey Pineapple.
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Bob Dylan To Receive Presidential Medal Of Freedom... →
The recipients are: Madeleine Albright, John Doar, Bob Dylan, William Foege, John Glenn, Gordon Hirabayashi, Dolores Huerta, Jan Karski, Juliette Gordon Low, Toni Morrison, Shimon Peres, John Paul Stevens and Pat Summitt.
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Watch“You’ve got to invest in innovation, invest in manufacturing, and not listen to ideologues like Governor Walker. I’d like to work as a team with the whole Midwest, but when he arrived, he wanted to kick me in the shins.”
-Gov. Pat Quinn, Illinois
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“I’m not a pollster. I don’t know if the American people want to hear about...”
– Ezra Klein: Vote for Romney. He loves America. (via andrewgraham)
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Invitation to a Dialogue: Use of Recall Elections →
The New York Times published a letter to the editor today from a political science student who thinks the only reason people are recalling Gov. Walker is because of “unpopular” legislation, and doesn’t believe recalls should be used for that purpose.
The Times invites people to submit letters in response, and will publish some of the letters in its Sunday Review. The original...
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WatchPresident Obama and Jimmy Fallon slow jam the news.
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Over the Past Year, Wisconsin Lost the Largest... →
Wisconsin is the only state that had “statistically significant” job losses over the most recent 12-month period, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From March 2011 to March 2012, Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs. That was the largest decrease in percentage terms in the country.
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“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice...”
– Gaylord Nelson, former Wisconsin Governor and Senator, and founder of Earth Day.
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Wal-Mart Covered Up Vast Bribery Case →
In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In the e-mail and follow-up conversations, the former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. In its rush to build stores, he said, the company had paid bribes to obtain...
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New Wisconsin Law Limits Cost-of-Living Wage... →
In his budget repair law, Scott Walker limited the bargaining power of unions to cost-of-living adjustments. The law also included provisions that vastly expanded Walker’s own executive authority. Now, Walker is using his expanded authority to “reshape a rule to lower inflation-based raises that public unions can negotiate by 30% or more for teachers in public schools and technical...
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WatchPlanned Parenthood stops performing non-surgical abortions in Wisconsin because of a new law that threatens doctors with felony charges. And Mitt Romney “absolutely” supports amending the Constitution to define life as beginning at conception.
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“Nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call...”
– Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. (via motherjones)
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Godspeed, Mr. Helm. Thanks for everything.
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Wisconsin Lost 4,300 Private Sector Jobs In March →
Yikes.
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WatchThe Daily Show, Last Comic Commanding.
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate Voters →
Kathleen Falk sent out a statement to her supporters accusing Democrats who have reservations about her of trying to “swoop in and co-opt *our* movement.”
So, if you favor another candidate, the recall effort is not your movement? What?
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Founder of Recall Group United Wisconsin Endorses... →
Some of Barrett’s other endorsements include: Herb Kohl, Dave Obey, Gwen Moore, Lena Taylor, and Jon Erpenbach.
Meanwhile, Kathleen Falk sent out a statement today that accused “political insiders” of trying to “mow [her] down.”
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Thousands of Teacher and School Staff Jobs Have... →
According to newly-released data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2,312 full-time school staff positions were eliminated during the 2011-2012 school year. For teachers in particular, 1,446 positions were cut.
According to Scott Walker’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, this offers “proof that Governor Walker’s reforms are working.”
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Why Walker is Winning in the Wisconsin Polls →
Tough love from Rick Ungar in his Forbes column, but this is important to think about because the election is only 7 weeks away.
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Battleground America →
The New Yorker:
Although rates of gun ownership, like rates of violent crime, are falling, the power of the gun lobby is not. Since 1980, forty-four states have passed some form of law that allows gun owners to carry concealed weapons outside their homes for personal protection. (Five additional states had these laws before 1980. Illinois is the sole holdout.) A federal ban on the possession,...
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WatchMitt Romney in January, 2012: Welfare parents “need to go to work.” ”Even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work.”
Mitt Romney in April, 2012: “All moms are working moms.”
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Top 100 Things To Do In Milwaukee
stephhton:
fuckyeahbrewcity:
View the entire list here.
4/14: happy milwaukee day!
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“You’re going up against the grain. You’re going up the hill. But...”
– Cornel West, interviewing Mahlon Mitchell. It’s a beautiful interview and I highly recommend listening to it.
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A Man Who Looks Paul Ryan's Storm Dead in the Eye →
Meet the Democrat running against Paul Ryan.
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Gov. Walker's Communications Director Would "Love... →
Governor Walker’s Communications Director, Ciara Matthews , reminds us that the internet is forever.
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“He’s an interesting case study of someone who has talked more than he has...”
– A “senior GOP aide,” referring to Sen. Ron Johnson. Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is reportedly planning on firing most of his Washington D.C. staff.
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