Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman Has Very Scary Ideas
Every once in a while, I browse the home pages of some of the crazier State Reps from Wisconsin. Glenn Grothman has to be one of the most worrisome, given his shocking intolerance and bigotry, but of...
View ArticleScott Walker Again Takes Credit For Something He Did Not Do
This has become quite a habit of Governor Scott Walker. Two days ago the Governor's spokesman Cullen Werwie posted a press release on the WisBusiness.com website announcing Walker's appearance at the...
View ArticleWisconsin Rep. Introduces Bill to Eliminate Collective Bargaining Rights for...
I just found this on the WFRV-TV.com website. They are reporting that Independent Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer from Manitowoc, WI has just introduced a bill that would "eliminate collective bargaining rights...
View ArticleWI Republicans Decide the State Doesn't Need Safe Drinking Water
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Legislature voted to roll back the DNR's regulation requiring disinfection of drinking water for all Wisconsin communities. As noted in his diary yesterday, Giles Goat Boy...
View ArticleIndiana Supreme Court Overrules Fourth Amendment
In a story I saw this morning on The Raw Story (and spreading like wildfire throughout the news services), late last week the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution...
View ArticleWI "Recall Dave Hansen" Organizer and Domestic Abuser Now Running for State...
This is a bit of interesting news. The man who organized the recall drive against Democratic Wisconsin State Senator Dave Hansen has thrown his hat into the ring for a run at Hansen's Senate seat. As...
View ArticleSo Money Can't Buy an Election After All - NY-26
The travesty of the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court of the US has led to even bigger spending on elections, but it's strange. I am pretty certain that the Republicans in particular hailed...
View ArticleWisconsin Still Protesting Scott Walker
Although the national press seems to have moved on to bigger and better things, those of us in Wisconsin still have to deal with the fact that Scott Walker remains the governor - at least for now....
View ArticleScott Walker Tweets Defense of Voter ID Bill
Earlier today, Scott Walker tweeted what is, apparently, his justification of the passage of the Voter ID Bill (which he just signed into law). The tweet reads: "4,462,007 people in Wisconsin have...
View ArticleLouisiana House Committee Votes to Ban All Abortion
Yesterday, the Louisiana State House Health and Welfare Committee voted 10-2 to send a bill to the House floor that bans virtually all abortion in the State of Louisiana. The bill, introduced by...
View ArticleWI GOP Scheming to Run A Spoiler Democrat Candidate in Recall Election
It just keeps getting better. After news broke yesterday that Republican Wisconsin State Senator Dan Kapanke had been secretly recorded speaking to the La Crosse County GOP on May 25th about his hopes...
View ArticleScott Walker Brags About Evisceration of Teachers' Contracts in Southern...
I admit it - I am a glutton for punishment. I just can't seem to stay away from Scott Walker's "Office of the Governor" webpage (but I won't link to it because you, my friend, do not need to subject...
View ArticleWI GOP Head Justifies Running Fake Democratic Candidates in Recalls
As pointed out by Chris Bowers this morning, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel was forwarded letters from local Wisconsin GOP parties encouraging their membership to support the runs of fake Democratic...
View ArticleWI Gov. Scott Walker Will Fund Public Schools - If They Educate Students For...
Today, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran a small, unobtrusive article titled "Walker plans to link job training money, local education reform." According to the article, today Wisconsin Governor Scott...
View ArticleWisconsin Business Group Accuses Protestors of Attacking Their Headquarters -...
Today the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ran a fact-checking article by PolitiFact that examines the validity of an accusation of attack and vandalism made by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce against...
View ArticleNew WI Assembly Bill Appears to Legalize Fake Primary Candidates
As everyone is aware, the Wisconsin State Assembly passed the draconian Budget Bill in the wee hours of the night. The contentious bill passed along strict party line votes, with the lone...
View ArticleWI Governor Walker's Policies Actually Failing To Produce Jobs
Ever since declaring Wisconsin "Open for Business," Governor Scott Walker has repeatedly bragged about the effects his "jobs initiatives" were having on job creation in Wisconsin. Take, for example, a...
View ArticleWI GOP Hypocritically Calls for Probe Of Democrat Recall Candidate
It seems like the hypocrisy never ends with the Wisconsin Republicans, now that we are living in an alternate reality in which our state has been taken over by a dictator who clearly feels laws and...
View ArticleWI Republican Recall Challenger VanderLeest Is A Raving Lunatic
As we approach the recall election targeting Wisconsin Democratic State Senator Dave Hansen, more and more attention is being focused on his challenger's past. A recent ad from the Democratic...
View ArticleWI Legislature Plans To Alter State Constitution To Oust Progressive Chief...
There is no doubt that Wisconsin Republicans dislike progressive Wisconsin Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson. As the longest sitting jurist on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, appointed first in 1976 and...
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