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At last the hungering public has a juicy Walkergate tidbit to pounce upon. I’m afraid they will stay rather hungry for justice and only gain more questions — assuming we are not being buffaloed by writer Steve Schultze (from the Pravda of Dairyland, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Milwaukee County prosecutors, according to Schultze, say...
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I just looked up how much money Obama has raised as opposed to Romney just to be sure the video below is an exaggeration. It does exaggerate a smidgeon. “Just one month after the start of the general election campaign, Mr. Obama has seen his financial cushion sliced in half. An $80 million cash-on-hand...
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“It’s hush money and in my opinion, it’s undermining the whole democratic process. They’re buying votes. They’re buying our votes for us to go in and say we like them, because they have to have the landowners agree to have them in here. So they’re buying people and they’re dividing our community,” said Lisa...
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The Wisconsin Republisphere seems to be doing all it can do to discredit the election of State Senator John Lehman – the one Democratic Party winner from June 5th. To help justify the recount* ordered by Van Wanggaard, the GOP is laying down stories like bread crumbs, leading a compliant media and audience to...
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UPDATE: Michelle Litjens will be in office until next January. Tea Party darling and Michelle Bachmann “wannabe”, Michelle Litjens has been busy reinventing herself this year. First, the freshman Republican announced in February that she would not seek re-election to the state assembly. At the time TMJ reported that she wanted to spend more...
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It’s against the law to buy a person’s vote in Wisconsin. But there’s no law against warping the opinion of every man, woman, and child with a steady stream of glossy media. I was browsing a worthwhile piece by Bill Lueders on where and how the recall cash was spent when I ran into...
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Based on a tweet by Mark Knoller of CBS News, President Obama is going out to lunch today to discuss a Father’s Day outreach program. I suspect that meanwhile back at the White House, staff are sweating over what to do about a controversial leaked document which comes to light via Public Citizen, a...
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I observed the entrance to a festive farce, the Beer and Brat Summit at the executive residence in Maple Bluff. I hear that 34 lawmakers declined to squirt the mustard with Walker and at least 4 made it known they disapprove of the event. Either because the press were informed that they were excluded,...
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So, we lost last night and Walker gets to stay on as governor. Yes, it sucks in a big way, but honestly people it isn’t over yet. We won’t lose unless we all figuratively decide to “take our ball and go home”. I, for one, won’t be doing that. On the bright side, we...
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Welcome. I’ll be tweeting the recall election of Scott Walker until I fall over from exhaustion. See my tweet stream or a custom set of recall tweeters below . I’ll also be putting some of my favorite photos from the last few days here for...
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In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was the first female vice-presidential candidate in U.S. history. I think she was the first female political candidate to register on my radar. I was twenty-eight years old. I was a long way from being the political junkie that I have become. I didn’t yet identify myself as a feminist....
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How to get plugged in and help: In Madison go to the Labor Temple at 1602 S. Park Street. Elsewhere try WeAreWisconsin, or Tom Barrett’s site. If you’re not in Wisconsin and you’re good on the phone, take a look at Democracy for America’s online phonebank system. I’ve been eating too much and...
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Dear Wisconsin Recall Fighters, I swear to God you are the coolest, most awesome people on earth, and I count myself incredibly privileged and honored to be among you. Despite formidable and even vicious opposition, you have more than risen to the challenge. You have consistently refused take Walker’s “no” for an answer. You...
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The debate between Tom Barrett and Scott Walker begins 9PM Central, it will last 1 hour, and it will be moderated by Mike Gousha of the show Upfront on Milwaukee’s WISN 12. It takes place at Marquette University. To watch the debate online, see WISN 12 online. To watch the TV broadcast in Madison...
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About 40 people came to the early voting rally in Appleton, WI that started at City Park. Rep. Penny Bernard-Schaber was on hand and gave a rousing speech. She reminded us of how important it was for us to get Wisconsin moving in the right direction again and put it on a much better...
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Recall Walker day, June 5th is rapidly approaching. On this day people in Wisconsin can collectively stand up and put a stop to Walker’s anti-worker, anti-woman, anti-union, anti-environment agenda. We can show the state and country that people in Wisconsin still believe in the “Wisconsin way” of fair play, open government and progressive values....
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At end of post: LIVE stream audio and video options. The Cover-It-Live widget here will go live at 7:30PM and let you see what Wisconsin’s top tweeters are saying about tonight’s debate between Barrett and Walker from 8PM – 9PM Central tonight. Appleton Wonk and I will do our level best to screen your...
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This is a must-read piece from Dan Kaufman of New York Times. It starts with the terrifying and prophetic dream that Mike Wiggins had about the north woods and it ends with his tears. There have been too many bad dreams and too many tears in our state since the election of Scott Walker...
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Update: WisEye has audio/video of the debate HERE. I was beaming after this debate. Lori simply trounced Fitzgerald. I realized later that not only did I get to hear Lori Compas do a great job of being her authentic, assertive yet measured self, I also got the enormous pleasure of hearing Scott Fitzgerald challenged....
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I’m not sure what to make of it. Should we attribute the high absentee vote to the number of vacationers in the summer? Or should we credit the fact that many college students can’t vote if they don’t do an absentee vote? Or — and this is the finest answer — we’re going to...
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I seem to have missed a small detail. That anti-teacher screed in Janesville was distributed during Teacher Appreciation Week. As if teachers weren’t already under attack in Wisconsin. Time to not only appreciate our educators but to also get out some facts about the people that typically spend more time with America’s kids than...
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Update: I earlier called this an “ad”. Janesville Gazette in a tweet today said Get an anti-teacher flyer in your Gazette box?We didn’t produce or distribute it.Here’s more:… fb.me/272LVbSwj — Janesville Gazette (@gazettextra) May 22, 2012 Last Sunday a blue sheet accompanied the Janesville Gazette. It listed the salaries of all Janesville teachers with...
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My last post was about some ballots not making it to clerks on time for the early vote . But now it’s time for a dose of happiness and encouragement! I talked with...
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The very next post I do will have photos of happy smiling people casting their votes to recall Walker. I promise. First this downer of a post: Many of us heard that we could cast an early ballot at clerk offices starting today. In reality some (perhaps many) locations lack ballots right now and...
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Yesterday for most of the day I felt pretty much like I’d been kicked in the gut, owing to a combination of not enough sleep, the DNC’s milquetoast support for the recall, the DNR’s noxious inaction in the Sewergate horror, Walker talking about his jobs record using Kathy Nicholaus’s new new math, and the...
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