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A few weeks ago I went with a friend to Miller Park a couple of hours before the start of a Brewers game to gather signatures to help Kathleen Vinehout get her name on the ballot for the May 8 recall primary. Being a dyed-in-the-wool introvert, I had never done anything like this before....
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Political life in the United States has become so noxious and hostile that extreme partisan polarization, name-calling, smears, and schoolyard taunts have become commonplace. Thanks in large part to our collective addiction to the miraculous medium of television, our attention spans rarely amount to more than a minute and a half. We expect every...
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Frankly, I don’t have good news regarding the state of BadgerCare Plus. In another move that shows that Republicans don’t listen to their constituents and put corporations interests over people, the Joint Finance Committee approved changes to BadgerCare yesterday that will cut an estimated 22,800 people from the program. Even though this plan is...
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As many of you are aware it’s been just over one year since soon to be former Governor Walker announced his “budget repair bill”. Part of this budget repair bill took away collective bargaining rights from public workers. The thing that made my blood boil was the “budget repair bill” was “needed” because of...
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I can’t wait to hear Scott Walker’s explanation for this situation. Under Gov. Walker, WI seeing red by Peter W. Barca A year ago when the budget condition statement did not require a repair bill, GOP inflated numbers to create a crisis so they could justify taking away workers’ rights, hiring more cronies and...
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With less than a week to go in Wisconsin’s effort to collect signatures for the Walker recall, many of us are understandably turning our thoughts to who will run against him in the upcoming election. Honestly, the first thought that has come to mind every time I’ve considered the question is Russ Feingold. But...
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I received a charming little missive in my inbox today from none other than our illustrious guv himself: E-update from the Desk of Governor Scott Walker One of the most important duties I have serving as your Governor is to provide you directly with updates related to the operation of our state government. In...
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by Appleton Wonk The weather isn’t the only thing getting hot in Wisconsin. Political activity in my fair state is white hot as we face the first general election in what will lead to nine recall elections this summer. Six Republican and three Democratic state senators face recall. If you live in Dave Hansen’s...
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There’s just a lot going on. Election Reform: I will make this public hearing of the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reform. I think I’ll hear from Kloppenburg/Prosser recount volunteers who observed some mysterious things such as barely closed ballot bags, torn-open bags, and piles of ballots discovered. I know 10:15AM is...
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I’m going to do the impossible and give a status check on all of Wisconsin politics. It might help the out-of-stater who is perhaps just now turning his or her attention from Anthony Weiner’s umm… tweets…and back to really important stuff like what is happening in my state. Wisconsin is hot again. Maybe too...
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First grilling of the season. And they’re all sooooooo good. You can’t enjoy just one. But if there were only one to take in, I would select Gwen Moore’s. She is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Gov. Scott Walker called his approach to Wisconsin’s budget “truly progressive” during his testimony Thursday morning in Washington, D.C. Walker...
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Are you ready for the deliciousness of Stephen Colbert’s “Madison as Ever” today? Click the image below to jump into what could be the best Colbert report on Wisconsin everrrr. In “Madison as Ever” you learn: Publishing a law in the Wisconsin State Journal is a final act to make it legally binding and...
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Wisconsin Act 10 Stalls Today 3/31 Judge Maryann Sumi ordered that the law “has not been published within the meaning” of Wisconsin law and “is therefore not in effect.”’ And following Huebsch said, “given the most recent court action we will suspend the implementation of it at this time. DOA will continue to abide...
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Journalist Patrick Waring speaks to Jeff Waksman, one of the authors of an “apology” to Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi. Comments are welcome. This interview was done for WORT FM 89.9. http://soundcloud.com/hear_patrick_run/sumi-apology-jeff Wednesday, March 30, 2011 “RPDC Apologizes To Judge Sumi The Republican Party of Dane County sent out a press release on March 29th...
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I am a Madison resident. Milwaukee is not my turf. Make sure you also visit folkbum for excellent writing from a Milwaukee educator. Note: Milwaukee Public Schools is the 3rd largest employer in the state of Wisconsin. UW Madison is 2nd. Wal Mart is 1st. (I pulled together some Milwaukee stats you’ll find at the...
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This might be all you need to read to fall in love with Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC): “Democrats run away from a fight; fighting is seen as a bad thing,” Green says. “We at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee are teaching Democrats how to fight. And I think looking at this tax-cut debate...
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Notes and or tweets gleaned from today’s proceedings in Dane County Court. If you’d like a more conventional article, here is TPM. This tweet sums up a lot. One of my favorites: “Sinking in how Scott Fitzgerald & the Attorney General’s office consciously put Legislative Reference Bureau staff in potentially significant legal jeopardy. What...
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Every moment when one of Walker’s crew is told “no” is a happy one for me. Today State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen was told, to my understanding: - the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District IV lacks the authority to withdraw an appeal to the Supreme Court, and so, we will not do that....
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Is Wisconsin Act 10 A.K.A. “the budget repair bill” the law of the land? Depends on who you ask. I did do a survey of those answers, but first keep in mind that since Friday March 25, 2011 dezinformatsiya or disinformation is turning reality into a collective hunch* here. Disinformation is false or inaccurate information that is...
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Madison housing cooperatives face threat. Mayor Dave? This Tuesday night March 29 at 6:30pm Alder Marsha Rummel will introduce a measure to prevent city zoning from removing “co-op friendly” provisions in city code . April 5th we have a mayoral election. Madison is home to at least 11 cooperative housing sites some of...
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I’ve been traipsing about meeting Joanne Kloppenburg and hanging out at Wisconsin’s capitol with the other fans of cooperatives and labor. I’m now parking myself at a free computer at Michelangelo’s on State St. Apparently while I was out having fun, illusory tenant was combing the net and finding that most U.S. dailies got...
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The Walker administration is pretending lying. They have printed the “budget repair bill” and they are putting forth the message that it doesn’t need to face the scrutiny of the Wisconsin Supreme Court as decided by an appellate court on 3/24/11. (Court’s decision. My post on the decision.) Scott Walker, Scott Fitzgerald and the...
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(Fridays are supposed to be slow news days and I’m supposed to be out eating right now.) Representative Peter Barca has requested any documents that pertain to the publication of the “budget repair bill” otherwise known as Wisconsin Act 10 – the bill which was to be blocked from publication and was published today....
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