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Blue cheddar, newspapers, and other blogs reported on April 6th that the much lambasted Waukesha County clerk Kathy Nickolaus would be stepping aside for May and June recall elections after she received an order to either step aside or resign from Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas. It seems that exactly what’s going on is...
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I’m about to buy a lawn mower, but I don’t want my money used to attack Wisconsin workers and families. There are several lists of companies to avoid when making purchasing decisions, such as companies led by people who gave big donations directly to the Walker campaign. Buying local is usually a wise decision,...
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In what could be billed as the next “rule of thumb” similar to “Don’t take wooden nickels” or “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”, poll workers in Appleton, WI now have “Don’t accept doughnuts from candidates” as reported today by the Appleton Post Crescent. Fox 11 news also covered this story stating “the great donut...
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Who besides Homer Simpson believes in the “power of the doughnut” to influence all areas of life? The short answer is Appleton Taxpayers United. Just when I thought the story had gone stale I run into a video of Appleton Alderman James Clemons defending Cathy Spears against the ethics complaint against her. He brings...
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“We can now demonstrate what we have always suspected—that strict photo ID laws have a more severe negative impact on black and Latino voters,” said Jon Sherman, an attorney with the ACLU Voting Rights Project. “The Voting Rights Act was created to combat exactly this type of barrier, and we intend to see it...
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Wisconsin Assembly’s Kleefisch makes it all the way to “Worst Person in the World” on Keith Olbermann’s show! He got caught on video voting not 1 time or 2 times but 3 times in the legislature in quick succession. Kleefisch co-sponsored the Wisconsin voter ID law which tightened control over the public’s...
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This past year, I have been a frequent participant in the Solidarity Sing Along protests held every weekday in or just outside the Wisconsin Capitol. One of the songs we sing is “Bring Back Wisconsin to Me”, sung to the tune of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”, with new lyrics by Lou and...
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MADISON — When Florence Hessing tried to get a state-issued photo identification card to comply with Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, the 95-year-old was told she needed her birth certificate. But she didn’t have one. She wrote to county officials in Iowa where she was born, but they told her there was no record...
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Jonathan D. Simon, Executive Director of Election Defense Alliance, is who you’ll hear from first in this video from August 27 at Wisconsin’s 2011 Democracy Convention. He says that in election after election, his watchdog organization has observed what he calls a “red shift”. He says the statistical improbabilities of the elections alone should...
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Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board will meet Feb. 7 in a special meeting. According to their agenda they will “Approve Proposed Rule Permitting Use of Technical College Student Identification Cards for Voting”. They will also report on recall petition preparations and then go into a closed session to discuss, very probably, a return to court...
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The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) announced on their homepage that they have installed a webcam to allow online viewing of recall petition processing. Recall organizers in Wisconsin turned in close to 2 million signatures on Tuesday. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 4 state senators will likely face recall elections as a result. Over...
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You can hear Aldous C. Tyler interviewed on this topic sometime during the 5PM Central Time hour on the Mic 92.1 today, Wed. Jan 4th. Listen online if you can’t get it on your FM dial. When I look at the Jan. 10 New Hampshire presidential primary ticket I see 30 Republicans and 14 Democrats....
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This is a quick follow up to a story I posted yesterday. The Wisconsin legislature had recently changed their website to show the wrong representatives on their “Who Represents Me?” feature. A query would display results as if new redistricting laws had already taken effect, describing a constituent’s future representatives as “current” representatives and...
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Update: If we all google “Scott Walker fascist bastard” do you realize that google’s autofill will soon show that phrase to everybody? Hmmmmm. If you care to do that, feel free to click this convenient little link. ————————————- Did you read the story of Ruthelle Frank? She’s the 84-year-old woman from Brokaw, WI who...
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John Nichols made an impromptu stop at Recall Walker headquarters after speaking at the 7th Annual Esther Banquet. Because the group was small there was a certain level of informality and dialogue that wouldn’t have been possible with a larger gathering. People in attendance included Assembly woman Penny Bernard Schaber, former congressman Steve Kagen,...
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President Obama told a group of Hispanic journalists Wednesday that his re-election campaign could win over Latino voters just by showing them clips from Republican debates. Or in other words: “Never mind what I am really doing to Latino immigrants. Look at the scary GOP clowns.” “We may just run clips of the Republican...
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Republicans are reviving a state law which is already on the books but hasn’t been used in recent memory. It’s going to make being a clerk in Wisconsin more difficult at a time when clerks are already bracing themselves for implementation of the new voter ID law. The law states that for *first consideration*...
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That good news I wrote about on Voter ID today turned to crap at warp speed. State Senator Leah Vukmir has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to order the Government Accountability Board to put its policy on student IDs into a rule format so that her committee can then suspend it. Copied straight out...
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The good news is that the Government Accountability Board decided unanimously to reverse its previous course and allow students of technical schools in Wisconsin to use student IDs as voter IDs. GAB also voted to stay with their previous decision to allow stickers to be used on IDs to indicate that they are current....
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The long awaited and anticipated effort to recall Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Kleefisch is gearing up all over the state. I can hardly wait. Volunteers can start collecting signatures on November 15. There will be a recall Walker rally on Saturday November 19 at the capital in Madison. Click here for information on...
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The other day I received a call from a friend of mine, I’ll call her Jane. Jane was very upset and confused because of the letter her father received from the city clerk of Neenah, Patricia A. Sturn. The above letter was her source of confusion. It was sent to “permanent absentee voters.” This...
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To my knowledge nobody has recently verified that Governor Scott Walker actually earned an Eagle Scout badge he frequently claims as proof of his personal integrity. (I was a scout, too. I didn’t earn a lot of badges. I just liked camping.) If he actually did attain the rank of Eagle legitimately when he...
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Here’s a quote from Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager, from the NYTimes article Democrats Fret Aloud Over Obama’s Chances- “… the criticism was largely a “Washington conversation” that did not match up with the on-the-ground enthusiasm for Mr. Obama among his network of supporters.” Messina is talking about flack Obama is catching from Democratic...
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Today LTE Chris Larsen was fired for sending out an email to his workmates about the ‘don’t ask, don’t get it free’ DMV policy on state IDs. Chris told his side of the story this morning on Sly’s WTDY show . From MJS, “John Murray, the executive assistant at the Department of...
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Last night was the Outagamie County Democratic Party Corn Roast. The weather was perfect for an outdoor event. There was plenty of corn to go around along with all the yummy dishes people brought. Special thanks goes to Dottie LeClaire and all the other great people who organized this event and to everyone who...
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