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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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This is a post by Ronald Kossik “Put Wisconsin First” are the folks responsible for an online database of Walker recall petition signers, searchable by zip code, by anyone with an Internet connection. This is not merely some guy with a web site; this is part of a collaboration of formidable organizations, capable of...
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This is another fine video from Arthur of the facebook page SSWIDTMS. He’s the man who brought you video of Joel Kleefisch’s voter fraud in the Assembly. It’s a video of the ALEC rat hunt, coordinated as part of a nationwide Occupy Wall Street action against ALEC [if you're still rather unfamiliar with this...
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This is a guest post by Timothy Riley $688,000 and counting, that is the amount of taxpayer dollars the Republican Legislators and the Governor have paid private law firms to date to draw and defend redistricting maps designed to create a one party system and disenfranchise voters. Some of these funds were in fact...
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“A bill pro-life advocates say is designed to protect women but opponents say throws up more roadblocks to obtaining an abortion will be up for a vote in the Senate Tuesday. The so-called coercion and webcam abortion prevention bill, SB 306, is the latest attack on women’s health care by the current Republican administration,...
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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! In what could be viewed as the best Valentine’s day present for this wonk, TMJ is reporting that Tea Party and John Birch Society darling Michelle Litjens won’t be seeking re-election. She is one of 3 state-level GOP legislators that have decided to leave political life. The other two GOP...
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These people make me sick. This is an update on the pact that 58 Assembly Republicans and 17 Republican Wisconsin state senators signed to keep exactly how they redistricted our state a secret. Even the fact that they signed a pact was a secret until a 3-judge panel forced the legislators to reveal all....
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I’m not saying that Bill Kramer of Waukesha is a violent man with a screw loose. It would be redundant to repeat what everybody else is saying about the man. Kramer is the Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Pro Tem and he’s packing a Glock 26 when he presides over the Assembly floor. It’s a tough job. He’s the man...
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By Steven P. Senski Do not go gentle into that good fight Our hearts should burn and rage at come what may Rage, rage against the lying of the Right Tho Walker at his end knows of our might He’ll use sweet words, tho forked with lightning they Do not go gentle into that...
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The following post is based on reports from social media and from the video above. Zach W. at Blogging Blue has also covered this incident. His post is worth the read. I find myself with more questions than answers regarding what’s being shown on this video. Why would anyone say something to the effect...
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I almost missed this nice interview of Al Schumacher, superintendent of Madison’s streets department. Check out this part: CT: How about the whole Glenn Grothman thing? AS: Oh, Glenn Grothman doesn’t bother me. Glenn Grothman is Glenn Grothman. He’s out there. We’d like to plow Glenn Grothman’s car in on the Square. (Laughs.) No,...
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Madison’s proposed Preparatory Academy is making some new changes to their plans for the all-girls and all-boys charter schools Now it comes out that the prep school backers want to use non-union teachers & staff. In journalism school, this is called “burying the lede.” The real story here is union busting as an excuse...
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I think “Top Walker Stalker” when I see Terry Fritter. I’ve seen him in nearly all the protesting-Scott-Walker videos I’ve seen. He’s even followed Walker to Tennessee. . After seeing this video I don’t just think “Walker Stalker” when I see Terry– I think “truth teller”....
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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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If I were to mention the word “Waukesha” while yakking with political friends, it wouldn’t take too long for somebody to mention “Kathy Nickolaus” – the Waukesha county clerk who rather infamously discovered about 7,500 votes following the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. But after reading Scott Wittkopf’s article “Blame Waukesha” in the Madison weekly...
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Wisconsin’s Senate Bill 207 allows a business to bar or fire an individual who has been convicted of a felony and to render local laws in Wisconsin useless if they give felons a better chance at employment. So what is Wisconsin doing to felons? I have three answers. Let see what you have to...
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This past Saturday, Congressman Reid Ribble sponsored a job fair in Appleton. He’s facing some criticism for leaving the event early to go to a campaign fund raiser. Evan McMorris-Santoro from Talking Points Memo did an excellent piece of this subject. It can be found here. Reid Ribble says that he wants to make...
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Backup link to video of Randy Hopper arrest. FDLreporter has acquired details of the drunk driving arrest of recalled Republican Senator Randy Hopper. They include a near head-on collision, both verbal and physical approaches by Hopper’s girlfriend toward the person who reported the drunken driving, and a prelinary breath test that is 1.6 times...
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Michelle Litjens is at it again with another one of her business friendly bills. This time she’s introduced a bill that will eliminate compensatory and punitive damages against companies that discriminate against their employees because of genetic testing, lie detector tests, age, race, gender, religion, marital status, conviction records or national origin. This law...
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The Fond du Lac Reporter reported online this morning that Former State Senator Randy Hopper was arrested yesterday and charged with drunken driving. According to the Reporter, officers from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department responded on Sunday afternoon to reports of a black Suburban driving “all over the road.” The driver of...
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Protests usually make me feel gleeful. This protest made me feel alternately happy and nauseous. It was because I had to actually watch Walker’s buddies play croquet on the lawn of what is known as “The Governor’s Mansion” but which is the property of the State of Wisconsin. Despite this sign stuck in a...
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Thank you TeaPublican Frank Lasee for not only proclaiming that teachers should be given guns to defend schools in 2006 but for ALSO appearing on the Daily Show where Jason Jones could make fun of you. *sigh* Good times. Frank Lasee of De Pere, Wisconsin says he’s running for Herb Kohl’s U.S. Senate seat....
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Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus is a household name among many political wonks in the country. Many people know her name and can recite the events around this year’s Supreme Court election and can talk at length about the county audit on her work last fall. In some circles, her name is synonymous with...
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http://www.youtube.com/user/AppletonWonk?feature=mhee Nancy Nusbaum spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay on August 9th, 2011 during the recall elections in Wisconsin and told them that history was being made that night and reminded them of the two Democratic state senators facing their own recall elections next week, August 16th,...
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Joseph McCarthy is still dead and we have an opportunity to create a new, progressive political legacy for the state of Wisconsin. I made a trip to St. Mary’s Cemetery in Appleton to take some pictures of the cemetery and “Tailgunner Joe’s” headstone. It has a great view of the Fox River. Here are...
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