From Webster’s Collegiate (10th ed): proclaim (L proclamare, pro- before + clamare to cry out): 1a: to declare publicly, typically insistently, proudly, or defiantly and in either speech or writing 2: to declare or declare to be solemnly, officially, or formally On Saturday January 19, At some point in January 2013,...
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Wisconsin School Choice Week — The Proclamation That Wasn’t (Updated)
You’ve Protested at the Capital, Signed the Recall Papers, Now Get Out There and Vote
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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Wisconsin Recall: Hope Remains While the Company Is True
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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Watch Scott Walker. Learn how not to create jobs.
Before I cut to a great quote from Michael Silverstein’s must-read post “Wisconsin: A Case Study In The Politics Of How Not To Create Jobs”, let’s review two facts: *Wisconsin lost more jobs than any other state in the United States in the last 12 months. *Scott Walker promised creation of 250,000 jobs and...
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$$ Voting Made Easy: Empowering the 99%
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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Scott Walker is a “whack job”?
from urban dictionary – whack job: A crazy person It seems Governor Scott Walker got called a “whack job” in an AP article by Scott Bauer entitled, “Wisconsin Republicans hope crossover voting affects recalls”. Apparently Bauer and Vos were discussing the possibility that folks might vote for the progressive Republican Arthur Kohl-Riggs on May...
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Scott Walker isn’t an “indicted pol” just yet but an Illinois headline suggests otherwise
This headline in Illinois’ Moris Daily Herald got my heart aflutter for a minute: “Springfield scene includes Wisconsin governor, indicted pol”. Though we know that Walker is not indicted at the moment, there is a swirl of curiosity about what in the world would lead to so many of his Milwaukee County staff being...
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Fitting. Old nemesis AP dubs candidate Arthur Kohl-Riggs an “agitator”.
An Associated Press story written by Todd Richmond last week was headlined, “Political agitator gets enough signatures to challenge Wisconsin governor in recall”. The story first appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Later it would appear in numerous Wisconsin news outlets without an author’s name and with the title “Agitator gets enough names to...
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Show Me What Solidarity Looks Like
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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Givin’ Mitt Shitt in Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Approximately 250 people assembled outside of Walker’s laughably named “Victory Center” in Fitchburg to give Mitt Romney some heck Saturday March 31st. Romney was visiting to do a few of his robocalls live and to stump for his presidential primary in Wisconsin. The protesters were a mix of people who held signs like “Keep...
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Propaganda: Carrying Walker’s message by Bill Breitsprecher
Below is the beginning of a two-part series by Bill Breitsprecher. Bill is the tireless publisher of the Voices blog and the Voices newspaper. Many confuse persuasion and propaganda. The former is an attempt to inform people of an idea that can be regarded as “true”. The latter is about promoting an idea regardless of...
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Greta Van Susteren interview with Scott Walker and Mahlon Mitchell
If you don’t think you can stomach hearing Scott Walker repeat “big government unions” repeatedly through an entire 16 minute interview, maybe you’d like to just check in on the 1:20 minute mark when some footage shows protesters in the rotunda or at the 4:45 mark when you hear some holiday-themed singing in front...
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Walker visits the “ATM of politics”, makes a withdrawal, gets protested, and I call the protest organizer.
Scott Walker hit the jackpot when he visited Palm Beach, a community that one Palm Beach city council member called “the ATM of American Politics”. Walker got $200,000 in pledges at a private luncheon, but he also made a public appearance at the local City Council meeting to brown nose praise the government for cutting...
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Money in Walker’s campaign coffers can be used to fight John Doe investigation
Something smells rotten in Wisconsin. Consider if you will that a politician in Wisconsin can raise unlimited funds while opponents ready his recall. Then consider that any of those campaign funds can be transferred to defend the aforementioned crook against allegations of “a violation of either campaign finance laws or prohibited elections practices”. Scott...
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Frightening YAF video almost made me wet my pants. They’re coming to Milwaukee in April.
Whoever did audio on this video announcing a conservative youth conference in Milwaukee and North Carolina is GOOD. I felt like an ax murderer was going to jump out at me any second. Even the information slide at the end dangles a bit like a thing hanging from a rope. I need to hold somebody’s hand now....
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Wisconsin recalls equal uncertainty? “Democracy. A Drag On Business Since 508 B.C.”
That’s Charles P. Pierce responding to that line of Walker’s – his excuse to explain away job losses: “Other states don’t have recalls” The job loss news in Scott Walker, Job-Killer may be old hat to you by now. But this article is a new and lovely symphony to my ears. Try Pierce’s skewering...
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Wisconsin’s sustained job loss streak is “a little bit inexplicable”. Time for a new Walker TV ad.
On Thursday a jobs report for Wisconsin will be released. Is Scott Walker a little nervous? Yesterday this article came out from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin missing out on U.S. jobs gains 6-month losing streak raises stakes for upcoming January report “Frankly, it’s a little bit inexplicable to us,” said Mike Klonsinski, chief...
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Video: 1 week before his election, Scott Walker promised to negotiate with unions
How about that. He did promise to negotiate, didn’t he. It’s not the first time this truth has been trotted out for public view. Politifact rated the following whopping lie from Walker a big FALSE on February 22, 2011: “I campaigned on (the proposals in the budget repair bill for Wisconsin) all throughout the...
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Scott Walker. About those jobs…
Scott Walker never promised you a rose garden. He promised 250,000 jobs for Wisconsin – the equivalent of full employment. That’s right. Scott Walker promised that my state would achieve zero unemployment by 2014 Regarding that promise, the non-partisan organization Badgerstat announced, “Through December 2011, the state’s job growth is below the pace needed...
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O’Brien voted for Walker. Now he’ll primary him, calling Walker a “brown shirt Republican”
”I thought he was running as a brown bag Republican,” O’Brien said. “What we were getting was a brown shirt Republican.” - Patrick O’Brien Right now this is the plan of a relatively unknown man from New Glarus, Wisconsin and it is JUST a plan. But thank god there is one. Wisconsin has open...
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