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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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According to Andrew Feldman’s Christmas Eve opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Despite Democrats’ massive protests and their success at gathering recall signatures, most Wisconsinites did not appear to be in a ‘throw the Republicans out’ mood in 2011. If they had been, Supreme Court Justice David Prosser would be out of a job...
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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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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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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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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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(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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Comments still closed. Come on over to facebook and chat there. Thanks. Here is the original appeal statement. (I’m no lawyer. illusory tenant is and con provide a more scholarly analysis. I’ll still try to do my best to summarize in layman’s terms.) The most important bit of news is that the Governor’s “budget...
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This is a very good day. That’s because I found 5 Solidarity Shopper Coupons by Michael Martin on facebook! HERE’s where I found all 5 of these little deal-breakers.
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The videographer Matt Wisniewski has captured the elusive beauty and Solidarity that thousands have sheltered and tended here. This is a fragile fire that people across the state, the nation, and the world have watched and now call their own. This has been the heart of Wisconsin’s Capitol building and the heart...
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The always infuriating Republican State Senator Glen Grothman of Wisconsin’s 20th District talks with Dem. Representative Cory Mason on MSNBC’s The Last Word yesterday and calls protesters “slobs”. He also uttered this bold lie: “The people that are staying overnight are making a mess of the Capitol”. And he lied saying that a very small percentage...
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“Gov. Scott Walker’s Budget Speech of Doom: What to Expect From the Wisconsin Address” Actual headline. The regular press is sounding like one of us cantankerous Wisconsin bloggers who’s been
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I’ll add more information on this event as it arrives. “NO CONCESSIONS! – FUNERAL MARCH – THURS., 5:00PM Under the banner of “No Concessions” and “Kill the Whole Bill,” there will be a New Orleans-style funeral march on Thursday. It will start from the UW Library Mall at 5:00 pm, and march up...
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I think the political “normal” in Wisconsin -and I hope in the United States as a whole – has been changed. Permanently. The forces against Koch-funded corporatism are rallying fast, they are vast and diverse, and they are going to have a ground war that you have never seen before. This is the revolutionary...
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Here’s the vote from last Friday February 25 mapped out by Josh Wachuta at Aceity. I’m assuming the grey non-voting areas are matched with the Democrats who were too slow on the uptake. As you recall, this was a sneak voice vote that occured in seconds. It was orchestrated by Republicans to deliberately exclude Democrats. It...
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Please read and comment here but also visit the source & watch a great 3 minute video from the February 26 Snow Rally as well as a series of related videos from Gannett. MADISON – Actor Bradley Whitford wasn’t in Madison to meet the governor Saturday. The Madison native, who has starred in numerous...
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The restaurant where Walker was supposedly booed is 1 block from Madison’s Capitol building: “ground zero” for protest against Walker’s radical “Budget Repair Bill”. I’m a little doubtful this really happened because – well – is he really so ignorant that he thinks he can relax in public anywhere on the Isthmus of Madison...
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