From The Nation: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be the first chief executive of an American state to face a recall election because he attacked the rights of working people to have a voice in their workplaces and in the public life of the land. The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board…
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From JS: Wisconsin desperately needs new jobs. Alone among the 50 states, it has lost private-sector jobs for six straight months, raising the political and economic stakes of the next jobs report, due Thursday for the month of January. Even feeble job creation would bring a sense of relief to…
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From TPM: [The Wisconsin] Dems announced on a conference call with reporters Thursday that they were filing a complaint with the state Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections in the state, and also forwarding a copy to the Internal Revenue Service at the federal level. The complaint involves statements that…
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From The Cap Times: A couple hundred people gathered at the Capitol Wednesday night for Gov. Scott Walker’s State of the State speech. But the last thing they wanted to do was to actually hear it. They were there to drown it out, with shouting, with singing, with profanity, and…
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From Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: Without coming right out and saying so, Wisconsin State Journal columnist Chris Rickert’s column in this morning’s paper raises the question of whether restrictions should be placed on the constitutional right to recall public officials in Wisconsin. Rickert laments that “a man who’s done nothing worse…
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From the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: With lawmakers considering legislation giving pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from lawsuits by people injured by one of their products, the Democracy Campaign today issued a report showing that statewide officeholders and legislators have accepted $192,000 in campaign contributions from drug makers the…
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From the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: A new report has been released by three nonpartisan legal reform groups about the unprecedented national attack on state courts. The report warns that “the story of the 2009-10 elections, and their aftermath in state legislatures in 2011, reveals a coalescing national campaign that seeks…
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No charges will be brought against conservative Justice David Prosser, a well-known misogynist who refers to his female peers and superiors as “total bitch[es],” for allegedly grabbing liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley in a chokehold during a “discussion” about collective bargaining rights. Both Prosser and Bradley serve on the Wisconsin…
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