Day: April 12, 2011

How desperate are Wisconsin Republicans getting in their attempts to recall the Democratic State Senators who are eligible to be recalled? So desperate they’ve allegedly hired convicted felons to do canvassing to collect signatures: s Democrats around the State canvass areas to gain enough signatures to recall the remaining 6…

Found on Facebook…

One of the top ten tweets I’ve seen this year:

Taking a page from Ron Johnson, Fox and Friends recently were touting the wonders of Walgreen’s healthcare. Of course it is so ridiculous that Colbert could not even make fun of their stupidity with a straight face. (It is nice we elected a senator who is the intellectual peer of…

Outgoing Republican State Senator Randy Hopper has been covered extensively here, and now he has a new challenge. He is not only faced with a recall election, and the weight of Scott Walker on his shoulders, but now he has a legitimate challenger in Oshkosh Deputy Mayor Jessica King, who…

In today\'s JSOnline, Chandler McKelvey, former secretary of development serving under Gov. Lee Dreyfus, lays into the ridiculousness of the Walker Administration and their claims of “open for business”. In the column, Mr. McKelvey decries the Governor’s “short-term” thinking and points out how detrimental that is to the long-term future…

I’m not sure what to make of this, but I figured it would prompt a good discussion…. So, in November of 2004 there were 236K registered voters. In the Spring General Election of 2004 the election results showed the registered voter roll at 233,415. (source) So the county picked up…

Yesterday Republican State Rep. Robin Vos and Republican State Senator Alberta Darling, the co-Chairs of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC), refused to allow citizens arriving at the JFC’s public hearing in West Allis after 12:00 p.m. to testify on the 2011-2013 biennial budget proposed by Gov. Scott Walker. In addition…

As the third Monday of the month approaches, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the April meeting for Drinking Liberally. This month we’ll be joined at Drinking Liberally by County Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic and County Supervisor-elect Jason Haas, so be sure to join us! Here are the specifics: Greetings…

On April 5 a recall petition circulator was allegedly attacked and their petitions were shredded at an undisclosed polling place during the spring election. Speaking about the alleged attack, Government Accountability Board (GAB) executive director Kevin Kennedy issued a brief statement: “One incident that was brought to our attention involved…