Yet another example of Walker supporters behaving badly, and still more silence from DPW

Another day, another example of conservative supporters of Republican Gov. Scott Walker behaving badly: There’s been very little coverage of the multiple incidents of harassment and/or violence against recall petition circulators in the mainstream media. Curiously, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (DPW) has also largely avoided talking about the incidents…

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Walker hides behind nonsensical lawsuit to “escape from the electorate”

“What is happening in this lawsuit, is the governor is frantically trying to escape from the electorate.” So says Jeremy Levinson, attorney for the recall committees, and I’m inclined to agree, especially after witnessing the Friends of Scott Walker vs Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) lawsuit hearing this morning in…

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Life’s short….tell someone you love them

Earlier today a friend and co-worker lost her fight with cancer. She was a hell of a fighter and a hell of a person, and she’ll be missed. My friend was only a few years older than I am, reminding me just how short life can be and how suddenly…

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Even When Governor Walker Appears to Do Something Good, It’s Because He Had To

Governor Walker recently lifted the cap on Family Care, a program designed to keep people at home rather than in nursing homes.  Turns out that’s not all there was to the story.

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Whats the Penalty for Perjury?

Yesterday, testimony was released on the GOP redistricting process, and the star witness was Adam Foltz & Tad Ottman. Foltz is an aide to Assembly speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, while Ottman is an aide to Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. No word why an aide to Steve Fitzgerald was not involved…

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It’s got to be Obey! Really?

Third Coast Digest editor Jon Anne Willow has had enough of the intrigue over which Democrat will run against Scott walker in the gubernatorial recall election. Call it now, she says: it’s got to be Obey! Willow gives her rationale for Obey as the candidate, writing, ” He was an unapologetic…

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Thanks for the warning, Professor Rick.

Professor Rick Esenberg admits he doesn’t always read the work of other ” community columnists” ( the quotation marks are his) in the Journal Sentinel, but apparently one of them has really, really caught the eye of the onerously earnest adjunct Law prof. George Wagner’s column in the JS notes…

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Thursday Music – the song and video I think of when I look back on 2011

This is the song (and video) that sums up 2011 for me.

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Walker administration cuts $900k from sex offender programs, appoints sex offense defense attorney to Circuit Court

Last week Friday, Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s administration outlined a list of cuts it would make to balance the state budget. Among the cuts was $9.4 million in cuts to the Department of Corrections, with some of those cuts targeting the state prison system, not to mention $900,000 in cuts…

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$95 million to put a bike path on the Hoan Bridge? You gotta be kidding me! [UPDATED]

UPDATE: I stand corrected. As noted by multiple commenters, one of the bike/pedestrian path plans proposed by the Department of Transportation was estimated to cost $95 million. According to Cudahy far-right conservative blogger Randy Hollenbeck, putting a bike path on the Hoan Bridge would “waste $95,000,000.” Putting aside the fact…

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