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Greetings from sunny Las Vegas! Here’s a little something I found in my email inbox that caught my attention, courtesy of Chicken Lit: As a legally elected representative of the people, and in order to show that I have their interests in mind as I write, sponsor, co-sponsor and vote on legislation, I pledge the [...] From my email inbox comes this guest blog from Rusty R: Governor, (I’m so upset I can’t even type your name) you have grossly under-valued our state resources. You have sold us out for fractions (as if you know what they are) of a cent on the dollar. The 4+ million tax payers of [...] The Budget Repair Bill being discussed in the Legislature has focused on employee benefits, but includes a sweeping shift of authority for setting Medicaid policy. If passed, this unprecedented seizure of legislative authority would put critical decisions affecting the lives of 1.1 million Wisconsinites in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, with minimal public and legislative [...] What does one make of a governor who in 2011 flatly tells respected representative group of his state’s black legislators that “I don’t need your people?” This is the same governor who blew off the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s invitation to attend the tenth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration while he was in the [...] Folks, if you are a strategist for the current President’s re-election campaign, you have to believe that Sarah Palin happens to be the “gift that keeps on giving,” by the Tea Party. On Wednesday night, Sarah Palin was interviewed by Fox News host Greta van Susteren and asked her take on the President’s State of [...] Every Sunday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel runs the feature: Congress Following the Vote. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the MJS runs a short explanation of the major legislation in Washington from the previous week with a short synopsis of the bill and the voting record of Wisconsin’s House and Senate delegations. Since [...] Since the BP oil spill and the announcment of the administration’s moratorium on drilling in the gulf, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of the moratorium on oil production jobs in the gulf area. But why are oil jobs more important than the jobs portrayed in the cartoon? Why [...] State Senator Glenn Grothman, always entertaining, proposes an amendment to the Clean Energy Jobs Act cutting the required percentage of renewable energy use in Wisconsin by 2015, from 10% to 8%. Grothman claims, “the state currently has far more energy supply than energy demand” and the mandate for renewable energy will result in the unnecessary [...] The following is an editorial that originally appeared in the February 2, 2010 edition of JSOnline.com: Our nation is facing one of the biggest threats known to date. Unlike the past, however, this threat comes not from other nations but our dependence on foreign fuels. Moving to clean, homegrown energy and reducing our carbon emissions [...] |
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