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The West Allis PPA has flipped for Barrett. On Friday, a day after the video was released to the press, the West Allis Professional Police Association, which had endorsed Walker over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in November 2010, announced it was backing Barrett in the June rematch for governor. “I didn’t think I’d ever be [...] In case you hadn’t heard (though I’m sure you had), the Republican Party of Wisconsin held their convention Green Bay, Wisconsin this weekend. During the RPW Convention, former State Rep. and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald took the stage to speak, and as Fitzgerald took to the stage he did so using the [...] Pro Right-to-Work wingnut Walker supporter, Diane Hendricks, star of the now-famous video where Walker declares his intent to “divide and conquer,” paid no corporate income taxes in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. During a three-month period in 2012, Hendricks donated $500,000 to Walker’s campaign, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. She is the largest single donor to [...] Last week video surfaced of Republican Gov. Scott Walker explaining in 2011 to billionaire campaign donor Diane Hendricks how he was going to “divide and conquer” labor unions in Wisconsin in order to turn Wisconsin into a “right to work” state, which would drive down wages for all workers in the state while benefiting businesses. [...] Angela Merkel’s conservative party, whose government has led the austerity charge in the Eurozone, has suffered a stunning electoral defeat in Germany’s largest state on Sunday. The left is rising across Europe. The election in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), a western German state with a bigger population than the Netherlands and an economy the size of [...] Watch as Republican Gov. Scott Walker admits in a video recorded on January 18, 2011 that he wanted to use Act 10, the so-called budget repair bill, as a first step towards a “divide and conquer” strategy against unions in Wisconsin, with the end goal of turning Wisconsin into a “right to work” state. At [...] In Europe, at least. France has a new Socialist President, François Hollande. While the Euro traded lower this morning (no surprise), the opposition in Germany, both politically and to the ongoing austerity pact with France, was energized. Ms. Merkel’s political opponents, though, seemed cheered. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the opposition Social Democrats, said on Monday [...] |
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