Tag: ALEC

Every once in a while there are stories that, with all of the craziness, gets overlooked. While Steve has done a great job of writing about this, I and others have not given this important issue the attention it deserves. Instead of “re-inventing the wheel” I will just point people…

There is much talk in Wisconsin these days of the anti American right wing extremist group called – ALEC. ALEC holds annual conventions where they give all Wisconsin republicans a free trip to wherever their convention is and then tell them what legislation they want introduced and pushed. This covers…

Robin Vos (R- ALEC), has introduced a bill that caps attorney fees in consumer litigation cases. It seemed bad enough that Robin Vos was writing legislation as a favor to one of his donors: Rep. Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said he wrote the bill capping fees at three times a plaintiff’s…

Color me absolutely unsurprised by this…. A lobbyist for Koch Industries and energy interests serves with a lobbyist for Pfizer pharmaceuticals as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) corporate co-chairs in Wisconsin, according to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy at this year’s ALEC Annual Meeting. For…

Turn on any TV and you will see our friends from the right say that we have too much regulation. Never saying exactly where the too much regulation is, and pretending that the Wall St. meltdown due to lax regulation never happened. Well recently, under this heavy burden of job…

While the results from last nights election were not what we were hoping, they were also not clear cut. There was good news and bad news. Here are my thoughts about the GOOD NEWS of what we can take from last nights results! * Jess King is now a Wisconsin…

Robin Vos has been flying under the radar lately so I thought it was time that people met him. Representative Vos, likes skinny-dipping, dancing and money. His dislikes are middle class people making a living wage, listening to his constituents, and telling the truth. Maybe his biggest whopper was this…