And An Earlier Impeachable Offense?

And this one also involves Rudy Giuliani and it is pretty clear that it violates an actual law: For the past 20 months, President Trump has received free personal legal services from one of America’s highest-paid lawyers, who has traveled around the country and across the ocean to defend him…

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Milwaukee Alderman Using City Resources to Campaign for Mayor?

It doesn’t surprise too many people in Milwaukee that this last combination of snow and cold and snow and snow has caused interruptions to the business of running the City of Milwaukee and environs. And that city and county and other local municipal road crews have been working overtime to…

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How Can This Possibly Go Wrong: GOP Fox in the Hen House

After passing legislation to gut the Government Accountability Board, the non-partisan board of retired judges tasked with overseeing elections and ethics in Wisconsin, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald made the first appointment to the new ethics commission. A retired judge? A retired elder statesman? Nah: The first announced appointee to…

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GAB replacement won’t fix anything — but the “fix” will be in

How will the GAB replacement improve elections and ethics monitoring in Wisconsin? Answer: It won’t. In another blog post [Author’s note: this blog post has been removed, as I misread the legislation. As it stands, however, the replacement is bad enough!], I suggest that the GAB replacement will be partisan…

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Ethics: Should An Incumbent Announce When NOT Running For Re-election?

A local elected official is not running for re-election in the coming 2015 Spring election. I have verified this with three different sources. I have contacted the incumbent on two different occasions and not received a reply. I have reached out to three sources who write about this area of…

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Governor Walker Does NOT care…

He does not care about the facts, he does not care about the people of Wisconsin, he does not care that he has helped divided our state like no one ever had and he does not care about the upcoming recall election. If he did he would acknowledge the reasons…

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Wisconsin is not ready to be like Willie Stark’s Louisiana

In the classic 1949 film All the King’s Men, Broderick Crawford’s character Willie Stark begins his political journey in a way that will soon seem very familiar to all of us in the Badger State. He was a fake candidate for office, a patsy for the corrupt Governor.  I always loved…

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national party same as the local…

While the republicans took sweeping victories in the recent election, mostly due to the high unemployment rate and poor economy, you would think jobs and the economy would be priority number one. As Zach pointed out, it is not even on the list for state republicans. Recently, Speaker of the…

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