“That’s a nice pension you got there… It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it…

Walker’s “tools” apparently permit localities to blackmail police and firefighters into accepting higher pension contribution rates by threatening them with jacking up their healthcare costs.  Well done, Walkerbots!

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Coming to a TV commercial near you!

While I am an ardent supporter of recalls and democracy and ESPECIALLY recalling Scott Walker, everyone needs to be prepared for stories like this. In Ohio, ex Fox news talker John Kasich rode the 2010 wave of ignorance into office and almost immediately( walker dropped his bomb first) worked to…

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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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is there anyone she likes?

After Vicki Pyzinski has spent most of the year hating on the teachers of our great state has some new targets. She spent the beginning of this week telling us how much she loathed the Police Officers and Firefighters of Wisconsin. She was upset that it was hard to hear…

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Random Thoughts from Madison

While it has been used before and it tends to be cliché, nowhere has the saying “the most dangerous place in America is between Scott Walker and a TV Camera.”, been more relevant. He owes the Fitzgerald brothers big time for them taking the heat and helping to make him…

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