Day: January 10, 2012
You Can’t Wear That Here!
Recently, at the Lincoln Hills Juvenile Detention Center, longtime Lincoln Hills School employee Ron McAllister was sent home Thursday without pay for refusing to take off a T-shirt with the AFSCME logo on it. When he returned to work Friday, McAllister, who also serves as the local union president for…
No Class Warfare?
The Nation and Madison’s own John Nichols, has a great column out about the republican presidential primary, their love for Scott Walker and hatred of unions. But nowhere is the disdain for organized labor more evident than on the Republican presidential campaign trail. Never in the modern history of the…
Since when were Republicans in the business of pardoning murderers?
Wow….just wow. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s pardon of a convicted murderer who worked as an inmate trusty at the Governor’s Mansion came two weeks after the man was denied parole by a state board. A letter to one of the victims in the case said the Mississippi Parole Board turned…
Just remember, it was Scott Walker who gave Tim Russell control over the money Russell embezzled
For proof positive that then-Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker gave control over Operation Freedom and the monies that event had raised to longtime aide Tim Russell, in the process giving Russell access to the money he eventually embezzled, let’s take a look at the Memorandum of Agreement signed by Walker…
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