Republican Thugs: Batman Edition (Video)

From the middle of November last year until the middle of January this year, Recall Walker supporters in Hayward, Wisconsin, gathered signatures on the corner of Hwy’s 27 and 63 in the center of town. My wife Shelley and I were present on the corner many of those weekends Not…

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Republican Female Thugs – Brookfield Edition

  H/T Fox 6 Steve Nagle argues a woman crossed the line between free speech and personal space. As first reported by FOX6’s media partners at the Brookfield Patch, Linda Lorino was cited for disorderly conduct by police. This is not a criminal matter, but instead a municipal violation, yet…

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Republican Thugs, part 3

The third part in our continuing storyline of thuggery on the Republican side played out today at the Capitol(parts 1 and 2 here). As The Progressive magazine reports: Today the Assembly is “debating” SB 93, the so-called concealed carry law. A small group of gun rights activists and Scott Walker…

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Republican Thugs….

Assemblyman Fred Clark, recently announced his plans to run against Luther Olson , who is subject to a recall election. The local Democratic party rented a room in the Baraboo Civic Center to allow Assemblyman Clarke to announce his intention to run for Olson\'s seat. Unfortunately, while Olson used to…

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Pure Republican Hypocrisy

The one thing, and there are many, that really bothers me about the current batch of republicans is just the pure unadulterated hypocrisy they show with absolutely no shame. Here is a glaring example. Lets start out with a story from a few months ago. A John Muir Elementary School…

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Republican with Conscience Forced to Remain Anonymous!

A Caledonia man recently gathered 150 signatures(good for him) for the recall effort, with the express purpose of destroying them to try and derail the recall effort. Here’s his statement: “It’s not the right thing to do, we should have known better. The whole thing wasn’t our idea. It’s something…

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Republican officials suggests Gov. Walker stage a phony attack against himself

According to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which reviewed tens of thousands released to media organizations last week as part of an open-records lawsuit settlement with Isthmus and the Associated Press, Carlos Lam, a Republican activist and now-former deputy prosecutor in Indiana, sent Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker an email…

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Wisconsin Uprising – The (previously censored)Art Show!

Recently, Steve Nass and his spokesman got wind that the UW School for workers was putting on an art show. They then went into their extreme partisan frenzy and went there, and after some threats of pulling funding, made them cancel the show. The University of Wisconsin’s School for Workers…

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Irrefutable Proof

Why we need to go to a part time legislature. Let me take a step back quick and set this up. I recently came across tthis article about why the religious right does not like public schools. Right-wing fundamentalists such as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum hate public schools, which…

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More Jobs Flee Wisconsin

Walker scares off a whole mess of good-paying manufacturing jobs from Wisconsin.  Again. The move by Joerns Healthcare in Stevens Point will likely leave at least 200 people unemployed. Joerns says it plans to spread operations between facilities in Arlington, Texas; Matamoros, Mexico and Duman, Ark., over the next six…

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