Tag: Fitzwalkerstan

Earlier this week I received an email from Ken Funck, a Wisconsin author who contributes annually to the Baseball Prospectus season preview guide and website. Ken emailed me about a new writing project he’s been working on: the “Greetings From Fitzwalkerstan 2016 Weekly Calendar.” The calendar features a different quote…

Fresh news from this afternoon.  No, Republicans in Wisconsin can’t be trusted even to live up to a contract.  From the Journal Sentinel: Over the objections of Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, a key legislative committee voted Wednesday against building a new train maintenance base – a decision that officials warned could mean…

The Republicans who lead the Wisconsin Assembly have been arresting anyone in the gallery of the Assembly who demonstrates anything like free speech.  They arrest people with cameras, and they arrest people with signs, and they are even arresting people with small sheets of paper.  According to the Republicans of the…

The latest “special jobs session” where the Governor promised a “laser focus on jobs” which ended last night produced a total of 0.0 bills pertaining to jobs. Instead they took up such important bills as these: * Students Test Scores can now be used to fire and discipline teachers. *…

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, a Democrat from Kenosha, has a great post up on DailyKos outlining how Republicans in Wisconsin are using their radical redistricting plan to cover up their continuing assault on Wisconsin families. Here’s a snippet: Gov. Walker has talked a big game on national television and…