Tag: lobbyist

Two weeks ago I wrote that John Nygren, elected just a month before, had announced that he was retiring essentially effective immediately from the Wisconsin Assembly. Well now it’s been announced that he will become a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans. The maintenance staff in the Capitol…

GTAC waterboy  and GOP state senator Tom Tiffany, ( R-Mine Guy) is having a bad evening. It seems even members of his own party can’t get behind his bill to close managed forest land to the public. Lisa Mux has the story over at Waukesha Wonk. What a pisser, Tommy….

Wall Street’s favorite congressman Paul Ryan (R-Koch Brothers), was recently seen at Washington DC’s Bistro Bis drinking $350 bottles of Pinot Noir. where a professor from Rutgers University snapped this cell phone pic: The first bottle was so good, they even had a second! Feinberg, an economist by training, was…

Look! , the Deschane Family made the news again! An Iowa congressman today called for a hearing and investigation of the hiring practices of Gov. Scott Walker’s administration following the governor’s testimony before a House committee. U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, wrote in a letter to the leaders of the…

Yesterday the Republican congress members, deciding not to go all the way to a contract, came out with their “pledge” to America. After the theatrics had died down then people actually got a chance to take a look at it. Which, of course, did not bode well for the Republicans….