Tag: MacIver Institute

That’s the title of a piece late last week by the highly respected epidemiologist and infectious disease expert over at the MacIver Institute, Dan ” nothing to get excited about ” O’Donnell. O’Donnell does his typical cherry picking of stats routine to make his case that the Delta variant isn’t…

Over at the MacIver Institute, known far and wide for their impeccable epidemiological and infectious disease data analysis credentials, they announce that Dan O’Donnell ” dives into the data” and comes up with “proof” that Wisconsin’s mask mandate hasn’t worked. O’Donnell puts up some charts, rattles off some timelines and…

This week State Senator Jon Erpenbach agreed to drop any appeal of the open records case filed against him. The very conservative John K MacIver Institute for Public Policy had requested Sen. Erpenbach’s emails surrounding the protests in Madison in 2011 around the passage of Act 10. Originally the Senator…

This column, written by Will Dooling, appears (along with video) on The Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch page (here). It was researched and fact-checked by Will Dooling; its accuracy is not the responsibility of Blogging Blue. Allegations of Massive Fraud in Wisconsin Recall Proved False by Will Dooling …

Paul Krugman offers advice to those who would tackle the Political-Industrial Complex ™ in America.  You must be prepared to reap the whirlwind (and laugh in the face of danger) when they strike back.  Lisa and Zach, you need to take this to heart when you go after asshats like The…

By now I’m sure some of you know about the “difficulties” Lisa and I have had with James Wigderson and Brian Fraley of the right-wing MacIver Institute, and if you haven’t been following, you can get up to speed HERE and HERE. What’s curious about everything that happened this week…

From the folks at Citizen Action Wisconsin: This weekend the panel discusses the latest recall news and Paul Ryan’s disastrous new budget. We are joined by blogger Cory Leibmann to expose the MacIver Institute’s threats of libel lawsuits toward progressive blogs who posted a column exposing the organization’s strong ties…

Read the entire opinion column over at Citizen Action Wisconsin’s “No Sacred Cows” blog.

Here’s a series of FACTS about the folks working for (or associated with) the John K. MacIver Institute: FACT #1: Brian Fraley, the Communications Director for the MacIver Institute, is a former national insurance industry lobbyist who was director of the Senate Republican caucus during part of the time of…

We have been chronicling "verify the recall"'s results. We have pointed out that their endgame was never ever “integrity of elections” but intimidation of Wisconsin Citizens who signed the recall petitions. Here is another "success" story that Verify the Recall can hang their hats on: The University of Wisconsin System’s…