Tag: plagiarism

While conservatives (and especially Gov. Walker’s reelection campaign) have been making a big deal of the supposed “plagiarism” (though it wasn’t really plagiarism) in Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan, it’s important to remember that Gov. Walker isn’t unfamiliar with plagiarism, according to this 2011 report indicating Gov. Walker’s…

Considering the obfuscation and tap dancing around the issues we’ve seen from Governor Walker on the dubious goings on in his Milwaukee County Executive office, his various campaigns, and his activities as governor…I found it amusing that the Governor would suggest that candidate Burke fess up: Asked if Burke should…

*Sigh* Really?!? Really?!? Large portions of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan for Wisconsin appear to be copied directly from the plans of three Democratic candidates who ran for governor in previous election cycles. Burke’s economic plan “Invest for Success” copies nearly-verbatim sections from the jobs plans of…

Ouch. This seems to harken back to Ryan’s infamous claim that the safety net is a “hammock” that lulls people into “dependency and complacency.” In this tale, the boy’s mother seems to be the person swaying back and forth in the hammock. The larger idea here has already been addressed by…

Apparently Paul Ryan isn’t averse to plagiarizing from other people’s works when it suits his own purposes. At the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Paul Ryan told a touching anecdote of a poor boy who said he didn’t want a free lunch at school, but a brown bag one, because…

What a moron. State Rep. Joel Kleefisch really likes the so-called Working Families Flexibility Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. Really, really likes the legislation and the press release associated with it — down to the very word. The measure would permit employers to provide…

Looks like Sen. Rand Paul, the hero of tea party types, has been exposed as a serial plagiarist. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was busted in what may have been another incident of plagiarism on Monday. As first reported by BuzzFeed, there are unmistakable similarities between an opinion piece Paul wrote…

We have been discussing how Verify the Recall’s only purpose was to have a searchable database of people who signed the recall petition, so they could be harassed and intimidated.    The latest version was the story of the Wausau Daily Herald checking VTR, and disciplining the employees they find. Well…

…but this time he plagiarized from President Barack Obama, instead of copying campaign talking points wholesale from other Republican candidates: Seriously….can’t the Republican Party come up with any original ideas?

As noted by the Recess Supervisor, the campaign of Chad Lee, a Republican running against Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin in the second Congressional district, has been caught plagiarizing passages from the websites of Rep. Paul Ryan and Republican House candidate Sean Duffy (emphasis mine): Republican Chad Lee is running against…