“Because Scott Walker Asked”: how the right wing gave to Scott Walker’s campaign without giving to Scott Walker’s campaign

Eaerlier today The Guardian posted a comprehensive article outlining the depths of the efforts by conservatives to help reelect Gov. Scott Walker after it became clear Gov. Walker would face a recall election after he “dropped the bomb” on public employees via the infamous Act 10. While I encourage you…

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Center for Media and Democracy files IRS complaint against WI Club for Growth

On Monday the Center for Media and Democracy filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service requesting that agency strip the Wisconsin Club for Growth of its nonprofit status for spending millions of dollars to help Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans during the recall elections here in Wisconsin. Here’s…

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John Doe target looks to stall continued investigation

Despite the irrefutable fact that the John Doe investigation into Scott Walker and his aides has yielded a number of felony and misdemeanor convictions, conservative Eric O’Keefe of the Wisconsin Club for Growth is trying everything he can to keep the investigation from continuing. Eric O’Keefe is throwing what amounts…

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Wisconsin Club for Growth engages in express advocacy in email against Happ

As I’ve mentioned here before, a number of years ago some anonymous hater, whose soul must be a pit of dark matter as dense as a collapsed star, signed me up for weekly emails from the Wisconsin Club for Growth. Most of the time, I just ignore them, as their…

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CMD: Wisconsin Club for Growth Makes False Claims to Federal Court

I smell a lawsuit… The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) today denounced false claims filed in federal court by Eric O’Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth (WCFG) who are seeking to derail a bipartisan, multi-county criminal investigation into their electoral activities. “Eric O’Keefe and WCFG have misled a federal…

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WSJ: Dozens of conservative groups hit with subpoenas in second John Doe investigation

Well this is something… In recent weeks, special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders. Copies of two subpoenas we’ve seen demand “all memoranda, email . . . correspondence,…

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Wisconsin Club for Growth Keeps Shoveling–Two Ways!

Last week, we talked about how the Wisconsin Club for Growth was playing Zombie Joe McCarthy–modern-day red-baiting and naming names of the state’s enemies.  The state, in this case, being Gov. Scott Walker, and enemies, in this case, being anyone who signed recall petitions against him.  WCfG’s weekly email blast…

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Wisconsin Club for Growth Red-Baits, Names Names

Some smart-ass must have signed me up for the Wisconsin Club for Growth email list, as once a week I get the pleasure of their idiocy in my inbox.  To return the favor, every once in a while I lay into them on the internets, such as when they repeatedly…

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Everyone Take a Breath (updated)

After WEAC recently “recommended” former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk for Governor, it set off a little firestorm of protest from both sides. I said everyone should just relax and let this play out. I stand by that with a little update. After speaking to WEAC president Mary Bell, I…

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Wisconsin Club For Growth: public employees seldom produce anything of value

From my email inbox comes this gem from the Wisconsin Club For Growth: “Government unions exist chiefly to enable those who seldom produce anything of value to the real economy to take freely from those who produce value every day.” Apparently the folks at the Wisconsin Club For Growth aren’t…

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