Scott Walker's pandering flip flop on the racist Arizona immigration law has One Wisconsin Now asking whether a similar strategy could get him to answer the question he has refused to answer.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is traveling across Wisconsin this week and will likely be talking with media about his priorities and the state of Wisconsin. With Wisconsin and the nation still emerging from the devastating economic collapse and job loss directly attributable to regressive taxation, deregulation and skewed priorities, One Wisconsin Now invites the […]
When news outlets across the country caught wind of the latest in Attorney General JB Van Hollen’s partisan political agenda after we at One Wisconsin Now busted his office for coordinating with a Republican group on a lawsuit to stop health care reform, Van Hollen and his office received a heavy dose of criticism. Now […]
MADISON, Wis. — Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s eight years of failed leadership are highlighted in an interactive timeline documenting his misdeeds, mismanagement and incompetence created by One Wisconsin Now and available at www.ScottWalkerFailureFiles.com. “The people of Milwaukee County have endured unprecedented harm due to the failed leadership of Scott Walker,” said Scot Ross, One […]
MADISON, Wis. — A special interest group that calls itself a partner of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) will begin spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on television starting Friday to promote Scott Walker in the Republican primary for governor. The statewide ad buy, estimated at over $200,000 over two weeks, is being paid by […]
A great cartoon from our friend Stuart Carlson. You can get this and more of Stuart’s great work at http://www.gocomics.com/stuartcarlson. You know, if you like the funny stuff.
MADISON, Wis. — Former GOP Madison U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann has found a willing advocate in former divisive GOP Madison Assembly Speaker and twice-failed congressional candidate, John Gard, for his irresponsible tax plan that would slash income taxes only for the top one percent of income earners and reopen the corporate loophole for bankers and […]
Thanks largely to the Recovery Act, the largest middle class tax cut in the history of the US, the overall tax bill for Americans’ is at its lowest level since 1950. Since the Great Bush Recession of 2007 and 2008, the average tax bill has dropped a whopping 26%. As tax bills shrunk for the […]
Republican Mark Green endorsed Republican Scott Walker yesterday. Big deal. What is a big deal though is how fiscally irresponsible both of these so-called fiscal conservatives are. “In a prepared statement, Green said that ‘Scott Walker’s common sense and commitment to fiscal discipline are exactly what Madison needs to get our state back on track […]
Once again the Tax Foundation is bringing its big business, low-tax agenda to Wisconsin and trying to convince us that businesses need their taxes lowered and the owners of those big businesses need their taxes lowered. As we have detailed at WISTAX Watch, the Tax Foundation is intimately tied to the Teabaggers’ favorite group, Americans […]
The source of video used in the American Justice Partnership (AJP) ads in support of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, in the midst of his tight GOP primary with Mark Neumann, suggest a more formal role for Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) than the group has indicated. WMC needs to come clean about its role […]
“In response to Harley’s news, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, a Republican candidate for governor, claimed that the state’s move to combined reporting for corporate taxation had hurt the company. But Harley officials have said in the past that combined reporting…had nothing to do with its cutbacks. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/3/10] MADISON, Wis. — Milwaukee […]
Wisconsin Right to Life issued a press release today with a typo that reads: “Wisconsin Right to Life Lunches ‘Pass It On’ Campaign.” They want to honor mothers or something, which is kind of ironic given a video I captured recently. In the release, WRTL announces they will are “actively searching for positive web content […]
The Republican State Leadership Committee, the 527 group that coordinated with Republican Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen, is largely funded by the health insurance and big pharmaceutical industries. Records show the RSLC has taken millions of dollars in political donations from the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations, including the American Tort Reform Association. Below […]
Dave Obey has been an honorable public leader for five decades, true. But he is also known around here for being the one-and-only One Wisconsin Now “Hero of the Week” award winner for a statement about the George W. Bush administration he made during the health insurance reform debate in 2009. Here’s Dave Obey’s award-winning […]
Leave it to Karl Rove to blast away any doubt of the partisan motivation behind JB Van Hollen’s attempt to file suit to stop health insurance reform. Rove, former Republican Party Chair Ed Gillespie and a gaggle of top Republican strategists and operatives have been quietly building a “massive fundraising, organizing and advertising machine” in […]
Another day, another damning revelation that the attempted lawsuit to thwart the will of the American people and stop the federal health reform act was an orchestrated plot whose motive was partisan Republican campaign politics. And once again, Wisconsin’s Republican Attorney General JB Van Hollen distinguishes himself by upping the ante in the ever-growing pot […]
After spending eight years dismantling Milwaukee county’s core services, safety net services, quality of life services, and transportation, at a recent listening tour/campaign event Scott Walker made the claim that he will continue his “commitment” to these services. But, there can be no “commitment to continue”, because there’s never been a commitment to providing these […]
If ever there was a time the Republican Party and the political right proved they were institutions with an active agenda aimed against non-whites, it will be April 2010. 1) RNC Chair Michael Steele admits Republican Party alienates minorities Any doubt that the GOP has had a white agenda should have been abolished when an […]
Clips of the right wing chanting “Drill baby, drill!” and “Drill here, drill now!” are a dime a dozen on the YouTubes. I mean, if you saw the 2008 Republican National Convention you surely wouldn’t have missed the dozen or so times the arena full of right-wing mainstreamers broke out into pro-drill chanting. Anyway, I […]
Enforcing court orders for child support, or any other court order, is not only essential in any nation of laws, but, as the name implies, it supports children. For every one dollar spent on enforcement, about six dollars is colllected— making it one of the most successful government programs ever created. And considering that nearly 90% […]
Statement released from Leinencuckoo: Friends, recently my comments regarding my lack of wealth have come under fire. I’m not backing down, though. Like most hard-working Wisconsites, I am NOT a wealthy man! I’m going through the same struggles as YOU! Like most hard-working Wisconsites, I was born into a family that still owned the family […]
U.S. Senate Candidate Dick Leinenkugel claimed in a recent Wispolitics.Com inteveriew that “I’m not a wealthy man, but I’m rich in my convictions.” Now most would think that Dick got it exactly wrong— because he is actually a wealthy man and going from the Democratic Party one day to the Republican Party the next demonstrates […]
To grasp fully the breadth and depth of analysis and research stacked eye-deep in this advancement of opinion journalism, I suggest reading it aloud.
Attorney General JB Van Hollen's campaign received a $10,000 campaign contribution from the RSLC, the same group his Deputy Attorney General consulted with days before seeking legal permission to file a Republican-concocted lawsuit to prevent enactment of the federal health reform act.
First Dick Leinencuckoo entered politics 18 months ago by asking Democratic Governor Jim Doyle for a job as Commerce Secretary, saying that he was a “strong supporter” of Doyle and was “non-political.” Then Leinencuckoo said he was running for U.S. Senate, as a Republican and was accused yesterday of being a a RINO (Republican In […]
It’s not news to One Wisconsin Now that JB Van Hollen is a partisan hack. After all, this is the guy who not only tried to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in 2008 after John McCain and the Republican Party begged him to try. And this also the guy whose office allegedly let every […]
MADISON, Wis. — The top deputy to Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen sought direction from a $57 million Republican campaign committee that supports Republican attorneys general leading up to the Wisconsin Department of Justice attempt to file a partisan lawsuit against the federal health reform act, according to a handful of records obtained by […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker voted to allow late-night lawmaking when he was a member of the Assembly even though he rails against the practice now. [AP] Well he wasn’t so much railing against it as he was putting out a press release to score a political point ‘ a point that he eventually lost, […]
Despite assurances from the anonymous blogger behind ScottWalkerforGov.com that the blog is NOT CREATED OR ENDORESED BY THE WALKER CAMPAIGN! [caps lock and emphatic exclamation point theirs], one would be hard pressed to find anyone who actually believed the ridiculous anti-Neumann spin and gutter-snipe rhetoric wasnt coming from inside the campaign. Now, thanks to a […]
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the following statements calling on former Gov. Doyle Commerce Secretary Dick Leinenkugel to oppose regressive taxation plans for Wisconsin as the state continues to work through the national economic collapse due to the failed policies of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress.
Did you get a HUGE bonus this year? Or are you maybe one of the 218 new BILLIONAIRES?!?! Are you OPTIMISTIC about your financial future? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then perhaps you’re one of the economic-top 1%. And congratulations, you and your friends OWN 70 PERCENT of all financial assets […]
Wisconsinites values our natural resources and hunting and fishing traditions. We take pride in our farmland and as the Dairy State, producing the nation’s best cheese and dairy products. We have a state parks and trails system that rivals the best in the nation. We have wonderful farmers markets and strong local food traditions. So […]
Making our elections as accessible to as many eligible and legal voters as possible is essential to realizing our shared American Dream. The Wisconsin Voter Protection Act is a decisive step towards achieving that goal.
Attorney General JB Van Hollen is not only complicit in a deliberate disinformation campaign to reduce access to polls for eligible Wisconsin voters, but he is doing it with brazen hypocrisy.
For those of you unconvinced by the public relation efforts claiming the Tea Partiers have dropped their vulgar extremism, here’s something to warm your heart. Observe this video, taken by One Wisconsin Now at Thursday’s Tea Party event at Wisconsin’s state capitol in Madison, where a visibly-pregnant mother was greeted with unseemly cat calls of […]
MADISON, Wis. — Citizens from across Wisconsin have joined One Wisconsin Now in sending a decisive message to the Tea Party and conservative elected officials who want less investment in the middle class and less support for children and working families: “I AM My Brother’s Keeper.” One Wisconsin Now will display responses of its members […]
Republicans like Attorney JB Van Hollen say theyre against expanding access to the polls because a non-existent problem”voter fraud”will be carried out by non-existent groups”like ACORN. In reality, the Wisconsin Voter Protection Act will give individuals in the military and their families a better opportunity to vote and will improve the voting experience at the […]
I went to a few tea parties last week. There was a lot of singing and yelling, lots of costumes, and LOTS of signs with coiled snakes on them. I have to admit, in a weird, Dungeons and Dragon kind of way, it was kind of fun and easy to get lost in the moment: […]
It just never ends with these folks. Weve reported time and again whats really behind the Tea Party movement ” the extremism, the hatred, the violent rhetoric, the racism, the intolerance. Now theres a new poll out from the University of Washington that verifies what weve been saying all along.The poll asks several questions of […]
The big business TEA Party is set for April 15, 2010 at the Capitol. And while were hard at work preparing our mobile billboard to send pro-working class American messages to the tea folk, heres a little trip down memory lane at last years TEA Party at the Capitol.The racist, fear-based, and hate-filled signs that […]
For one rainy day last week I followed the Tea Party Express hundreds of miles as it made its way through Wisconsin. I hoped to see firsthand the groups leadership offer real solutions to solve the woes of its financially struggling followers. Instead, I heard Wisconsinites being fed anger and resentment, which make for headlines […]
Last year I wrote a blog about the fact that the Tax Foundation, the think tank behind “Tax Freedom Day,” was once owned and operated by Americans for Prosperity. And because today is today is Tax Freedom Day in Wisconsin, and because Americans for Prosperity will be using Tax Foundation talking points this Thursday at […]
Unless theres a murder, dont expect Walker and his staff to care about the doctors, nurses and patients at the mental health complex. After reports of repeated sexual assaults, we now learn that for months Walker and his administration ignored a doctors concerns about safety at the county mental health complex after multiple patients carried […]
One Wisconsin Now is urging the media to review its report showing both the flaws of the Tax Foundation numbers and the connections between WISTAX, Tax Foundation, and Americans for Prosperity.
Will the rising tide of scandal about pedophile priests, and the Catholic church’s handling of them, splash up on,or perhaps even sink, State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser’s re-election campaign next year? There is every reason to think that the issue, which has reached all the way to Pope Benedict XVI, will be one Prosser […]
Van Hollen said Lautenschlager’s recent public support for the Open Records Law should ensure her prompt response to his request. Just this week, Lautenschlager filed suit against a Republican legislator alleging he took too long to respond to one of her requests. “I would expect to receive the requested information within ten business days,” Van […]
According to a district attorney in central Wisconsin, to teach a kid how to use a condom equates sexually assaulting said kid. I can’t even believe I typed that sentence, it’s so insane. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. To explain what’s going on here, the Juneau County District Attorney, Scott Harold Southworth, […]
While millions of Americans are fighting for survival ‘ whether it’s to keep their homes or keep their jobs ‘ it appears financial industry banksters have been lining their pockets through a heartless scheme that capitalizes on financially struggling folks.A Vernon County, Wisconsin resident has filed suit against Green Bay-based Associated Bank for ‘rearrang[ing] the […]
I don’t even know which gaggle of malcontents this particular teabagger affair was, but they were in Madison Tuesday night, and One Wisconsin Now stopped by to see first-hand more of the well-financed intolerance, anger and unfortunately, ugly appeals which have sadly typified this GOP-fueled movement. And then this sign caught the eye. The […]