Here’s the latest WisOpinion feature ‘That’s Debatable’ in which One WI Now Executive Director Scot Ross takes on Brian Fraley from the conservative MacIver Institute. This week’s topic is the most hyped story of 2009 — check it out! You can also keep up on the latest from ‘That’s Debatable’ on Facebook here.
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is under attack from a septic tank full of conservative slags. Among them, unindicted Jack Abramoff cohort Grover “Bipartisanship is a form of date rape” Norquist and, Family Research Council President Tony “I paid David Duke $82,500” Perkins, who authored a letter objecting to Butler’s nomination to the […]
Dear Mr. Walker, Yes, jobs are the top concern for people all across the state of Wisconsin. But unlike you, who didn’t start addressing job creation until after your announcement for Governor earlier this year, Wisconsin families have been concerned about losing their jobs in this Bush-created recession for nearly two years now. It’s great […]
The Oughts. We started with Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Lieberman throwing in the towel before Al Gore had given up the fight… and ended with JoeParty “President” Lieberman deciding he simply would not allow actual health insurance pass. And he got his way on both. On the scale of horrors, we were pummeled over […]
The corporate shills at the right wing Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has a typical corporate response to the skyrocketing health care costs.
Once again, Scott Walkers desire to score political points with his right-wing teabagger base rather than act as an effective and responsible leader leads to a black eye for Milwaukee County. A revealing, albeit stomach-turning video at WISN.com shows overflowing trash bins, plugged toilets and at the Milwaukee County Courthouse. Just last month, Walkers county […]
Here’s the latest WisOpinion “That’s Debatable” featuring One WI Now Executive Director Scot Ross. This week’s topic is ACORN – check it out!
A graphic in a front-page story in Monday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel including a stunner of a question from the most recent UW Badger Poll, which may give pause to elected officials who put health insurance gangsters ahead of the people. The question: “How responsible should the federal government be in making sure that all residents […]
MADISON, Wis. — A call for reform of Milwaukee Public Schools by Wisconsin Assembly Reps. Brett Davis (R-Monroe) and Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), ignores recent anti-MPS votes by the duo, including the 2007-09 Assembly Republican budget which would have slashed a plan to give $15 million to Milwaukee Public Schools and an additional $85 million to […]
The employment outlook for Milwaukee County snowplow drivers? Like many other Milwaukee County employees, layoffs. Fully half of all the drivers in the county could be laid off in the next year unless the County comes up with more money. Milwaukee County might have enough funding to get through this winter, but next summer and […]
Here’s the latest WisOpinion “That’s Debatable” exchange featuring One WI Now’s Executive Director Scot Ross. http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=25053 This week’s topic? Climate change. Check it out!
You may haveheard that national Republicans are considering a litmus test to see if the party’s candidates are conservative enough to call themselves Republicans and get backing from the party. To qualify, a candidate needs to agree on 8 of the 10 points. Bonus if you think the world is flat and/or was created in a week. […]
The U.S. Senate is a serious place, where serious people tackle serious issues in a serious way. No, seriously. Consider the most important issue of our time, health insurance reform. Whether you support expanding health insurance to every American, or you support the rights of health insurance companies to take billions while they deny coverage […]
It’s not exactly man bites dog — maybe it’s more like dog bites itself — but Milwaukee Democrats will join peace activists Wednesday in expressing their concerns about President Obama’s plan to send additional American troops to Afghanistan, and Sen. Russ Feingold already has weighed in against the Obama plan. A rally and response to […]
A prominant Milwaukee business leader garnered a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday for calling for the dismantling of Milwaukee County’s governemnt at a Rotary Club meeting. While I fail to see why a conservative calling for the dismantling of government is news, the story did reveal that a new study will be coming […]
Good or bad, President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan was sure to incite some hilarious responses from teevees finest talking egos. Media Matters and Huffington Post did a great job tracking them down. Without further ado: First up, Bill O’Reilly. From MediaMatters, ‘Did O’Reilly Even Watch Obama’s Afghanistan Speech?’: Following President […]
Back in September, One Wisconsin Now called into serious question the Tax Foundation’s claim of being an objective research organization when it was revealed that it was a ‘Silver Sponsor’ of an Americans for Prosperity event. Everyone knows the research coming out of the Tax Foundation is fundamentally conservative, but this was a little much. […]
One Wisconsin Now heard that teabaggers were going to be teabagging their way to the state capitol Monday to convince themselves that members of the state legislature give two flying snorts about whatever gripe these bitters have. We decided to greet the dozen or so (or in teabagger math “eleventy thousand”) with the kickoff of […]
Here’s the latest WisOpinion feature with One WI Now’s Scot Ross going head-to-head against right-winger Brian Fraley on the Recovery Pacage Link is here: http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=24804
New analysis sheds some intense light on the myths strewn throughout the news by WISTAX and WMC.
A new study out today shows that poor and middle class families are hit much harder by taxes in Wisconsin than the wealthiest taxpayers. In Wisconsin, its the working families that are asked to carry the burden. Individuals making between 20k and 88k all pay about 11% of their income in sales, property and income […]
Each week on WisOpinion.com, One WI Now Executive Director Scot Ross goes toe-to-toe with conservative Brian Fraley from the MacIver Insitute — here’s a link to the latest post on Sarah “Her Quitship” Palin’s visit to Milwaukee.
Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) is running radio ads right now against a couple members of the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors, one of whom who earlier this week voted against the Board’s budget. Despite her vote against the budget, Patricia Jursik is apparently being targeted because of her support for spending in the past. Theo […]
The right wing water cooler was abuzz this week over the effrontery of the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future. IWF, one of Wisconsin’s few think tanks that doesn’t hock regressive tax policy, was criticizing the Tax Foundation for a garbage tax plan that would stick it to the middle class in the name of more George […]
We hold these truths to be self evident … Rights, that among these are lying, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What’s that? You don’t remember the right to lie being enumerated? A panel of three Wisconsin judges took care of that oversight today. Candidates for public office — specifically one Michael Gableman — have […]
Once again despite the efforts of the states most notorious corporate tax loophole lobby group, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, more jobs are coming to Wisconsin. Republic Airways to add up to 800 jobs in Milwaukee This isnt the first company to do so either ” as I pointed out earlier, there have been quite a […]
Across the country, and in Wisconsin, there’s a movement quietly taking shape to reclaim November 11 as a day of peace. What is now called Veterans Day was originally designated in the US as Armistice Day, the day that World War I ended at 11 a.m. on 11/11. In the UK and elsewhere, it is […]
So you might have heard that health insurance reform passed in the House over the weekend. And good thing too, as new information cites ‘seniors struggling with medical expenses’ as being a sizeable factor in the 30-percent jump in bankruptcy filings in Wisconsin since last year.From the AP: In eastern Wisconsin, there were more than […]
News last week the unemployment rate nationwide is up over 10 percent for the first time since the Reagan administration. And of course, the Dow is back up over 10,000, because these days, when Wall Street gets rich, real Americans get screwed. Perhaps a different post for a different day. As weve been told so […]
Sarah Palin came to Wisconsin Friday to stump for Wisconsin Right to Life, but desperately opposed having a record of her remarks made public. The rules were clear: No video recording, no audio recording, no strollers (why does Sarah hate children?), no phones, nada. Anyone coming to the event had to buy a ticket online […]
Two simple truths about voting in the U.S.: one, there is no evidence of wide-scale voter fraud; two, voter ID would disenfranchise eligible voters. But that’s not going to stop a Wauwatosa alder from organizing a petition drive to require voter IDs in order to vote. From Wauwatosa Now: After her proposal for a voter […]
Dropping to new lows of complete and utter disdain and abuse of workers, on Monday Walker told a radio DJ that the layoff notices mailed to Milwaukee County workers were just a “political ploy” to force the Supervisors to approve cuts to rectify a budget deficit created by the idiocy and mismanagement of yet another […]
So, let me get this straight: Inviting non-veteran Scott Walker to march in the Veterans Day parade is not political, but having the word “peace” in an organization’s name is? Members of Veterans for Peace have again been barred from participation in Milwaukee’s Veterans Day Parade. Although the parade website says the event is Honoring […]
Smug Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has made a career of using government to the benefit of those who support his right wing agenda. We remember when for instance, while taking money from the private Corrections Corporation of America while authoring truth in sentencing legislation that would grow the need for private prisons as the […]
From Madison Area Peace Coalition: BOOKS, NOT BOMBS Peace Demonstration for Obama’s Visit to MadisonWednesday, November 4th President Obama is coming to Madison this week, and peace activists will assemble to call for an end to war and for shifting government spending priorities from the military to education and other needs. LOCATION: Intersection of Fish Hatchery […]
Why do we chronic malcontents do what we do, and keep on keeping on, even when it seems like no one is listening, and our protests appear to be falling on deaf ears, or no ears? Why don’t we listen to the naysayers who urge us to get a life — or get a job? […]
MADISON, Wis. — Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s recent call for limits on critical BadgerCare health benefits for low-income or displaced workers and repeated criticism of state spending raises concerns he may favor cuts to BadgerCare programs that cover children and expectant mothers. “Scott Walker’s message is that the nationally-recognized BadgerCare health care program for […]
I just checked out Mark Neumann’s logo, and I swear I’ve seen it before.Oh yeah, I have (sort of). I’m not sure how this striking similarity is going to go over with his right-wing base who believe fervently in every brightly-colored, large-texted e-mail chain conspiracy claim about ‘Barack ‘Barry Soetero’ Hussein Obama’. Recall those ‘theories’ […]
The colliding worlds of Scott Walker’s endless political hackery have been on full and unaduterated display in the past 24 hours. Walker’s administration suddenly announces and end-of-the-year budget crisis and offers, as maddenly-always, one solution: layoffs of workers. Milwaukee’s County Supervisors were hastily given this news by Walker’s lackeys — yep, Walker himself couldn’t find […]
Today marks the 80th anniversary of ‘Black Tuesday’’the final, most catastrophic day of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Except for Terrence Wall, everyone in America remembers this event as the primary trigger of the Great Depression.Earlier this week, One Wisconsin Now was so dumbfounded by Wall’s assertion that FDR caused the Great Depression (three years […]
Fellow citizens ” did you hear the good news? The Wisconsin Supreme Court is up for sale! So come now, fellow peasants! Let us pool our unemployment checks and the couple extra dollars those of us lucky enough to have a job can afford and try to outbid Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and buy ourselves […]
Wisconsin urgently needs to reduce its carbon footprint while providing safe, secure, dependable and affordable energy. One proposed solution is to build new nuclear reactors to boil water to produce electricity. But can Wisconsin afford new nuclear reactors? Energy expert Peter Bradford says no, and will explain why in talks in LaCrosse on Nov. 3 […]
MADISON, Wis. — Republican multi-millionaire Terrence Wall claims in this month’s In Business magazine that Franklin D. Roosevelt was responsible for the Great Depression, despite Roosevelt taking office over three years after the Depression began and enacting policies which lowered the unemployment rate from 25 percent in 1933 to 10 percent by 1937, saving the […]
There it is on the front page of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute’s website. Almost 800 words from George Lightbourn about ‘polling’ that concludes Gov. Jim Doyle’s Democratic backers in the state legislature are in peril. It’s an amazing coincidence. Somehow, the sciency-stuff keeps working out for conservatives in the WPRI-UW Right Wing Propaganda Polling […]
Read Milwaukee County’s life-long-health-benefits-on-the-public-dime Executive Scott Walker’s statement on the Milwaukee County Board’s Personnel Committee decision to support domestic partner benefits for employees. ‘I will veto the Domestic Partner Benefits plan approved by the County Board’s Personnel Committee today. Now is not the time to be adding any new benefits for public employees, let alone […]
We Energies has been making news lately with their proposal to increase electricity costs rates by 7 percent.The Appleton Post-Crescent makes a great point: We Energies is saying it needs to raise rates because of the costs of new power plants and transmission lines, increased pension costs and, get this, decreased sales of electricity. The […]
Moralizing hypocrite Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) and his lackey staffer have been all over today’s news cycle, thundering about the unsettling arrest of Rep. Jeff Wood on suspicion of a 5th OWI. To be sure, Wood has real troubles and should not be operating a vehicle in any way at this point. But that’s no […]
Yesterday Walker announced that he would “borrow a page from his county budget strategy book” in reshaping the state budget if he’s elected Governor next year. Let’s get specific about exactly what those strategies look like: 1.) Unrealistic revenue projections that have led to repeated mid-year budget corrections (remember 2003?), resulting in pool closings, layoffs […]
National embarrassment Sarah Palin is coming to nationally embarrass Wisconsin, courtesy of Wisconsin Right to Life. The ant-choicer movement is bringin’ the Queen of Quit to its November 6 event at State Fair Park in Milwaukee. WRtL is saying “no recording of this event will be made.” That’s where you come in, our unwashed army […]
A story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will surely invoke a range of emotions and underscores the need for health insurance reform. Mark Johnson reports on a 39-yeal-old recently-layed-off Watertown man compelled to enlist in the Army in order to receive the health care benefits that could take care of his wife’s cancer treatment.Bill Caudle […]