Last week, One Wisconsin Now discovered that the right-wing front group Wisconsin Alliance for Reform bought nearly $415,000 of pro-Bradley TV ad time in advance of the Feb. 16 primary. [Shepherd Express]
I would describe Walker’s alleged college affordability plan in the same way I would characterize his own personal higher education experience — woefully incomplete. [Badger Herald]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, which tracks media buys, said on Friday that the total amount, including ads purchased for cable stations, is far higher, although that could not be independently confirmed. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, chastised Schimel’s move, noting the political arm of [WMC]. [Racine Journal Times]
According to calculations provided by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, the group plans to spend on broadcast: about $100,000 in the Madison market. [Capital Times]
Scott Walker's money machine is propping up Rebecca Bradley with huge money because they know the public thinks she cannot be trusted to be an independent voice.
Republicans on the State Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities today voted for bills that will do nothing to reduce skyrocketing student loan debt.
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One Wisconsin institute, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund, and six Wisconsin residents filed a complaint against a series of provisions that Wisconsin has made since 2011 to its voting and election laws. [State of Elections]
The board’s decision drew little notice when it was made in August. But it came under scrutiny last month after Walker’s administration cited it to explain why it had no records on file in response to requests from the Wisconsin State Journal and liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Racine Journal Times]
“This is yet another indication of [Gov. Scott] Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature’s misplaced priorities,” he said. [Badger Herald]
Rep. Dale Kooyegna, Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP legislature have ducked, dodged and distorted the truth about the student loan debt crisis in Wisconsin.
A newly-released report shows Wisconsin as one of only nine states that have adopted their budget cutting funding for higher education.
But the student loan debt program coordinator at One Wisconsin Now, Analiese Eicher, says the governor's ideas, like more internships, don't go far enough. [Public News Service]
"A career politician like Scott Walker knows better than this, you amass a war chest three years out from the campaign instead of draining it," he said. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
I would describe Scott Walker’s college affordability scheme the same way I would characterize his own personal higher ed experience — woefully incomplete.
The Governor has been advertising a 'listening tour' as an opportunity for citizens to share their opinions on issues with him is not open to the general public.
"They are not going to make college more affordable and they are not going to reduce the monthly payment of any of the million people with student loan debt in the state of Wisconsin," Ross said. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
In a press release issued today Rep. Dave Murphy doubled-down on support for Gov. Walker’s woefully incomplete college affordability measures supported by legislative Republicans.
Make no mistake, none of these bills will reduce by one cent the monthly student loan payments of Wisconsin student loan borrowers.
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, said student loan interest rates are higher than those for any other loans that citizens take out. [Badger Herald]
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, said student loan interest rates are higher than those for any other loans that citizens take out. [Badger Herald]
One Wisconsin Now testified against the GOP package, arguing lawmakers should do more than what's being offered. [Capital Times]
Wisconsin would be ill-served by more of the Walker administration’s cronyism and corruption and less access to comprehensive health care services for families.
“It’s common-sense solutions like allowing loans to be refinanced that will help these borrowers, not the excuses and empty political gestures Gov. Walker and the Republican Legislature are offering up,” said Scot Ross. [Capital Times]
Gov. Scott Walker has a glaring omission in his plan on student debt – any help lowering the monthly payments for Wisconsin borrowers
Any plan that doesn’t include this simple, common sense reform is not a serious attempt to help with the student loan debt crisis. [Superior Telegram]
When the head of Gov. Walker's job creation agency makes dozens of workers choose between their religion and their jobs, it's another reminder of why Wisconsin remains at the bottom of job creation in the Midwest. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Jenni Dye, research director for One Wisconsin Now, said she doesn’t believe the police logs meet the definition of “transitory” records. [Capital Times]
The liberal group One Wisconsin Now says that answer indicates that Bradley is driven by politics, despite her assertions that she leaves her political inclinations behind in her duties as a judge. [Capital Times]
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, borrowers got a new excuse from Gov. Scott Walker for his continued opposition to common-sense refinancing legislation.
Feeling the heat from One Wisconsin Now, Gov. Scott Walker felt the need this week to try to look like he was do something on the issue of student loans and the costs of higher education. [Daily Kos]
Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday indicated a decision by his administration to not release an employee's text messages related to a questionable WEDC loan goes against his own open records policy. [Capital Times]
The Walker administration also cited the August redefinition of “transitory correspondence” when denying a records request from the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. [Racine Journal Times]
“Bob Gannon says black people in Milwaukee are responsible for over 10,000 mass layoffs in municipalities across the state," said Scot Ross, the executive director of One Wisconsin Now. "His statements are despicable, racist tripe that should embarrass all of his Republican colleagues." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
President Obama and many others get it, responsible hard working Americans shouldn’t be saddled with $1.3 trillion in debt for trying to get an education.
Gov. Scott Walker continues to oppose a common sense plan that could help student loan borrowers by allowing them to refinance at a lower interest rate.
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning for and then campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. Walker’s assistant legal counsel David J. Rabe claimed there were no visitor logs for […] [Urban Milwaukee]
"It is Republicans who have targeted reproductive health care with 'special' scrutiny, proposing restriction after restriction designed to burden women and their doctors." [Capital Times]
Walker "has come up with his most ridiculous excuse to date for his intransigence on the refinancing issue, blaming Connecticut." [UPI]
The action drew objections from groups on both sides of Wisconsin’s partisan divide, such as the as the liberal One Wisconsin Now . [Wisconsin Radio Network]
Forgive the debt, or allow students to refinance their loans at lower rates under the Higher Ed, Lower Debt bill. The first would cost $19 billion, the other, costs nothing. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said refinancing student loans is one of the best ways to solve the student loan "crisis." [Appleton Post-Crescent]
The change drew criticism from conservative and liberal groups alike, including the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Any plan that doesn’t include simple, common sense student loan refinancing reform is not a serious attempt to help with the student loan debt crisis.
Concealing a list of people who visit a public building, presumably to meet with the state’s most powerful leader, is arrogant and immediately suspect. [Wisconsin State Journal]
“I think Wisconsin is probably one of a select few states that has joined every single one of these lawsuits against the Obama administration,” said Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. [Wisconsin Gazette]
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross appeared on the Devil's Advocates radio show to discuss Gov. Scott Walker's bogus student loan debt plan. [Devil's Advocates Radio]
Scott Walker put his personal political ambitions before the well being of Wisconsin and mostly didn’t even show up to do the job for which he’s paid.
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning for and then campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. [Isthmus]