Rep. Bob Gannon Blames Blacks for White GOP Legislative Failures
In a press release from his taxpayer-financed office, Rep. Bob Gannon suggests African Americans in Milwaukee are to blame for the state jobs crisis.
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Speaker Ryan Kicks Off ‘Bold Agenda’ With More of the Same As GOP Votes for at Least Fifty-Fifth Time to Repeal Affordable Care Act
The Ryan-led House is voting for at least the fifty-fifth time to repeal the Affordable Care Act that has helped millions of Americans access health care.
In Other News, Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Is Still as Crooked as Ever
A liberal watchdog group, One Wisconsin Now, filed an open-records request for the office calendars from Bradley's days as a judge in a lower case. [Esquire]
A Most Troubling Opinion: Rebecca Bradley Believes Candidates for Supreme Court Ought to Be Able to Lie in Campaign Ads
Justice Rebecca Bradley put it in writing she believes candidates for the Supreme Court like herself ought to be able to lie in their campaign advertising.
Justice Bradley opposed so-called clean campaign pledge
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now executive director Scot Ross said the column brings Bradley’s integrity into question, and characterized her column as endorsing lying in campaigns. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Right-Wing Bradley Foundation Spent $108M to Privatize Public Education
A major new report from One Wisconsin Institute finds that the Bradley Foundation spent more than $108 million to privatize public schools in Wisconsin. [Diane Ravitch]
Wisconsin Board Reboots, Holds Hearing on Changes to Open Records Law
The changes also appear to address a records request from the advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. The organization repeatedly requested records which would show who visited the governor’s mansion before and after Walker became a presidential candidate. The group’s research director, Jenny Dye, got a “transitory records” denial one day after the board’s decision, and […] [PRWatch]
Judge’s ruling a mixed bag for those challenging voter ID law
Peterson wrote that the One Wisconsin Institute had "plausibly alleged that the decision to exclude certain forms of ID was impermissibly arbitrary." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gov. Walker: Make ‘Higher Ed, Lower Debt’ Student Loan Refinancing Bill Your 2016 Resolution
One Wisconsin Now is asking Gov. Scott Walker to put passage of the student loan reform and refinancing bill at the top of his 2016 New Year’s Resolution list.
Liberal group alleges Justice Rebecca Bradley skirted Wisconsin open records law
A liberal group is alleging state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley violated the state's open records law and says it is exploring options for legal recourse. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now believes Bradley may have falsified calendars
One Wisconsin Now says that based on her comments in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rebecca Bradley, violated the state’s open record laws. [Wisconsin Daily Independent]
Newspaper Report Confirms Justice Bradley Provided Phony Records In Response to Legal Open Records Request
The years of blank pages Justice Rebecca Bradley gave and charged One Wisconsin Now at an exorbitant rate to retrieve were a complete fraud and fabrication.
In TV interview, Bill Lueders decries ‘culture of contempt for the public’s right to know’
Lueders’ group last week filed a verified complaint against the state Public Records Board, which it contended violated the open meetings law at its Aug. 24 meeting, when it voted to expand what can be considered as transitory records. Those transitory records — items considered to have no long-term value — have been central to […] [Capital Times]
Justice Rebecca Bradley’s meetings calendars empty for 2 1/2 years
Either Rebecca Bradley wasn't working very hard or she's hiding who she was meeting with and what she was doing on taxpayer time," Ross said in a written statement. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Gov. Walker’s Campaign Co-Chair Terms Attack on Public Ed. in Wisconsin an ‘Accomplishment’
Michael Grebe called draining hundreds of millions in public tax dollars away from public schools for unaccountable private schools an “accomplishment.”
Federal judge dismisses voter ID challenge but allows other parts of lawsuit to continue
They argued a number of provisions Republicans have added to state election law violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment and the equal protection clause. [Associated Press]
Bradley Foundation’s Radical Education Privatization Campaign Rolls On
Updated research exposing the right-wing Bradley Foundation’s spending over $108 million in support of education privatization from provides some answers.
Gov. Walker Signs Measures to Weaken State Ethics and Elections Laws in Secret Ceremony
Gov. Walker has led an administration that has attacked clean and open government from day one, rife with systematic cronyism and corruption.
UNSPUN: December 16, 2015
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross made his regular appearance on UNSPUN's holiday edition to reveal the naughty and nice list for 2015. [WMTV-TV]
One Wisconsin Now Statements on John Matthews Retirement Announcement
Every community in Wisconsin has been served by John Matthews' tireless and always inventive fight for public schools, students, teachers and parents.
Complaint filed over Walker’s denial of requests for public records
The rule changes also were raised in response to a request from One Wisconsin Now, a liberal group seeking a list of visitors to the governor’s residence. [Wisconsin Gazette]
Wisconsin Public Records Board head: We didn’t change transitory records definition
Gov. Walker’s administration cited the “transitory” record provision when it denied a records request for text messages by the Wisconsin State Journal, and when the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now requested visitor logs to the governor’s mansion earlier this year. [Capital Times]
P is for Payoff
The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation is among the largest funders of the right-wing propaganda machine in the country. Their influence in Wisconsin cannot be underestimated.
Watchdog calls rules cited by Walker administration improper
The rule changes also were raised in response to a request from One Wisconsin Now, a liberal group seeking a list of visitor's to the governor's residence. [Associated Press]
Is Wisconsin’s John Doe investigation really over now? What you need to know
One Wisconsin Now argues that under the U.S. Supreme Court case Caperton v. Massey Coal, at least a few of those judges should have recused themselves. The case found a judge must recuse when "extreme facts" create a "probability of bias." [Capital Times]
Questions, answers about text messages, visitor logs and other Wisconsin open records issues
In April, the liberal group One Wisconsin Now requested copies of visitor logs for the executive residence. [Capital Times]
Gov. Walker on Student Loan Debt Crisis: ‘Tweeting Instead of Leading’
Walker continues to reject the common sense reforms of the Higher Ed, Lower Debt Act to help borrowers to refinance student loans at lower interest rates.
Quiet change in public records policy could shield messages
In another case involving transitory records from October, it was disclosed that Capitol Police did not maintain all the records of who visited the governor’s mansion in the runup to his July entry into the presidential race before the filing of an open records request by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Walker administration finding new way to deny public records
In response to a request from liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, the Department of Administration released the reports which showed Walker meeting with presidential campaign staff at the residence. [Wisconsin State Journal]
RoJo Avoided Vote On Gun Control Bill
Maybe he had to call the Kochs to find out how to vote. Or maybe, as Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now points out, RoJo was just afraid to cast a negative vote just before an election year. [Cognitive Dissidence]
Johnson misses gun control vote
To quote his 2010 commercial, ‘There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate,’ but only Ron Johnson hid in the Senate cloakroom to avoid a tough vote on guns. [Capital Times]
Critics slam Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley for 2006 birth control column
Jenni Dye, research director for One Wisconsin Now, said Bradley is attempting to hide her views from the public now that she's a candidate. [Capital Times]
The Rebecca Bradley Non-Partisan Ruse
Now, thanks to some research by One Wisconsin Now, we find out what appealed to Scott Walker most about Ms. Bradley that made him start wanting to appoint her to any job he could. [Cognitive Dissidence]
Walker Holds Presser While America Endures 2015’s 355th Mass Shooting
This press conference was Scott Walker at his political worst: exploiting fears to try and win elections, while ignoring a real public safety threat.
Some Students Eligible For Tuition Settlement, AG Not Part of Suit
Scot Ross of the group One Wisconsin Now said he’s glad the company is being held accountable but he criticized Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
For-profit college to forgive Wisconsin students’ debt after settlement
Schwartz's statement came hours after One Wisconsin Now criticized Brad Schimel and Scott Walker for not joining several other states in the lawsuit against the company. [Associated Press]
Schimel’s ‘Holy Pictures’ Belie Complete Indifference in For-Profit College Lawsuit Settlement
This news comes, despite the “complete indifference” of Gov. Scott Walker and Schimel, who refused to enter Wisconsin into the lawsuit.
Of course open records law applies to state Supreme Court
Neither Gableman nor Bradley has even had the courtesy to respond to One Wisconsin Now, which made the requests of them. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Wisconsin Students to Miss Out on Their Share of $102 Million Settlement With For-Profit College Chain Over Shady Business Practices
When it comes to helping students ripped off by a for-profit college chain, Walker was nowhere to be found.
Walker Secretly Signed John Doe ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Bill in Chicago
Scott Walker’s gubernatorial calendars for the months of August and September show he largely ignored his duties as governor as he mounted a historically inept presidential campaign.
Records: Gov. Walker spent average of 48 minutes a day doing state business during pres. campaign
"Gov. Walker was more concerned with campaigning for president than doing his job," said Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. [WITI-TV]
Calendar shows Scott Walker campaigned at length most days
Gov. Walker was more concerned with campaigning for president than doing his job, and now 10,000 Wisconsin workers have already gotten layoff notices this year. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Three justices slow to provide documents under open records law
Meanwhile, records requests the liberal group One Wisconsin Now made to conservative Justices Rebecca Bradley and Michael Gableman have gone unanswered for months. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
What Wisconsin can do to solve student loan debt
The Badger Herald and WORT last week hosted a panel discussion on student debt, focused on finding solutions to the ever-growing problem of student debt. [UW Badger Herald]
Poll Confirms Overwhelming Support for ‘Higher Ed, Lower Debt’ Student Loan Refinancing
Voters overwhelmingly support a specific component of the Higher Ed, Lower Debt bill plan to allow student loan borrowers the ability to refinance their loans.
Assembly Republicans Hold Public Hearing on Legislation to Discriminate Against Transgender School Students
Singling out transgender youths and students is the latest giant leap backwards being considered by the Assembly Republican legislative majority.
UNSPUN: November 18, 2015
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross made his regular appearance on UNSPUN to discuss the recent terrorist attacks and failed Republican foreign policy. [WMTV-TV]
Walker’s Top Crony on High Court’s Latest Conflict
No reasonable person would think a judge who’s been appointed to judgeship three times by a party in the case could sit on the case fairly.
Student Loan Debt: Wisconsin 3rd in Nation
Analiese Eicher of One Wisconsin Now says student loan debt is dragging down the state's economy and it's time for the Legislature to do something about it. [Public News Service]
Will Rebecca Bradley Condemn Fundraiser David Clarke’s ‘Reprehensible’ Comments
Rebecca Bradley fundraiser and Tea Party Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke publicly called for Republicans to exploit the tragedy for political gain.