Recall supporters say they are not intimidated by the tea party effort. “I think this is just some right wing, outside corporate front group trying to profit off of people around the country about the situation here in Wisconsin,” Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, says. “I think that any corporate-sponsored front group […] [WBAY]
Republican lobbyist and former Commerce Secretary Bill McCoshen joins One Wisconsin Now executive director Scot Ross for a political round table talk. [Wisconsin Public Television]
Liberal advocacy organization One Wisconsin Now announced Tuesday a reward fund to encourage people with information that could lead to arrests and convictions in connection with recall petition destruction to come forward. Another instance of petition destruction in Madison took place last week, when police officials said a man tore-up a petition after pulling over […] [WKOW-TV]
A liberal group announced a $10,000 reward today for information that leads to the conviction of anyone who destroys recall petitions. The head of One Wisconsin Now, Scot Ross, said his group hopes to discourage the destroying of recall petitions — which is a felony under state law. Ross said the reward was motivated by […] [Pierce County Herald]
A liberal group is offering a reward for information that leads to a conviction of anyone who destroys petitions. It’s a $10,000 reward from One Wisconsin Now. The group’s director says he was motivated following reports of a petition being destroyed in Madison. The Republican Party has launched its own website where it encourages people […] [WKOW-TV]
An audio presentation [Wisconsin Radio Network]
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, denounced the anonymous group, in a Madison press conference. “We cannot allow democracy to be threatened by those who would illegally destroy recall petitions with valid signatures on them,” Ross said. “We intend to keep the public informed about its rights during the signature gathering process and alert those […] [Mount Pleasant Patch]
We’ve already seen several alleged cases of recall petition fraud. Now one liberal group is offering up to a $10,000 reward if you see recall petition fraud. “We have been troubled there may be allegations that there may be efforts to illegally destroy legitimate recall petitions,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now’s Executive Director.Ross says […] [MSNBC]
The liberal organization One Wisconsin Now established a $10,000 fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people destroying recall petition signatures. The group’s leader, Scot Ross, claimed numerous issues of recall wrongdoing, as the Dane County district attorney got involved in the only criminal case tied to the recall. “We need to […] [WISC-TV]
A new Republican bill would do away with the requirement and exempt political donors from disclosing where they work. The liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now and WEAC, the state’s largest teachers union, have signed up to oppose the bill. The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a government watchdog group that tracks campaign spending, also opposes it. […] [Wisconsin State Journal]
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But Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, noted Walker did not talk about cutting collective bargaining during the campaign and said Walker was precisely the one who caused the recall effort. “Gov. Walker is responsible for tearing Wisconsin apart and the division which has led to this unprecedented recall effort […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Scot Ross as a guest. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
Scot Ross from One Wisconsin Now calls in… WOW Jerry gets fired up to say the least. [WTAQ]
Stephan Thompson, executive director of the state Republican Party, put out a statement touting the 30-second ad. The head of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, though, chided Walker’s team for using a political newcomer to praise Walker’s proposals. “It’s no surprise that someone from the most Republican part of Wisconsin, who is specifically opposed to […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Herman Cain’s smoking campaign manager, Mark Block, was the Koch brothers’ man in Wisconsin until two days before Gov. Scott Walker’s inauguration. That’s when he switched from controversy-plagued campaigning at the state level to controversy-plagued campaigning at the national level. The group One Wisconsin Now described the plan as “a coordinated plot by the Republican […] [Capital Times]
The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, in which he was accused of using his position as a lawmaker to benefit his wife. The liberal group One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint against Olsen after he inserted language in a bill that would allow the Cooperative Educational Service […] [Baraboo News Republic]
Until this week, Mark Block was famous as the guy who inhaled in a Herman Cain campaign Web video that went viral. Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, a liberal advocacy group, mordantly credited Americans for Prosperity with “derailing a discussion about how we had to move to more clean energy, which is where […] [New York Times]
Republican efforts to inoculate themselves against recall hit a snag Monday when a moderate Republican announced his opposition to a plan that would permit recalls to happen in newly-drawn partisan districts. Scot Ross of the liberal One Wisconsin Now says of the last-minute bill that “if Mary Lazich thought recall signature notarization was such an issue, she […] [PR Watch]
Sen. Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) told the Associated Press on Monday that he would not votefor a bill introduced on Friday by Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) that would immediately put into place new legislative districts created by the recent Republican-led redistricting plan.”Mary Lazich believes that only Republicans should get to vote,” said Scot Ross, […] [Dane 101]
Before pack-a-day smoker Mark Block became a YouTube sensation, he was a quirky, controversial and enduring character on the Wisconsin political scene. He won some. He lost some. He got in trouble. He bottomed out. He bounced back. And now his career has taken its most improbable turn. Critics on the left saw the organization […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
These founding members of the nonpartisan citizens group Reach Out Wisconsin did something increasingly rare late last year: They purposely engaged in a civil give-and-take about politics over dinner with their ideological opposites. [Wisconsin State Journal]
One Wisconsin Now’s Scot Ross summed things up well when he said: “Mary Lazich believes that only Republicans should get to vote. She believes that only Republicans should be able to use the recall process. If Mary Lazich thought recall signature notarization was such an issue, she had the last 20 years of her undistinguished […] [Capital Times]
Following the release of an ad showing him puffing on a cigarette, an adviser for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is facing some extra scrutiny — and it isn’t just about his nicotine habit. The liberal group One Wisconsin Now revealed audio tapes last year that suggested the then-AFP director was involved in a “voter caging” […] [Raw Story]
One Wisconsin Now says the lawmaker finally filled a request, which reveals email communication with a group that spent money on TV ads during her recall election campaign. Sen. Alberta Darling settled a lawsuit by responding to an open records request filed by local liberal-leaning group One Wisconsin Now last summer. [Menomonee Falls Patch]
Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Koch brothers backing of Herman Cain, whose candidacy is oddly successful for someone without a fully formed campaign operation. [MSNBC]
In 2010, a liberal group, One Wisconsin Now, said it had obtained an audio recording of a tea party meeting that indicated Block was involved in an effort to try to prevent legal voters from casting ballots in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods. A tea party organizer says on the audio that Americans for Prosperity had agreed to […] [Daily Reporter]
Critics of the voter ID law have compared it to a “poll tax” intended to prevent groups that traditionally vote Democratic from going to the polls. The progressive group One Wisconsin Now has argued that many DMV offices are inconvenient and difficult to reach for people who may have low incomes, not be able to drive […] [Huffington Post]
With an ever-climbing state unemployment rate and reasonable pleas for action by the middle class, Gov. Scott Walker is offering what has become his gubernatorial calling card: a special-interest session of more corporate favors and less corporate accountability. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Student loans of $100,000 are not uncommon, and guess what? Banks won’t let you off the hook without taking a giant bite for themselves. [Sly's Office]
The liberal group One Wisconsin Now accused Republicans of trying to hijack presidential elections, despite the lack of support from GOP legislative leaders. The group’s executive director, Scot Ross, said the proposal would put an “essential end” to the Electoral College system of voting in presidential elections. [Lakeland Times]
Thompson hasn’t had to disclose his financial interests yet in federal candidate filings. But groups like the liberal One Wisconsin Now were calling for him to do that Monday. Thompson “owes the people a full list of which interests he’ll still be doing business with during his campaign and which ones he’ll be accepting contributions […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Cain’s dense connections with the Kochs, combined with his and his staffers’ apparent ignorance of even the basic principles of various schools of political and economic thought, are deeply troubling. He is increasingly appearing to be the first presidential candidate who is not only beholden to corporate money, but in fact running on a corporation’s […] [PolicyMic]
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation’s capital. But Cain’s economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity. “Herman Cain is the first […] [The Sacramento Bee]
Cain’s links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, nonpolitical image among people who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine. To some liberals, Cain’s rise with the help of AFP shows the incredible influence that outside groups controlled by superwealthy individuals with specific agendas can have on the political […] [KVVU-TV]
Occupy Milwaukee protesters march Saturday along N. Water St. past JPMorgan Chase Bank to the M&I Bank building. The student-loan debt held by banks was just one of many issues the marchers displayed on signs. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who forced public workers to pay more for their pensions as part of a push to curb union rights, broke his campaign promise to pay the full cost of his state pension immediately after taking office in January. “It is indefensible Scott Walker promised to live by these rules and then […] [Boston Globe]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who forced public workers to pay more for their pensions as part of a push to curb union rights, broke his campaign promise to pay the full cost of his state pension immediately after taking office in January. “It is indefensible Scott Walker promised to live by these rules and then […] [St. Paul Pioneer Press]
“The depths to which Republicans in Wisconsin will sink to rig elections appear to be bottomless,” said Scot Ross, an executive director for a progressive communications group called One Wisconsin Now. “Republicans are attacking the foundation of how Wisconsin participates in electing the President of the United States.” [International Business Times]
State Rep. Dan LeMahieu (left) is circulating legislation to divvy up most of Wisconsin’s electoral votes according to who wins each congressional district rather than the current winner-takes-all system. Scot Ross of the liberal One Wisconsin Now called it the latest GOP effort to rig the ballot box. ”The depths to which Republicans in Wisconsin will sink to rig […] [WisPolitics]
The crowd numbers waxed and waned over the weekend, but even the warm, sunny weather on Sunday afternoon did not draw more than 100 to the park. That didn’t mean the occupation wasn’t having an impact, says Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now, who spent time at the protest throughout the weekend. “It’s […] [Isthmus]
Wisconsin would split its Electoral College votes for president between Republicans and Democrats, rather than giving them all to the winner, under a bill drawing attention in the state Assembly. The proposal drew swift opposition from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now. “The depths to which Republicans in Wisconsin will sink to rig elections appear […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
A Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin wants to change how Wisconsin awards electoral votes _ a proposal that spurred a swift, negative reaction Wednesday from Democrats who see the move as an attempt to help Republican presidential candidates. While Republicans were guarded in their comments, one Democratic lawmaker sent an email urging her colleagues not to […] [Real Clear Politics]
Scot Ross, the director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, couldn’t pass up a comment on the irony. He sent me Courtney’s letter, which is attached to this post, with the following comment: “With Scott Walker and the Republicans, you always follow the money. In May, they used the threat of guns in the […] [Capital Times]
A curious pattern has emerged in Wisconsin. Most politicians favor concealed carry of weapons – so long as it’s not allowed in the building where they work. The irony of the situation is that the law made an exception for law enforcement offices – like those of the Department of Justice agents who work for […] [Inside Milwaukee]
Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said there would be a contradiction in screening all Capitol visitors for weapons and restricting access to the building during those demonstrations and then allowing concealed guns. “The Republicans wasted millions of dollars to make schoolchildren go through metal detectors and face being wanded, […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
“Um, no. corporate-financed infrastructure to derail sensible energy policy and stall health care reform absent in #occupywallst,” reported Scot Ross, the head of One Wisconsin Now. “Didn’t #occupywallst reject Dem support,” tweeted State Rep. Brett Hulsey (D-Madison). [Isthmus]
I will be talking with Scot Ross from One Wisconsin Now about what is his organization, what they have done, where there are going, and some of the reason they are here. [Sara Schultz Show]
We’ve already checked a variation of the tax-break claim — the liberal group One Wisconsin Now said that Walker’s budget “includes tax breaks for corporations and the rich that will cost the state of Wisconsin taxpayers $2.3 billion over the next decade.” There’s an element of truth in Miller’s claim, but he pushed past the […] [PolitiFact]
By Scot Ross. Van Hollen refused to help local law enforcement in the John Doe investigation that has ensnared top officials from Walker’s Milwaukee County executive regime. Among those involved are people given top jobs in the Walker gubernatorial administration. The two previous Wisconsin attorneys general offered resources and support in similar types of cases involving […] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]