Sort of like how Walker’s plan to eliminate state jobs that are already unfilled wouldn’t save homeowners any money… From WisPolitics.com … — Guv hopeful Scott Walker today dismissed Mark Neumann’s property tax plan as nothing more than a tax shift that wouldn’t save homeowners any money, but the two candidates largely avoided any fireworks […]
On the heels of Paul Ryan’s much-maligned plan to make middle class families pay for tax cuts for the top one percent, leaders from across Wisconsin are taking time to celebrate the historic 75th anniversary of the Social Security — among America’s greatest investments in our nation’s proud history. The details, courtesy of the participants: […]
The OWN Research Team will be liveblogging the debate between Scott Walker and Mark Neumann. The debate is airing live on WTMJ and begins at noon.
Having spent most of his career rubber stamping the Tom Delay and George W. Bush agenda, author of books and roadmaps, Paul Ryan (R-WI) is now on the stump, claiming outrage over the national debt, and proposing Georgewbushian solutions as a fix. Rep. Ryan follows right-wing incumbent talking points to a T:(1) Complain ad nauseam […]
Even though the investigation into why the concrete slab fell from the O’Donnell garage, killing a teenager, isn’t complete, and lawsuits may be pending, Scott Walker has declared what happened and who is to blame: the slab wasn’t hung properly. As far as I know Walker doesn’t have an engineering degree (nor even any degree […]
Taking time away from his recent “Even-though-you’ve-lost-your-job-I-eat-a-sandwich-oh-yeah-and-I-drive-a-car-so-please-please-make-me-Governor”campaign themes, Scott Walker has found the time mash together the worst of his B roll campaign footage for a disjointed expression of self-loathing desperation…er, a “new web ad.” In case you have yet seen this masterpiece, it’s footage from numerous Scott Walker speaking engagements. Walker offers a buffet […]
Walker cut funding for building inspections, citing cost concerns — bet he’s regretting that decision now given the $700,000 price tag for the ongoing safety inspections, plus the $1.5 million for 2011 inspections.
Following OWN’s revelation that Walker vetoed $150,000 for county building inspections in 2008, the Milwaukee County Supervisors are now also questioning Walker’s commitment to keeping county buildings safe and well maintained. Some county supervisors accuse County Executive Scott Walker of cutting money for building inspections. The accusations follow the deadly concrete collapse at O’Donnell Park, […]
Scott Walker and the rest of the tax-cuts-for-the-rich crowd are making all sorts of political comparisons these days (see a recent Walker blog post). Funny, because for a time Scott Walker liked to compare himself to champion of the uber-wealthy, George W. Bush. Scott Walker, you may remember, was a co-chair of George W. Bush’s […]
Walker says the inspection of the O’Donnell garage was conducted in 2005 and 2006. Well, thank goodness for that. Don’t we all feel much safer. A couple points about the MJS story: 1.) Walker is quibbling about terminology. The amendment clearly states the $150,000 was for “contractual services,” which is the hiring of a contractor, […]
The GOP’s message to students and parents: Go pound salt. In fact, GOP leader McConnell won’t even allow a discussion about the crisis looming for public education. Sickening. This guy bailed out the banksters — surprise, surprise — but could give less than two damns about the students of America. Read more here from the […]
Gentlereaders, submitted for your approval or outrage, the latest head-to-head by the MacIver Institute’s Brian Fraley and yours truly. This week’s subject: the Supreme Court’s decision on the state’s patient compensation fund. All the yummy goodness is here: http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=29098
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has pledged to spend an ungodly amount of money in an attempt to finish the GOP’s efforts to wreck the national economy, upped the lies in its typical campaign ads. Tough luck though for the Chamber of Economic Horrors in Pennsylvania, though, as false ads running against U.S. Senate […]
Sean Duffy, the former Republican Ashland County District Attorney will welcome disgraced ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to a big-money Wausau fundraiser Friday. Duffy has not said whether it was Gingrich’s repeated adultery, ethics imbroglios or his negotiating of his divorce from the first of his three wives while she lie in a hospital bed recovering […]
Brewers pitcher Yovanni Gallardo is sitting out tonight’s All-Star game in Los Angeles — he hurt his back last week and hasn’t played since. Next year’s All-Star Game is in Arizona, and the Brewer’s best pitcher won’t play in that game either, but for different reasons. “If the game is in Arizona, I will totally […]
The right has always let off the hook banksters on the other side of the contract and now we’ll watch as they ignore the uber-rich for defaulting on mortgages too.
Lisa Kaiser from Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express has a great round-up of the facts behind Walker lies and distortions featuring some of One Wisconsin Now’s analysis of Walker’s record. Check it out here. If you’re not in Milwaukee, you might not get a chance to see the real highlight of this week’s Shepherd — the cover […]
Dear Fox Business, There are a couple things One Wisconsin Now wanted to make sure you were aware of regarding Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s fiscal record of management, given his recent appearance on the Willis Report: 1.) In 2008 Scott Walker decided to give himself a $50,000 pay raise, a cost of $200,000 over […]
Scott Walker came to Madison today to try out his hilarious new stand-up routine. If voters are looking to hire a CEO, Walker says, then look no further. Cue rimshot. Walker who served three seconds in the private sector “said he’s the top candidate if voters are looking to hire a ‘CEO’,” and went on […]
When the “TRUTH!!” about “THE CONSPIRACY!!!” behind “THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX!!!” was finally “revealed,” right-wing groups and their cronies in the corporate media practically trampled each other in their excitement to report the PROOF that the fix was on when it came to global warming. Climategate! Wisconsin’s leading corporate public relations firm, sorry, right-wing think […]
If you paid any attention to the Republican Party of Wisconsin Convention — and not GOP press releases and media accounts – you would have noticed that the Republican Party establishment-types are STILL the kingmakers of conservatives. Not the Tea Party. Not a single Tea Party candidate emerged victorious. Latest case in point of this […]
If you ever need proof that conservatives are the masters of self-delusion, look no further than Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal interview with outgoing Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce CEO and President Jim Haney. When asked if there was anything he regretted about his tenure of leadership at WMC, Haney said “I’ve seen this extraordinary polarization of […]
If ever the Republican Party needs a legal authority to execute its radical right-wing agenda, JB Van Hollen’s taxpayer-financed office is only a phone call away.
Bruce Murphy, columnist for Milwaukee Magazine, had some great points in his column this week why Walker’s state pension gimmick is just a gimmick.
Susan Armacost said “(Electability) tipped the scales for Ron Johnson… It’s the electability of the candidate at this point… I think the polls are very clear.”
During Friday’s “Week in Review” on Wisconsin Public Radio, host Joy Cardin was in the midst of a discussion of the week’s news in BP’s environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico when something truly rich happened. Debating Beloit political science professor and knowledgeable scholar Georgia Duerst-Lahti, failed Assembly reactionary and embarrassed blogger Jo Egelhoff […]
Conservatives usually at least talk the talk when it comes to protecting the American people, even if they don’t walk it. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas/Big Oil) took a decidedly different tack during BP CEO Tony Hayward’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday morning. Barton said he was “ashamed” of President Obama’s actions […]
Now there’s a new report about how the mental health building is building is crumbling, like so many other county buildings, due to Walker’s chronic mismanagement and underfunding. People have died from neglect and starvation. Women have been raped. Mold, foul-smelling garbage, dirty food service areas and safety hazards. Yet the director, John Chianelli, remains […]
Scott Walker is touting his new iPhone App as the “the first mobile app in history of Wisconsin politics.” I downloaded it to my phone. And unfortunately, it’s just another charade in what is becoming a long line of campaign gimmicks. Like his other campaign gimmicks (eg., the brown bag, “I drive a Saturn,” “I […]
Like a moth to a bright light, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is using the non-story about a Milwaukee County assistant DA with a history of questionable priorities on voter rights issues to make his tiresome case that Voter ID is a good idea. Walker fired off a typically deceptive campaign press release (as if […]
The Republican Governors Association has an ad up attacking a guv candidate in Colorado saying he flew jobs out of the state. Funny thing is, it explicitly says Tom Barrett, the Democratic Mayor of Milwaukee, was the one landing the jobs here in Wisconsin. Here’s the Republican Governors Association ad featuring actual clips from Barrett’s […]
Johnson had a choice: drink from the cups of grassroots Tea Party groups or sip one back with Mark Block, a big business front group, and the old school Republican establishment.
For a group just so-darned-concerned about wasteful government spending, Citizens for Responsible Government sure is excited about spending taxpayer dollars chasing down Scott Walker’s political nemeses. CRG filed a frivolous complaint against progressive blogger Chris Liebenthal, aka capper, for supposedly posting during work hours. A quick google search and a cursory review of capper’s posts […]
The AP is reporting that Madison business magnate and U.S. historian Terrence Wall is stepping out of the spotlight, citing a slow start “after reports that he had not owed any income tax for nine of the past 10 years.” But wait, there’s more! Here’s a recap of Wall’s record. Wall paid no net income […]
Thanks to everyone who spoke out for Wisconsin’s schools and signed our petition in support of the Keep Our Educators Working Act. Today, we delivered over 1,200 petitions to Senators Feingold and Kohl. Thousands of Wisconsin teachers are facing layoffs, and students from all across the state could be forced into larger classes with less […]
And how's he spending that personal campaign fortune to win a primary ? He's buying ad space on one the country's top liberal blogs. It's true.
After eight years as head of Milwaukee County government, Scott Walker is both very proud of the job he has done and is so dissatisfied with job he has done that he wants to abolish everything he runs. Exhibit A: Eight years ago, the naysayers said we couldn’t take back our government here in Milwaukee […]
Walker is endorsing an irresponsible tax cut plan that would hand over the lion’s share of $2 billion a biennium to the rich and big businesses.
You can learn a lot from a campaign ad. Early in May, I discovered one of Wisconsin’s most promising underground hip hop talents, and he’s running to be Governor, too! This guy’s gonna be a star! Last week I learned just how kick-a$$ you have to be to run for Ag Commissioner in Alabama. And […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]