Did Sen. Randy Hopper Vote Illegally?
Here’s why I ask: In March, news broke that Randy Hopper’s (ex-)wife accused him of cheating on her with a mistress and revealed that he was no longer living in his Fond...
Cody Oliphant, 08/03/2011
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‘Swinging’ Kim Simac Signed Shockingly Strict Marriage Declaration
Because spouse-swapping Simac has such a peculiar personal past, the public has a right to call foul over her hypocrisy in signing the abhorrent Manhattan Declaration.
Cody Oliphant, 07/10/2011Oshkosh Tax Avoider Hosts Fundraiser for Tax Avoider Randy Hopper
MADISON, Wis. — State Sen. Randy Hopper, who paid state net income tax but once over a 10-year period, is having a big money fundraiser this evening hosted by a developer who...
One Wisconsin Now, 06/14/2011GOP Admits GOP Senators Can’t Run on Their Records Alone
With the public so overwhelmingly against taking away workers’ rights while handing out huge tax breaks to corporations, the Republican state senators in Wisconsin that voted for Scott Walker’s plan to do just...
Cody Oliphant, 06/05/2011More Lies From the GOP Noise Machine on Cronon Attacks
Never allowing facts to get in the way of its smears, the right wing is trying to create a false moral equivalency between retaliatory actions taken by the Republican Party of Wisconsin...
Scot Ross, 03/28/2011Did Hopper Vote for a Job for His Alleged Mistress?
In today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dan Bice revealed that the alleged mistress of State Sen. Randy Hopper, was given a taxpayer-financed job in the state Department of Regulation and Licensing at the...
Scot Ross, 03/20/2011BREAKING: GOP Senators Also Fleeing (from Gov. Walker’s Extreme Bill)
Public opinion might be influencing this group of senators to flee from Gov. Walker’s extreme attempt to take away the rights of workers.
Cody Oliphant, 03/07/2011Tax-Shy Randy Hopper’s $250 Million Yearly Capital Gains Giveaway
MADISON, Wis. — Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac), who paid net state income taxes once in ten years, has proposed an end to capital gains taxes, which primarily benefit the wealthy...
One Wisconsin Now, 01/13/2011Ed Thompson to Take Wealthcare Pledge
Ed Thompson announced today that he’d be singing Grover Norquist’s ‘Taxpayer Protection Pledge.’ In his latest press release, Thompson raises the roof for Norquist and his group, Americans for Tax Reform, for...
Cody Oliphant, 03/04/2010Randy Hopper: The Lesson From Merc Debacle? WI Needs More Corporate Welfare
Will enough ever be enough for corporate piranhas and their lackeys in the conservative caucuses at the State Capitol? Apparently not for Randy Hopper, whose column in the Oshkosh Northwestern this weekend...
Robert Doeckel, 09/14/2009Tax Avoider to Lead Taxpayer Caucus
This is good. So Grover Norquist’who’s regularly full of bad ideas (see: Reagan Day)’had a brain fart a few years back from which came the Taxpayer Protection Caucus. But here’s the real...
Cody Oliphant, 05/06/2009Hopper Wants to Pay Less Taxes Than He Already Doesnt
Making its rounds at the capitol this year is AB38: a bill devised to exclude from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. As the Legislative Reference Bureau understands it, a corporation...
Cody Oliphant, 04/20/2009Tiffany’s Imaginary Tax Burden
Last week I wrote about Republican State Senate candidate (18th SD) Randy Hopper and how he was complaining about taxes and suggesting that the current tax structure has been unfair to him....
Cory Liebmann, 10/28/2008Hopper’s Credibility Problem on Taxes
Republican State Senate candidate (18th SD) Randy Hopper is running a pretty standard campaign for a conservative. In a recent debate he complained about taxes and suggested that the current tax structure...
Cory Liebmann, 10/23/2008