Walker's UW Budget Cut - Some Context
Scott Walker's proposed $300 Million cut to the UW System combined with conservatives' complaining about high tuition made me curious about the history of UW funding and the root cause of rising...
View ArticleCan we get a Federal Investigation into Walker's WEDC?
This diary is going to have more questions than answers. If you're knowledgeable about federal tax law or regulation of public-private "authorities," please chime-in in the comments! Jake formerly of...
View ArticleSmoking gun for Walker's WEDC? A Timeline.
Excellent reporting this weekend from the Wisconsin State Journal digging into one particularly jaw-dropping $500k loan made by Scott Walker's Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). The...
View ArticleA few dozen other WEDC awards worth a second look
Investigative journalists, Democratic state legislators, fellow bloggers, Government Accountability Board members, amateur muckrakers, and members of the Jeb Bush Opposition Research Team, this is for...
View ArticleSketchy WEDC Awards, vol. 2 - Underwriting Boogaloo
Wisconsinites were recently treated to an epic Friday News Dump, with Scott Walker's WI Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) admitting that at least 27 awards totaling $124 Million went out the door...
View ArticleWalker's WEDC - 1,200 Pages of Corruption
The news from Scott Walker's scandal-plagued WI Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is coming hot and heavy now.You should check out today's press conference calling for WEDC CEO Reed Hall to...
View ArticleSwing (District) Dancing on the Way to WI State Budget
Funny thing happened late last night on the way to the WI State Senate passing Scott Walker's disastrous, "crap," anything-but-funny state budget...The GOP holds a 19-14 advantage in the State Senate,...
View ArticleICYMI: A Fresh Scandal for Walker's "Jobs" Outfit
Late Friday night the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported news of another dubious loan (this time for $1.2M) made by Scott Walker's Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to a Green Bay-area...
View ArticleWalker's WEDC Dumpster Fire Rages On
Several new developments this week following a Board meeting Monday that saw Scott Walker step aside as Chair of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), only to be replaced by Dan...
View Article2016 WI Assembly Races: "So you're telling me there's a chance?"
I know it's (perhaps ridiculously) early, but Democrats have a lot of ground to make up in Wisconsin so I wanted to take a very preliminary look at where gains can be made in the state legislature. I...
View ArticleWI Crony Capitalism: A Family Affair
You may have heard a little something lately about a big Scott Walker donor landing a $63M standardized testing contract. From the Journal-Sentinel:The president and CEO of the Minnesota firm chosen to...
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Something’s NOT Working: Walkernomics, WEDC, & Jobs
With Wisconsin closing in on 11,000 mass layoff notices for 2015, many have asked why Scott Walker’s pet-project/slushfund Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) hasn’t taken more proactive...
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Progressive Buzz Building in Rural NW Wisconsin
Exciting stuff is happening in rural Northwest Wisconsin. Two very strong progressive candidates have emerged to challenge relatively vulnerable first-term GOP Assembly Reps in the 28th and 75th...
View ArticleALERT: Election Shenanigans afoot in Waukesha County
Not that any of us should be surprised, but the groundwork is already being laid for election-night shenanigans in Wisconsin’s 3rd most populous (and most ridiculously-Republican) county.From CBS 58 in...
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Spanish version of WI Voter Registration website fails to mention Voter ID
Voting laws in Wisconsin seem to be changing from week to week. Once in a while it’s because of a federal court standing up for small-d democracy… but more often it has been a constant drumbeat of GOP...
View ArticleWI State Senate is in play. Help Take it back.
The Wisconsin State Senate is by far the best opportunity to put a check on Scott Walker this election, and while it’s not a sure-thing, we actually have a chance here.Sorry to straight-up shill like...
View ArticleThousands of WI Absentee Ballots at Risk of Not Being Counted
Not content to merely violate a court order and give out false information to voters trying to comply with the state’s totally-not-for-partisan-advantage Voter ID law, Wisconsin Republicans have found...
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Comic Relief: WI GOP Rep Plays Himself
From the Dept of Much-Needed Humor: WI GOP Assembly Rep finally comes clean to voters —in a giant newspaper ad, no less— about who he really works for.It started when Democratic challenger Joe Huftel...
View ArticleWI GOP Gerrymander Ruled Unconstitutional!
We’re a long ways from the end of the story here, but today a panel of 3 federal judges ruled that the WI GOP’s ridiculous gerrymandering of WI legislative districts is unconstitutional:We find that...
View ArticleWI-Gov: Get on the #DraftMcCabe Train
Mike McCabe, founder of the indispensable WI Democracy Campaign, is considering challenging Scott Walker in 2018.(Uppity Wisconsin and Jake’s Economics Funhouse have great coverage of this, but it...
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Lightning Round! Flip a Seat in WI in 27 Days!
The Resistance has no down-time. We have a chance to keep up the #BlueWave momentum and flip a WI State Senate seat in another special election coming up on January 16th.Senate District 10, which is...
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Crunch Time for WI Special Election Jan 16. Can you help?
There’s an important special election this coming Tuesday, January 16th in northwest Wisconsin that’s a real chance to flip a State Senate seat blue.Democratic St Croix County Medical Examiner Patty...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: WI State Senate Special Election Results
Special Election Day is here in Wisconsin! Democrat Patty Schachtner is facing off with Freedom Caucus wannabe Assembly Rep Adam Jarchow. This is historically quite a red district, but the combination...
View ArticleWI School collapses into Singularity of White Privilege
I… I can’t even…From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:“The Oconomowoc Area School District is limiting discussions about social privilege after a Martin Luther King Day exercise that touched on the...
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WI Republicans: Handing out candy on Sunday, Racial Slurs on Tuesday
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore when Republican officials follow Drumpf’s lead and tell us how they really feel. Still, it was jarring to see the Barron County (WI) Republican Party...
View Article“We’re a capitalist farm.” No, you're not.
The New Yorker is out with the latest iteration of the portrait-of-the-rural-voter-in-a-swing-state story. This time the focus is on western Wisconsin.The money-quote comes from one Dennis Kragness,...
View ArticleWI-07: Special Election May 12th could block Trump from backing-in to 4 more...
Imagine a scenario where no candidate gets the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Obviously, that would mean something has gone terribly wrong, but it’s possible as the map above shows....
View ArticleBREAKING: WI in-person Election back on; UPDATE: SCOTUS piles on, thousands...
The WI Supreme Court just ruled on a party-line vote (of course) that Wisconsin’s regularly scheduled spring election go ahead tomorrow, with in-person voting… during a pandemic.xBREAKINGWisconsin...
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34 Counties, 77 ICU Beds: Stay the F*ck Home, Wisconsin!
Among the many right-wing astroturf “Open/Liberate [insert-state]” vector festivals last weekend was one you may not have heard about, in the small central Wisconsin town of Mosinee.It was depressingly...
View ArticleWI Police Chief: be on the lookout for a "black male" who "victimized" city...
Barron, WI is a city of about 3,500 people, about 90 miles east of Minneapolis. As you might expect, it’s overwhelmingly white, but it has a growing Somali-American community (somewhere around 15%). If...
View ArticleGOP Judges: WI Voter Suppression on basis of party is legal
Three Republican federal judges just dropped a ruling making voting harder in Wisconsin. Before we even get into the details, note that case was sitting for more than 3 years in the 7th Circuit without...
View ArticleCongressman coughs all over WIGOP state party convention
The Republican Party of Wisconsin held it’s state convention today… indoors… in Green Bay, which was an early COVID-19 hot spot and still has the 2nd highest number of cases per capita in WI.And of...
View ArticleRemember what problem "school choice" was supposed to solve
I’ve been watching bits and pieces of the RNC and one theme that keeps coming up over and over again is how “school choice” (aka taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools) is the greatest...
View ArticleWI Legislative Candidate outed as fan of QAnon AND David Duke. Let's stop him.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel caught northern WI State Assembly candidate David Armstrong showing his love for David Duke and the confederate flag and generally being a gobsmackingly racist...
View ArticleTable: Convicting Trump with fewer than 17 GOP votes
As we’re all aware, it takes a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict Trump. Since there are 100 US Senators, this usually gets short-handed to 67 votes… or 17 Republican Senators joining with the 48...
View ArticleRighteous rant from brother of COVID-stricken anti-vaxx WI State Senator
As you may have seen earlier this week, WI State Senator André Jacque (Q-Green Bay area) has been hospitalized with COVID… and legislators and members of the public who were in close contact with him...
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WI GOP Election "investigation" being run out of Derek Chauvin's defense...
Wisconsin has its own version of a Cyber-Ninjas-style “investigation” into the 2020 election results going on right now. It’s a disgraceful, disingenuous shitshow all the way down, but one...
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