Wisconsin Protests

Op-Ed

Caught on Tape: Walker Plans for a Single Party State

by Mary Bottari — May 11, 2012 - 5:51am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Tort Reform, Corporations, Economy, Wisconsin Protests

    • Video was obtained and released by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel less than a month before the June 5th recall election for Wisconsin governor that shows newly elected Governor Scott Walker in a frank conversation with one of his biggest supporters.

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    Walker's Dept. of Natural Resources Fails to Prosecute Polluters

    by Sara Jerving — May 9, 2012 - 10:02am
  • Topics: Environment, Wisconsin Protests

    • Attempts to make Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) more business-friendly by Governor Scott Walker's administration, has landed the agency in a scandal over the handling of the discipline of a suspected polluter. The Wisconsin State Journal broke a story May 6 that exposed a decision by Walker appointee DNR Executive Assistant Scott Gunderson to handle a complaint internally against Herr Environmental Inc., a waste hauler, rather than send the complaint to the Attorney General for prosecution, helping the company skirt what could have been a much heftier punishment. Wisconsin Rep. Joel Kleefisch was also implicated in the effort to get the polluters off the hook.

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    ReMatch! Barrett to Face Walker in Historic Recall Election

    by Mary Bottari — May 9, 2012 - 6:59am
  • Topics: Wisconsin Protests

    • Wisconsin voters chose Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to run against incumbent Governor Scott Walker in the first gubernatorial recall election in the state's history. It has been 450 days since the first protests against Walker's bill to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights sparked massive protests and an 18 day occupation of the Capitol building. Now, there are only 28 days left before a general election that will decide the next governor of the state.

    Barrett told MSNBC: "It will be a wild and woolly 28 days."

    Special Report

    A CMD Special Report: ALEC's "Scholarship" Scheme Helps Corporations Fund Legislator Trips

    by Brendan Fischer — May 7, 2012 - 8:32am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Election 2012, Corporations, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) not only allows corporations and special interests to hand state legislators "model bills," but also provides a vehicle for ALEC's corporate members to buy influence with legislators through gifts of flights, hotel rooms, and other perks denominated as "ALEC scholarships," according to information obtained through open records requests.

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    Walker Receives $1.3 Million From Koch "Donor Summit" Attendees

    by Brendan Fischer — May 4, 2012 - 10:16am
  • Topics: Election 2012, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has received at least $1.3 million in recall campaign contributions from donors who attended secretive right-wing fundraisers organized by Charles and David Koch, a Center for Media and Democracy analysis shows.

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    Walker Raises and Spends More Money than Any Candidate in Wisconsin History

    by Mary Bottari — May 2, 2012 - 8:40am
  • Topics: Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • The headlines in Wisconsin are all about the $25 million dollar man -- Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Walker's campaign committee has raised an eye-popping $25 million for the recall, $13 million since January 2012 when close to 1 million signatures were filed with the Wisconsin elections board triggering a recall election. Walker spent a huge sum $5 million on direct mail, rivaling the $4.5 million spent on TV. The direct mail allows him to build a national data base of funders to tap for the recall.

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    Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC

    by Brendan Fischer — May 1, 2012 - 7:37am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Labor, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • With the recent publication of additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining legislation. Some of those provisions may be adopted by ALEC for introduction in other states.

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    Walker Says that "Job Creators" Will Be Back After the Recall

    by Mary Bottari — April 25, 2012 - 9:59am
  • Topics: Corporations, Economy, Labor, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • The banner headline in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning "State posts largest percentage job loss in U.S. over past year" underscores a serious problem that folks living in Wisconsin are already familiar with. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin was the only state in the country to have statistically significant job losses in the past year. Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs between March 2011 and March 2012. The majority were government jobs, but that number included 6,100 private sector jobs, the most private sector jobs lost in any state.

    Op-Ed

    The Incredible Shrinking $7.5 Million Damage Tab for the Wisconsin Capitol Protests

    by Jonathan Rosenblum — April 20, 2012 - 7:00am
  • Topics: Activism, Democracy, Labor, Propaganda, Wisconsin Protests

    • When all is said and spun, some will judge the veracity of Governor Scott Walker's administration by a single number it released in March 2011.

    The "Wisconsin Uprising" hit its stride in February-March, 2011 with more than 100,000 protesters rallying outside the Capitol and thousands more inside, including hundreds who occupied overnight for up to three weeks. When the administration was seeking to limit public access to the Capitol during the protests, the Wisconsin Department of Administration's chief counsel Cari Anne Renlund, told a judge hearing the access case that the cleanup would cost $6 million to repair damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and $500,000 for costs to supervise the damage. The estimates (which were the same as the original cost of the entire construction of the Capitol nearly a century ago) were based largely on alleged tape residue damage from signs. Protestors countered that they had consulted with preservationists and used marble-safe blue painter's tape. Their militant adherence to the blue tape was visible to every Capitol visitor.

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    Wisconsin Governor Faces Protests at Home and On the Road

    by Harriet Rowan — April 17, 2012 - 6:49pm
  • Topics: Activism, Politics, Wisconsin Protests, Women

    • Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker was in Illinois, speaking to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce on April 17, and a huge crowd of protestors was there to "unwelcome" him.

    While Walker compared himself to Honest Abe on the inside of the Lincoln Hotel in Springfield, an estimated 4,000 workers rallied on the outside. Props included a giant rat and a large Walker image on a board imprinted with the words "don't Badger us."

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