One of the about 100 supporters gathered in a field in this D.C. exurb waved a “Stand with Walker” sign from last year’s recall fight.
At an earlier stop in Spotsylvania, which drew about 150, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus led the crowd in singing Walker a happy 46th birthday.
During the campaign event Friday, Cole made it clear that he would further emulate what Walker has done in Wisconsin over the past five years if he is elected to the state’s highest office.
That record includes continued support for Wisconsin’s right-to-work law that caused Walker to fight a recall in 2012, after unions in the state gathered enough signatures to prompt a special election.You might as well invite in a wellness specialist who passes out free cigarettes.
MADISON - Wisconsin's DNR has re-affirmed that it will not draft new regulations for the frac-sand mines that are popping up mainly in the western half of the state.
An official told the Natural Resources Board last week that new rules were not needed - and current regulations were adequate. Now, Deputy Secretary Matt Moroney gave the same reply to a group of residents who petitioned his agency in November for regulations on dust particles.I have cited this disclosure several times, and included it in a longer piece about the DNR's laissez-faire approach to multiple sand mining issues.
Donald Trump's presidential transition operation is quietly building a series of policy teams tasked with mapping out the businessman's agenda, according to a source familiar with the process.
The transition operation, which is chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, is setting up policy teams focused on taxes, financial services, veterans, national security, energy and even building a border wall between the United States and Mexico, the source said.
Christie huddled behind closed doors last week with GOP lobbyists from the financial services and energy sector, and the transition staff is expected to balloon in size over the next week as Christie brings more policy advisers on board.While others work on judicial appointments, ambassadorial nominees, etc.
A couple of days, when analyzing policies of Walkerite Republicans that make Wisconsin unattractive, I'd written:
It would not surprise me if Wisconsin's population gain slows or plateaus as a result of these punitive, small-minded and overtly hostile GOP programs, guaranteeing Wisconsin's long-term status as a low-wage, slow-to-no-new job growth entrepreneurial and lifestyle backwater.Not to mention earlier posts:
How much evidence do you need to grasp the damage our 'Midwestern nice" presidential poseur-in-chief has added to Wisconsin's stalled economy through punitive, trickle-down fiscal 'planning' - - damage he heaped on top of a national recession recovery that is bypassing the state on his watch?
Report: Wisconsin worst in nation on
shrinking middle-class
The economic prediction of state legislator Robin Vos, now Assembly Speaker, who spoke with certainty in April 2012 about the coming boom in Wisconsin once Scott Walker nailed down the recall win:
Once June 5 hits and Gov. Scott Walker is securely re-elected, “our economy is going to take off like a rocket,” state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said Monday during a meeting with The Journal Times Editorial Board.
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MADISON, Wis. — It seemed a clear victory for voting rights advocates in July when a federal court invalidated much of Wisconsin’s restrictive elections law, concluding that it discriminated against minorities by requiring voters to produce photo ID cards that blacks and Latinos too often lack. The remedy was straightforward: Henceforth, the state was to “promptly issue a credential valid as a voting ID to any person” who applied for one.
But this month when Treasure Collins visited one of the Wisconsin motor vehicle offices that issue IDs, she found something entirely different.And today, separately from a story spreading across the Internet originating with discoveries made by One Wisconsin Institute and published in The Nation:
A City Clerk Opposed an Early-Voting Site at UW–Green Bay Because ‘Students Lean More Toward the Democrats’Walker policies and allies are throughout these stories.
.MADISON, WI – On behalf of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Sierra Club – John Muir Chapter, Midwest Environmental Advocates filed a petition this week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requesting formal objection by the federal agency to an air pollution permit approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.The grassroots organization Friends of the Black River Forest, one of several groups around the state which has taken on the burden of environmental preservation which Walker's DNR has intentionally forfeited, has continued to question the project and has asked DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp - - again - - for a meeting. Here is the text of the organization's request.
Dear Secretary Stepp,Friends of the Black River Forest has been asking members of the DNR staff why theDNR has worked for the Kohler Company for 5 years without an application into theagency. We have asked why the DNR would take time to write a DraftEnvironmental Impact Statement on the proposed Kohler golf course withouthaving complete information on environmental impacts to present to the public. ADNR supervisor, David Siebert, has said the premature DEIS was released to getinformation out to the public, but he and others have also said upper management—that is, you—are the ones with the ultimate answer to this question.We have waited months to have record requests fulfilled only to have themincomplete.
The public has a right to know why you have allowed staff to put in thousands ofhours of work on the Kohler projects when you profess to be short staffed andunable to enforce regulations that would keep Wisconsin’s water clean anddrinkable.
Documents we have seen suggest a DNR very willing to move Kohler’s projectsforward because Kohler and DNR management wanted it. We have a DNR attorneyand current Deputy Secretary, Kurt Thiede, agreeing to mislead the Town of WilsonBoard so Kohler would get the entrance to the Tented Forest it wanted. The publicneeds to be reassured of DNR’s motives and actions.
Please notify us when we can meet in person with you to hear the reasons behindthe DNR’s fast tracking and financial expenditures on Kohler Company projects.Your staff has said you keep no records of staff time on this project. We find itdifficult to believe this information cannot be found, and we question an agency thatonly keeps such records for some projects—but not this one.
We had a meeting scheduled with you at about this time last year, but you wereunavailable at the last minute and we met with other staff. We’d like to try again.We await correspondence from your office setting a date to meet and discuss theseimportant issues to the taxpayers and environment of our state.
Mary FaydashCo-Spokeperson, Friends of the Black River Forest
