In the wake of the Penn State scandal, several Wisconsin legislators will reintroduce a bill to make it easier for victims of childhood sexual assault sue the perpetrators.
The lgislators should ask now-US Senator Ron Johnson to come and support the bill - - unlike the last time when he claimed the measure would hurt job creators.
See the creepy video for yourself. Note Johnson lost the beard before he ran for Senate.
Your Lt. Gov. at work. The tape is telling. Little wonder that Wisconsin showed up dead last month in job creation, and that Illinois businesses are not taking the Walker/Kleefisch relocation bait.
You can see why Chicago TV news anchor Bill Kurtis chuckles when says he loves the story.
And the snickering continues after Kleefisch strikes out with a PR firm and coupon.com firm.
Final question: why would Kleefisch's handlers let her fail on tape?
Scott Walker praises "good people," (read: protestors, bad), but he should get on the Google and search "Bill Dyke, Madison, decent people" to see where that kind of language gets you at the ballot box.
Illinois cleaned Wisconsin's clock in job creation last month even though Scott Walker thought he had that issue covered by putting up his silly and now self-parodying signs at the Illinois border - -
ROCK COUNTY (WKOW) -- Gov. Scott Walker unveiled new road signs today announcing that Wisconsin is open for business.
Gov. Walker puts up new signs targeted at Illinois businesses
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 8:11 AM CST
"Illinois, we're coming your way...And by the way: did taxpayers in our broke state pay for her trip to that meeting - - of the 2011 Smart Girl Summit?
Smart Girl Politics Action is proud to announce details for Smart Girl Summit 2011. SGS11 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown St. Louis on July 29 and 30. The 3rd Annual Smart Girl Summit will bring together top conservative voices with activists like you. This is a conference by conservative women, for conservative women (and some conservative men!).And what was in her SGS "swag bag?"
The $125 Ticket price includes Friday night's banquet dinner, lunch on Saturday, and in usual SGP fashion your SGS swag bag.
Wisconsin led the nation in job losses last month, and eight hours after AP moved its story, this is the best a Journal Sentinel headline writer could muster?
On top of a Bloomberg News Service account?Wisconsin lags nation in payroll growth
Q. "Is our children learning?"
Santorum, in tonight's debate:
A. "Africa was a country on the brink."
Illinois added 30,000 jobs, the most among states. It was followed by California, which added 25,700.And Wisconsin, last month?
Illinois' job growth appears to have encouraged many people who had stopped looking for work to resume job searches, increasing the size of the labor force. That caused the unemployment rate to rise, despite the job gain.
Wisconsin reported the biggest job loss, a drop of 9,700, followed by New York, which shed 8,300.
ROCK COUNTY (WKOW) -- Gov. Scott Walker unveiled new road signs today announcing that Wisconsin is open for business.
Gov. Walker puts up new signs targeted at Illinois businesses
Posted: Jan 18, 2011 8:11 AM CST
The UC-Davis officer is a Lieutenant.
Separate video, here.
The New York City officer is a Captain.
Both sprayed peaceful protestors, and in the NYC case, hit people on the sidewalk who were fenced in by officers prior to the spraying.
Training and supervisory breakdowns, or just jerks rising through the ranks?
Today's story about Wisconsin's job-loss rating (#1!) nationally, here.
AP moved its story late this morning.
But I still don't see it, and/or an analysis, on jsonline.
The earlier, oft-ignored story about Walker's 250,000 jobs' promise crashing, per the Department of Revenue, is here.
Wisconsin led the nation in job losses last month, the AP reports, so in light of this #1 ranking, where Bucky beat out even the big states, like New York, we ask:
Where are the jobs that Scott Walker's business and upper-income earner tax breaks were supposed to create? Or how about stemming the losses?
Little wonder that the Department of Revenue has said Walker cannot meet his promised goal of 250,000 new jobs in four years.
And what spin will the administration put on the data, because Walker and his people will never say their policies are failing.
Look for blame to be case everywhere else, from Greece to Obama to Doyle.
And remember that some of Walker tax breaks even preceded the adoption of his budget, where round #2 then took place, but when it came to aiding laid-off workers there was no sense of urgency.
Walker did keep his campaign promises to lower taxes on businesses, but the premise of the promise was that the job creators would take their state-inspired windfalls and reinvest them into new plants, purchasing and expansion that would create jobs.
The new numbers, ill-timed and no doubt embarrassing for a governor facing recall, unmask the fallacy of giving money away through tax policy to create employment.
So Walker should reap what he sowed through political payoffs made on schedule to corporate leaders and upper-income donors:
Pain at the ballot box directly tied to failed policies and falling payrolls.
Another instance where a corporation is allowed to settle civil charges with money, and even skate past a criminal conviction without anyone going to jail.
The GOP 'front-runner' has a plan:
Gingrich calls child labor laws ‘truly stupid’
Cutting transit to Milwaukee, again, are we?
Including service from downtown Waukesha to Milwaukee, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Waukesha County plans to reduce commuter service between Waukesha and downtown Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee beginning Jan. 2...
Route 901, which operates from downtown Waukesha to Milwaukee, including UWM, currently offers 21 trips weekdays....Proposed cutbacks would reduce the service to peak travel hours, with eight trips...weekdays.
Route 905 operates from various park-and-ride lots along I-94 between Oconomowoc and Milwaukee. Service is currently during morning and afternoon rush hours weekdays, and that service will be cut from the current six trips to five trips during the morning rush hour.There has been a cut-and-cut again transit service pattern coming out of Waukesha, city and county - - for years - - and years - - yet public and private sector officials there still believe that Milwaukee should sell the City of Waukesha all the water it wants to boost the suburban economy, while pretending that these matters are not coupled.
D. Reporting requirements for the community which has applied for water service
In addition, for purposes of Common Council review, the community which has applied for water service from the City of Milwaukee shall submit a written report to the aforementioned communication file indicating that the community has adopted and implemented:
D-1. A comprehensive plan pursuant to s. 66.1001, Wis. Stats., and, if the plan has not been completed, indicate the status of the community’s compliance with each of the 9 requirements which comprise s. 66.1001 (2), Wis. Stats.
D-2. A comprehensive housing plan and can demonstrate that such plan has resulted in the creation of affordable housing opportunities that have resulted in racial, age and income diversification, with data on the percentage of population in assisted and affordable housing that is age 30 or less, above age 30 and below 65, and age 65 and above.
What part of "...has adopted and implemented...a comprehensive public transportation plan...has resulted in the expansion and improvement of public transportation links between persons living in the City of Milwaukee and job opportunities in the community which has applied for water service..." do officials out Waukesha way not comprehend?D-3. A comprehensive public transportation plan and can demonstrate that such plan has resulted in the expansion and improvement of public transportation links between persons living in the City of Milwaukee and job opportunities in the community which has applied for water service. Such plan may include, but is not limited to, participation and inclusion in the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Transportation Authority or an equivalent entity. [my note, see this.]
Fits on a bumper sticker, too:
"Follow Our Cheating Eyes."
Fake primary candidates, manipulated election dates, legalized registration and voting restrictions, recall signature violations ...and now yet another wrinkle.
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He said up to 20% of the signatures on Walker recall petitions would be bogus, then put on the air a caller who claimed people from Illinois were driving across the border to sign petitions.
The right must know Walker is in trouble if they are already claiming fraud with the recall process is just a few days old.
And isn't it interesting that when the right wants to make an accusation, it falls back on those "people from Illinois."
The last time Wisconsin conservative to make that allegation was State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, remember?
Remember good ol' Brett Favre (amazingly, mentioned at this blog, here, by the way), lovin' that tractor of his and milkin' it for all it was worth?
"I still farm in Elroy, Wisconsin. I'm farming 700 acres-- I'll be on my tractor this week, before Thanksgiving, harvesting corn... I'm still the farmer from Elroy, Wisconsin and I'm proud of it-- and the proudest days are when I'm on my tractor, on my farm in Elroy, lookin at my cattle and, uh, cultivating, plowing...
The Post-Crescent sees through the ship's Landmarks designation end-run.
To continue dumping 3.8 tons of ash a day in Lake Michigan, which Wisconsin environmental groups strongly oppose.
More history, here.
Thought I''d put together and post some links to items, audio, and video supporting the case for the recall of Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Feel free to circulate, supplement:
* My case for Walker's removal.
* When Republicans like recalls. Includes a link to Walker's 2010 pro-recall commercial.
* Where the so-called "one-issue" recall argument is nicely knocked down.
* Jobs, no. We were getting jobbed from Day One, and through the Special Session, yes?
* How ideology feeds recall fervor.
* Walker benefits from, tolerates election fakery, one-sided law and enforcement.
* 24 years of denial and deceit, and counting.
* Two-thirds of Walker's PolitiFact ratings are "mostly false," or worse.
* Rewarding the rich, hammering the poor.
* Upending 224 years of public waterway ownership, stewardship, for special interests.
* Eagle Scout, religious values touted, tossed out the window.
* Concealed guns for the untrained carriers OK'ed in State Capitol; cameras and signs banned.
