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Janesville loses GM. Will Paul Ryan apologize?

By Cody O - Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:41 am EDT

Earlier this week, Paul Ryan went on the teevee to fondly recall voting to give $700 billion to banksters in the financial industry and then trash the idea of giving any such help to GM and the auto industry. Read More »

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Rep. Ryan: TARP to banksters good, TARP to GM not so good

By Cody O - Jun 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm EDT

So this weekend GOP Rep. Paul Ryan was on Fox News Sunday to chitchat with Chris Wallace. Among the issues discussed was Ryan’s support for TARP dollars to financial institutions but not for stimulus dollars to keep jobs in the auto industry. Read More »

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OWN debates health care, other topics with Margaret Farrow

By Cody O - Jun 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pm EDT

On Friday OWN executive director Scot Ross had the opportunity to be on WPR's The Week in Review facing former GOP Lt. Governor Margaret Farrow. Among the topics was our nation's health care system. During the debate on public health care, Farrow made the outrageous claim that the reason young adults can't afford health care is because they choose to drive more expensive cars. You can listen to Scot's rebuttal and and the rest of the debate here.

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Walker lies.

By Cody O - Jun 18th, 2009 at 6:20 pm EDT

No amount of spin can get Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker out of the glaring lie he included in a fundraising letter sent out as a 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate. Read More »

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WISTAX breaks silence to promote pro-corporate agenda

By Cody O - Jun 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm EDT

A year ago the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance tried to convince the media and its audience that there was no looming budget deficit in Wisconsin and thus no need to close corporate loopholes or raise taxes on the top one percent. And since May of this year—after official reports pegged the deficit at $6.6 billion—WISTAX has remained silent on their glaring error. But today, just in time for the budget to hit the Senate floor, the conservative-leaning, pro-corporate group finally came out of hiding. Read More »

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Amazing Coincidence: Auto Insurance Industry Insider Nygren Offers Auto Insurance Industry Amendment

By Cody O - Jun 11th, 2009 at 3:18 pm EDT

The third substitute amendment (AA3) written by the conservative bunch
in the Assembly today seeks to tear up the “Truth in Auto Insurance”
provisions of the state budget that would protect auto insurance
consumers in Wisconsin.

Amazingly, the amendment to destroy the provision was authored by John
Nygren (R-Marinette), an insurance agent and owner of Great Lakes
Insurance and Finance. Nygren has also taken thousands of dollars from
insurance industry folks. Read More »

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Limbaugh's pack eats its own, again

By Cody O - Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm EDT

Robert Mentzer of the Wausau Daily Herald reported today that a Republican Party of Marathon County spokesperson has been stripped of his duties for criticizing the colossal conservative mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh. Read More »

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Walker hypes jobs program he wanted dead

By Cody O - Jun 1st, 2009 at 2:15 pm EDT

In the vein of his conservative, anti-government anything attitude, Scott Walker tried to veto $100,000 of the funding for a county parks jobs program put forth in a 2009 budget. Thankfully, the Milwaukee County Board overrode his veto. Read More »

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Walker fails children and families, study shows

By Cody O - Jun 1st, 2009 at 12:58 pm EDT

Few are more vulnerable than children who by no fault of their own are placed in the child welfare system. Our state and state’s counties have a moral, if not sensible, obligation to ensure the safety and health of these children. But with Scott Walker at the helms in Milwaukee County, a new study shows the good people that care for these children are “overworked, under-trained and insufficiently supported.” Read More »

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Tax avoider to lead taxpayer caucus

By Cody O - May 7th, 2009 at 11:36 am EDT

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 kicker: heading up the Wisconsin caucus this year is the one and only Randy Hopper, who once and only once paid state income taxes over the course of ten years. Read More »

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Unemployed? Check out this town meeting May 5

By Cody O - May 3rd, 2009 at 5:23 pm EDT

Passing along the word on this great opportunity with a great purpose. Check out the detaiis on the “We’re Looking for Work” Town Meeting below:

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Bradley Foundation rewards Bill Kristol’s FAIL

By Cody O - Apr 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 pm EDT

The Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation gives away buttloads of dollar bills every year to conservative orgs and people so that they can continue to be wrong about issues and still get paid. So it’s no wonder why yesterday the Foundation decided to award conservative columnist and FOXNews commentator Bill Kristol with a $250,000. Read More »

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MJS’s major miss on firearm story

By Cody O - Apr 21st, 2009 at 2:13 pm EDT

Yesterday our NRA-backed Attorney General, JB Van Hollen, claimed that openly carrying a firearm should not result in a disorderly conduct charge in a memorandum issued to Wisconsin’s district attorneys.

Yesterday was also April 20, 2009—ten years to the day after the Columbine Massacre in Colorado: the most infamous school shooting in U.S. history sparked a nationwide debate on tolerance, firearms, schools, the media, and violence. Read More »

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Hopper wants to pay less taxes than he already doesn’t

By Cody O - Apr 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm EDT

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 “may exclude the capital gain realized from the sale of any asset held more than one year.” It estimates the bill would decrease revenue by $13.95 million annually.
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A lesson in good interviewing

By Cody O - Apr 6th, 2009 at 1:33 pm EDT

Class. Here we have two cable television personalities interviewing public officials. Exhibit A: Rachel Maddow. Exhibit B: Bill O’Reilly. Watch and listen carefully for differences in their journalistic style, they may be hard to miss. Note how each handles differences in opinion from their guest. Read More »

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MacIver: Questionable Study, Questionable Timing

By Cody O - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm EDT

A joint study from the conservative MacIver Institute and the anti public school Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice makes the claim that high school dropouts are a burden to taxpayers of Wisconsin. Fair enough. But the source and timing of the study raise some serious eyebrows. Read More »

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Scott’s Hit List: 230 workers, sick pay, overtime benefits, pay raises…

By Cody O - Mar 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am EDT

Scott Walker had some real balls to say he wouldn’t accept federal stimulus dollars to help keep Milwaukee Co. from plunging further into an economic fubar. And while everyone around him could think of exceptional ways to utilize the available money, Walker insisted his plan for Milwaukee Co. wouldn’t rely on government dollars.

Instead, Scott Walker has a hit list—I’ll call it the S-Hit List—of bad ideas aimed at putting less dollars in the pockets of Milwaukee Co. employees. Read More »

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Hungry for “change,” GOP county exec looks to Walker’s missed opportunity

By Cody O - Mar 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm EDT

Outagamie County Executive Toby Paltzer, a GOPer, issued a press release today that makes Scott Walker look even more like a jerk for denying Milwaukee Co. their deserved share of stimulus dollars. Read More »

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Fernandez, Koschnick join the conservative circus

By Cody O - Mar 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pm EDT

There’s a huge rift in conservatism these days. On the one hand, you have a faction that looks back in dismay at three losing election cycles and is trying to retool their message in hope for a better outcome in the future. On the other hand, you have a faction too stubborn to abandon their extreme views, not because they necessarily think they can still win elections, but because they don’t want to admit their views were ever that extreme in the first place. Over the weekend, the latter faction showed up in hundreds to the Defending the American Dream Summit put on by Americans for Prosperity. Read More »

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You know who really grinds my gears? Steve Nass.

By Cody O - Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am EST

You may have seen this story last week in the Wisconsin State Journal about a four-way jabfest between One Wisconsin Now, Mark Pocan, Nass, and the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (Leah Vukmir took a swing too, but her press release was so ridiculous nobody really took it serious). Read More »

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The MacIver Institute for Public Policy charts a bold new policy path...
Posted Jun 30, 2009 12:22pm
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Legislative Republicans AWOL on state budget fix
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Will Newt Worry about Whether Tonette Walker Gets â€œInfectionsâ€?
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Janesville loses GM. Will Paul Ryan apologize?
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Fox News labels Sanford a Dem -- oh yeah, and Foley too and a bunch of other times.
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Why Do the No-Budget GOPers Get to Complain Now?
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'All we are saying is give nukes a chance'
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