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Right-Wing Ridiculousness Round-Up

By Cody O - Mar 15th, 2010 at 1:27 pm EDT

Over the weekend we heard about Scott Walker’s $24,500 “Brown Bag,” Rebecca Kleefisch’s plan to cut gov’t waste by creating more gov’t, and the Sean Duffy camp kerfuffle at a Wisconsin TEA Party. Chalk it up to spring fever… or just right-wing ridiculousness as usual. Read More »

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Does Ed Thompson also think farmers are “welfare bums”?

By Cody O - Mar 12th, 2010 at 2:14 pm EST

I wonder if Ed Thompson agrees with what Grover Norquist has to say about the hardworking farmers in Thompson’s area. Namely, that they’re “welfare bums.” Read More »

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Ed Thompson to take Wealthcare pledge

By Cody O - Mar 5th, 2010 at 11:28 am EST

Ed Thompson announced today that he’d be singing Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” In his latest press release, Thompson raises the roof for Norquist and his group, Americans for Tax Reform, for championing a belief in anti-working class tax policies. Score another one for the fat cats. Read More »

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We do take issue with the facts of WPRI study, Lightbourn

By Cody O - Feb 26th, 2010 at 12:42 pm EST

So “Wisconsin’s Free Market Think Tank” released yet another report reinforcing the pro-corporate agenda of conservatives. Big surprise. Read More »

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Health insurance corporation ups premiums 17% in Wisc.

By Cody O - Feb 24th, 2010 at 12:27 pm EST

The health insurance industry has once again reminded the American public why we ever started talking about health insurance reform in the first place. A new report shows that WellPoint – the nation’s largest health insurance corporation by membership – will increase premiums in Wisconsin by 17 percent. Read More »

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Walker stimulated by Recovery Act railroad advocate

By Cody O - Feb 16th, 2010 at 12:19 pm EST

With rail on the mind as Joint Finance meets today to discuss establishing a high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee, this seems to be an appropriate time to point out that Scott Walker received a $10,000 contribution from a railroad chief who happens to be a very visible advocate for using Recovery Act dollars for freight rail development to stimulate the economy. Read More »

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WISTAX more partisan than WMC?

By Cody O - Feb 10th, 2010 at 5:31 pm EST

We here at One Wisconsin Now have worked tirelessly for close to a year developing WISTAX Watch—a comprehensive expose on the pro-corporate, conservative bias of Wisconsin’s most vocal and visible tax policy think tank, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX). Among the most blatant examples of its bias is the overwhelming amount of contributions to Republican and conservative candidates and committees. So just how partisan is WISTAX? Read More »

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New partisan WMC head calls for bipartisanship

By Cody O - Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:23 pm EST

WMC Watch News: WMC's new board chair is calling for bipartisan efforts to stimulate job growth in Wisconsin. Laughable, given the extremely partisan disposition of the organization he now heads and his own partisan campaign contributions. Read More »

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Thompson "Dithering"

By Cody O - Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:14 pm EST

Yet another story has popped about Republican Tommy Thompson maybe/maybe not throwing his hat in a race somewhere in Wisconsin. But the real question is: will the right wing call it "dithering"? Read More »

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With his hand out, Torinus criticizes Recovery

By Cody O - Feb 2nd, 2010 at 11:26 am EST

Readers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business section will know the name John Torinus. Torinus seems to be a busy man in the business community: he is the current chair and former CEO of Serigraph, Inc.; a current board member of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce--our state’s largest pro-corporate, anti-public investment lobby group; and a past board member and chair of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance--the state’s most prominent pro-corporate, anti-public investment, tax research group. Read More »

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That's Debatable: State of the State

By Cody O - Jan 30th, 2010 at 10:05 am EST

Here's the latest WisOpinion "That's Debatable" featuring One WI Now's Executive Director, Scot Ross on Doyle's State of the State address, overcoming the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, and Scott Walker’s plan to yank $2 billion out of the state (on top of the $2.7 billion deficit) and dole it out overwhelmingly to the rich and corporations -- check it out! Read More »

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Growing opposition to right-wing polling project

By Cody O - Jan 26th, 2010 at 5:56 pm EST

A week ago, One Wisconsin Now delivered the unfortunate news that WPRI-UW poll materials suggest a deliberate removal of references to statewide opposition to private school vouchers. Since then, significant criticism has mounted against the troubling partnership between the state's most prominent right-wing think tank, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and the UW Political Science Department. Read More »

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Dr. No Won't Say No

By Cody O - Jan 25th, 2010 at 2:47 pm EST

Did you hear the "news"? Tommy Thompson might run (possibly) for something (again) (maybe)… EXCITING… (SORT OF!)… Read More »

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Wall: Up against the facts

By Cody O - Jan 19th, 2010 at 11:44 am EST

WisPolitics is reporting that Wall "took shots at Feingold's maverick image, saying the Middleton Dem votes with leadership nine out of 10 times." Read More »

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Oshkosh families: Raise taxes and protect our kids' futures

By Cody O - Jan 7th, 2010 at 10:15 am EST

From the Oshkosh Northwestern:

"A crowd of about 150 parents, teachers and concerned Oshkosh residents packed into a commons room at West High School Tuesday night for a public forum on upcoming spending cuts as high as $5 million. About 30 people spoke out against budget cuts that would close schools and layoff teachers." Read More »

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Eight years later, Walker provides accountability

By Cody O - Jan 5th, 2010 at 3:11 pm EST

Citing “new technology” that supposedly didn’t exist eight years ago when he took hold of the budget reins of Milwaukee County as its executive, Scott Walker announced yesterday that he, himself, has “launched a public accountability link”. Read More »

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The Economy: Still recovering from the Bush decade

By Cody O - Jan 4th, 2010 at 1:53 pm EST

Corporate-friendly economic policies weren’t missing from the 90s (see NAFTA and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) but without a doubt, it’s the 00s that will be remembered as the decade when the George W. Bush Administration took laissez-faire, trickle-down capitalism to new heights—putting pro-corporate, upper-class economic policies ahead of hard-working Americans—only to have the middle-class economy tank with historic numbers of job losses and home foreclosures all the while maintaining an unfair tax burden on middle- and lower-class families. It’s from this disaster that local, state, and the national governments are facing the difficult task of how to recover economically in the new decade. Read More »

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WMC swallowing its own tail, complaining about it

By Cody O - Dec 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pm EST

After decades of trying to spin outsourcing as good and natural in a capitalist economy, and after perpetually labeling Wisconsin a “Tax Hell,” Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) is now complaining—and seems somewhat surprised—that our state government is employing more workers than manufacturers. Read More »

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Round up of right-wing reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan decision

By Cody O - Dec 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm EST

Good or bad, President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan was sure to incite some hilarious responses from teevees finest talking egos. Media Matters and Huffington Post did a great job tracking them down. Without further ado: Read More »

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Pieces of the Puzzle: Tax Foundation and Americans for Prosperity

By Cody O - Nov 24th, 2009 at 5:04 pm EST

Back in September, One Wisconsin Now called into serious question the Tax Foundation’s claim of being an objective research organization when it was revealed that it was a “Silver Sponsor” of an Americans for Prosperity event. Everyone knows the research coming out of the Tax Foundation is fundamentally conservative, but this was a little much. This suspect sponsorship led OWN down a line of research that would uncover a direct nexus between the Tax Foundation and the Americans for Prosperity. Read More »

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