http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/blog_rss/scotross Apparently, some editing gremlins at both the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel feel confident that anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist is not an “anti-tax zealot.” So much so they edited the description of “zealot” from Saturday’s Associated Press story from this weekend’s round-up of the teabaggers’ latest “Republican Rally for Failure” held in the Wisconsin Dells. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHWV http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHWV/commentary#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:42:52 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHWV Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHWV/ The Republican Party of Tommy! has registered its great displeasure with One Wisconsin Now’s press release from yesterday congratulating former Gov. Tommy Thompson on the incredible cashing in he’s done since leaving the corrupt Bush administration. Tommy!, whose greatest achievement as Health and Human Services Secretary was helping the Bush Administration lie about the cost of the $8 trillion boondoggle called Medicare Part D, appears to have had his best financial year ever in 2008, according to tax records collected by One Wisconsin Now. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrv http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrv/commentary#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:57:43 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrv Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrv/ Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has been was as virulent against the Recovery Act funds for Wisconsin as the dopey ex-Governor of Alaska was about her state’s share. You know who hasn’t been against the Recovery Act? The Wisconsin Road Builders. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrc http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrc/commentary#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:12:21 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrc Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrc/ The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families has put together detailed information about the more than $2 billion Recovery Act funding that counties in Wisconsin received to start digging us out of the hole created by the failed economic policies of the Republican Congress and George W. Bush. Check out the county data here . http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrZ http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrZ/commentary#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:28:36 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrZ Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrZ/ WISTAX Watch is asking the conservative Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance to explain why its latest report focusing on fee increases in cities and villages ignores county governments. The state is in the midst of a gubernatorial campaign between Milwaukee's conservative county executive, Scott Walker and Milwaukee's mayor, Tom Barrett. It defies logic that WISTAX focuses on cities but not counties, given its history of lumping taxes together in its annual total tax reports. WISTAX goes so far as to single out the city of Milwaukee for special coverage to get headlines advancing its conservative agenda. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrh http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrh/commentary#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:17:17 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrh Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 2 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrh/ One Wisconsin Now has been wondering from which broom closet in the GOP bathhouse of stupidity ample GOPer seat-filler Joel Kleefisch yanked his "sex offender" license plate idea. Turns out it's from the bowels of Soviet-era Russia and Fidel Castro's communist Cuba. (Cue shocking music) http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrR http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrR/commentary#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:37:46 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrR Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 2 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrR/ Rep. Marlin Schneider got called out by the Associated Press for a claim he made on the number of constituents who contacted him about his laughably-unconstitutional bill limiting the public’s right to the online Circuit Court Access Program. It reminded us of a similar constituent claim made by right-wing seat-filler Sen. Mary Lazich. Back in 2009, in the midst of the debate on the state’s biennial budget, Lazich offered from the floor of the senate on June 17, “ ...I'm getting a few hundred communications a day on this budget, and they are not positive. They are negative... ” (Go to 1:11:40) http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHr5 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHr5/commentary#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:27:58 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHr5 Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHr5/ Gotta quiz for you...Which supposedly "independent" and "unbiased" organization in Wisconsin fits the following? Its president and leading voice is a former Republican administration official and local Republican party executive committee member. Members of its board of directors since 1994 have donated nearly $1.3 million to Republicans and conservative political candidates. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrp http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrp/commentary#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:26:27 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrp Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 2 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrp/ Jim Rowen, a member of the Institute for One Wisconsin family, reports over at The Political Environment that the good work of activists is resulting in a series of public focus groups planned by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission to get public input on "the implications of transferring Lake Michigan water to Waukesha and other communities." Check here for critical information about the events and a complete list of the hearings, which are free and open to the public. So go with a friend. Or two. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrJ http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrJ/commentary#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:32:59 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrJ Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrJ/ The favorable private school voucher study paid for by the state’s leading private school voucher advocates is riddled with fundamental research flaws, implying the "study" was designed to reach a pre-conceived conclusion in favor of a particular political agenda. That the state's leading private school voucher gang funded a study that supports the private school voucher agenda is hardly surprising. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrn http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrn/commentary#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:41:23 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrn Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrn/ The latest Rasmussen poll shows Sen. Russ Feingold with a slight deficit to non-candidate and oft-cited Tommy! Thompson. Some have raised concerns that Rasmussen words its questions in a way that favors Republicans and conservatives. Not to the level of Strategic Vision's fraudulent polling , by any stretch, but noteworthy, nonetheless. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrB http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrB/commentary#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:01:08 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHrB Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHrB/ Master Terrence Wall Street simply does not like the Recovery Act. In fact, he dislikes the Recovery Act almost as much as he disdains paying his fair share of taxes that the rest of us pay . The Untaxable Terrence, has not only used his Twitter to criticize efforts through the Recovery Act to turn America around, but also featured in the Daily Reporter as having said the following: http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcP http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcP/commentary#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:30:48 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcP Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcP/ Hardworking State Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) bravely stood up to recent media reports that he had still not paid back taxpayers for the $38,000 tab we had coming after footing the bill for his legal woes over his use of taxpayer resources for campaign business and his obstruction of an open records request: He hastily announced he would pay a small portion of the bill. Y'know if we can get the press to write a story about his opposition to job creation measures, maybe tomorrow he'll do an announcement he's going to start trying to create economic opportunity for Wisconsin. It's worth a shot. As a side note: although Kapanke advocates for ridiculous tax cuts for the rich and has a baseball team, he is not like George W. Bush . http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcm http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcm/commentary#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:50:36 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcm Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 3 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcm/ In his effort to portray the “fail, Democrats, fail” movement also known as the teabaggers, consistent pro-GOPer mouthpiece Patrick McIlheran attempts to further the fallacy that teabagging is a non-partisan explosion of discontent, rather than Republicans who want President Obama and Democrats to, well, not succeed. Paddy Mac’s method: interviewing some joker who at one point shouted an obscenity when talking about Sen. Russ Feingold and letting him claim he’s got non-partisan cred. (I'm not going to name his source who's in the story.) http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHck http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHck/commentary#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:44:38 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHck Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHck/ If you haven't had the chance yet to grab your wagon and take the kiddies down to "Tax Free' Terrence Wall's $2 million pumpkin patch, there's no time like the present. Take a virtual tour here. As One Wisconsin Now previously reported, Wall Land Investment, LLC, one of multi-millionaire Madison developer Terrence Wall’s companies, has reclassified $2 million in prime Dane County commercial real estate into “agriculture” property, which allows the company to eliminate $34,000 in local property taxes. Wall was already under criticism for using a Delaware post “office” box to possibly avoid paying Wisconsin business tax. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcd http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcd/commentary#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:31:23 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcd Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcd/ Looks like Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has his rapid response done through the Journal Communications company. No sooner had One Wisconsin Now posted our analysis showing Scott Walker's proposed county budget increases of 35% were higher than the state's two other largest municipalities, the City of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin, than his pals in the "liberal media": TMJ's Charlie Sykes and the Journal Sentinel's Patrick McIlheran , came roaring to his defense. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHc2 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHc2/commentary#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:39:37 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHc2 Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHc2/ Over the past months, a staffer from the conservative MacIver Institute has been attending press conferences in Madison and Milwaukee, armed with a camera to take footage and attempt to get interviews with legislators and other elected public officials. Be warned: The MacIver Institute is a not a news service. It is not a member of the traditional media. It is a right wing educational “charitable” organization and it is gathering footage to advance its conservative, anti-worker agenda. Talking to the MacIver Institute is abetting the conservative movement in its efforts to ensure progressive values and issues are not a part of the public policy debate. MacIver has spent considerable time criticizing the 2009-11 state budget, the Recovery Act, reforming the health insurance industry and stopping global climate change. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcQ http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcQ/commentary#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:40:14 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcQ Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcQ/ Todd Berry, the head of the conservative Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance who must be on the speed dial of every reporter in Wisconsin, wound up in a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the IRS plan to begin regulation of paid tax preparers. Berry blamed the complexity of the tax code this way: "The reason we have to use them is simply that Congress and the Wisconsin Legislature view the tax code as a Christmas tree. They make it unnecessarily complicated." http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcr http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcr/commentary#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:49:19 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcr Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcr/ Multi-millionaire developer Terrence Wall, who gained notoriety for his $34,000 pumpkin patch property tax dodge and his phantom Delaware post office box to avoid taxes on his millions in development assets, is laughably trying to link U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold to the aborted airplane attack from last week. What Wall’s breathless press release fails to mention is that President Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Safety Administration, has for months been held up in the Senate by the obstruction of lunatic South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint . So the next time Wall is limosened from his multi-million dollar home and shuffled through security at the airport to board whatever private plane or charter he’s taking to visit the post office box of “ corporate headquarters” in Delaware , he can stop by DeMint’s office in Washington, DC and encourage him to stop compromising our homeland security by ending the obstructionist hold on the President’s nominee. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcX http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcX/commentary#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:06:38 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHcX Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHcX/ "It's a Festivus Miracle." Turns out Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's fight to dismantle the rights of all public sector employees in Milwaukee was big, giant George W. Bush-sized lie. Walker has made a career of blaming working men and women for his mismanagment of county government. His nonsense escalated exponentially as he continued his near-decade long run for governor. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHct http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHct/commentary#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:36:04 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHct Scot @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/b15bea43ee26199f1d_l7awmvb5t.jpg Scot @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHct/