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Play-by-play: Walker playing politics with job creation

By Cody O - Mar 18th, 2010 at 12:39 pm EDT

Try to follow along as Scott Walker, Fred Luber (MacIver Institute Chair, Super Steel Chair, and Scott Walker Campaign Finance Co-Chair), and right-wing leaders play politics with job creation. Let’s watch.

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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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Walker promises more private pools

By Xoff - Mar 4th, 2010 at 11:04 am EST

Good news, Wisconsin taxpayers. There are more swimming pools in your future. Look for one in a backyard near you -- but not at the park. Campaign press release:

Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive and Republican candidate for governor, told a crowd of over 125 at Sheraton Hotel this weekend that as governor he would keep his promise to “spend taxpayer money as if it were my own,”...

Walker spent a chunk of his own money on a private swimming pool at his suburban home, while taking a 72% pay raise from the taxpayers. But the public pool in Wauwatosa, where he lives, was closed in 2003 after Walker became county executive. WUWM radio reported:

In Wauwatosa, weeds snake up through cracks in the empty pool at Hoyt Park. The landscape is a stark contrast to the days when thousands of swimmers made Hoyt the most popular pool in Milwaukee County.

It's all part of Walker's focus on budget-cutting at the expense of quality of life services county government can provide. A private group has been working to raise the money to reopen Hoyt.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Poor Pay More

By Cody O - Nov 18th, 2009 at 7:13 pm EST

If you think—based on all the complaining the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and WMC does about Wisconsin’s tax climate forcing out the wealthy and their corporations (eg. members of their boards)—that the tax “burden” in our state was somehow being shouldered more by upper class individuals than by the middle- and lower class individuals, then you’d be wrong. New analysis sheds some intense light on the myths strewn throughout the news by WISTAX and WMC. Read More »

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An anniversary banksters and T.Wall would do well to remember

By Cody O - Oct 29th, 2009 at 4:49 pm EDT

Today marks the 80th anniversary of “Black Tuesday”—the final, most catastrophic day of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Except for Terrence Wall, everyone in America remembers this event as the primary trigger of the Great Depression. Read More »

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Much ado about We Energies

By Cody O - Oct 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am EDT

We Energies has been making news lately with their proposal to increase electricity costs rates by 7 percent. Read More »

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Man enlists to afford wife's cancer treatment

By Cody O - Oct 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm EDT

A story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will surely invoke a range of emotions and underscores the need for health insurance reform. Mark Johnson reports on a 39-yeal-old recently-layed-off Watertown man compelled to enlist in the Army in order to receive the health care benefits that could take care of his wife’s cancer treatment. Read More »

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Heating Costs for WI Schools

By User from Phoenix, AZ - Oct 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm EDT

photo credit: bredgur.com

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Right wing disappointed in job creation, retention

By Cody O - Oct 15th, 2009 at 11:17 am EDT

Wisconsin in 2009 created or retained around 22,100 Wisconsin jobs, including 8,284 full-time public-sector jobs, and is on course to create 50,000 more. This thanks to the policies enacted though the Americans Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). And what do you know, the right wing evidently couldn’t be more disappointed. Read More »

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IWF hammers at Tax Foundation

By Cody O - Oct 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm EDT

The Institute for Wisconsin’s Future (IWF) took a hammer to the outrageous Tax Foundation report that among other things proposed taxing groceries and gasoline, creating a flat tax, and cutting transportation, health care, and education investment by 15% each. Read More »

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Hero of the Week: Dave Obey

By Cody O - Oct 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm EDT

From the Spooner Advocate comes Dave Obey's (D-WI) fiery words of wisdom that earned him the OWN Team's Hero of the Week award: Read More »

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Terrence Wall knows a public health plan won’t work in the U.S. because Terrence Wall knows France

By Cody O - Sep 30th, 2009 at 11:44 am EDT

I happened across a recent In Business column from Madison real estate mogul Terrence Wall. Using a personal anecdote about his and his father’s experience with the health care system in France, Wall lambasts any notion of a governmental role in health care in the U.S.. He flatly ignores the failures of the private health insurance system with his reliance on mischaracterizations and misinformation. Read More »

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