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            <title>McCain Court Records: The Stuff in My Garage Is More Valuable Than Your Life</title>
            <description>A story has been popping around the internets about a lawsuit John McCain&amp;rsquo;s  mom filed against his first wife  back in 1980.  While this tale may at long last make the story of McCain  leaving his injured first wife to court the millionaire beer baroness  to whom he is now married of interest to the media &amp;ndash; in the same way Jeremiah Wright&amp;rsquo;s image was omnipresent for weeks, what would be great it&amp;rsquo;ll bring up how hypocritical McCain is when it comes to so-called tort reform.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:16:02 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Scot @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Gableman and Ziegler&amp;#8230; Sitting on the SC&amp;#8230; Not R-e-c-u-s-i-n-g</title>
            <description> Pro-corporate soulmate Supremes Mike Gableman and Annette Ziegler get closer by the day.   The latest revelation, Gableman&amp;rsquo;s going to pull a Ziegler and  rule on cases where Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is involved  &amp;ndash; despite WMC dumping nearly $2 million during his run to get on the high court.     Ziegler  earned front page headlines after she provided the deciding vote and wrote the opinion on the  WMC-backed Mensha Corp.  case &amp;ndash; costing taxpayers $265 million and making WMC&amp;rsquo;s $2 million investment in Ziegler&amp;rsquo;s ascendency to the top court a worthwhile investment.    Now Gableman tells wispolitics.com that he makes distinctions between those special interests which filled his campaign coffers and those special interests which dumped $2 million in smear ads.  Sounds like WMC is getting let off the hook on a technicality.  And we know how they hate technicalities .  </description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:07:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The Church&#039;s Abuse of the Law</title>
            <description>The issue of religion in the United States has always been one the Supreme Court has been quick to avoid. We can hardly blame them; it&amp;rsquo;s perhaps the most contentious political topic this nation faces. However, it cannot continually be avoided, and so here in Wisconsin is  a case involving a man named Gary Kazmarek . Gary was a Catholic school teacher who abused children in the 1960s, and because of this the Church quietly transferred him. This was despite the promise to the children&amp;rsquo;s parents that Kazmarek would receive treatment and never have contact with children again. The parents trusted the Church, but after all that he taught at a grade school in Kentucky abusing children in 1968-1973.</description>
            <link>http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bennettgaumitz/CHGR</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:19:29 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Bennett</dc:creator>
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            <title>WMC to Members: &amp;#8220;(Don&#039;t) Read the Fine Print&amp;#8221;</title>
            <description>WMC has launched a (multi-)million dollar fundraising campaign to its members to finance continued issue-based smear campaigns against progressives who don&amp;rsquo;t kow-tow to WMC&amp;rsquo;s pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda. &amp;nbsp; We all know WMC has distorted the records of numerous public officials over the years, most notably in recent efforts to get the  ethically-challenged Mike Gableman  and  Annette Ziegler  onto the state&amp;rsquo;s highest court, as well as put the pampered JB Van Hollen into the state&amp;rsquo;s top cop slot. These moves were designed to create Supreme Court and Justice Department that lets business do whatever it wants and put to death any remaining consumer protections the people of Wisconsin still maintain.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:36:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Scot @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Who Hit the Mute Button on Gableman?</title>
            <description> On Thursday  One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint  against Michael Gableman with the state Office of Lawyer Regulation. The complaint centers around dozens of telephone calls that Gableman made as the Ashland County District Attorney, using state phones. These calls were made to Republican operatives, fundraisers, campaigns and even the Republican Party itself. The calls happened right around the time of a fundraiser for then-Governor Scott McCallum, which was hosted by Gableman.   Why would a public official make such calls on a state phone, particularly at a time when campaigning on state time was  so prominent in the news ? This and many other questions should be asked of Michael Gableman, but apparently he isn&amp;rsquo;t talking. I have not seen one report where someone has even  been able to reach him directly .  </description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:10:07 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>WMC Got What it Paid For, We Get the Shaft</title>
            <description> In a  4-3 decision  the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against the State of Wisconsin in the Department of Revenue v. Menasha Corporation case. Of all people, ethically challenged Justice Annette Ziegler wrote the majority opinion. Last year hundreds of Wisconsinites  called for her to recuse herself  from the case because it was a major priority for her benefactors at Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. Who could forget that they spent some $2 million helping to get her elected? That was more than she spent on her own campaign and almost more than both campaigns combined. She refused to recuse herself and now has delivered a big victory to her benefactors.   It looks like WMC just won a $265 million return on a $2 million investment in just one year. Unfortunately this special interest gain is a big loss for Wisconsin. During this troubling economy and a time of tough budgets, Ziegler&amp;rsquo;s decision gives us $265 million less to invest in schools, public safety, or to fix our crumbling infrastructure.   Although she chose to step down from many cases last year, oddly this was one that she refused to leave. At the time she said that she would only consider recusing herself if one of the parties in the case requested it. The person that was supposed to represent Wisconsin in the case was Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, who also owes his current job to WMC&amp;rsquo;s deep pockets. Naturally Van Hollen didn&amp;rsquo;t cross them by asking for their latest installation to step aside. WMC really covered their bases on this one and it got what&amp;nbsp;it paid for, meanwhile the rest of us just get the shaft.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:35:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Gableman Has Serious Questions to Answer</title>
            <description> After asking three separate law enforcement agencies and the Government Accountability Board to investigate questionable calls made by then-Ashland County District Attorney Michael Gableman, One Wisconsin Now has  filed a complaint  with the state Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR).   Months ago, One Wisconsin Now discovered that Michael Gableman made many questionable calls, when he was the Ashland County District Attorney. Those calls were to many key Republican officials, operatives, campaigns, and fundraisers, all on a state phone. These calls didn&amp;rsquo;t happen in a vacuum, they happened weeks surrounding a fundraiser that Gableman hosted for then-Gov. Scott McCallum. Further, the calls happened at the same time that campaigning on state time was prominent in the news because of the caucus scandal.  </description>
            <link>http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMx</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:38:52 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Van Hollen Legislation Part 2</title>
            <description> Van Hollen&amp;rsquo;s second act of legislation was within another hazy area of legislation, the  issuing of permits to retired officers . This is an area of legislation that Wisconsin differs from in all but one state (Illinois), however, if this is to be changed then it should be changed with new legislation, rather than through another attempt to use a gray area of the law to legitimize his own political ideology, once more using himself as a precedent (and once more entering the spotlight). He also intentionally goaded others to follow, but no one felt comfortable enough to follow suite.   </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:29:37 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Bennett</dc:creator>
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            <title>Van Hollen’s Legislation Part 1</title>
            <description>Judicial Activism is both praised and criticized, as it often divides the court,, but it has without question produced valuable results over issues that were controversial at some time, such as  Brown v. Board of Education , a critical case that brought an end to segregation during the 1950s. This  judicial activism  is defined as &amp;ldquo;an interpretation of the U.S. Constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions.&amp;rdquo; Van Hollen&amp;rsquo;s recent public announcements on particular issues in Wisconsin remind me eerily of this method, but without the formality of court.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:48:28 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Bennett</dc:creator>
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            <title>Capital Times Calls for Ziegler Recall</title>
            <description> Earlier this week the  Capital Times newspaper  called for the recall of ethically challenged Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler. They point to her blatant violations of very clear conflicts of interest rules prior to taking her seat on the high court. Her serious and repeated violations of judicial ethics rules are not the only reason for them making the call. They also cite her dishonesty with the public up until the point that she won the election. She continually denied that she did anything wrong during that time and put out many misleading statements to suggest and actually say as much.   The editorial further cites the fact that she now has so many conflicts on the high court that she is not effective for the job which she now holds. The Capital Times says that the slap on the wrist that she got from her colleagues was not sufficient for the violations that she committed. They suggest a recall election in the editorial because such serious decisions do not belong in secret deliberations but in full public view with full public participation. The Capital Times suggests that the only way to properly accomplish this is through a recall of Annette Ziegler.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:37:42 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Never Too Early for Special Interest Cash</title>
            <description> Shortly after Annette Ziegler was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court she closed her campaign committee and took her seat on the high court. Not so for the latest Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) empty suit Michael Gableman. He has started campaign fundraising some 10 years early. He is scheduled to have a fundraiser in Pewaukee this evening at a private residence. The going rate to meet WMC&amp;rsquo;s latest rubber stamp is between $100 and $500. It would be interesting to see what types of people show up and exactly what special interests they may represent. Perhaps my standards are too high, but there is something unseemly about a Justice-elect having a special interest pow-wow only weeks before he takes his seat on the high court.   The contact person for the Gableman fundraiser is Republican insider Mary Stitt. It is no surprise to find her name associated with a Gableman fundraiser. After all Gableman  did his share of fundraising  for Republican causes, some of it appears to include calls to her. Stitt&amp;rsquo;s phone number is listed as being one of the questionable calls that he made from a state phone when he was Ashland County District Attorney. The record actually shows that he  called her at least 11 times . It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at tonight&amp;rsquo;s event. Maybe we could actually catch them in one honest moment as they reminisce about the good old days of fundraising for Scott McCallum. Maybe we could finally get a straight answer about Gableman&amp;rsquo;s questionable calls to her and others. As nice as it would be, I have a funny feeling that the event will amount to little more than a special interest love fest. Apparently it is never too early to have one of those, even if you are preparing to take a seat on the state&amp;rsquo;s highest court.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:50:21 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>McCain to follow Gableman&#039;s low road?</title>
            <description>John McCain&#039;s campaign is loooking at the recent campaign of Michael Gableman for Supreme Court as a possible route to winning Wisconsin in November. 
 
What&#039;s wrong with that?  Gretchen Schuldt   nails it:  
  
 Gableman&#039;s disgusting campaign focused on racial fear-mongering. How low will McCain go? </description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:27:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Deceptive Column Writing 101</title>
            <description> Once again John Torinus has written a column trying his best to minimize the serious violations of Justice Annette Ziegler. Like Ziegler, Torinus is willfully ignoring many factors in the unprecedented decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to discipline one of their own. Once again he fails to inform readers of his own conflict while at the same time putting hypocrisy on full display.   John Torinus again failed to tell his readers that he is hardly an objective viewer of the Ziegler scandal. He is a long-time board member for corporate lobby,  Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce  (WMC). They shattered all kinds of records by spending unprecedented millions to get Ziegler elected. They not only spent more than Ziegler did on her own campaign but they spent more than both campaigns combined. To present his severely biased views of the Ziegler scandal without making full disclosure of this conflict is deliberately misleading.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:55:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Van Hollen Helps Run Out the Clock</title>
            <description> Several months ago  One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint  with the new Government Accountability Board regarding Supreme Court Justice Elect-Michael Gableman. At the center of the issue are what appear to be political calls that he made from a state phone when he was the Ashland County District Attorney. Calls were made to Republican fundraisers, the McCallum for Governor Campaign, the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and to the campaign of Republican Attorney General Candidate Vince Biskupic. Doing political work on state time and with state resources is illegal. To make matters worse, these calls were made at a time when the newspapers were full of stories about the caucus scandal in the Legislature.   The GAB refused to take up the complaint saying that they were not allowed to investigate matters that happened more than three years ago. OWN then forwarded the complaint to Burnett County District Attorney Ken Kutz and Ashland County District Attorney Sean Duffy. Kutz decided not to investigate the matter because it did not actually happen in his county. Sean Duffy, a long-time Gableman supporter, said that he did not have jurisdiction even though the actions actually did happen in his county. Duffy suggested that OWN file the complaint with the State Attorney General&amp;rsquo;s office. Late last week OWN received a letter from J.B. Van Hollen&amp;rsquo;s office saying that they cannot investigate the complaint and directed us right back to the District Attorneys. Shortly after  Van Hollen&amp;rsquo;s refusal to investigate , the six-year statute of limitations expired.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:09:34 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>A Preview of WMC’s Corporate Court?</title>
            <description> In  an editorial today  the Tomah Journal highlights a case that came before the Wisconsin Supreme Court last week. The case involved the family of a three-year-old boy suffering from brain cancer and a large HMO. The same day that the court  slapped fellow Justice Annette Ziegler on the wrist  for her willful violation of ethics rules, the court narrowly ruled for the family of the young boy. In a surprise to no one Ziegler dissented favoring the corporation.  The editorial reminds its readers that the state&amp;rsquo;s corporate lobby, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC), spent unprecedented millions on her campaign. Even in the midst of facing a Judicial Conduct Panel last year over her conflicts, she still  refused to step off a case  involving her benefactors at WMC. It should be no surprise that she ruled against the young boy and his family and for the big corporate interests.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:14:30 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Cause for Concern on the High Court</title>
            <description> On Wednesday the State Supreme Court  issued its ruling  in the disciplinary case against Justice Annette Ziegler. The matter has been a dubious first in the history of the high court. As expected, Ziegler&amp;rsquo;s colleagues took the recommendation of the Judicial Commission and the Judicial Conduct Panel and gave her a public reprimand, which was the very least form of discipline possible.   Ziegler&amp;rsquo;s immediate response after her colleagues handed down the decision, seemed like it was lifted directly from her non-responsive and misleading campaign statements. In her reaction Wednesday, she said that she was pleased that the Supreme Court &amp;ldquo;confirmed&amp;rdquo; that her &amp;ldquo;mistake&amp;rdquo; was &amp;ldquo;inadvertent&amp;rdquo; and that her family didn&amp;rsquo;t benefit financially from her violations. Her canned response lacked contrition and totally ignored the more pointed observations of her colleagues. They affirmed that her violations did constitute misconduct and that they were &amp;ldquo;serious and willful.&amp;rdquo; Further, they spoke of the &amp;ldquo;gravity with which this court views Judge Ziegler&amp;rsquo;s violation&amp;rdquo;.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:31:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>Running Out the Clock for Gableman?</title>
            <description> In April One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint against Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman with the new Government Accountability Board (GAB). The complaint centered on what appear to be political fundraising phone calls that he made from the Ashland County District Attorney&amp;rsquo;s office. These troubling actions took place at the same time that the caucus scandal was in the news. One would think that a lawyer would know that he should not give an appearance of campaigning on state time and with state resources. Given the fact that Gableman&amp;rsquo;s actions took place at the height of the caucus scandal makes them even more troubling.   The  phone records  that OWN obtained show Gableman calling several McCallum Campaign operatives just before hosting a fundraiser. He made calls to McCallum&amp;rsquo;s top fund-raising aides, his campaign office, the state Republican Party, donors who gave to McCallum, and the campaign office of Vince Biskupic. These calls all took place only weeks before Gableman hosted a June 2002 fund-raiser for then-Governor McCallum. Only two months later  McCallum appointed Gableman  to an open judgeship in Burnett County, even though he never applied and did not go through the prescribed process.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 13:02:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Cory @ One Wisconsin Now</dc:creator>
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            <title>“Have you no sense of decency, Charlie?”</title>
            <description>&amp;quot;Have you no sense of decency, sir?&amp;quot; Said more than 50 years ago by Joseph Welch in the famed Army-McCarthy hearing, the phrase should be directed this Wednesday morning to Charlie Sykes, the WTMJ radio talk nut.  Justice Louis Butler was unseated by a narrow margin from the State Supreme Court in voting yesterday and some of the discredit for this can surely be placed at the one-sided rumor-mongering and name-calling of talk radio hosts in the state. They jabber on and on, using innuendoes and half truths, hardly ever giving time for the other side; many do not accept phone callers, and those that do usually make it so uncomfortable for any critics that such callers shy away from further attempts.  These hosts will brook absolutely no opposing views.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:30:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Ken Germanson</dc:creator>
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            <title>Now he tells us: Sykes agrees Gableman &#039;embarrassing&#039; candidate</title>
            <description>Even Charlie Sykes, who has no shame, is embarrassed -- not by the kind of campaign that WMC and Mike Gableman ran, but by the candidate. He posts this comment from someone he calls a &quot;savvy listener&quot;:  
 
 Shame on conservatives from letting 2006 hangover result in putting up such a completely lame slate of candidates. Gleisner-Neubauer, (and even Gableman) were embarrassing choices to have on the ballot, and were the result of Republicans moping around buying into the &quot;death of the party&quot; woe is me message the MSM has been spinning  
Embarrassing indeed. The beneficiary of WMC&#039;S slimy largesse is someone who wouldn&#039;t make a pimple on Louis Butler&#039;s rear end. 
 
Last year, you could make the argument -- ideology and ethics aside -- that Annette Ziegler and Linda Clifford were relatively well-matched in terms of intellect, experience and ability to serve. 
 
No one can say that about Gableman and Butler. 
 
That&#039;s the real tragedy. Not money in politics, or the influence of third-party groups, or even the misleading or outright false campaign against Butler. 
 
The people elected a lightweight for a 10-year term. He&#039;ll probably be there for 30. 
 
Think Sykes was too embarrassed to vote for him?  He certainly wasn&#039;t too embarrassed to shill for him.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:16 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>&#039;Vulture Fund&#039; Kingpin Gets $40,000 in Late Cash to Gableman</title>
            <description> Paul Singer has come to Wisconsin in the form of $40,000 in late contributions to Judge Mike Gableman from himself, an executive at his company and couple of people with Singer&amp;rsquo;s same last name.  Singer is the slug who&amp;rsquo;s made his money by operating so-called &amp;ldquo;vulture&amp;rdquo; funds, where he purchased government bonds from poor counties and got an enormous return on the loan. As  Greg Palast reported , he jacked Peru for $58 million on an $11 million debt and sued Congo for $400 million on a $10 million debt.  Singer&amp;rsquo;s the guy who ponied up $250,000 to the radical-right Club for Growth. He&amp;rsquo;s the guy behind the California referendum to slice up California&amp;rsquo;s electoral votes. He&amp;rsquo;s the guy who was helping Rudy 9u11iani&amp;rsquo;s aborted campaign including raising $500,000 and bundling $200,000 from his employees for the thrice-married historical footnote.  </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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