http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/category_rss/media There’s been a noticeable silence on the part of the right wing Wisconsin blog community about the vanished postings of the previously-oft frothing Jo Egelhoff, who regularly peppered liberals and pro-family economic and social policies on her FoxPolitics.net blog-n-site. For a walk down memory lane, you can visit One Wisconsin Now’s http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/content/foxpoliticsrevealed/ to see all of her gems of yester-month. And if you can’t stand reading them, by all means, check out our new web ad “Say It Ain’t So, Jo.” http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHVL http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHVL/commentary#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:36:19 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHVL 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/CHVL/ Hey, check out this post from Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/items/200810020004 In reporting on new NRCC ad, Cillizza did not note GOP support for Rangel earmark Summary: In a blog post, washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee released an ad attacking a Democratic House member who voted in favor of an earmark for "the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service," but Cillizza did not note that 89 House Republicans also voted in favor of the earmark. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/blogsandkisses/CHjz http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/blogsandkisses/CHjz/commentary#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:55:24 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/blogsandkisses/CHjz blogsandkisses blogsandkisses 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHjz/ This weekend, I stumbled across this radio script I wrote for a commercial aired in February 2006 by the Greater Wisconsin Committee. Given the flap over whether Sarah Palin owns the word lipstick, I thought it was amusing. GWC 022406 LIPSTICK They say you can put lipstick on a pig - but it's still a pig. (SOUND EFFECT: OINK!) An ill-advised constitutional amendment, once called TABOR, is back with a new name, the Taxpayer Protection Amendment. But it has the same flaws as the earlier version, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern says. Taxpayers need protection, all right - protection from this same old bad idea. The Beloit Daily News calls it "gimmicky nonsense." The Appleton Post-Crescent says it's "an example of wrong-thinking government." Local officials, seniors, nurses, firefighters, teachers, and retirees are opposed to the amendment. They know it will cut vital services for the people who need them the most. Wisconsin doesn't need a constitutional amendment to hold down spending. It needs state legislators who will make some tough decisions. Call your legislators today at 1-800-362-9472. Ask them to oppose the so-called Taxpayer Protection Amendment. (SOUND EFFECT: OINK!) Paid for by Greater Wisconsin Committee Greater Wisconsin later ran a variation on the theme -- about lipstick on a pig and "cosmetic changes" to the proposal --in several State Senate districts, urging people to call their legislators and ask them to oppose the scheme. All four ended up voting against it. When I shared these with Michelle McGrorty, executive director of Greater Wisconsin, she cracked: "Just further proof that liberals were attacking Palin even before she was running." http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/CHCG http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/CHCG/commentary#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:19:04 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/CHCG Xoff Xoff 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHCG/ On Thursday evening the Institute for One Wisconsin is hosting the Protect Wisconsin’s Vote Education Summit in Milwaukee. It will feature a panel of experts discussing voting rights, voter suppression and other related issues. There will be a partial viewing of the documentary Uncounted and informative videos produced by Milwaukee’s MATA Media. Such an event is necessary because of the consistent and concerted efforts to disenfranchise certain voters by conservatives. The same bogus charges of “voter fraud” are parroted around every major election. Sadly the false accusations are given front page treatment only to be proven wrong later. Last year the first complete analysis of allegations from the 2004 presidential election was released. It found that the vast majority of allegations were unfounded and that there was no real voter fraud problem in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or the rest of the country for that matter. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMv http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMv/commentary#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:25:13 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMv Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 193 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHMv/ Some of you may have been reading the military newspapers, and seen that the Army is in a really bad fix. We've had to borrow money from the Navy and Air Force just to get paid for June 15 . http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/CHG3 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/CHG3/commentary#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:01:07 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/CHG3 Ted http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/475d66d03b1dbe8dff_30t1mvbu6.jpg Ted 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHG3/ You undoubtedly know that Wisconsin ranks high among the 50 states in how much taxes its citizens pay. The media have been reporting it for years, and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and their Republican friends have made it an article of faith and a perennial campaign issue, blaming Democrats even when Republican spending was to blame. So when there's what qualifies as at least a minor man-bites-dog story -- or at least man-growls-at-dog story -- on the same topic, you'd expect to read it in the state's largest newspaper, which has reported many of the WMC-GOP stories for years. Guess again. We'll let Bruce Murphy of Milwaukee Magazine take it from here: On May 27, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance did a new report showing Wisconsin dropped out of the ranks of the 10 highest-taxed states for the first time in more than 25 years. Indeed, going all the way back to 1963, when the state first adopted a sales tax, Wisconsin has ranked in the top 10 every year except 1980 and 1968. As recently as 1999, when Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson was near the end of his long tenure, Wisconsin ranked as the third-highest taxed state. Today, Wisconsin has dropped to 11th-highest. That's quite a change, and it got extensive coverage in the Wisconsin State Journal . The story was picked up by other newspapers statewide. But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sat on the report for nearly a week and then barely reported it: The disclosure came in the 23rd graph of a story telling us "Property taxes jump 3.8%, most in 3 years." At the very end of this story telling us taxes are going up, the paper devoted just four paragraphs to the news that the state dropped out of the top 10, and used a quote from Taxpayers Alliance President Todd Berry saying the ranking merely showed that some other states increased their taxes. Read the rest here. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C272 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C272/commentary#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:44:24 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C272 Xoff Xoff 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C272/ The Nation says we should celebrate a recent victory in Congress: With a voice vote that confirmed the near-unanimous sentiment of senators who had heard from hundreds of thousands of Americans demanding that they act, the legislators moved to nullify an FCC attempt to permit a radical form of media consolidation: a rule change designed to permit one corporation to own daily and weekly newspapers as well as television and radio stations in the same local market. Of course, in Milwaukee we live in a different dimension, where one company already owns the only daily newspaper, a television station, AM and FM radio stations, and a flock of suburban weeklies. It's what the talkers on their radio station like to call the free market. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C27X http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C27X/commentary#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:43:52 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/xoff/C27X Xoff Xoff 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C27X/ 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. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27t http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27t/commentary#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:55:38 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27t Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C27t/ What follows in an op-ed submission following my continued disgust with the media’s reporting on conditions in Iraq. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C27S http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C27S/commentary#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:17:40 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C27S Ted http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/475d66d03b1dbe8dff_30t1mvbu6.jpg Ted 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C27S/ For some reason WTMJ radio insists on poisoning Milwaukee airwaves with the constant venom flowing from right wing talker Michael Savage. Apparently, for him and WTMJ, nothing is sacred. Savage is the same guy that wished aids and death on a caller that identified himself as being gay. His list of poisonous and offensive comments is a mile long and touches just about everyone. His most recent attack came against U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy on the same day that doctors announced that he had a malignant brain tumor. In the opening of his show Savage played a montage mocking Senator Kennedy splicing in news reports about his tumor and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character says, “It’s not a tumor.” As if that were not enough, Savage then played a song from the group “Dead Kennedys.” How far will WTMJ allow Savage to go before they finally see his vitriol for what it is? How long will they subject the public and our airwaves to the worst hate speech available? WTMJ should have pulled the plug on this Savage attack on decency long ago. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24m http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24m/commentary#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 15:39:30 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24m Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24m/ Uppity Wisconsin will be the credentialed Wisconsin member of the State Blogger Corps at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q/commentary#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:57 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q Steve Hanson http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/a13eaefb25f70e8de0_ay3mv2jh3.jpg Steve Hanson 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24Q/ Senator John McCain and the media have manufactured a squeaky clean image for the Arizona Republican. They pretend that he is above reproach while, at the same time, his actions belie much of the rhetoric. Although there are other examples in his long legislative past, several recent developments also go to the heart of the issue. John McCain has practically built an industry of criticizing our campaign finance system and the influence of lobbyists in Washington. While repeatedly taking that stand publicly, it turns out that he is not so discriminating when it comes to raising campaign cash. He has at least 59 lobbyists bundling money for his presidential bid. He has also brought on staff that were lobbyists for things like the big drug companies and shady lenders . Recently McCain’s choice to run the GOP Convention had to resign amid reports that his firm represented the military regime in Burma. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24F http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24F/commentary#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 17:15:26 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C24F Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24F/ Who: Iraq Veterans Against the War & The Congressional Progressive Caucus What: Winter Soldier on the Hill - An Open Forum When: 15 May 2008 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Where: 2261 Rayburn House Office Building http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C24c http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C24c/commentary#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 14:51:14 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/ted/C24c Ted http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/475d66d03b1dbe8dff_30t1mvbu6.jpg Ted 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24c/ On Friday, the Wisconsin State Journal fawned over Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen in an editorial. It was about a recent opinion that he issued regarding open records on traffic accidents and crime in local communities. While the paper praised Van Hollen for sending a “strong signal” it would have been nice if they also called for a consistent one. Neither Van Hollen nor his office have been the sterling example of openness that the WSJ portrays in its editorial. One good example of inconsistency involves an open records request for state emails from One Wisconsin Now to Burnett County Judge Michael Gableman. We requested any emails on his state email account that fit a list of mostly political names and terms. After seeking counsel from J.B. Van Hollen’s Department of Justice, Gableman determined that eight of those emails could be classified as “purely personal.” As a result, Gableman refused to turn over those emails from his taxpayer funded email account. We submitted a scaled down list of keywords and even suggested that Gableman redact any “purely personal” items in the eight emails. Unfortunately they just ignored our requests, using the advice from the DOJ as the basis for hiding the public records. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pz http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pz/commentary#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 14:19:13 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pz Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2Pz/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Laurel Walker reported this week that between 65 and 100 people in Oconomowoc voted at the wrong place last week. Actually it seems that this has been going on for several years. The voters in question live in two 24-unit condo buildings and have been voting in one district while actually living in another. A discrepancy between mapped voting districts and district poll lists was cited as the reason for the confusion. It is interesting that this story failed to garner any other attention. Something tells me that if this (years long) “mistake” had taken place in the City of Milwaukee, we would have seen a week of headlines and accusations of “voter fraud” being leveled at everyone within eight feet of this condo. Heck, we may have even seen a few of our favorite politicians doing press conferences outside the property. But alas, this remarkable situation didn’t happen in Milwaukee, it happened in the heart of the most conservative county in the state. It appears that one person’s “mistake” is another person’s act of “fraud.” http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27z http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27z/commentary#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:16:39 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C27z Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 523 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C27z/ Twenty-one years to the day after he attended the second meeting to put pressure on federal regulators which became known as the Keating Five scandal, John McCain is showing how out of touch he is by continuing to cozy up to lobbyists. A new report from Public Campaign Action , shows a real mixed record on McCain's support for public financing -- despite overwhelming public support for real change for the way campaigns are financed. Whether it's Keating Five or the recent revelations about his questionable intervention for Paxson Communications, McCain's reputation as a good government champion is under serious scrutiny. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2y9 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2y9/commentary#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:09:15 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2y9 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/C2y9/ "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" 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. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/kennethgermanson/C2y8 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/kennethgermanson/C2y8/commentary#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:30:38 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/kennethgermanson/C2y8 Ken Germanson http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/e7c41ea49c0c6c8d81_b2zmv2ipz.jpg Ken Germanson 7 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2y8/ Exactly one year ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thundered with rage at Linda Clifford. The Supreme Court candidate had the temerity to use the name of the might Journal Communications newspaper's name in an autocall going to potential supporters that referenced, well, the Journal Sentinel's endorsement of her. In virtually the last seconds of the race, the Journal Sentinel's coverage of this "infraction" included two big news articles, a condemning editorial and a "cease and desist" letter from the corporate media giant's team of well-priced lawyers. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2yf http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2yf/commentary#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:32:08 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/C2yf 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/C2yf/ 2008 PROPOSED BALLOT INITIATIVES Contact Person / Organization Jerry Person W 7942 Squires Rd Ojibwa, Wisconsin 54862 (715) 266-3125 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/jerryperson/C24S http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/jerryperson/C24S/commentary#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:21:43 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/jerryperson/C24S User from Ojibwa, WI User from Ojibwa, WI 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24S/ ...and really the coverage of these primaries is misleading, at least on the Democratic side with the proportional delegates. Watching the vote counts certainly gives the winning side some bragging rights to hang their hats on, not being able to see projected numbers of delegates really changes the feeling of finality, even after tonight. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/C2Y5 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/C2Y5/commentary#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:21:10 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/C2Y5 Robert http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/98373c53a0534c14fd_ppbmvypq9.jpg Robert 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2Y5/