http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/group_rss/WisconsinWomenMatter Wisconsin Women Matter! Tuesday, June 8 marks the 45th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act’s passage, and Wisconsin women are still making about 22 percent less than men. But for Sen. John McCain it’s fine to just stand by and do nothing to ensure an equal wage for women here and throughout the nation. John McCain is wrong. It’s time to let Sen. McCain know that Wisconsin Women Matter! You can take action today by joining OWN’s Wisconsin Women Matter (WWM) group. WWM will bring you the latest news on what affects and shapes women’s lives in Wisconsin—like access to health care, jobs and education for ourselves and our families. WWM will help us share information with each other, start much-needed discussions and take actions to elevate women’s voices in Wisconsin. Join today to let everyone know that Wisconsin Women Matter! Last week, One Wisconsin Now pointed out how the non, non-ideological Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and its long-time face Todd Berry can be found this coming weekend speaking to the right-wing freakfest that is the Americans for Petroleum, er... Americans for Prosperity event in Milwaukee. A who's who of state Republican electeds will be on hand to bemoan the irresponsible economic policies of the last eight years of Bush and 14 years of Jensen-Gard-Huebsch the last month of President Obama and Wisconsin Democrats. Also on the docket, and fresh from her appearance at the Republican Lincoln Day dinner, Department of Public Instruction candidate Rose Fernandez. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgF http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgF/commentary#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:53:52 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgF 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/CHgF/ The answer sadly appears to be, depends. Whether Belling will say something stupid or offensive or both appears to be a question in the same vein as, "Well, is it a day of the week that has vowels in it?" This one is a doozy, even for him. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgZ http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgZ/commentary#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:34:25 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHgZ 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/CHgZ/ Much to the chagrin of the corporate honchos at WMC, strong unions ARE actually good for the economy, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress. Better yet, unions are good for the Wisconsin economy.  But perhaps most importantly, unions can actually help Wisconsin businesses weather this economic storm. Of course, those of you still under the hypnosis of WMC’s never-ending stream of anti-union, anti-worker rhetoric and stances over the years (see here , here , here , here , and here ), will no doubt crow that somehow workers getting a fair share of the wealth they helped create is a bad thing. “Bad for business” WMC and the conservo-bots will say. “Businesses will leave in droves” they’ll cry. But that’s just not the case. But what WMC really means is “The Corporate CEOs we represent deserve all the wealth. Forget the little guys and gals.” Earth to WMC: if people have no money to spend, no one can buy your goods. After all, there’s only so many ultra-rich CEO’s you can sell stuff to, and not all of you manufacture private planes or gold-plated toilets. You need to expand your market—to the common folk. And what do unions do best? Help the workers to paid fairly, which means more cash to buy stuff--you know, the American way. Consumer spending drives 70% of the economy, and stronger unions mean more consumer spending, period. In Wisconsin between 2004 and 2007, union workers are paid, on average, 11.9% higher than their non-union counterparts. But union memberships are down dramatically: according to the CFAP study, unionization is down 50% since 1983. I wonder what parallels we can draw…who was in charge for the majority of that time in Wisconsin? Conservative corporatists at the Capitol and WMC.   Unionization numbers aren’t just declining because less people want to join. According to a Peter Hart Research Associates poll, 3 in 5 people would join a union if they could. Thanks largely to the scare tactics of WMC and groups like it (Club for Growth, Wisconsin Institute for Leadership, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce etc.), it’s harder today to join a union. And as I mentioned before, WMC’s lobbyists are busy as ever this session, working hard to block good pro-worker legislation. ( here , here , and here ). That’s why legislation like the Employee Free Choice Act is so important. It will protect Wisconsin workers already in unions, and make it harder for employers to intimidate workers and prevent unionization. You can read more about the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) here , and as always, you can use OWN’s tools to contact your state and federal legislators and let them know how important EFCA is to Wisconsin, and to America. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHgp http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHgp/commentary#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:38:28 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHgp Robert http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/98373c53a0534c14fd_ppbmvypq9.jpg Robert 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHgp/ The right wing and the Alliance Defense Fund are back at it.  Please read this from the Coalition to Protect Women's Health & Safety -- critical information about reproductive freedom and efforts by the right wing to stop women from accessing safe and legal reproductive services:   http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHx9 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHx9/commentary#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:43:56 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHx9 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/CHx9/ Earlier in January, more than 40 people were arrested after an undercover investigation in Juneau County that helped to break up a drug-dealing ring. And currently there’s a $5,000 reward for information about an armed robbery in Juneau County on December 9, 2008. One would think the top cop in that county, District Attorney Scott Southworth would have several important cases to work on—maybe even more drug kings or bank robbers to go after. After all, it’s his job to keep the citizens of the county he represents safe from drug dealers and other criminals. Heck, the taxpayers of Juneau County are paying him to investigate crimes and put hardened criminals behind bars. But today, the people of Juneau County are apparently paying for their District Attorney to weigh in on whether or not he approves of a private decision made between a woman and her doctor…in Madison. Earlier today, DA Southworth sent a letter to the President and CEO of UW Hospital and Clinics detailing his opposition to a new policy at UW Health that would provide safe, legal, and rare second trimester abortions to women in and around Dane County.  The UW is stepping up to fill a critical public-health responsibility to provide the service to women who need it—due to a recent retirement of a women’s health provider in Madison, there are currently no providers in Madison who perform second trimester abortions. Southworth says that he thinks the UW should “spend its time—and our valuable state resources—to invest in ways to assist low-income and uninsured individuals in obtaining quality health care services.” Well, DA Southworth, this is exactly what they are doing. And I would expect that District Attorneys in this state would spend THEIR time—and out state’s valuable resources—to butt out of a very personal decision that is made between a woman and her doctor. It’s bad enough when lawmakers try to insert themselves into the doctor’s office, but now women have to worry about an over-zealous COP and lawyer too? http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHxT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHxT/commentary#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:19:40 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/theduke/CHxT Robert http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/98373c53a0534c14fd_ppbmvypq9.jpg Robert 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHxT/ $288,460.50 That’s the amount of money the listed members of the board of directors at the oft-called non-partisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance have donated to Republicans and conservative candidates since 1991 .      Did they donate to Democrats and liberals? Yes. A whopping $25,475. To sum: 92% to conservatives. Eight percent to liberals. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxW http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxW/commentary#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:42:30 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxW 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/CHxW/ Doesn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. Helps service the greater needs of all members of the community. Improves diversity and public service. Promotes health, education and understanding. But that didn’t stop four Racine alders from voting against a permit for a new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender center. Thankfully, this quartet: Jim Kaplan, Q.A. Shakoor II, Michael Shields and Ron Hart, was a vast minority and the permit passed. “The center will offer films, speakers, reading groups, STD and HIV testing and counseling, art shows and domestic violence workshops,” according to the organizer for the center. Art shows? Domestic violence workshops? STD and HIV testing and counsel? Oh, the humanity. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxM http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxM/commentary#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:35:04 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHxM 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/CHxM/ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that a University of Chicago based researcher is enthusiastic about Milwaukee’s paid sick days ordinance. Inexplicably the business page reporter described it as “controversial.” A strange use of words since it was overwhelmingly passed by nearly 70 percent of Milwaukee voters. The only people that are creating a controversy are the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and their mouthpiece Steve Baas. The researcher referenced in the story is Susan Lambert, a professor in the School of Social Service Administration and an authority on the relationship between employment and the well-being of those that are employed. Lambert says that she thinks that Milwaukee’s Paid Sick Days ordinance is “great overall.” She went on to point out the following: A key barrier to sustained employment is having the opportunity to take time off when you or your child is ill," said Lambert, who's speaking Sunday in Milwaukee as part of an annual lecture for alumni and friends of the University of Chicago. "That certainly is reported by workers, especially in low-level hourly jobs, as something that prevents them from sustained employment. Lambert also went on to explain that such unnecessary turnover among this group of workers only leads to higher costs for employers in the form of additional recruiting, hiring and training. It seems reasonable to me that even those new employees could be vulnerable to the same forces and create what amounts to a revolving door of unnecessary costs to business. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHg8 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHg8/commentary#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:48:39 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHg8 Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 299 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHg8/ Steve Baas, the government affairs director for the Milwaukee big business association has been a vocal mouthpiece for his special interests and against the effort in Milwaukee to require paid sick day benefits. He has fought allowing more than 120,000 hard-working Milwaukee citizens to earn modest paid sick leave benefits, even though he was not shy about collecting a whole lot more when he had a job at the state legislature. While there from 1994 to 2005, Steve Baas accumulated 150 full sick days totaling nearly 1,250 hours. Baas used one-third of those taxpayer-financed sick days as an aide to Assembly Republicans such as convicted former Speaker Scott Jensen. If Steve Baas is so opposed to paid sick days for Milwaukee workers perhaps he should return the 51 days of sick pay that taxpayers footed for him while he was working in the state legislature. Anything short of paying back taxpayers would be the height of hypocrisy. Baas received a much more generous paid sick day benefit from taxpayers than the one that he is fighting now. Apparently he feels that the same hard working taxpayers in Milwaukee that were helping pay for his benefits don’t deserve even a small portion of them. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHVx http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHVx/commentary#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:11:16 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHVx Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 2 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHVx/ How comical is that the Wisconsin representative to the so-called “Palin Truth Squad” is Margaret Farrow ? The “Squad” presumably will criticize anyone who brings up Sarah Palin’s ethics scandal , truth bending , right-wing extremism and revisionist history. Or those who point out that Palin refuses to talk to reporters and won’t answer questions. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHBk http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHBk/commentary#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:08:28 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHBk 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/CHBk/ The Center on Wisconsin Strategy has released its 2008 State of Working Wisconsin report and in surprise to very few, the George W. Bush economy continues to batter the state. In what appears to be a consistent theme throughout the Bush economy, the report finds that although productivity is up that many workers are simply not enjoying the benefit. Actually with each year, working folks have struggled more  and more in the last eight years. More specifically the report found that Wisconsin has lost some 24,000 jobs since June 2007, 13,000 of which are manufacturing jobs. Wisconsin has a median wage that has fallen in recent years, and has a four-person family income that has fallen nearly $6,000 since 2000, three times the national drop. The report also found that although we have a relatively high health insurance coverage rate, it has been in a steady decline in recent years. One of the key reasons that we are seeing such a drastic decline is because too many employers are shifting away from providing health care for their employees. Unfortunately this is something that Senator John McCain’s health care plan would actually encourage . The rate of employees getting their insurance through their employer has fallen from 73 percent in 1979 to 58 percent in 2006. This change has had a very disproportionate and troubling effect on poverty-wage workers. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBH http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBH/commentary#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:01:09 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBH 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/CHBH/ Today is the 88th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. Eighty-eight years after women getting the equality to vote, John McCain still does not think that women deserve equal pay. McCain, like George W. Bush, has the wrong policies for America’s women and for struggling families. Even just a brief look at his record reveals that on the issues that matter most to women, John McCain is totally out of touch. John McCain actually fought equal pay legislation by opposing the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have made it easier for women and other workers to pursue pay discrimination claims . At a town hall meeting, a brave 14-year old girl confronted McCain about his opposition to equal pay and he responded by actually saying that the equal pay legislation wouldn’t do anything to help the rights of women. Other issues that are very important to women are practical everyday issues that affect their families. Things like struggling to pay the rising costs of food, gas and healthcare. John McCain’s economic plan ignores the real needs of the average women and her family and instead focuses on massive tax cuts to corporations like Big Oil and Big Insurance companies. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBt http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBt/commentary#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:36:43 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHBt 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/CHBt/ Pro-corporate soulmate Supremes Mike Gableman and Annette Ziegler get closer by the day. The latest revelation, Gableman’s going to pull a Ziegler and rule on cases where Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is involved – 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 – costing taxpayers $265 million and making WMC’s $2 million investment in Ziegler’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 . http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGh http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGh/commentary#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:07:40 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGh 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/CHGh/ WMC has launched a (multi-)million dollar fundraising campaign to its members to finance continued issue-based smear campaigns against progressives who don’t kow-tow to WMC’s pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda.   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’s highest court, as well as put the pampered JB Van Hollen into the state’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. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGG http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGG/commentary#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:36:18 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHGG 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/CHGG/ My name is Julianne Bukey. I’m a senior at Scripps College, and I’m working for the summer at NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. You may have seen this video of me asking John McCain a question about insurance coverage for birth control at a McCain Town Hall meeting in Racine, Wisconsin on Thursday, July 31, 2008. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/prochoicewisconsin/CHGx http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/prochoicewisconsin/CHGx/commentary#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:06:11 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/prochoicewisconsin/CHGx NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/7615399716529c05a6_votmv2a9p.gif NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin 706 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/CHGx/ The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that all the usual business suspects are going to pump cash into an effort to fight the paid sick day referendum. The story further reveals that if they don’t get the result that they want on the referendum, that they will spend even more money by challenging the will of the people in the courts. So what is a person supposed to take from this news? That business interests are willing to invest their money in an expensive ad campaign and possibly a protracted lawsuit but not in their own employees and the public health? Are they really going to launch such an effort to keep some of the poorest workers in the city from having a benefit that most people take for granted? The business interests involved in the fight against paid sick days list all of the same talking points that they have always used when asked to invest more into their employees and the common good. This story is no exception, once again they claim that requiring paid sick days will put people out of business and chase others businesses from the city. How many times have we had to endure this tired old argument? It is straight out of central casting but they have simply replaced the last issue with paid sick days. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMs http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMs/commentary#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:48:17 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMs 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/CHMs/ Today John McCain held a women-only town hall in Hudson and made the following comment: "We haven't done enough. We have not done enough. And I'm committed to making sure that there's equal pay for equal work. That there is equal opportunity in every aspect of our society. And that is my record and you can count on it." Did McCain get lost in the moment or did he intentionally misrepresent himself to Wisconsin women? Regardless of his reason for the statement, it is clearly not an accurate one. He has clearly not been a supporter of equal pay for women despite what he said today in Hudson. Consider just some of the following points from the McCain record. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMj http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMj/commentary#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:35:49 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMj 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/CHMj/ Tomorrow U.S. Senator John McCain will be coming to Wisconsin and holding a women-only town hall . John McCain’s record of rubber stamping Bush policies in the U.S. Senate has been a disaster for not only women but for entire country. John McCain actually skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have restored workers ability to pursue pay discrimination claims in court. When a 14-year-old girl asked him about this at a town hall meeting, he told her that protections for equal pay wouldn’t do “anything to help the rights of women.” On the same topic McCain has commented that women simply need “education and training” instead of equal pay protection. John McCain also is a full supporter of unfair trade deals that has led to the loss of countless jobs. Obviously many of those jobs were held by women, they would probably not judge kindly McCain’s record on the economy. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMg http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMg/commentary#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:11:09 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHMg 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/CHMg/ U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-What's Wrong With You Sick, Frothing Morons?) is finally dead. Happy birthday, U.S. of A. Helms was a hate-slathered cretin, whose campaigns and governing showed American democracy at its worst. "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races," thundered just one of many Helms' attacks over the decades. Conservatives are saddened by the news. "Ol' 27 percent"  George W. Bush was soiling his White House crying towel, calling Helms "kind," "decent" and "humble." And while he had some admirers in Wisconsin, most notably Supreme Court Justice-Elect Mike Gableman's ad-writing team , Helms was a racist thug and the world mourns, simply because it took him so, so long to exit the world he befouled for over eight decades. For my dough, I'm hoping Wonkette Editor Ken Layne has penned in "Jesse Helms: American Garbage," what will be a waterfall of appropriate tributes . Feel free to add even better ones to the comment portion of this blog. Helms deserves it for all he did to people of color, gays, the poor and this nation's sense of decency.      http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHjF http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHjF/commentary#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:31:37 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/scotross/CHjF 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/CHjF/ Last week it was reported that a Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) staffer condescendingly referred to the Epic Systems founder and well-respected progressive business leader as “that computer lady.” As a result the Institute for One Wisconsin launched an education effort this week questioning WMC’s attitude toward women and their history of opposing legislation that would have been helpful to both women and their families. The online campaign includes a WMC Watch News Alert available at WMCWatch.org and a letter to the editor writing tool. Individuals can write a letter to the editor of their local papers expressing their outrage at both the dismissive WMC comments and their legislative positions that have been bad for Wisconsin women. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHjp http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHjp/commentary#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:41:38 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/CHjp 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/CHjp/