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Category Archives: ALEC
Walker’s legal defense funds and outside-Wisconsin billionaire fatcats prepare for Recall and FBI indictment
Thanks to the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove and other outside-Wisconsin GOP fatcats and special interests, Scott Walker’s campaign has raised more than $13 million during the most recent reporting period with a total of $25 million ready for negative ads, lies and other nonsense to try to stop efforts from… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, FBI, Fitzwalkerstan, John Doe, June 5, Kathleen Falk, Koch Brothers, Tom Barrett, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin’s Unite Against the War on Women protest – Madison (video)
It was a cold, rainy Wisconsin day where many came out to support those who spoke and performed. This video shows excerpts from the speeches made at this moving event. From the website unitewomenwi.org/: Join Wisconsin and Unite Against the War on Women! Meet us at the S Hamilton Street… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, Act 10, ALEC, Video, War On Women, Wisconsin, Women's rights
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Walker’s Act 10 War On Teachers takes aim with slashing cost of living increases
As part of Walker’s “dropped bomb”, otherwise known as Act 10, the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission has issued a new policy, regarding “base wages” essentially taking aim at teachers and other professionals whose salaries are gauged by higher college education levels and post-graduate credits earned. Instead of getting a cost-of-living… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Education, Wisconsin
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Expensive Koch Brothers-sponsored Madison rally plays with tepid pro-Walker attendance
There are an Koch Brothers-sponsored “Americans For Prosperity” pro-Walker rally in Madison with perfect weather and an expensive audio-visual projection/sound system in place. Granted, the Koch Brothers spare no expense with nice toys to have astroturf rallies. While the Tea Party speakers seemed to be directly affected by Fox News… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Koch Brothers, Madison, Republicans, Tea Party, Wisconsin
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Debunking Scott Walker’s latest deceptive Koch Brothers-funded ad “Economy” (video)
Walker has come out again with his old “It’s Working” schtick with the latest Koch Brothers-funded ad that is chock full of lies and distortions. We won’t even go into why Walker looks like some short used car salesman. Walker has come up short on a lot of things, but… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Video, Wisconsin
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Fitzwalkerstan Legislature ready to pass laws with continuing GOP War on Women
Since the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is presently out of luck with trying to ram through legislation to sever Wisconsin environmental standards to allow a Florida billionaire to build an open-pit mine and destroy streams, towns and people’s lives without them being able to fight back, it looks like… Read the full story »
Posted in Abortion, ALEC, Fitzwalkerstan, Wisconsin, Women's rights
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Gogebic Taconite reveals itself as a company that acts like a spoiled child when it can’t get its way
It was always a suspicion that Gogebic Taconite only wanted to get their way or would act like a spoiled child that would have a tantrum if anyone dared to amend the environmental impact study sections for the AB426 legislation written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Although they… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Assembly, Environment, Gogebic Taconite, Mining, Rail System, Republicans, Wisconsin
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ALEC-written Gogebic Taconite mining project legislation many include privatizing environmental impact studies
Ever since the Florida-based mining company Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) mining project legislation was clumsily launched by Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald doing the bidding of Scott Walker’s campaign pay-for play antics for Florida fatcat billionaire Chris Clines, the usual suspects within the Fitzwalkerstan Cult have tried to appease Walker’s intentions to have… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Corruption, Fitzgerald, Fitzwalkerstan, Gogebic Taconite, Wisconsin
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Proof Walker and the Fitzwalkerstan Cult are at war with women’s reproductive rights
While a lot of the limelight on what Walker and the Republicans are doing generally focuses on collective bargaining rights and other important issues, it’s good to be reminded just how extreme the Fitzwalkerstan Cult is regarding women’s reproductive rights, equal pay, sex education and birth control. These careless, puritanical… Read the full story »
Posted in Abortion, ALEC, Families, Stem Cell Research, Wisconsin, Women's rights
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Ed Shultz gets update from John Nichols on Walker’s ALEC-funded bash in Arizona (audio)
Ed Schultz got an update from The Nation’s John Nichols regarding the latest news about the Scott Walker’s visit in Arizona last November where he was a keynote speaker at an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting/fundraiser at the Goldwater Institute trashing unions with the approval of GOPborg leather-faced scank… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Arizona, Audio, Collective Bargaining, Republicans
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A primer on the Citizens United decision and what it means in 2012 elections (video)
As the 2012 election season begins with recalls and other federal and state contests, it is crucial that all voters on all political sides understand what has happened with the 2010 United States Supreme Court’s 5-4 radical conservative majority decision in the Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission case, where… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Campaign finance, Citizens United, Fitzwalkerstan, Video, Voting, Washington DC, Wisconsin
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Walker spoke at ALEC event in DC defending record and predicting recall election (audio)
Walker made an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute, a component right-wing thinktank of the corporate law ghostwriters American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). In March 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed what is now nationally famous legislation designed to balance the budget, make structural reforms to state spending and provide… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Audio, Washington DC, Wisconsin
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Now that it’s 2012, expect Walker budget cuts to really hit Wisconsin citizens hard
As 2012 begins, a list of how the Walker budget cuts needs to be shown to show how much the cuts are, who it affects and who gets the tax breaks and loopholes from Walker that are funded on the backs of the middle, working and poor classes in Wisconsin.… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, BadgerCare, Education, Fitzwalkerstan, Medicaid, SeniorCare, Walkerville, Wisconsin
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Besides all other reasons, Walker should be recalled for committing economic treason by stopping Milwaukee-Madison rail project
In 2009, President Obama had announced that there was Wisconsin funding as part of an $8 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus program for rail projects throughout the United States. Wisconsin funding would be $810 million for an 85-mile Milwaukee-to-Madison route, with stops proposed at Brookfield, Oconomowoc… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Fitzwalkerstan, Koch Brothers, Rail System, Wisconsin
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A Holiday response to the corny 30-second Walker campaign TV ad “Holiday Spirit” (video)
Here is the response ad with additions to the corny 30-second Walker campaign TV ad “Holiday Spirit”, which was issued as some sort of attempt to make us all gather around and ignore the failure of the Walker administration and the outrageous war on seniors, women, the poor, the middle/working… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Fitzwalkerstan, Wisconsin
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Walker’s ties to American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shows that political money can buy anything
Tracing Scott Walker and the Fitzwalkerstan Cult to American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been a part of understanding how the pieces to the puzzle work, as illustrated by William Cronon last March. Cronon’s New York Times article blew the lid off for those who have been paying attention to… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Corruption, Fitzwalkerstan, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Assembly Bill 196 would stop disclosure of corporate election contributions
When asked in a Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council interview in December 2010 about how Walker would want more open government and transparency, he replied: Q: “Will you pledge right now to run the most open, transparent gubernatorial administration in the history of the universe?” A: Gov.-elect Scott Walker’s one-word… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Corruption, Walkerville, Wisconsin
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August 5-Thom Hartmann gets update from Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Graeme Zielinski about Recall election (audio)
Thom Hartmann interviewed Graeme Zielinski, communications director with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin regarding the Recall elections and various antics of the Fitzwalkerstan Cult trying to use cheating, lying, Koch Brothers money, astroturf conservative PACs and Rovian voter suppression techniques to attempt to keep Walker in power. Note: Make sure… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Audio, August 9, Recall, Republicans, Walkerville, Wisconsin
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Fitzwalkerstan Cult map redistricting power grab faces more legal hurdles due to unconstitutionality
It was reported that Walker was mum on whether he would actually going to sign the recent partisan gerrymandering redistricting legislation rushed through the state Senate and Congress. Many feel that his faux-coy schtick means his signature is imminent. Scott likes signing really horrific legislation on Fridays, it seems. Meanwhile,… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Fitzwalkerstan, Redistricting, Wisconsin
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Thom Hartmann interviews PR Watch regarding political influence of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) (audio)
Thom Hartmann interviews Lisa Graves about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Corporate influence in Wisconsin is directly responsible for what Scott Walker and the over-reaching Fitzwalkerstan Cult have been inflicting on the people of Wisconsin. There are also many national implications that every citizen needs to be aware of.… Read the full story »
What you need to know about American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), but were afraid to ask (audio)
Mike Papantonio (Ring Of Fire), sitting in on the Ed Schultz Show, talked with Cliff Schecter about the nefarious and quietly highly influential actions of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and their hand in political gamesmanship and influence that many don’t know about. And should! It’s not just the… Read the full story »
