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Category Archives: ALEC
IRS scrutinizing conservative 501(c)(4) groups worth finding out who they really are
It’s not a big secret that the Koch Brothers fund the Tea Party and have Americans for Prosperity affiliated with 501(c)(4) status (Americans for Prosperity Foundation has 501(c)(3) status) that, thanks to the Supreme Court’s January 2010 “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission” decision, provide them with the ability to… Read the full story »
Posted in 2013 Legislature, ALEC, Citizens United, Election 2012, Elections, Grassroots, Karl Rove, Koch Brothers, Republicans, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Republicans try to sneak vouchers, DNA testing and other troubled policies into budget law
Just as Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) and other Republicans were scolding the University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly to possibly resign for not being “transparent” with cash reserves and other financial issues, that same group working on the recent $68 billion budget that… Read the full story »
Republican hypocrisy on display with discovery that UW System has “rainy day fund” money
The University of Wisconsin System took a significant hit with $65.8 million in budget cuts as well as a base budget reduction of $250 million in state funding with Walker’s slashing in the 2011-13 biennial budget. Recently, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau released a report (Program Revenue Appropriation Balances) containing a… Read the full story »
Posted in Act 10, ALEC, UW-Madison, WEDC
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Fed investigation finds thousands of Republican redistricting files in Wisconsin destroyed
It’s been well documented where 2012 was the year of gerrymandering where Republicans on a national scale used secretive partisan re-drawing of district boundaries to turn elections where, even though Democrats received 1.4 million more votes in House of Representatives races, Republicans gained control of the House by a 234… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Election 2012, Gerrymandering
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Remember the Holiday classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” message and prepare for 2013
Frank Capra, the director of the Holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”, shows how George Bailey goes through a major life’s lesson about greed, the working class and how in the end, greed gets shown the door. As with Walker, ALEC, the Koch Brothers and all the other Republican legions… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Koch Brothers, Republicans, Tea Party, Walkerville, Wisconsin
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Walker chooses to score political points with Tea Party Romney Republicans by rejecting Wisconsin-run health care exchanges
The historic the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has many features that Americans love once they get past the Republican/Fox News derisive label “Obamacare”, which term actually was later embraced by the Obama administration. One of the features of the healthcare reform law that calls on American states to… Read the full story »
Posted in Affordable Care Act, ALEC, Health Care, Tea Party, Wisconsin
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Romney campaign and Wisconsin Republican Party linked to voter harassment and intimidation training
When you consider how that in 2011, Republicans have promoted the Koch Brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) voter photo ID legislation in at least 35 states. The Brennan Center For Justice has an exhaustive analysis summarizing that “Fourteen states have passed restrictive voting laws and executive actions that have… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Election 2012, Election fraud, Elections, Tea Party, Voter ID, Voting, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Republican legislators quietly deleting their ALEC emails to hide their Koch Brothers agenda
There are dozens of corporations that dumping their support or affiliation with the Koch Brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It turns out that Wisconsin Republican legislators are also deleting their emails from ALEC that have been giving them marching orders on what to do as obedient Walker puppets. Wisconsin… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Election 2012, Fitzwalkerstan, Koch Brothers, Voting, Washington DC, Wisconsin
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New records show secretive Walker Loyalist Republicans were warned about careless redistricting legislation
Shutting Democrats out of the process and drawing the redistricting maps in secret, the Walker Republicans passed the gerrymandered legislation after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with legal help from Madison-based Troupis Law Office and Milwaukee-based Michael Best and Frederich and Scott Walker signed the maps into law named… Read the full story »
Posted in ALEC, Gerrymandering, Michael Best and Friedrich, Redistricting, Republicans, Voting, Wisconsin
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Not a story from The Onion: Walker delivers education reform speech at Harvard University
This has got to be one of the funniest headlines ever to come through the Associated Press EVER. If you’re half-awake, this would make you double-take and want to make sure your computer monitor is not broken. How could a college dropout who was kicked out of Marquette who slashed… Read the full story »
Walker beginning to regret his anti-Obama screeds with “Affordable Care Act” laws he calls “ObamaCare”
With the approach of the date where the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will make a decision on the constitutionality of President Obama’s “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)”, signed into law on March 23, 2010, Scott Walker and other Republicans have been highly critical about “ObamaCare” for… Read the full story »
Posted in Affordable Care Act, ALEC, BadgerCare, Fitzwalkerstan, Health Care, War On Women, Wisconsin
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Reflections on why Walker and Kleefisch need to be recalled (video)
It is an amazing time in American history and this citizen vlogger feels fortunate to be in Madison. Having lived in other parts of the country during times where political events erupted and shocked the psyche of the people, these times here are like none of the others in intensity.… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Families, John Doe, June 5, Koch Brothers, Video, Wisconsin
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Documents prove Walker is lying about not wanting to make Wisconsin a right-to-work (for less) state
Scott Walker doesn’t want the private sector unions to know that he would come after them next with the Orwellian-titled “right-to-work” legislation, which is purely meant to use propaganda and lies about creating jobs while gutting worker rights and even safety of workers. When asked by Tom Barrett in the… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Right To Work, Wisconsin
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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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