Archive | 2012

TOWN OF LA POINTE (Madeline Island) PASSES NO MINING RESOLUTION 2012-0110

January 21, 2012 by Barbara With State of Wisconsin Ashland County Whereas the Town Board of La Pointe, Wisconsin, in its rights of sovereign governance resolve to make and enforce a set of laws that protect the common interest of its residents and their future livelihood an; Whereas the Town Board of La Pointe, in […]

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Wednesday, January 25 (updated 1/24 9:00PM)

Committee on Election and Campaign Reform 9:00 AM 328 Northwest State Capitol Public Hearing Assembly Bill 476 Relating to: county and municipal canvassing procedures, provisional ballot information, the deadline for filing a recount petition, terms of town officers, the date of the annual town meeting, and technical revisions to certain election laws. By Representative Tauchen; […]

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Tuesday, January 24

Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business 10:00 AM 412 East State Capitol Executive Session Assembly Bill 426 (The Mining Bill) Relating to: regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. By Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business. On the Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Representative […]

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Monday, January 23

Committee on Transportation and Elections 10:00 AM 330 Southwest State Capitol Executive Session Senate Bill 292 Relating to: reporting of the principal place of employment of certain individuals who make political contributions. By Senator Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Nass, Craig, Endsley, Kapenga, Kooyenga, LeMahieu, A. Ott, Thiesfeldt and Van Roy. On the Committee on Transportation […]

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Glenn Grothman testimony: Lead Poisoning Bill – SB 373 (part 1)

  As xoff posted on Uppity Wisconsin: “On exactly 24 hours notice, the State Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Jan. 19, only on SB-373, the bill that would overturn a State Supreme Court decision allowing the victims to sue paint manufacturers.” The bill was just introduced on Jan. 10, the day […]

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“Mr Chair, I think you’re mispronouncing democracy. This is not bureaucracy, this is democracy.”

Re: The Wetlands Bill – SB 368. The Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Environment met on January 19, 2012. Senator Chris Larson proposed an amendment to SB 368 which would require the appointment of an advisory committee “to make recommendations to the department for identifying which wetlands or wetland types will qualify as exceptional […]

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WHY REPUBLICANS RECALL REPUBLICANS: Directly from the Source

Yesterday as nearly 2,000,000 signatures were delivered to the Government Accountability Board for the recall of Wisconsin Republicans Scott Walker, Rebecca Kleefisch, Scott Fitzgerald, Pam Galloway, Terry Moulton and Van Wanggaard, Dee Ives wept right along side us union thugs, dirty hippies and environmental extremists. Over 30,000 people spent the past two months in the […]

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Thursday, January 19

Committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue 9:30 AM 411 South State Capitol Public Hearing Senate Bill 297 Relating to: eliminating ambulatory surgical center assessment. By Senators Galloway, Moulton, Vukmir, Leibham, Lazich and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Stone, Ziegelbauer, Spanbauer, Kapenga, Meyer, Endsley, Krug, Litjens and Kaufert. Assembly Bill 93 Relating to: prohibiting purchase […]

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Editorial : Dee Ives “Gov Walker says it is working in WI…He lies.”

by Dee Ives Today there were tears in my eyes as I watched boxes of Recall petitions being carried into the GAB office in Madison WI. Over 1,000,000 WI citizens gave our Governor Scott Walker a peoples referendum on his TEA Party Budget and theft of open and transparent politics in WI. For, you see, I […]

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Wisconsin, We Did It!

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