From 3pm to 7pm the following bills were passed by the WI Assembly. Still on deck, criminalizing abortion providers, trashing navigable water regulations, privatizing Milwaukee Area Tech College board, and water pollution credit trading, among dozens of others. SB 453 is an omnibus bill that lays out the scope of authority of the newly created […]
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Possession of a Camera-A Crime in the WI Assembly
By Whitney Steffen, Leslie Amsterdam and Arthur Kohl-Riggs Above is a video of another unconstitutional arrest. However, this is more proof of the continued unprofessional behavior of the Capitol Police and Assembly Sergeant-at-Arms’ staff when it comes to rights, people’s property, and their safety. The Wisconsin State Assembly has its own set of rules. Assembly […]
STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE Installment #2: How We Got Here
This is the second installment of a series of excerpts from my new book, STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE. Due out April 7, 2012, the one-year anniversary of Kathy Nickolaus finding 14,000 votes two days after Joanne Kloppenburg was declared the winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Without those votes, there never would have […]
Pocan & Risser Lead Effort to Restore Collective Bargaining
March 8, 2012 by WCMC On Thursday, State Representative Mark Pocan and Senator Fred Risser held a joint news conference to announce the Collective Bargaining Restoration Act, which would repeal the anti-union provisions of Wisconsin Act 10. March 11 will mark the one-year anniversary of Governor Walker’s signing of Act 10, which stripped Wisconsin’s public […]
“You Could Have Killed a Child!” In Fitzwalkerstan, an Unattended Sign is as Dangerous as an Unlocked Gun
March 8, 2012 by WCMC March 7, 2012 was a special day. The ferrous mining bill AB426 was sent back to committee by Scott Fitzgerald, and I wanted to celebrate by coming to the Solidarity Sing Along. I picked up my banners and went to the Capitol rotunda at noon as I have hundreds of […]
Attack on Flanagan Exposes Profound Rightwing Hypocrisy
March 8, 2012 by WCMC The Honorable David T. Flanagan, a Tommy Thompson appointee to his first term as a Dane County Circuit Court Judge, is a fine jurist. He is now under assault from the right wing extremists for having the gall to issue a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the Republican’s voter […]
David Koch’s “Greater Purpose”
March 4, 2012 by Lady Foward Billionaire David Koch works on Madison Avenue in New York City. He doesn’t live or work in Wisconsin, and as far as I know, he’s never come here to meet the people. But his company, Koch Industries, has major business interests in Wisconsin, including Georgia-Pacific Corporation and Koch […]
DNA Testing – The 21st Century Identifier
March 1, 2012 by WCMC When a person is found guilty of a felony or is in jail for a felony, they are required to submit “biological specimens…for DNA analysis.” The other cases where it’s required are as follows: “a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent for certain offenses; a person is “found guilty of […]
The WI Capitol Press Corps’ Deal With the Devil: Updated
In a February 24th online article titled “On the Capitol: Blogosphere goes wild after Rep. Kleefisch caught on video,” Wisconsin State Journal reporters Mary Spicuzza and Clay Barbour take the unwashed masses to task for their outraged reaction to a video showing GOP Rep. Joel Kleefisch casting votes for Assembly colleagues who were too busy […]
Do What We Say, Not What We Do. Why? Because We Say So
Over the past year Jeff Fitzgerald and the Wisconsin Assembly went to great lengths to limit the public’s ability to see them at work in the Assembly chamber. Many of their most recent and most extreme bills have passed under cover of darkness between the hours of midnight and 4am despite Governor Walkers campaign promise […]
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