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The Chamber of Commerce ads are blatantly anti-worker, attacking progressives like Wisconsin Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin for her stand against Koch-funded anti-union measures, or Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is a leading advocate for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Then there are the ads supporting Republicans who support the Keystone XL pipeline...
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By David Edwards
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:41 EST
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to abolish all income taxes — but he says he’ll have to completely destroy the “welfare system” to do it.
During CNN’s Republican debate in Florida on Thursday, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Paul if he agreed with the tax policies that former President Ronald Reagan put in place.
“He taxed too much,” Paul replied. “My goal is to get rid of the 16th Amendment and the only way you can do that is not run a welfare system and a warfare system.”
“I do want to address the subject about taxing the rich. That is not a solution. But I understand and really empathize with the people who talk about the 99 and the 1 because there is a characteristic about what happens when you destroy a currency. There is a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, and this has been going on for 40 years.”
The Texas congressman added: “So the middle class is shrinking and their losing their jobs and their losing their houses, but Wall Street isn’t getting poorer. And they are the ones who are getting the bailout. So we have to address the bailout and the system that favors a certain group over another group. If you don’t have sound money and you have a welfare state, no matter whether the welfare state is designed to help the poor, you know, the welfare system helps the wealthy.”
Speaking to conservative Wisconsin radio host Jan Mickelson last August about pro-union protests in that state, Paul explained that “[e]ntitlements are not rights.”
“And this is where I’m very encouraged, because I think a lot of young people are recognizing this and they can’t depend on the government,” he said. “And some of the people on the left are actually realizing this, some get very angry, but a lot of them now are looking at our views more closely, especially when we can prove that the welfare system bail out the rich and stick it to the poor. And you look at the housing, I use that example, they bailed out the rich and the bankers and Wall Street, and at the same time the people lost their jobs and lost their homes.”
“So the welfare system doesn’t work and in truth, pure democracy is very dangerous.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/27/ron-paul-the-welfare-system-helps-the-wealthy/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 26, 2012.
“So the welfare system doesn’t work and in truth, pure democracy is very dangerous.”
"Hmmm, What an Odd thing to say!!!"By David Edwards
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She’s lived in Wisconsin for 55 years and never once been to Madison. Until last week. She was one of the many citizens from rural counties across the state that marched up to the Government Accountability office to deliver recall petitions with signatures, stripping bare the lie that the recall was entirely the work of liberals in Madison and Milwaukee. They came from places with little party organization and less party money, where the only party asset is the dedication of the people.
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By Reuters
Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:57 EST
MADISON (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, whose tumultuous first year in office saw partisan budget battles, massive street protests and a statewide recall effort against him, focused on job creation and ridding government of wasteful spending in a ‘state of the state’ speech on Wednesday disrupted by heckling.
During a 45-minute address to members of the state legislature and Supreme Court justices, the first-term governor touted an improved business climate he said has created “thousands of new jobs” after the state lost 150,000 jobs during the three recession-hit years before he took office.
“I believe it is the people of this state who create jobs and not the government,” he said.
The governor asked small business owners to hire one new employee this year, in an attempt to invigorate the job market even more throughout the state.
“Imagine how many more people we could get working if we all pitched in together,” the governor said.
Five protesters shouted at the governor during his speech and were escorted out of the chamber’s upper gallery.
“Liar. Recall. Liar!” one woman screamed from the top row of the gallery before being led out of the chamber by security personnel.
Walker, looking back on his first year in office, said the state is “headed in the right direction.” He took credit for a state budget that was balanced without raising taxes, a decreasing statewide unemployment rate, and a decline in school tax levies during his first year.
“We balanced it, without raising taxes, without massive layoffs and without budget tricks,” he said of the state budget approved last summer after months of contentious debate centered on Walker’s successful push to cut the power of public unions.
Walker lauded those collective bargaining rule changes along with health care reforms he contended saved school districts millions of dollars. He also mentioned creation of the state’s “Read to Lead” program, intended to improve the state’s reading scores that have slipped in recent years.
Before Walker spoke, a group of more than 100 protesters gathered outside of the Capitol building to decry the governor’s conservative agenda. Protesters were also heard chanting in the Capitol rotunda as a protester band played outside, below the Assembly chamber windows.
State Senate Democrats last winter fled the state for a time to prevent a quorum for a vote on Walker’s collective bargaining curbs. Hundreds of anti-Walker protesters occupied the Capitol for days while tens of thousands attended rallies outside.
In the end, Walker’s Republican allies in both houses of the legislature engineered passage of his reform measures. But the partisan atmosphere still dominates the state with Walker the lightning rod for Democrats and their backers.
Walker in his speech tried to stick to business. He announced a group of business leaders who will be on a Small Business Regulatory Review Board. The panel will have the authority to review and eliminate bureaucratic red tape that stifles job creation, he said.
“I will direct our agencies to work with them to remove antiquated and unnecessary regulations that pose a threat to creating new jobs,” Walker said.
He also announced creation of a taskforce charged with finding ways to eliminate wasteful or what he termed fraudulent spending on the part of state government.
“Because I respect the hard working people of Wisconsin, I will continue to be a good steward of the taxpayers’ dollar,” he said. “Eliminating waste, fraud and abuse is a top priority of my administration.”
The Waste, Fraud and Abuse Elimination Taskforce will be charged with creating policies to eliminate $400 million in wasteful spending outlined in a report recently completed by the state’s Commission on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.
Walker’s opponents were not mollified by the proposals.
“The governor did not lay out a new course for Wisconsin tonight,” said Senator Lena Taylor, one of the Democrats who fled the state last year, after Walker’s speech.
Wisconsin has lost jobs for six straight months, according to the state’s Department of Workforce Development, she said.
“Instead, Wisconsin was fed a terrible meal of the cruel dishonesty that he has served time and time again. Talks of balanced budgets, lower taxes, job creation and a brighter future simply do not square with the facts,” she said.
Walker, elected in the national Republican sweep of 2010, faces a recall election after he forced through the legislature the measure stripping public sector unions of some powers, which set off a firestorm of criticism.
Opponents of Walker last week submitted petitions with more than 1 million signatures to force a recall vote, far more than needed. But Democrats have yet to settle on an opponent to face Walker in a recall election, and he retains a strong base.
A Marquette University Law School poll on Wednesday showed Walker leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, whom he beat in 2010, by 50 to 44 percent. Dane County executive Kathleen Falk, who has announced she will run for the nomination to challenge Walker, trails Walker by 49 to 42 percent.
The poll also showed Walker leading former congressman David Obey by 7 percentage points and state Senator Tim Cullen by 10 points. Cullen said last month he would run. The survey of 701 registered voters was taken by telephone from January 19 to 22.
No date as yet been set for the recall election.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/26/hecklers-shout-liar-as-wisconsins-walker-touts-job-creation/
"LOL, they make it sound like an Execution Date, Hmmm maybe as far as his political future!!!" =)By Reuters
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Watch as Wisconsin teacher Al Levie refuse the MLK Gateway College Humanitarian Award from Ryan for being "a lackey for the One Percent".
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Organized labor’s plans to spend heavily to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has sparked angst on the left that the effort will come at the expense of Democrats in other states.
The funding disparity between groups allied with either Republicans or Democrats is one of the biggest concerns for New York Sen. Charles Schumer, the Senate Democrats’ chief political strategist.
Unions have made ousting Walker a top priority and are poised to spend heavily in Wisconsin. But Democratic strategists and some senior political experts within the labor movement believe the initiative should have been launched before the November presidential election.
Labor officials are also looking at investing resources in Indiana, a red-leaning state, to battle controversial right-to-work legislation backed by Gov. Mitch Daniels (R).
But the Wisconsin fight will consume far more resources. This is a stomach-churning prospect for Democrats and their allies because the labor expenditures could come just months before the general election, when money will be needed for more important battlegrounds such as Ohio and Florida.
“Some were asking us whether we could wait until after the election, but we can’t. This is too big a deal,” said one labor official.
The labor official told The Hil that Democrats have questioned the timing of a massive spending campaign in Wisconsin.
While Schumer views the funding imbalance between liberal and conservative third-party groups as a major concern, his spokesman said, "Sen. Schumer has never expressed any reservations whatsoever about the recall effort in Wisconsin. In face, he supports it."
A decision by labor unions to spend millions on a state-level political battle means Democrats will have that much less outside money helping President Obama and congressional candidates this fall.
The Wisconsin endeavor could help Democrats retain retiring Sen. Herb Kohl’s (D-Wis.) seat, but there are only two House races — Reps. Sean Duffy (R) and Reid Ribble (R) — in the state that are competitive, according to The Cook Political Report.
Labor leaders believe the Walker race has important national implications, even if it does not appear to have a direct impact on Obama’s reelection. They believe it will send a strong message to other Republican governors to think twice about pushing the anti-labor reforms that Walker aggressively championed.
And labor leaders have not been thrilled with Obama’s support for their agenda, even if he has taken a more populist tone in recent weeks.
They were disappointed by the decision to hire William Daley, a former executive at JPMorgan Chase, as White House chief of staff and by the passage of the South Korea, Colombia and Panama trade agreements.
The International Association of Firefighters, the nation’s biggest union of firefighters, froze contributions to federal candidates last spring because of frustrations that Democrats were not doing more to fight for its priorities. The union slowly resumed its giving in December.
Democratic strategists expect third-party conservative groups to heavily outspend their left-leaning counterparts.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's polarizing governor is fighting attempts to recall him with money from out-of-state donors, who helped him bring in more than $12 million since last year.
An Associated Press analysis of campaign finance reports Republican Gov. Scott Walker filed Monday showed 61 percent of the $4.1 million he raised during the five-week reporting period came from out of state.
Many of the contributions came from big donors, including $250,000 from conservative Texas financier Bob Perry and a total of $750,000 from three people in Missouri. More than half of Walker's money came from people who donated $20,000 or more, such as Michael Bidwill, president of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, who gave $25,000.
Walker's furious fundraising comes as Wisconsin election officials continue to review an estimated 1.9 million signatures collected to recall the governor, lieutenant governor and four Republican state senators.
The recall effort was spurred by anger over Walker's first year in office, in particular a law he pushed through that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
The $12.1 million Walker has raised since January 2011 breaks the previous record for fundraising by a candidate for state office in Wisconsin. Walker set the earlier record when he raised $10 million on his way to victory in 2010.
Walker's latest efforts take advantage of a state law that allows targets of a recall to ignore the usual $10,000 per-donor cap and raise unlimited amounts until an election is set. Walker has been traversing the country raising money and speaking at gatherings of conservatives from Texas to New York and Tennessee.
"We haven't seen anything like this before," Mike McCabe, director of the government watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said Tuesday. His group's analysis of Walker's latest fundraising totals, which covered Dec. 11 through Jan. 17, showed that 33 donors gave between $20,000 and $250,000 for a total of $2.3 million.
Walker's campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said the level of donations shows Walker's message is resonating with voters.
"These donations will allow us to fight back against this baseless recall and ensure Gov. Walker can continue to lay the foundation for a more successful Wisconsin and keep government working on the side of taxpayers," she said.
Recall organizers raised just a fraction of what Walker did.
The Democratic Party and United Wisconsin, which worked together on the petition drive, reported raising $480,000 collectively since Dec. 11. Walker raised $4.5 million over the same five-week period, while Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch raised $102,000.
Two Democrats, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and state Sen. Tim Cullen of Janesville, have announced they will seek their party's nomination to take on Walker. A number of others are considering running.
Unlike Walker's donors, most of those funding Democrats — 67 percent — live in Wisconsin.
Democrats, who are bound by the state's campaign donation limits, have said they don't expect to keep up with Walker's fundraising.
"We will be outspent three or four to one," state Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said.
McCabe, with the Democracy Campaign, said Walker will have a "commanding" financial advantage over any challenger. Walker has repeatedly said he is going after out-of-state money because he anticipates national organized labor groups will spend heavily in support of the candidate Democrats eventually chose.
McCabe predicted that outside groups will come in on both sides, but Walker will maintain his financial advantage.
"There's no question," he said. "I don't think any Democratic candidate can possibly catch up."
Walker has spent $9.8 million over the past 54 weeks, with much of it going toward television advertising that started the night before those gathering signatures on recall petitions hit the streets. He reported having $2.6 million in cash left.
Some of Walker's biggest backers are well-known conservatives.
Bidwill is a frequent donor to Republican candidates across the country. Perry, a Texas home builder, helped pay for the Swift Boat Veterans ads that attacked Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. Perry has a total of $500,000 to Walker's campaign.
The three others who gave Walker $250,000 each during one week this month were Missouri residents David C. Humphreys and his sister Sarah Atkins, both of Tamko Building Products, and Stanley M. Herzog of Herzog Contracting.
Members of the Humphreys family are some of the largest Republican donors in Missouri.
David Humphreys, who contributed $125,000 last year to the expected gubernatorial campaign of Missouri's Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, made news last fall by asking for his money back after Kinder admitted he frequented an Illinois strip club while he was a state senator in the 1990s. Kinder did not return the money but ultimately decided against running for governor.
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Associated Press writers Troy Thibodeaux in New Orleans and David Lieb in Jefferson City, Mo., contributed to this report.
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, January 23, 2012
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin endorsed U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin on Monday as the party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Herb Kohl.
“While the Republican Tea Party field runs further to the right and into the arms of their Wall Street masters, Tammy Baldwin has shown that she will fight these interests and protect our struggling middle class,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said.
Kohl and former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold (D) have also endorsed Baldwin’s candidacy for the Senate.
If Baldwin won, she would be the first openly gay U.S. senator. But she has said she does not want her campaign to revolve around her sexuality.
Baldwin is the only Democrat to have declared her candidacy for the seat. Her Senate campaign raised more than $1.1 million last quarter.
Baldwin will face Tommy Thompson, Mark Neumann, Jeff Fitzgerald or Frank Lasee depending on who wins the Republican primary in August.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/23/democratic-party-of-wisconsin-endorses-tammy-baldwin-for-u-s-senate/
"Hmmm, perhaps a turn in the Right direction??? Hmmm perhaps a Correct direction, or a Left direction?!?!?!?!"By Eric W. Dolan
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On Saturday, January 21, 2012, dozens of unpaid Walker supporters and hundreds of Koch Brother-hired plants gathered in Wauwatosa to celebrate the jobs lost, the tanking state economy and the shredding of the Constitution.
Sadly for them, they chose the wrong date to hold their rally.
January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day.
The date that the organizers really wanted to hold their rally is September 21 - Weasel Appreciation Day.
Poor buggers just can't get anything right, can they?
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Posted by Rachel Weiner
Democrats and their allies in organized labor say they delivered over a million recall petition signatures against Gov. Scott Walker (R) Tuesday, far more than the 540,208 needed to spark a recall election.
The filing kicks off the latest phase in a fight over collective bargaining rights that began almost as soon as Walker took office last January.
Democrats also filed 845,000 signatures to trigger a recall against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) and enough to recall four Republican state senators, according to party chairman Mike Tate.
Last summer, Democrats attempted to win back control of the state Senate after the Republican leadership passed legislation limiting public workers’ bargaining rights. They recalled two Republicans but fell one seat short of flipping the chamber.
Read More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/over-a-million-signatures-filed-to-force-recall-of-wisconsin-gov-scott-walker/2012/01/17/gIQAXPT55P_blog.html
"New requirements mean that verifying the signatures will take at least two months. The election date will then be set for this spring, barring further legal challenges."Posted by Rachel Weiner
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) may have violated his state’s campaign finance law over 1,000 times in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign by failing to properly report contributions, according to a new report.
Wisconsin law requires gubernatorial campaigns to disclose information about contributors who give more than $100. Again and again, Walker appears to have skirted that requirement.
One Wisconsin Now examined the Walker for Governor’s finance records and found 1,115 instances where the campaign received contributions of more than $100 but did not properly disclose who gave the money. In total, “Walker has improperly reported well over $500,000 in contributions from inside and outside of Wisconsin,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. According to the group, which has filed a complaint with the state Government Accountability Board, Walker’s violations could result in a fine of $557,500:
The reporting statutes were enacted to give the public a full and timely picture of who is contributing to political candidates and the interests they may be representing. Lawmakers felt this was particularly important in the days preceding a general or primary election. According to the statutes, each violation of the reporting laws can result in a fine of up to $500, which in Walker’s case could top nearly $557,500.
ThinkProgress reached out to the Walker campaign for comment, but had not heard back by publication time. We will provide an update if they respond to the charge. http://thkpr.gs/zrX4egWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) may have violated his state’s campaign finance... more
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MILWAUKEE -- U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin opened her senate campaign headquarters in downtown Milwaukee on Monday night.
The Madison lawmaker is the only Democrat in the race to replace retiring sen. Herb Kohl. Kohl was there for the grand opening and endorsed Baldwin as his replacement.
"We are going to see to it that Tammy Baldwin is elected as our senator. I would have no one else as my successor. So you better get elected as senator, said Kohl.
"What the people of Wisconsin want is someone who's going to fight for them. Not for Wall Street. Not for the Tea Party, but for them," said Baldwin.
Baldwin will face the winner of the Republican primary.
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By Muriel Kane
Friday, January 6, 2012
An investigation into the embezzlement of funds by former aides to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has led to charges of sex crimes on the part of the domestic partner of one of the alleged embezzlers.
Computers and cellphones seized from the home shared by former Walker aide Timothy Russell and his domestic partner Brian Pierick revealed a series of text messages that Pierick exchanged with a 17 year old boy from Waukesha, Wisc. in 2010. As a result, Pierick was charged on Thursday with child enticement and causing a child to expose his genitals.
Russell, who has been charged with three counts of embezzling funds intended for veterans, is not named in the complaint, but he appears to be the person described as having been Pierick’s co-conspirator in an attempt to lure the teen into Russell’s van for a sexual encounter.
The Uppity Wisconsin blog notes that “Russell and Pierick are both longtime Republican operatives and Russell worked on then-County Executive Scott Walker’s staff as his Deputy Cheif of Staff. Court records show the couple now lives in Sun Prairie, indicating that they moved to the Madison area during the same time that many of the rest of Governor Walker’s former Milwaukee County Executive staff moved to Madison. Pierick has a position at the Department of Instruction and Russell is believed to have been involved in Republican campaigns the past year.”
According to the complaint, the incident began on August 30, 2010, when the teen posted a “man seeking man” ad on Craigslist. Someone using Pierick’s iPhone texted him back, and over 200 sexually explicit messages were exchanged over the next three months. The teen sent Pierick a picture of his own genitals, and Pierick sent a picture of himself and Russell.
The young man claimed to be almost 19 but also indicated in his messages that he was still in high school and living with his parents, which might have been a tip-off that he was somewhat younger. He expressed a willingness to meet Pierick and Russell in Russell’s van on November 21, but claims he didn’t follow through.
Pierick and Russell’s computers also contained suspected child pornography, which the two men had procured under user names including “TRussell” and “Walker04.” However, because the exact ages of the apparently adolescent subjects of the videos could not be determined, neither man has been charged on that basis.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/06/investigation-of-former-scott-walker-aide-leads-to-sex-crime-charges/
This video is from WJDT News, January 5, 2012.
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'This year while my husband and I shared Christmas Eve with our loved ones, someone else was not celebrating. Instead, they were stealing the Recall banner that adorned our fence. They used a knife to slash the ropes and then to cut our Christmas lights. Not wanting to be silenced, on Christmas morning we used a staple gun to affix handmade signs to the fence and placed landscaping lights on them. After a wonderful Christmas day, we found out the Grinch had returned. Our signs had been torn down. The lights were smashed. And the message was received: free expression is no longer free in Wisconsin. Ours had cost us signs, lights, and the feeling of safety and security everyone wants in their home.
While I passionately disagree with the arguments of the Walker supporters, I have never questioned their right to express them. I find it outrageous that someone would come onto my property and tell me, through force and intimidation, that my constitutionally protected dissent isn’t acceptable. It is a sad commentary of the divisive atmosphere this Administration’s hostile tone has created. Wisconsin used to be known for its pride and sense of statewide community, but no more. I guess it’s just another shame in a year that will be remembered for its shamelessness.
But in the end, the signs throughout the state speak more about the goodness of solidarity, then the venom of conflict. Today we displayed a new sign proudly, “You can steal our banner…but you can never take our voice”
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When people ask me why these two candidates are so important, my answer is very simple: Both women are true progressives, and that's what America needs. It's pretty clear that the present 'system' of electing our leaders isn't going to change any time soon. We've made halfhearted attempts at reforming the election process and have basically gotten nowhere.
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