This matters because every time a politician wants to do right by the people – he or she is going to know that at the end of the day…he will need A LOT of money to win because people really are easily influenced.  And if you need big money – you need to raise it [...]

Scott Walker is caught on tape saying things that he wish he hadn’t said publicly.  As he is talking one of his donors – Diane Hendricks a billionaire who had just given him $500,000 before he won his Governorship – she asks him how they can make Wisconsin a “red state” and eliminate collective bargaining. [...]

Throughout the country – Republicans have been passing laws to make it harder to vote, and Wisconsin is no exception.  Having passed several unfavorable laws and with a pending recall looming over Governor Scott Walker (WI-R)…Republicans in Wisconsin passed a law that they tried to implement immediately.  Their hope was to rush through the law [...]

There are a lot of bad Republican Governors in the U.S….I can think of Rick Scott in Florida, John Kasich in Ohio, Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, Paul LePage in Maine, Rick Perry in Texas, Jan Brewer in Arizona…all of them are divisive and have instituted radical visions for their electorates, but Scott Walker is the [...]

Seriously…this is a war.  I always find it perplexing when people say “they’re all the same” as if these bills that get passed back and forth have no actual affect on people’s lives…like we’re just talking about life as one big hypothetical math problem – the world in a vacuum. Well – it’s not a [...]

You really can’t make this up.  After 12 months of enacting the single most political agenda in the country….passing huge tax cuts for corporations to be paid for by cuts to teacher salaries and demonizing public sector workers as THE problem with the Wisconsin economy….Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin…Republican wonderkid is now blaming his infamous [...]

There are five Republicans up for recall in Wisconsin on June 5th; make that four – one of them just resigned.  Having already seen two Republican state Senators recalled last year by the people of Wisconsin – state Senator Pam Galloway has decided to resign her position for what she is characterizing as “sudden health [...]

I am very passionate about the Recall Walker effort and I hope you are too. You don’t have to be a badger to see that unions are the only organizations whose sole existence is to ensure better pay, working conditions and benefits for the middle class. If they’re so bad – why is income inequality [...]

The Fond du Lac Reporter is reporting - under Governor Walker’s leadership: The department also released revised 2011 statistics Thursday that show the state lost jobs in four of the last six months of the year, amending preliminary data that indicated six straight months of job losses. Still, the data shows Wisconsin added only 6,000 private sector [...]

There has been a national concerted effort to disenfranchise the votes of regular working people throughout the country by the Republican party.  This includes limiting or eliminating early voting, requiring certain types of photo ID’s, putting burdensome restrictions on who can register voters, restricting when voters may register, etc.  Think Progress gives a list of [...]