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Wisconsin proposal would send $250 million to certified capital companies
Legislation that Gov. Scott Walker says will create jobs would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to insurance companies, while giving control of a $250 million fund to out-of-state financial management companies that would not have to pay back the fund’s principal and would keep up to 80% of its profits. [read more]
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Wisconsin proposal would send $250 million to certified capital companies
Legislation that Gov. Scott Walker says will create jobs would provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to insurance companies, while giving control of a $250 million fund to out-of-state financial management companies that would not have to pay back the fund’s principal and would keep up to 80% of its profits. [read more]
Why do these people even bother pretending their policies are about jobs?
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Just like they said. MoJo’s Andy Kroll takes you inside the network of right-wing think-tanks that’s driving the GOP’s war on unions.
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Scott Walker Admits Union-Busting Provision ‘Doesn’t Save Any’ Money For The State Of Wisconsin
Dennis Kucinich, doing what he does best, just tore Scott Walker apart… and he didn’t have to scream, yell, or use theatrics.
(Source: socialuprooting)
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Down goes WI State Senator #2!
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How to get a cushy job with the state.
1. Drop out of college.
2. Rack up multiple DUI convictions.
3. Get your dad to give the Wisconsin governor $121,652.
4. Jackpot!
(Newser via Joe.My.God.)
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James Fallows finds Joseph McCarthy alive and well in Wisconsin:
William Cronon, whom I know very slightly, is as good as the American academic establishment can now produce. He is president of the American Historical Association; he is the Frederick Jackson Turner professor of history at the University of Wisconsin; his Nature’s Metropolisand Changes in the Land are books any writer would be proud to claim.Because Cronon dared write an op-ed piece in the New York Times pointing to Wisconsin’s long tradition of bi-partisan, “good government”-minded support of collective bargaining rights, and criticizing Gov. Scott Walker for his campaign against organized labor and collective bargaining, the Wisconsin Republican Party is launching a legal effort to look through his email archives to see if he has been involved in the recent protests in the state. The putative rationale is that Cronon’s messages were sent on the University of Wisconsin’s email system and therefore are covered by the state’s open-records law.
Read more at The Atlantic
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James Fallows finds Joseph McCarthy alive and well in Wisconsin:
William Cronon, whom I know very slightly, is as good as the American academic establishment can now produce. He is president of the American Historical Association; he is the Frederick Jackson Turner professor of history at the University of Wisconsin; his Nature’s Metropolisand Changes in the Land are books any writer would be proud to claim.
Because Cronon dared write an op-ed piece in the New York Times pointing to Wisconsin’s long tradition of bi-partisan, “good government”-minded support of collective bargaining rights, and criticizing Gov. Scott Walker for his campaign against organized labor and collective bargaining, the Wisconsin Republican Party is launching a legal effort to look through his email archives to see if he has been involved in the recent protests in the state. The putative rationale is that Cronon’s messages were sent on the University of Wisconsin’s email system and therefore are covered by the state’s open-records law.Read more at The Atlantic
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“Wisconsin Gov. prank caller running for Congress”
Found in our inbox this morning (Here’s a refresher on what he did and how):
****For Immediate Release****
March 23rd, 2011, BUFFALO, NY—Ian Murphy, the infamous editor of The BEAST
who recently pwned Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, is proud to officially
announce that he is the Green Party candidate in the NY-26 special
congressional election.
“Blah. Why are we writing press releases? It’s already all over the
Facebooks tubes and the Twitter machines,” said Murphy. “I think they get
the point – go to MurphyCanHasCongress.com.”
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Tony Schultz, Wisconsin vegetable and beef farmer, addresses the #Wiunion crowd and makes us wonder…
…Remember when everybody associated the American heartland — “real” America, quote unquote — with populist leftism, Progressivism, and unionism?
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“They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here, or it will not be passed on to our children, and it will disappear everywhere in the world.”
Ronald Reagan
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A Letter to Gov. Scott Walker From a Wisconsin Teacher
…Your proposed Budget Repair Bill will cost me just under $3000 per year at my current salary, with the stated goal of saving $30 million this year on the state budget. I say, take it. You can have it. It will hurt me financially, but if it will balance the budget of the state that has been my home since birth, take it with my blessing. But if I may, before you do, I have some questions:
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