Watching Scotty Go
Next week marks the first anniversary of the day Gov. Scott Walker "dropped the bomb" on Wisconsin -- it was February 11 when he sprung his secretive, explosive, mendaciously-named "budget repair bill"...
View ArticlePiratizing Special Education in Wisconsin: AB110 Plunder Revisited
They're trying to loot public education in Wisconsin.And they're trying to take advantage of families like mine, with kids like my daughter, to do it. I wrote those words last May in my first...
View ArticleWI Rep. Mark Pocan Rips Into ALEC on Assembly Floor (re Special Needs Vouchers)
Wisconsin state Assembly Representative Mark Pocan has long been a hero in the effort to expose ALEC. ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is a secretive but immensely powerful right-wing...
View ArticleWisconsin's Scott Walker: "Indictable Boy"
You may have heard by now that there was a startling Friday-afternoon news dump in Wisconsin yesterday.The story can be found both in Puddytat's RecList diary (Wis State Senate Recalls Likely to Happen...
View ArticleFour Wisconsin Disability Victories, incl. the Demise of ALEC's AB110!
Wisconsin disability-advocates had a lot to celebrate this weekend! I had the privilege of raising a glass on Friday with a couple dozen such advocates -- a non-partisan gathering of self-advocates...
View ArticleMother's Day Misogyny: WI State Senator Scott Fitzgerald (Update: Compas...
Happy Mother's Day from Wisconsin!You have to read to the end of the front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal to find it, but for this Mother's Day article, State Senator Scott Fitzgerald...
View ArticleHouse GOP Votes to Kill Census' American Community Survey
Last Wednesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives took the budget axe to the American Community Survey (ACS), the Census Bureau's up-to-date annual counterpart to the decennial population...
View ArticleSignOn Petition to DNC: Help Wisconsin with the Walker Recall!
I got an e-mail this afternoon, May 15, with a time-stamp of 2:44pm.It was from Mary Magnuson of Brookfield, WI, who had started a SignOn petition:Democratic National Committee: Invest In The Scott...
View ArticleRecallTomBarrett.com Is Already Registered
One of the myriad throw-it-all-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks arguments that has come from the Walker camp regarding the recall is that some enterprising citizen registered the domain...
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Wisconsin Solidarity Singalong #382: Vote! Vote! Vote!
I've never had it happen before that I've attended an event at noon, and then just a few hours later heard clips from that same event being broadcast on NPR's Marketplace while driving around town...
View ArticleSurge in Private Contracting by WI State Agencies; Walker Admin Hopes Nobody...
The Walker administration didn't want us to know about this one.Private contracting by Wisconsin state agencies surged by 26% in FY2011, reversing a six-year trend in declining privatization.(Report:...
View ArticleWisconsin Assembly 2012: More and Better Democrats!
I was pleased to see Puddytat's Tuesday diary about former State Senator Van Waangaard finally conceding his voter-fraud disinformation media blitz loss to John Lehman in the Wisconsin State Senate...
View ArticleVoter ID in Wisconsin: Requirement Will NOT Be in Place for Fall Elections
Glorious late-in-the-day news, on the very day that the Democrats take the reins in the Wisconsin State Senate!Yet another judge has issued a permanent injunction against the Walker/ALEC Voter ID law....
View ArticleFeds Order Wisconsin to Reimburse for Failed Family Care Freeze
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have renewed Wisconsin's Family Care program, which provides support for elders and people with disabilities to live in their communities...
View Article"I'm Just A Bill" in the Age of ALEC: Mark Fiore's Devastating Update to...
Like many of you, I grew up with Schoolhouse Rock, catchy little animated nuggets of learning that were interspersed among kids' shows to teach us little darlings something without feeling like we were...
View ArticleTanya Lohr vs. Glenn Grothman for WI State Senate: His Words, Her Words
On Monday, Huffington Post ran a piece on the Wisconsin State Senate race in District 20, where ALEC member Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) is facing a challenge from high school teacher Tanya Lohr. The...
View ArticleWI State Legislature: School Profitizers Fail to Buy Dem Primaries
The American Federation for Children tried to buy five Democratic primaries for the Wisconsin state legislature in Milwaukee. This past Tuesday, Milwaukee Democrats spoke at the ballot box -- and the...
View ArticleMadison, WI Capitol Police Chief: "You Could Try to Hit Them"
My plan for today: take my children to the Solidarity Sing Along at the Capitol.I want to bear witness, in our physical presence, to that which the Sing Along professes on a daily basis:We are a...
View ArticleWhy They Think Lies & Propaganda Can Win: The Wisconsin Example
The collective jaw of what's left of responsible journalism is agape at the unfettered, unprecedented mendacity of the Romney/Ryan campaign.middlegirl did a great job yesterday of collecting links to...
View ArticleWI Solidarity Sing Along: I'm a Constituent, not a Terrorist
To the tune of My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean:They're trying to stifle our voices They're trying to keep us derailed They'll find it's not easy to do, though... McCarthy once tried it and failed! At the...
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