Beginning of the Fascist Takeover

Late at night, before Independence Day weekend, the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee shoved various last-minute “Tea Party wish list” items into the state budget proposal with the passage of a 999 motion. The 999 motion includes undemocratic, unconstitutional policies that have got to receive public scrutiny, such as dramatically changing the powers and authority of the Milwaukee county board and county executive. The motion even repeals a 100-year-old law that states Wisconsin’s minimum wage must be a living wage.

With less than 24-hour notice, the public is again being shut out of their democracy. Republicans are trying desperately to outrun public scrutiny, having already been forced to retreat from their attempt to gut our open records laws. To escape additional public review, they have resorted to using extraordinary session rules that let them railroad the budget through the Senate. The public is catching on, so Republicans are desperate to get out of town with their grab bag of special interest goodies.

The damages done to Wisconsin’s reputation by this administration and Republican Legislature will take decades to recover from. Republicans already showed their lack of any long-term vision for Wisconsin by choosing to ignore Wisconsin’s middle class families and students in favor of special interest giveaways and unsustainable tax cuts for the wealthy. They prefer to once again divide our state into winners and losers by gutting $250 million from our UW System, while at the same time spending more on the scandal-plagued WEDC.

With the light of public scrutiny shining on them, GOP legislators are scrambling to grab what they can on their way out of Madison, it’s a wholesale dismantling of our democracy. Chris Larson       My hero……

Walker Horror Story

Out of CPAC Walker compares Protesting Wisconsinites to ISIS. Idiocracy is full force.

Has no real foreign policy experience, has to make it up.

Walker’s Hanging Tree

“The Hanging Tree”          Inspired 
(with James Newton Howard)

Annotated by Robert Bauter

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered We.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Who Are you, Who are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

When Are you, when are you
Coming to the tree?
Where I told you to run,
So we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
[Soundtrack line:] Wear a necklace of Nope,
Side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Where Are you, where are you
Coming to the tree?
Where I told you to run,
So we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

When Are you, When are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.

Walker in the Flesh

Scott Walker banks on being accessible like that cheap fast food meal with no real substance. This week he has ended WI stewardship program, gutted the UW system with deep cuts, and attacked Same Sex couple’s hospital visitation rights.

A Friend of mine recently had this to say about our Governor from a meeting in London, England.

“Clearly a room full of republicans. Whether by direction or by faith, the business leaders accompanying the governor all spoke to me about how great the economy is and the great work the governor has done to revitalize things. I didn’t have it in me to say that’s complete bullshit, just let them talk. I was there for self-serving purposes, to make connections that could advance things that matter to me. In that regard, job done. I spoke to the governor at length about a company I am invested in called Ostara. They basically clean waste water and produce a slow release fertilizer, both of which Wisconsin (particularly the Fox Valley) could use to clean things up immeasurably. The ironic thing is Bobby Kennedy Jr. Is on the board. The governor was very interested in the business and even laughed off the Kennedy connection when I told him. He had an aid follow up with me afterwards. He was on a “trade mission”, but still got to give him credit for that. Overall the Governor didn’t do or say anything even remotely contentious. He was friendly and nice. But, there was no doubt we were all inside a big red bubble. His handshake was the weirdest I’ve ever experienced. His hand was softer than my 3 year old daughter’s! Creepy.”

We deserve better! Friends in WI do not let friends vote Republican! Scotty my reach is long, very long, and there is no lie you can hide from me.

Truth in the Telling

Gov. Scott Walker prodded outside groups and individuals to funnel millions of dollars into Wisconsin Club for Growth — a pro-Walker group directed by his campaign adviser — during the recall elections in 2011 and 2012, according to court documents unsealed for a short time Friday afternoon.

The documents form much of the basis for prosecutors’ theory that Walker’s campaign and conservative groups illegally cooperated to help him and other Republicans. Walker and the groups deny they broke any laws, noting two judges have sided with them.

Among the funds that flowed into the Wisconsin Club for Growth was $700,000 from a company trying to build a massive open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Soon after the 2012 recall and general elections, Walker and Republicans eased environmental regulations, helping the firm.

“The Governor is encouraging all to invest in the Wisconsin Club for Growth,” said an April 28, 2011, email from Kate Doner, a Walker campaign consultant, to R.J. Johnson, an adviser to Walker’s campaign and the advocacy group. “Wisconsin Club for Growth can accept corporate and personal donations without limitations and no donors disclosure.”

In the email, Doner wrote to Johnson that Walker wanted Wisconsin Club for Growth exclusively to coordinate campaign themes. “As the Governor discussed … he wants all the issue advocacy efforts run thru one group to ensure correct messaging,” she wrote.

Walker’s campaign has paid Doner’s fundraising firm $1.26 million since 2011, including more than $70,000 in his latest spending report.

Frankenstein Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Finally, no description of the failed experiments of conservative governors is complete without noting the sad record of Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, who went to great and campaign-finance-law-stretching lengths to gain and hold his office. He promised that his agenda would deliver economic growth and bountiful new jobs; the reality has fallen far short. As Marc Levine writes, not only have Walker’s policies not delivered the 250,000 jobs he claimed they would, they may have actually held back job growth in the state, as Wisconsin’s economy falls behind those of its neighbors.

So let’s go back and look at what these laboratories have produced. A simple comparison of the results with the stated hypotheses shows that these experiments haven’t succeeded. As Thom Tillis seeks a seat in the U.S. Senate and Walker, Jindal and Perry all look with one eye towards the White House, we should be asking: have these guys earned the promotion that they’re angling for?

Scott Walker’s No Good Very Bad Day

As an Eagle Scout myself I am horrified at the questionable ethics that led Scott Walker to co-ordinate with dark money groups in the previous elections. This John Doe II probe’s emails show the level of depravity in intentionally ignoring Wisconsin election laws. Scott Walker has demonstrated that he believes he is a sovereign citizen in regards to the rule of law. This goes against to his oath to up hold and defend the Constitution of the USA,  faithfully discharge his duties as the governor of the state of Wisconsin. As a cub scout, a boy scout, and later as an eagle scout Scott Walker took many oath’s to be a cut above the rest. Ethically if not criminally he is responsible for the criminal actions of his advisors, staffers, and the actions of his campaigns. I may disagree on politics and certain policies but that is my 1st amendment right. My civil rights are violated (as well as the rest of WI red or blue) by his actions.

Settle a Coverup! Ha!

http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/walker-tries-to-suppress-wisconsin-scandal-270703171835

Dark Money donor’s do not what to see the light of a Wisconsin Day!

New York Times Article is Walkers Nightmare.

“THE NIGHTMARE … ‘I can handle being a black, disabled, one armed, drug-addicted Jewish homosexual … but please, oh dear God, don’t make me a Democrat.’” A 2010 email forward from then Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s then-chief of staff, Thomas Nardelli, to his deputy, Kelly Rindfleisch.

 

A Song to brighten the Day!

Scott Walker’s Road Kill Cafe

Needless to say this plan is stupid. Scott Walker’s Road Kill Café. http://nationalreport.net/wisconsin-start-pavement-plate-food-stamp-supplement-program/