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Walker's PolitiFact Ratings Still About 2:1 On The False Side
This is the PolitiFact filter through which you always need to run Scott Walker statements:The odds are about two-to-one that when Walker says one thing, something else is truthier Walker's statements...
View ArticleDr. Limbaugh's 'Global Warming Is A Hoax' Mantra - - Is The Hoax
Looks like the blue ribbon science panel at Professor Doctor Rush Limbaugh's EIB Center For Talk Radio Misinformation got the climate change/global warming story all wrong: from it's being a hoax, as...
View ArticleRNC Chairman Proves GOP = Tea Party
Don't believe the national media meme about the Tea Party pushing those helpless establishment Republicans and their leaders around, and irretrievably to the fight fringe, where no mainstream...
View ArticleWhat Was True In 2/2011 Marks Walker Now And Later
As John Doe probe defendant Tim Russell heads to a court hearing today, and Walker's falsehood-laden PolitiFact ratings are on broad display (Dave Zweifel nails it), I thought I'd re-post an item I...
View ArticleWalker's Faux 'No-Tax-Increase' Budget Allows For Whopping Tuition Increase
Call it a student and parent tax of 5.5% for each of two years, putting tuition at record level.
View ArticleWalker 'Past is Prologue' Post Now At Purple Wisconsin Platform
A reader asked me to put this blog item from today- - "What Was True In 2/2011 Marks Walker Now And Later" - - over at the Journal Sentinel's blog platform, so here it is.
View ArticlePrivatization Of State-Run Medical Programs Under Walker Wastes Money, Cuts...
Call it the cost of ideological governance:An audit of state-run medical-care programming has found waste, oversight absence and no-bid contracting that forced people off the rolls after Walker...
View ArticleBig Milwaukee Vote Can Tip Election To Barrett
Milwaukee is the Wisconsin municipality with the most Democrats, but where turnout sometimes disappoints.If the turnout merely approaches...approaches, not even equaling, but just approaches the 2008...
View ArticleVote Out Gay-Bashing Rebecca ("Marry this table...this...clock?") Kleefisch...
Do we really need a Lt. Gov. who said about gay marriage, and equal, legal benefits?"This is a slippery slope in addition to that -- at what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can I...
View ArticleTalk Radio Fuels The Myth Of Voting Fraud
AM 620 WTMJ talker Charlie Sykes this morning has said another radio station - - I couldn't understand the call letters he mentioned - - was contacted by someone on a bus full of union people from...
View ArticleRighty Talker Jeff Wagner Repeats Michigander-Fraud-Voting-In-Kenosha Rumor
Afternoon right-wing WTMJ talker Jeff Wagner, taking the 11:58 a.m. hand off after Charlie Sykes' full morning show in favor of Scott Walker, repeats Sykes' unverified report that union members are...
View ArticleJeff Wagner On WTMJ Now Into 5th Straight Hour Of Walker PR
WTMJbecomes WGOP.P.M. update - - I heard Wagner sign off at 3 p.m., still talking up Walker, so it appears the station gave Walker 6.5 hours of free talk time today, minus time for commercials and...
View ArticleThis Is A Disturbing Election News Story From Waukesha
Kathy Nickolaus has her hand in this election?Who's running the election in Waukesha County?By Laurel Walker of the Journal SentinelWhile Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas and his chief of staff...
View ArticleRepublicans Talk Themselves Into Voter Fraud
I was a volunteer Democratic observer for the November, 2008 election at the City of Milwaukee Central Library polling place and was paired with a very nice Republican poll-watcher who'd been sent in,...
View ArticleGo, Milwaukee - - You Hold The Election Key
One more hour, Milwaukee, to vote in our Mayor and oust the man who ran against the city.
View ArticleKathy Nickolaus: The GOP's Not-So-Secret Weapon
Attention all official election monitors: The Waukesha County Courthouse is where you need to be.Despite assurances, Kathy Nickolaus appears to be running Waukesha County electionBy Laurel Walker of...
View ArticleVoter Suppression Efforts Denied By GOP
'Don't vote' robocalls and bogus letters aimed to help Walker, so do you buy his campaign's explanation? The Walker campaign on Tuesday denied accusations that it was behind any misleading robocalls,...
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Dems Fall Short - - But Props To The Grassroots Movement And Tom Barrett
I do not think the last chapter in the Scott Walker saga has been written, so while he is the winner tonight, I am grateful that our Milwaukee Mayor stood up for the City.And stood up for a fair...
View ArticleIt's 12:20 AM And Racine County's Vote Lags even Waukesha's
Good grief, Racine. Get it together. A 52% count at this late hour (see map) - - even Waukesha County has all but reported - - is ridiculous. Inquiring minds want to know what your State Senate results...
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With His Limitless Moolah, Did Walker Run Away With it? Nope.
Journal Sentinel data show significant percentage similarities in the Walker-Barrett 2010 and 2012 gubernatorial races.But Walker got to spend and benefit from $35-$50 million, and an advantage over...
View ArticleJohn Lehman WI Senate Win Reins In Righty Excess
If John Lehman's unofficial numbers in Racine hold up, and Democrats recapture the State Senate, the brakes can be applied to some of the excesses that Walker and the Fitzgeralds pushed through in the...
View ArticleAfter All That, Just A 57% WI Turnout
It amazes me that only 57% of the statewide electorate turned out for the Walker - - Barrett face off last night.It's still a big number for gubernatorial races, the Journal Sentinel reports, but means...
View ArticleDom Noth At The Labor Press Offers A Fine Election Analysis
Nicely-done by Dom Noth:But here’s what came through clearly. A statewide recall -- never popular on either side – was the reluctance hardest to overcome for Barrett, who didn’t even enter the contest...
View Article250,000 Reasons Why Walker 2.0 Wants Dems Help On Jobs
Even the officially unverified jobs' number Walker released and spun a few days before the election shows he'll need all the help he can muster to get remotely close to the 250,000 new private sector...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts On John Lehman's State Senate Win
Wherein Racine County voters reminded us into the wee hours of the morning after the election that character and personal histories count: Pundits and conservative talk radio hosts are puzzling over...
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