Sheila Danielson (County co-coordinator) shared this story with the Jackson County recall celebration last Thursday night in Black River Falls. Nearly one hundred volunteers, State Senator Kathleen Vinehout, and staff from Congressman Ron Kind’s office were in attendance to thank each other for their efforts in gathering 3,000 signatures to recall Scott Walker countywide. The goal for Jackson [...]
Archive for January, 2012
From Rural Wisconsin – What it meant for one United Wisconsin County Coordinator to “Carry a Box”
Posted: January 30, 2012 in UncategorizedThe New Progressive Movement in Wisconsin – Where We Go From Here
Posted: January 27, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin politics
A little over one week ago, volunteers from all over the state gathered in Madison and turned in over one million signatures to recall Governor Scott Walker. A little less than a year ago, that same Governor dropped the bomb known as the “Budget Repair Bill” on the people of Wisconsin, triggering a movement that [...]
Update – State Senator Kathleen Vinehout to announce Gubernatorial bid soon, source says
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Media CheckTags: Scott Walker Recall, State Senator Kathleen Vinehout, Wisconsin politics
A source close to the office of Wisconsin State Senator Kathleen Vinehout has informed Badger Democracy that the Senator from the 31st District in Western Wisconsin will soon be announcing her candidacy for Governor – to run in the impending recall election against Scott Walker. The two-term Democrat serves a largely rural District, and has [...]
John Doe Investigation closing in on Walker aides, administration in alleged “pay-for-play” deals
Posted: January 25, 2012 in Commentary, Media CheckTags: John Doe Investigation, Scott Walker Administration
On the day a new Marquette University Law School poll, conducted by Charles Franklin, shows an inexplicable rise in Scott Walker’s “favorable” rating in the face of an unprecedented sixth straight month of job losses; the John Doe Investigation being conducted in Milwaukee County appears to be getting closer to the Walker (as County Executive) Administration [...]
Mining Bill Hearing in Committee today – amendments offered add insult to injury for local citizens, Bad River Nation
Posted: January 24, 2012 in Follow the Money, Media CheckTags: Bad River Nation, Gogebic Taconite Mine, Rep Mary Williams, Wisconsin Mining Bill, Wisconsin politics
The Mining Bill (AB426) is scheduled to be debated in Rep. Mary Williams’ (R-Medford) Committee on Jobs at 10:00am today. On Friday, Williams offered 8 amendments to the bill in an attempt to put a band-aid on a cut that requires a tourniquet. Unfortunately, the Williams amendments merely skirted the issues publicly addressed in two hearings, [...]
Grassroots Activists Letter Regarding Candidacy of Kathleen Falk
Posted: January 23, 2012 in Commentary, Media CheckTags: Grassroots Activism, Kathleen Falk, Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin politics, Wisconsin recall election
Last week several Wisconsin grassroots leaders and activists asked this writer to compose a letter expressing our discontent with the candidacy of Kathleen Falk for Governor. The text of the letter appears below, along with a hypertext link to the word document in the title of the letter. This letter is being sent to the Falk Campaign, [...]
Walker Recall Election and potential candidates – a Progressive Wake-Up Call…
Posted: January 20, 2012 in Commentary, Media CheckTags: Russ Feingold, Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin politics, Wisconsin recall election
As scores of petitions begin appearing on the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) website in the form of scanned pdf files (for all the world to see and verify), it will become obvious in the coming weeks that a recall election is inevitable. The grassroots have its wish - a constitutional referendum on Scott Walker’s power grab, after [...]
Facing One Million Recall Signatures, “disenfranchise” finally appears in Walker, GOP vocabulary
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Commentary, Media CheckTags: Scott Walker Recall, Wisconsin politics
In an interview with Badger Democracy last week, prior to the filing of one million signatures to recall Scott Walker, Wisconsin GOP Chair Ben Sparks stated he was concerned by the potential “disenfranchisement” of Wisconsin voters. When asked “…if approximately 800,000 signatures are filed next week (to recall Walker), at what point does that become [...]
Gableman’s links to Koch Industries make impartiality impossible
Posted: January 14, 2012 in Follow the Money, Media CheckTags: Associate Justice Michael Gableman, Club for Growth, conservative propaganda, John Bryan, Koch Industries, Wisconsin politics, Wisconsin State Supreme Court
Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman has been at the center of judicial ethics controversy, and despite conservative pundit claims to the contrary, for good reason. Representative Kelda Helen Roys (D-Madison) has circulated a resolution to remove Gableman from office, based on his ethically-challenged “fee arrangements” with Michael, Best, and Friedrich. An investigation by Badger [...]
Badger Democracy channel now on YouTube…”Where do we go from here in the Progressive Movement”
Posted: January 31, 2012 in CommentaryTags: Grassroots Activism, Progressive Movement, Wisconsin politics, Wisconsin Recall
The first video posted to the “Bdgrdemocracy” channel on Youtube was taken at the Jackson County United Wisconsin Recall Celebration. State Senator Kathleen Vinehout and County co-chair Gaylord Oppegard invited me to address the question of “where does the Progressive movement go from here?” After reading, consulting, and listening to many points of view; these remarks on the [...]