Today citizens in Wisconsin are submitting petition signatures to have the sixth repub senator - Robert Cowles - put on the ballot for a recall election. This is what People for the American Way had to say:
"That's six -- Dan Kapanke, Randy Hopper, Luther Olsen, Sheila Harsdorf, Alberta Darling and now Robert Cowles -- of the eight GOP senators eligible for recall, and it covers all of the senators who are considered most vulnerable. A net gain of only three seats is needed for the Democrats to take control of the Wisconsin Senate.
Things are heating up! If things go as planned, we expect the first recall elections to be held in early July. That gives us just over two months to stage a targeted and strategic mobilization effort and send as many of Gov. Scott Walker's cronies in the state senate packing as we can.
Republicans have filed recall petitions against three of the 14 Democratic senators who stood in solidarity against Gov. Walker's attacks on Wisconsin's working families -- Sens. Dave Hansen, Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch. So we have to play defense as well as offense."
The group has organized rallies and other events across the state. People For reminds us that Wisconsin is vitally important for all of the country not just because of the ring-wing attacks on workers rights but because of the attack on the middle class as well.
And why is this so important? Have you been reading about Michigan? This is from a care2 article this morning:
"Michigan Republicans are very serious about their plans to systematically undermine the democratic process and replace elected officials with private managers of their own choosing. How do we know? The state is giving a crash course in advising troubled municipalities to literally hundreds of financial professionals so they can later be placed as emergency managers, much like what is happening in Benton Harbor. The problem, of course, is that turning a municipality around and turning a failing corporation around are two very different beasts. And Gov. Snyder's fiscal emergency legislation not only ignores the differences between the public and the private sectors, it thumbs its nose at the taxpayer investment in their locality by refusing the people a voice in the process."
Back in Wisconsin Rep.Paul Ryan is running in to a little flak as he trundles his Chop Shop plan for Medicare around to town hall meetings. Care2 blogger Robin Marty calls it a "draconian budget plan" and I am not in disagreement with that phrase. Draconian - meaning to act like Dracula and suck the blood out of a living being. (my own definition but I like it.) Boos and hisses have greeted Ryan as well as challenging questions about where the money goes when it leaves Medicare and who will benefit. Questions about support for the elders of our country. Questions about the privilege of the wealthy. A group called Americans United for Change has taken out ads suggesting people contact Rep. Ryan and others who are promoting his plan. Good idea. Think of the phone and the Internet as The Streets!
http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/
So many people are writing and talking about the money, the tax cuts for the wealthy, how we will manage with so many supports taken out from under the middle class. This tiny little blurb came from a friend today, something read in a quick look at the day's news. "Exxon has declared earnings of nearly 11 billion dollars in the first quarter!!! Now why do they need tax breaks?" This report on what just one oil company is raking in as profits in the first quarter takes place underneath the discordant rhythms of Dancing With The Stars, the royal wedding and whether Donald Trump will declare for the 2012 race. Also underneath the distractions, which abound in our culture, is the continuing release of toxic elements from Japan.
My mother-in-law needs some treatment for a particularly painful bout of sciatica. When I checked in with her this morning she was struggling with the discomfort and waiting on her doctor to phone her. I suggested she consider acupuncture to deal with the pain and with the underlying issue. Her question to me - would the center where she would go for acupuncture take Medicare? That is all she has for health coverage. So, not that it will go away while she is living - hopefully not - but look at what could happen to others down the time line. The alternative to seeking treatment that deals with the cause of pain is meds and more meds, perhaps some expensive tests, lots of time, additional monies not anticipated and, ultimately, often continuing problems. A voucher for health care is not going to support people. It sounds like a roulette game. Pick the best option for the least money and.......good luck!
Please consider a call to Speaker of the House John Boehner at 1-202-225-0600 and Majority Leader Eric Cantor at 1-202-225-2815 to express your outrage that Medicare is on the block, that you don't think seniors should be on vouchers. Ask them why they voted to end Medicare. Call today.
By the way, I guess President Obama referred to the 'birthers' as carnival barkers. I'm cool with that. What a non-starter that is! Can we get on with real issues, please?
Power To All The People!
Wisconsin Needs A Moral Compass
Showing posts with label michigan. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Physics & The Chemistry
I'll get right to the news.
Judge David Prosser who now leads challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by less than half a percent of votes in Wisconsin's judicial race, because, many of us feel, he stole that election, has decided to declare it a "decisive" election, and had his legal team state that any recount would be "frivolous" and a wasted cost to the state.
This according to an online article from care2. Further he stated through his attorney that there would not be any evidence to support a recount because it would not change the outcome. Prosser's attorney added that the campaign would take any needed steps to prevent a recount from moving forward.
When asked several times if he would say on what grounds these decisions were being made, the attorney answered "No". Here's a section of the article that made me fall off my chair.
"Prosser said that the election proved that , "..people realized that judges should be much more than partisan politicians who wear black robes. Judges should be impartial in theory and in fact. They should faithfully apply the law without fear, and without favor." Then, in a moment of utter cognitive dissidence, he cheered on "the advancement of conservative values as the way to address and ameliorate our many problems."
I love the phrase 'cognitive dissidence'. Far worse than that however. It gives me the feeling I'm hearing someone who believes they have an entitlement. And that's scary. Not all those people are narcissists but many of them are and that is a hallmark of the self-absorbed person - entitlement.
From Michigan an unbelievable story - what is going on?
"Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has begun the process of taking over Benton Harbor, Michigan, inserting an Emergency Manager from his own team to take over the operations of the town. " What the.....?! I've included the link to the story below. It's shocking so just sit with it for a few moments after you read it and contemplate what this means to liberty and freedom in our country.
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/michigan-governor-starts-financial/
The end of the article warns that Gov. Walker, an ideological/political kin of Synder, is apparently drafting similar plans for Wisconsin. These take-overs are, according to the article, being written up by the legal offices of Foley & Lardner, the largest law firm in the state. The author of the article asks a disturbing question at the end - "Are these governors doing away with local government all together?"
It's a damn good question and one we probably should be asking every day now. I don't rescind my post from yesterday, the one on peaceful protest and talking to others, in fact I think it's becoming more important by the day! We must circulate these articles, emails, posts, newspapers, blogs to everyone we can think of and ask them the same question - Do you think these moves by right-wing people are designed to do away with local governments? If we don't ask these questions, where might we find ourselves in the very near future?
On the darkly humorous side of the news, I found this. You have to appreciate that, here in Wisconsin, the senators who left for Illinois and we progressives, took a pounding when they left to protest the budget bill put forward by Walker. They left so a vote on that travesty could not be taken. But, the threats, by the gov himself, the dirty ideas to take the senators' computers, to hold their paychecks and all other manner of nasty behavior did not bring them home. During that time, as you remember, the screeching from the right never stopped. A particular line that was continually in the news when a repub was interviewed was how shameful it was that the senators were so unprofessional that they had left their jobs for which the people had elected them. So, you'll love this.
"However, all five Republicans declined to show up, leaving Franks as chair to deal with the Democratic members of the panel who were all advocating for the repeal. "
Why did they leave?
"Republican Rep. Trent Franks found himself rather lonely at his "Defending Marriage" subcommittee hearing Friday when other Republican members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which Franks chairs, failed to show up."
We The People - we've got a huge task in front of us. I think the streets will be filled from now on with The People. We've got a lot to talk about, lots of marching and protesting to do, lots of letters to write, phone calls to make, conversations to have. Today I got an email alert regarding Hershey. I sighed. How long has it been that activists have been working to call the Hershey company to some level of accountability? Forever? Now, activists are being called upon to write Hershey and demand that they end their child labor, forced labor and trafficked labor practices as well as to use Fair Trade cocoa for their products. It isn't too much to ask but we've been asking them for more than two decades to be a decent company. By the way, here's the link to what is being asked of Hershey.
http://www.raisethebarhershey.org/our-demands-of-hershey/
I think it will be like that for the foreseeable future. We're going to need to become more and more savy in our protests. As Bill McKibben said in his 350.org speech, "there's no sense in whining about it, it's just physics and chemistry." He was speaking about global climate change altering the Earth's temperature and the massive effort to return our planetary home to 350 ppm of carbon in the atmosphere. But, he wasn't just talking about the physics and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere, he was talking about the physics and chemistry of money and power and the pollution they are causing The People.
Write to the Governor of Michigan. You can write to him at: http://www.michigan.gov/snyder. Tell him you are outraged at what he is trying to do to The People in his state. Let him know you are watching him and sharing his dark plans with friends across the country. These folks need to know The People are awake and aware and that we understand the physics and the chemistry of money.
Power To All The People!
Judge David Prosser who now leads challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by less than half a percent of votes in Wisconsin's judicial race, because, many of us feel, he stole that election, has decided to declare it a "decisive" election, and had his legal team state that any recount would be "frivolous" and a wasted cost to the state.
This according to an online article from care2. Further he stated through his attorney that there would not be any evidence to support a recount because it would not change the outcome. Prosser's attorney added that the campaign would take any needed steps to prevent a recount from moving forward.
When asked several times if he would say on what grounds these decisions were being made, the attorney answered "No". Here's a section of the article that made me fall off my chair.
"Prosser said that the election proved that , "..people realized that judges should be much more than partisan politicians who wear black robes. Judges should be impartial in theory and in fact. They should faithfully apply the law without fear, and without favor." Then, in a moment of utter cognitive dissidence, he cheered on "the advancement of conservative values as the way to address and ameliorate our many problems."
I love the phrase 'cognitive dissidence'. Far worse than that however. It gives me the feeling I'm hearing someone who believes they have an entitlement. And that's scary. Not all those people are narcissists but many of them are and that is a hallmark of the self-absorbed person - entitlement.
From Michigan an unbelievable story - what is going on?
"Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has begun the process of taking over Benton Harbor, Michigan, inserting an Emergency Manager from his own team to take over the operations of the town. " What the.....?! I've included the link to the story below. It's shocking so just sit with it for a few moments after you read it and contemplate what this means to liberty and freedom in our country.
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/michigan-governor-starts-financial/
The end of the article warns that Gov. Walker, an ideological/political kin of Synder, is apparently drafting similar plans for Wisconsin. These take-overs are, according to the article, being written up by the legal offices of Foley & Lardner, the largest law firm in the state. The author of the article asks a disturbing question at the end - "Are these governors doing away with local government all together?"
It's a damn good question and one we probably should be asking every day now. I don't rescind my post from yesterday, the one on peaceful protest and talking to others, in fact I think it's becoming more important by the day! We must circulate these articles, emails, posts, newspapers, blogs to everyone we can think of and ask them the same question - Do you think these moves by right-wing people are designed to do away with local governments? If we don't ask these questions, where might we find ourselves in the very near future?
On the darkly humorous side of the news, I found this. You have to appreciate that, here in Wisconsin, the senators who left for Illinois and we progressives, took a pounding when they left to protest the budget bill put forward by Walker. They left so a vote on that travesty could not be taken. But, the threats, by the gov himself, the dirty ideas to take the senators' computers, to hold their paychecks and all other manner of nasty behavior did not bring them home. During that time, as you remember, the screeching from the right never stopped. A particular line that was continually in the news when a repub was interviewed was how shameful it was that the senators were so unprofessional that they had left their jobs for which the people had elected them. So, you'll love this.
"However, all five Republicans declined to show up, leaving Franks as chair to deal with the Democratic members of the panel who were all advocating for the repeal. "
Why did they leave?
"Republican Rep. Trent Franks found himself rather lonely at his "Defending Marriage" subcommittee hearing Friday when other Republican members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which Franks chairs, failed to show up."
We The People - we've got a huge task in front of us. I think the streets will be filled from now on with The People. We've got a lot to talk about, lots of marching and protesting to do, lots of letters to write, phone calls to make, conversations to have. Today I got an email alert regarding Hershey. I sighed. How long has it been that activists have been working to call the Hershey company to some level of accountability? Forever? Now, activists are being called upon to write Hershey and demand that they end their child labor, forced labor and trafficked labor practices as well as to use Fair Trade cocoa for their products. It isn't too much to ask but we've been asking them for more than two decades to be a decent company. By the way, here's the link to what is being asked of Hershey.
http://www.raisethebarhershey.org/our-demands-of-hershey/
I think it will be like that for the foreseeable future. We're going to need to become more and more savy in our protests. As Bill McKibben said in his 350.org speech, "there's no sense in whining about it, it's just physics and chemistry." He was speaking about global climate change altering the Earth's temperature and the massive effort to return our planetary home to 350 ppm of carbon in the atmosphere. But, he wasn't just talking about the physics and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere, he was talking about the physics and chemistry of money and power and the pollution they are causing The People.
Write to the Governor of Michigan. You can write to him at: http://www.michigan.gov/snyder. Tell him you are outraged at what he is trying to do to The People in his state. Let him know you are watching him and sharing his dark plans with friends across the country. These folks need to know The People are awake and aware and that we understand the physics and the chemistry of money.
Power To All The People!
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