Well, I can't say I was shocked really but it was something to see. The headlines at AlterNet.org listed Koch Bros. funded and backed, collective bargaining hatchet man Scott Walker as the top of the Top Ten Worst Governors in the United States. I'm sorry - the actual article title was The 10 Scariest GOP Governors: Bringing a Radical Right-Wing Agenda to a State Near You . Still, worst is about the same isn't it? And Scott W is at the top of the list. Groan. We all knew it was bad but taking top place for scariest? That is really awful. Here's some of what AlterNet had to say about Mr. Walker:
"Without Walker, public sector unions wouldn't have become a rallying cry for the left, that's for sure. But he picked the wrong fight in a state with a proud history of organized labor—a state that teaches labor history in the public schools."
Damn skippy!
"Still, the bill passed, Walker's still in charge, and he's been taking aim at those who could defeat him. He got his way with a vicious voter ID bill and his budget cuts hit everything from the state university to the public schools to the state's health care program, one of the best in the country. He targeted rural broadband, people with disabilities and reproductive health care, and he's even messing with craft beer. (He really should know better on that one, but it seems there isn't a fight Walker's unwilling to pick.)"
Does the term "thug" come to mind?
AlterNet went on to say in regards to all ten of the scary governors:
"These governors all have some things in common. Most of them were elected in 2010 while progressive turnout was depressed and conservative anger, particularly the virulent anti-government type springing from the Tea Party movement, spilled over at the polls. Many of them took over swing states from Democratic administrations. Most of them did not run on promises to take away collective bargaining from workers, slash pensions and health care and outlaw abortion. Instead, they focused on jobs—and, admittedly, their own solution to creating jobs, which is, of course, cutting taxes.
A year or more into their terms, taxes have been cut, the wealthy are doing fine, and working people, particularly immigrants and women, are struggling. The promises of jobs have given way to Shock Doctrine-style cuts, attacks on unions, public services, and voting rights. Since it can be hard to keep up with the moves by different governors around the country, we've compiled a list of the 10 scariest GOP governors and their proposals."
The article asks what's next? Yeah, a good question. I guess the term scary is right on when it comes to these power-backed, big money-supported, guillotine-wielding people. My suggestion is to get some good sunscreen, a nice broad-brimmed hat and a stainless steel water bottle just in case we need to pour out in to the streets again (or continually) and make our loud common voices heard. No guarantees just solidarity. And that is what makes community resilient. When We The Common People join together and speak truth to power we find our common courage and our strength to confront the powers and principalities.
Power To All The Common People!
Wisconsin Needs A Moral Compass
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
What's Happening in Wisconsin?
Good late morning!
My goodness but there's lots of news on the lines this morning. I'll begin with something I received from One Wisconsin Now.
Dear Jeanie:
I was so outraged after watching to the Assembly Republicans smirk and sneer as they moved to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s Voter Suppression Bill today, I simply had to leave their hearing.
Tell me, how is making it harder for legal voters like seniors, students, minorities and working families to cast their ballot going to create jobs? It won’t. It will just make elections easier for corporate candidates, like Walker, Randy Hopper, Dan Kapanke and Alberta Darling, who serve the Koch Brothers, Big Oil and the Health Insurance cartel.
So, I left and came back to the office so I could tell you exactly what’s in this Voter Suppression Bill, and how with your help, we are going to do everything we can to stop it. Wisconsin is desperate for good-paying jobs, but instead we have Republicans focused on suppression our voting rights. Here’s our analysis of the Voter Suppression Bill:
* It requires voter identification that will disenfranchise untold thousands of seniors, students, minorities and working Wisconsinites
* It makes unprecedented restrictions on absentee voting
* It increases residency requirements for new Wisconsinites
* It creates barriers for voters with disabilities
And why are Scott Walker and Wisconsin’s legislative Republicans hell bent on attacking our freedom? Because they want to rig our elections.
This is an enormous fight, but One Wisconsin Now has never backed down from challenging any voter suppression. You and I know how high the stakes are in this fight. Thank you for everything you do.
Scot
One Wisconsin Now
PS: The Assembly Republicans voted to pass this bill out of committee so it can come to the floor as soon as possible.
Walker has not stopped in his push to strip Wisconsin of just about everything. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments on collective bargaining rights on June 6th. This is from scottwalkerwatch.com - "While the Supreme Court will continue the legal process on the first attempts by Walker to bust unions, the collective bargaining language may be put into the recent budget talks, making the possible protests to happen all over again. Here is the timeline:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday it will hear arguments in June over whether a judge had the authority to block implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate most collective bargaining powers from nearly all state workers. The court asked both sides of a lawsuit challenging the legislation to submit arguments by May 18 explaining why the justices should take the case and, at the same time, why it should either undo or uphold the lower court’s action. Oral arguments are set for June 6."
And while that is planned for June, this is happening under the radar. Makes me mad as hell.
"Something bad is happening under the mainstream media radar regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court recount. The General Accounting Board had requested that electronic voting machines used during the election were to have the ballots printed out and hand counted. That’s not happening. Ballots in unmarked bags, confusing count numbers making votes magically appearing and other oddities are not being reported. Even Barb Hansen, hired by Waukesha County after County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus recused herself from the recount has stated the recount “is not pretty” regarding how recounting procedures are being done."
Read the entire post at www.scottwalkerwatch.com. Write to your legislator and ask for honest information from him or her on how they think the process is proceeding. Ask them to look in on that and ask for transparency in this critically important procedure. We deserve to know what's happening!
Call your legislator: 877-753-5578
This citizen participation takes lots of effort - we need to keep at it. I was at meeting yesterday down in Illinois. At one point I spoke about participatory democracy and how We The People in Wisconsin had awakened to that in a phenomenal way on the 11th of February. Citizens woke up to the awareness that they are the ones who can make a difference even if it takes monumental effort over a sustained period of time and that, in fact, it is the only thing that will make a difference. We The People!
So, in the spirit of Bob La Follette, the following are some tidbits from the protest.
http://solidaritywisconsin.com/feedpage
http://www.politicususa.com/en/scott-walker-two-faced-too-late
and talk about the spin meisters!
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2011/05/10708/scott-walker-champions-state-employees
Andy and I are off to Ohio this weekend for my Dad's 90th birthday. That's something isn't it? He's pretty connected to things at 90. He reads several daily papers, several scientific magazines and other periodicals. I doubt if I'll have time to blog while visiting - for me that's like chewing gum and doing anything! But I'll be back on Tuesday with whatever news has burst forth.
Happy Mother's Day to all you common, wonderful, beautiful mothers!
Power To All The People!
My goodness but there's lots of news on the lines this morning. I'll begin with something I received from One Wisconsin Now.
Dear Jeanie:
I was so outraged after watching to the Assembly Republicans smirk and sneer as they moved to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s Voter Suppression Bill today, I simply had to leave their hearing.
Tell me, how is making it harder for legal voters like seniors, students, minorities and working families to cast their ballot going to create jobs? It won’t. It will just make elections easier for corporate candidates, like Walker, Randy Hopper, Dan Kapanke and Alberta Darling, who serve the Koch Brothers, Big Oil and the Health Insurance cartel.
So, I left and came back to the office so I could tell you exactly what’s in this Voter Suppression Bill, and how with your help, we are going to do everything we can to stop it. Wisconsin is desperate for good-paying jobs, but instead we have Republicans focused on suppression our voting rights. Here’s our analysis of the Voter Suppression Bill:
* It requires voter identification that will disenfranchise untold thousands of seniors, students, minorities and working Wisconsinites
* It makes unprecedented restrictions on absentee voting
* It increases residency requirements for new Wisconsinites
* It creates barriers for voters with disabilities
And why are Scott Walker and Wisconsin’s legislative Republicans hell bent on attacking our freedom? Because they want to rig our elections.
This is an enormous fight, but One Wisconsin Now has never backed down from challenging any voter suppression. You and I know how high the stakes are in this fight. Thank you for everything you do.
Scot
One Wisconsin Now
PS: The Assembly Republicans voted to pass this bill out of committee so it can come to the floor as soon as possible.
Walker has not stopped in his push to strip Wisconsin of just about everything. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments on collective bargaining rights on June 6th. This is from scottwalkerwatch.com - "While the Supreme Court will continue the legal process on the first attempts by Walker to bust unions, the collective bargaining language may be put into the recent budget talks, making the possible protests to happen all over again. Here is the timeline:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday it will hear arguments in June over whether a judge had the authority to block implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate most collective bargaining powers from nearly all state workers. The court asked both sides of a lawsuit challenging the legislation to submit arguments by May 18 explaining why the justices should take the case and, at the same time, why it should either undo or uphold the lower court’s action. Oral arguments are set for June 6."
And while that is planned for June, this is happening under the radar. Makes me mad as hell.
"Something bad is happening under the mainstream media radar regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court recount. The General Accounting Board had requested that electronic voting machines used during the election were to have the ballots printed out and hand counted. That’s not happening. Ballots in unmarked bags, confusing count numbers making votes magically appearing and other oddities are not being reported. Even Barb Hansen, hired by Waukesha County after County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus recused herself from the recount has stated the recount “is not pretty” regarding how recounting procedures are being done."
Read the entire post at www.scottwalkerwatch.com. Write to your legislator and ask for honest information from him or her on how they think the process is proceeding. Ask them to look in on that and ask for transparency in this critically important procedure. We deserve to know what's happening!
Call your legislator: 877-753-5578
This citizen participation takes lots of effort - we need to keep at it. I was at meeting yesterday down in Illinois. At one point I spoke about participatory democracy and how We The People in Wisconsin had awakened to that in a phenomenal way on the 11th of February. Citizens woke up to the awareness that they are the ones who can make a difference even if it takes monumental effort over a sustained period of time and that, in fact, it is the only thing that will make a difference. We The People!
So, in the spirit of Bob La Follette, the following are some tidbits from the protest.
http://solidaritywisconsin.com/feedpage
http://www.politicususa.com/en/scott-walker-two-faced-too-late
and talk about the spin meisters!
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2011/05/10708/scott-walker-champions-state-employees
Andy and I are off to Ohio this weekend for my Dad's 90th birthday. That's something isn't it? He's pretty connected to things at 90. He reads several daily papers, several scientific magazines and other periodicals. I doubt if I'll have time to blog while visiting - for me that's like chewing gum and doing anything! But I'll be back on Tuesday with whatever news has burst forth.
Happy Mother's Day to all you common, wonderful, beautiful mothers!
Power To All The People!
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