Category: Act 10
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Liberal Oregon prioritizes government workers, suffers consequences
The thorough skunking Dane County conservatives took this month in the Spring elections is the direct result of Act 10, Scott Walker, and Donald Trump. Trump only upped the ante. The bull was already enraged. Act 10 and its pension and health insurance reforms seven years ago is what salted the earth for conservatives in…
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WI Republicans got their faces slapped
Is Brookfield in yet? Let the recriminations begin! Fingers, start pointing! Time to scorch some earth! Let’s all play the blame game after Tuesday’s crushing defeat. Because there’s plenty to go around. Not even close. Rebecca Dallet 56% to 44% for Michael Screnock in the state supreme court race. The unabashed, activist San Francisco-style liberal…
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Conversing within the safety of the Madison bubble
Intellectual incest deep within the Madison bubble One of these days, the editor of The Capital Times is going to interview a conservative. Maybe. Unintentionally. By accident, in a case of mistaken political identity. Paul Fanlund once did interview a UW-Madison social scientist who took a field trip to Trump country in the Wisconsin outback. Today…
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WI State Journal stands tall to defend its own free speech, falls short on everyone else’s
Much whining over a little name calling and some bias shaming After posting his Fake News Awards last week, President Trump is accelerating his war on the news media, the Blaska Policy Werkes has learned. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing pre-dawn raids on news organizations the Trump Administration regards as partisan. Those include the…
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Election-year Democrats say Wisconsin is a XXXX-hole
Even though U.S. News & World Report ranks Wisconsin in top third of states Joe Btfsplk, meet Dave Zweifel. Like Democrats statewide, the emeritus editor of Madison’s voice of progressivism is hell bent on defeating Scott Walker at all costs, even at the price of truth. Give Dave Zweifel brownie points for creativity. Wisconsin has…
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I’m Paul Soglin, if you know what’s good for you
I like Paul Soglin, not that he would care. He is irascible — and that’s if you are his friend! Brother Mike-boy, at the time chairman of the Dane County Board, recounts the administrator of the county health and social needs department running after the mayor as he stalked away in anger. “Wait, Paul, we’ve…