Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dropped out of the race for President not with a bang but a whimper. >>More
Tag: the progressive
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Donald Trump, Campaign Finance Reformer?
Perhaps the oddest component of Donald Trump’s thoroughly bizarre quest for the Presidency is his emergence as a national champion of campaign finance reform. >>more
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10 Fun Facts about Scott Walker
A yearbook photo of Walker as a high school senior in Delavan, Wisconsin, bears the caption, “Scott K. Walker – the Desperado.” >>more
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The Amazing Scott Walker
I let Scott Walker get away with it. Not just this one time but as a rule. He is a master of obfuscation and I, as a member of the press, was unwilling to be too impolite. >>more
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Shut up! Just shut up!
A few years back, I dropped in to see a lecture on “taboo speech” by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. At one point, Dershowitz asked his class if the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, then lit into a hapless student who answered in the affirmative. >>More
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Open government fight not over
When I heard the news, I was in a car heading to Milwaukee for a family event. Fortunately, I was not driving.
It was July 2, late afternoon, on the cusp of a holiday weekend. The reporter who called began reading changes to the state’s open records law included in an omnibus motion just unveiled by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
I almost couldn’t believe it. >>more
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Big, Bold and Bad: The New Wisconsin Way
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says that, to win the Presidency, Republicans need to embrace “big, bold ideas” of the sort for which he has become known. Beyond appealing to his party’s base, this message seems to be inspiring his state’s GOP-controlled legislature. >> More
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Enough Already!
Members of a faith-based group that advocates for prison reform are upset by the Wisconsin Legislature’s approval of additional funding to accommodate an increase in the state’s prison population. >>More
