21 days after Weinergate first broke, the Congressman from NY finally resigned today. For the record – for me, it was never about the sexting or the pics. This was about the false accusations and the sociopathic lying of a man who was elected to hold the public’s trust. That trust was shattered three weeks [...]
Archive for the ‘State Politics’ Category
Weiner Resigns
Posted: June 17, 2011 in anthony weiner, Congress, Legal, Media, Media Bias, Media Criticism, New York Times, News, People, Politics, State Politics, TechnologyTags: anthony weiner, betty, Congress, ethel, facebook, ginger lee, heckler, howard stern, megan broussard, patterico, pelosi, resignation, twitter, veronica
Latest Protests Bring an ‘Epic’ Wisconsin Donor Back Into the Spotlight
Posted: June 17, 2011 in 2012 Budget, Big Labor, Health Care, Healthcare, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party, TechnologyTags: AFL-CIO, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, Fidel Castro, governor, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, health care reform, health information technology, judith faulkner, Kaiser Permanente, Kloppenburg, Madison, Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, paul soglin, Prosser, protest, scott walker, tammy baldwin, Wisconsin
Labor unions and leftist activists are expected to once again descend upon the Captiol in Madison, WI on Tuesday. They plan to protest Governor Scott Walker’s first 2-year budget proposal, which seeks to cap entitlement programs and make cuts in education while expanding school voucher programs, in an attempt to close a $3 [...]
Will Money & Power in Wisconsin Politics Influence Health Care Policy?
Posted: May 23, 2011 in Budget, Congress, Health Care, Health Care, Labor Unions, Legal, Obama, Policy, Politics, Regulation, State PoliticsTags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Cedars Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Congressman Paul Ryan, electronic health records, electronic medical records, epic systems, evidence based medicine, Governor Scott Walker, Greater Wisconsin Committee, Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, JoAnne Kloppenburg, judith faulkner, judy faulkner, Justice David Prosser, Kaiser Permanente, koch, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Russ Feingold, Sen. Herb Kohl, single payer health care, stimulus, tammy baldwin, tommy thompson, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, wisconsin senate
by Liberty Chick If you want to take a pulse on the political vibe in this country, one need only look at Wisconsin. The state has become the barometer for judging not just the public’s appetite for political battle, but the competitive landscape as well. The spotlight on anything that has six degrees of separation [...]
Think Tank Receives Death Threats Over Labor-Related FOIA Request to Universities
Posted: April 2, 2011 in Economy, Education, Labor Unions, Legal, Media, MSNBC, News, Politics, State Politics, TerrorismTags: bomb threat, death threats, emails, FOIA, Governor Scott Walker, labor unions, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, Michigan, Michigan Department of Human Services, Michigan State University, MSNBC, professor, Rachel Maddow, Rick Snyder, universities, University of Michigan, Wayne State University
Apparently, the Big Labor-related death threats aren’t limited to Wisconsin. Or to lawmakers. This following email is just in from our friends at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy: <start email> “The Mackinac Center for Public Policy received numerous death threats and bomb threats in the aftermath of national publicity about a Freedom of Information [...]
Tolerant Left Wishes Death on Governor Scott Walker
Posted: February 20, 2011 in Free Speech, Labor Unions, Legal, News, Protest, State Politics, Tea PartyTags: budget, civil discourse, death threats, Free Speech, governor, hate speech, inflamed rhetoric, labor union, new tone, protest, public employees, scott walker, teachers, Tweets, twitter, vitriol, Wisconsin
You may remember President Obama’s recent call for civil discourse this past January. Well, it appears that the Left is still very much struggling with the #newtone online. Unless, of course, you consider a persistent stream of steady death threats against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a display of etiquette straight from the Emily Post Etipedia [...]
Free Market Activists to Challenge Big Labor This Election with ‘The Concord Project’
Posted: December 22, 2010 in ACORN, Labor Unions, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party[original post 9/9/2010] It’s no secret that Democrats and organized labor have long shared a love affair that’s lasted for decades and burns even stronger under the Obama administration. As more and more legislation has been enacted over the years in the interest of protecting workers, including state and federal safety and environmental regulations, voluntary [...]
SEIU: Save Our State or Shut it Down?
Posted: December 22, 2010 in Economy, Education, Labor Unions, Politics, SEIU, State PoliticsTags: budget cuts, Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Pat Quinn, Illinois, labor unions, New Jersey, protest, school budget, SEIU, Service Employees International Union, spending, state budgets, student protest, teachers union, walkout
[original post 4/28/2010] I’m thinking SEIU may need to hire itself a new communications consulting firm. Am I the only one confused by this messaging conflict? To protest Illinois state budget cuts, thousands (which in lefty stats must mean 10, as in ten people) took to the steps of Illinois’ state capitol building, demanding the [...]
Is New Jersey’s State Constitution Unconstitutional? Campaign to Recall Senator Menendez Turns Into Battle of the Constitutions
Posted: December 21, 2010 in Congress, Politics, State PoliticsTags: committee to recall, elections, Jon Corzine, New Jersey, nina wells, NJ, recall election, robert giles, Sen. Robert Menendez, state constitution, Tea Party, US Constitution, vote by mail, voter fraud
[original post 1/17/2010] New Jersey’s State Constitution is unconstitutional. That’s apparently what one New Jersey election official seems to think. A committee seeking approval from the state to petition registered voters on whether to move forward with a special election to recall US Senator Robert Menendez was denied that request, in a letter on January [...]
