Here’s the latest from the oft times unbelievable Wisconsin recall saga. The State Board overseeing the election is only looking for duplicate signatures and obvious fake names on the recall petitions (thanks to a court order), and they are going
True the Vote issued a press release yesterday detailing preliminary results of their recall analysis. While the unions will likely get the approximately 540,000 petitions they needed to force a recall vote against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, hundreds of thousands
MADISON – Wisconsin Education Association Council President Mary Bell is a liar. That’s according to a recent blog on BigGovernment.com by Collin Roth of Media Trackers. Roth looked into recent media reports that WEAC officials asked prospective gubernatorial candidates to promise to veto any budget that doesn’t
Awesome new stats coming out of LA Times, and Derek Thompson at The Atlantic does a fabulous cut and paste job: While they make up only 15% of the country’s workforce, Latinos have racked up half the employment gains posted since the
The independent effort to verify the signatures on the petitions seeking the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is looking for a last minute infusion of volunteers. With help, they say, they can then begin to analyze the data for signs of
While at CPAC last week for The Heartland Institute, I met a lot of old friends, made some new ones, and heard some great speeches (the best I’ve heard from Rick Santorum; Sarah Palin was on fire; and Gov. Scott Walker of
At last, some good news out of Europe. MADRID (AP) – Spain’s new conservative government approved sweeping labor market reforms on Friday as part of a drive to revive a sick economy and solve Europe’s worst unemployment nightmare. With the
Are Wisconsin and Ohio still presidential swing states? Republicans swept to power in the Badger State and the Buckeye State in 2010. During the past year, Governor Walker and Governor Kasich have refused to settle for taxation & spending trends
RACINE, Wis. – Left-wing Wisconsin teacher Al Levie believes his mission in the classroom is to help students “become engines of positive change in our society.” Some of his former students, however, describe their experience in his class a little bit differently. “This man
Imagine the police ignoring evidence of a crime because the right person didn’t call 911. Welcome to the the latest episode of Wisconsin Recall Election Follies. Wisconsin’s Elections ‘Watchdogs’ The latest: [Madison, Wisc…] Citizens not affiliated with either the recall organizations or
Here’s an idea from the misnamed Wisconsin Government Accountability Board: Let’s make the attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker even nuttier. On Monday morning the Wisconsin ‘Elections Watchdogs’ alerted media that the Walker recall petitions would be available sometime later
Last December, Wisconsin-based conservative watchdog Media Trackers earned a special evaluation from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s PolitiFact team for an article detailing privacy and security concerns over information contained on public recall petitions. PolitiFact chose to evaluate the truthfulness of
Marketplace, the daily business program produced by American Public Media (APM) and broadcast by public radio stations throughout the country, has been doing its best lately to support the decrepit Occupy Wall Street movement. While odd, perhaps, for a program
A confident, perhaps a bit defiant, Governor Scott Walker on Wednesday delivered his annual State of the State address as a threat of a recall looms. [Madison, Wisc…] Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker delivered his annual State of the State address
When Obama was running for president in 2008, he promised to “fundamentally change America” – a phrase which lucid Americans took as meaning he was going to bring his leftist agenda to bear on us all. And if Obama has
On January 17, 2012, recall committees submitted recall signatures for Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, Sen. Pam Galloway, Sen. Terry Molten, and Sen. Van Wanggaard to Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (“GAB”). Right away,
What started out as an idea on Facebook mushroomed into a full scale political rally on Saturday as more than 3,000 people braved frigid temps to attend a ‘Celebrate Walker’ rally in support of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The event
Last week two political operatives were arrested in separate incidents, one Democrat and one Republican. It certainly isn’t news that political operatives sometimes break the law, but how the different incidents were reported is typical of how the Old Media
The proximity of the New Hampshire and South Carolina Republican primaries sets up an interesting discussion over the fate of right-to-work among the states. Indeed, after New Hampshire’s Republican voters cast their ballots for their party’s nominee for the general
As a former liberal, I know exactly how punishing the left can be to anyone who goes off the reservation. This is particularly true on the cultural left – the arts and creative fields. So when filmmaker Davis Guggenheim unleashed
Next time you hear sanctimonious wails from the left about how Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) and Republicans want to take collective bargaining rights away from workers, remember that basic evaluations and disciplinary actions for awful teachers is something these union
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss yesterday’s delivery of one million petitions favoring his recall in Wisconsin.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stressed the importance of officials agreeing on a new statewide teacher evaluation system at yesterday’s State of the State address. Michael Mulgrew, President of the United Federation of Teachers, tells WOR’s John Gambling that Cuomo
The mainstream media’s glee in reporting that public sector unions have likely succeeded in drumming up enough signatures to force Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to face a recall election betrays their thinly-veiled sympathies for the effort. The day began with
Democrats and their leftwing allies are touting the fact that they reached their 1 million-signature goal in the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker. Political observers on both sides of the spectrum had predicted that a recall would proceed because
