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When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Give

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Hardly any of the innovative energy in the political world is put to work solving real problems. That's because politicians and their handlers are spending almost all of their time thinking up ways to raise campaign money. Sometimes it's creative, most often it's crass. You've heard of pay to play. Now it looks like it's pay to pee. Hey, if you can spare a hundred bucks for the big rally there'll be a porta-potty for you to use when nature calls!

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Why GOP's Rich-Poor Alliance Is Fragile

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

As duly noted, the Democrats find themselves impaled on the horns of a dilemma. They still see themselves as working-class champions, but they've lost the rural working poor who now faithfully vote Republican. If they do more than pay lip service to these workers' plight, they alienate their donors (who, truth be told, look an awful lot like Republican donors). But if they don't take concrete steps to once again become the party of the poor, it's darn hard to see how they cobble together a governing majority.

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Why Unions And Democrats Have Lost Ground

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Let me start by saying that joining a union in the workplace is a basic human right. That's not just my opinion, it is a statement of fact. That right is found in Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 with the United States voting yes.

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Biz PAC Fined For Excessive Contributions; Walker Returns Money

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A political action committee was fined by the state for collecting $170,000 in excessive donations that were used to finance contributions to Governor Scott Walker’s recall campaign, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has learned.

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Falk Heads Outside Wisconsin For Campaign Cash

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Turns out Kathleen Falk, a Democrat who wants to face Republican Governor Scott Walker in a likely recall election, plans on hitting up special interests for campaign cash at a Chicago fundraiser Friday.

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Dems Go West For Recall Cash

Friday, March 16, 2012

The head of the state Democratic Party was in California Thursday raising money from wealthy special interests for Republican Governor Scott Walker's likely recall election.

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Walker Draws $200K Over Lunch In Palm Beach

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Republican Governor Scott Walker reportedly raised $200,000 over lunch Wednesday in Palm Beach, Florida where a mining baron who wanted to start a northern Wisconsin iron mine lives.

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Will IRS Notice Angry Badgers With Smoking Guns?

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Yesterday the Democracy Campaign asked the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether three groups should keep their tax-exempt status in light of frank admissions that they are working to keep Governor Scott Walker in office.

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"A Deal's A Deal". . . Until Donations Pour In

Monday, March 05, 2012

Fifteen wealthy contributors who support expanding the state’s school choice program gave $443,550 to Republican Governor Scott Walker and legislative Republicans between mid-October and mid-January when legislative action to curb the program’s expansion stalled, a Democracy Campaign review found.

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Rip Van Winkling Us To Death

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

In Washington Irving's 19th Century tale, a colonial villager of Dutch descent by the name of Rip Van Winkle wanders up into the mountains of New York with his dog and his gun and comes upon some men of odd appearance playing ninepins. He drinks some of their liquor and falls asleep. When he wakes up, his dog is nowhere to be seen, his gun is rusted, his joints are stiff and his clothes ragged, and his beard has grown a foot or more.

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