Email date: 10/10/07
In this update:
1. State legislative campaigns fueled by outside money
2. Ideas for breaking budget logjam abound, but stalemate continues
3. AT&T calling
4. Fines for fake news keep coming
Email date: 10/18/07
In this update:
1. All the news that isn’t
2. Idle minds, active expense accounts
3. People’s Legislature Web site updated
Email date: 10/22/07
In this update:
1. Students give big to state campaigns
2. Budget deal finally reached . . . action needed to prevent repeat performance
3. Court ethics, politics in the spotlight
4. New feature on wisdc.org focuses on your right to know
5. Stop big media
Email date: 10/24/07
In this update:
1. Ghostbusting the state budget
2. Public financing of elections gaining steam across the country
3. Line-standing is latest sign of privilege on steroids
Email date: 10/25/07
A spokesman for Governor Jim Doyle said today the governor will not call the Legislature into special session this year to act on campaign finance reform. To read more about this disappointing development, go here.
Email date: 10/30/07
In this update:
1. Imagine democracy. It isn’t hard to do.
2. Greased pig
3. Court races getting increasingly political
Email date: 11/2/07
In this update:
1. Pigpen to Charlie Brown: It’s all cleaned up!
2. Complete profile of Ziegler’s campaign finances now online
3. The Legislature at its worst
4. New ethics watchdog looking to fill top staff posts
Email date: 11/7/07
In this update:
1. Vote on AT&T cable bill set for tomorrow
2. Dropping the F bomb for the sake of democracy
3. Ryan headed to prison. Why not Jensen?
4. New ethics cops go back to the future
Email date: 11/8/07
This morning a state appeals court ordered a new trial for former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen on the grounds that the trial court judge gave the jury a faulty instruction. Jensen was convicted in March 2006 of felony misconduct in public office and was sentenced to 15 months in prison and banned from the Capitol for five years. For more on today’s appeals court decision, go here.
Email date: 11/9/07
In this update:
1. Money flow mirrors vote tally on cable bill
2. What’s next in Jensen saga?