e-lerts 2011

GOP’s Secret Redistricting Scheme

Email date: 6/28/11

In this update:
1. WDC files open records requests for redistricting plans
2. Controversy has stranglehold on Wisconsin Supreme Court
3. More reaction to U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Arizona case

Arizona Clean Elections Law Struck Down

Email date: 6/27/11

In this update:
1. Supreme Court strikes down key feature of Arizona public financing law
2. Defaming Wisconsin and desecrating democracy
3. Redistricting plans drawn . . . why can’t public have a look?

Legislature Takes Aim at Disclosure

Email date: 6/23/11

In this update:
1. Legislative committee rolls back campaign finance disclosure rules
2. Budget bill chock full of non-fiscal policy
3. What lawmaking in Wisconsin has come to
4. Will Republicans jump the gun on state redistricting?
5. Casualties of the class war

Defending One Law & Questioning Another

Email date: 6/20/11

In this update:
1. WDC, partner groups file legal briefs defending Impartial Justice Act
2. Blog: Walker’s law is unconstitutional
3. Updated fundraising information posted for recall election senators
4. Concern over redistricting grows

Make Illegal Donations, Get a Budget Favor

Email date: 6/14/11

In this update:
1. WDC files complaint over excessive donations
2. An extraordinary attack on democracy
3. Scraping bottom without stooping
4. How to get a place at the table
5. Headed in the right direction . . . or not

High-Interest Lender Violated Contribution Limits

The owner of an auto title loan company that got a break in the proposed 2011-2013 state budget to let his business resume in Wisconsin contributed $13,250 in 2010 to legislative candidates and a committee – a violation of state campaign finance laws, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign says.

WDC Files Complaints Against Recall Targets

Email date: 6/7/11

In this update:
1. WDC blows whistle on 3 senators for failing to properly disclose donations
2. Butt-ugly budget politics
3. Redistricting rumor raises concern

Ugliness Inside the Capitol, Signs of Hope Outside

Email date: 5/26/11

In this update:
1. Budget writers raid clean elections fund to pay for voter suppression
2. Politically diverse citizen coalition comes together on redistricting
3. Editorial: The more light the better
4. The main difference between Vermont and Wisconsin

School Privatizers Grease the Skids

Email date: 5/24/11

In this update:
1. School privatization backers outgive opponents 3 to 1
2. “Money flows freely all the time”

The 5% Solution

Email date: 5/17/11

In this update:
1. One way out of the trap we’re in
2. Searchable online donor database updated
3. Division by design
4. IRS warns donors to election groups