Wisconsin Tag

A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge has issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the publication (i.e. implementation) of the budget repair bill.I have not seen the opinion yet -- it is unclear whether there is a written opinion or this was issued orally from the bench...

The almost non-stop acts of intimidation and threats against Republican Senators and their supporters continues in Wisconsin, with this report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:The office of Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) said the senator has been subjected to damage of personal property and has received...

That statement about public employee union attitudes towards government fiscal health resulted in a county board chairman in Wisconsin being forced to step down (via JSOnline):Charles Rayala's resignation as Vilas County board chairman was made official at Tuesday's monthly board meeting - a decision he made as...

Thanks to a reader in Wisconsin for sending me this link to a press release from the Recall Jim Holperin Committee and video posted at the website of conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes, regarding intimidation efforts directed against Republicans seeking signatures on recall petitions against one...

I'll be in meetings most of the day, so I will not be able to follow the planned return of the Fleebagger14 to Madison, and the protests planned.I'm sure they will be "massive."Comments will be put through, so please feel free to keep each other...

After the vote passing the budget repair bill, Republican Senators were led from the Capitol through a tunnel, and then onto a bus, where protesters surrounded them and chased the bus, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel::Amid unprecedented protests, Republican lawmakers have at times been escorted...

The failure of Democrats in Wisconsin to stop passage of a budget repair bill, including a scaling back of public sector collective bargaining as to benefits, is being portrayed as a "gift" to Democrats and public sector unions.  The usual suspects are describing Gov. Scott...

There will be a vote in Wisconsin which will shake the political landscape of the nation.That vote is not today in the Wisconsin Assembly on the bill passed last night in the Senate restricting public employee union collective bargaining.That vote will not be in April, when there are...

Regardless of who emerges as the political winner or loser in Madison, Wisconsin, one thing is clear, law enforcement -- from the Madison police, to the Dane County Sheriff's office, to the Capitol and State police -- have lost credibility as neutral players in this political standoff.Time...

I ran a post yesterday regarding the decision by Dane County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dave Mahoney to pull his deputies from guarding the doors to the Wisconsin State Capitol, More Police Insurrection In Madison. In comments that received a lot of attention, Sheriff Mahoney used the...