TagsTagsReports are that less than a thousand people have turned out for the Koch Brothers-sponsored Teabagger rally today in Madison, Wisconsin, despite the featured appearance of half-governor Sarah Palin. And the few wingnuts who showed up were confronted with hundreds of pro-union counter-protesters. It's still going on, with one deranged Tea ...
Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Republican Party, Protests, Collective Bargaining, Teacher's Unions, Wisconsin, Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart
In a thuggish attempt at intimidation, the Wisconsin Republican Party has launched a legal effort to gain access to all of the emails written by UW-Madison history professor William Cronon, after he wrote a blog post titled "Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?" and an op-ed ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, William Cronon, Abuse of Power
A judge in Wisconsin's Dane County has granted a temporary restraining order to block official publication of the Republican Party's anti-union law. UPDATE at 3/18/11 10:40:03 am Far right loon Michelle Malkin thinks Walker should just ignore the ruling. Jim "Dim" Hoft immediately started shrieking about radical left activist judges.
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Unions
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union-busting bill will face a legal challenge this Friday. A Wisconsin county executive’s challenge to a bill curbing collective bargaining for most state government workers will be considered at a hearing March 18, a judge said. The Wisconsin Assembly passed a modified version of Governor Scott Walker’s ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Unions
Wisconsin Republicans have passed the union-busting sections of Gov. Scott Walker's "budget repair" bill, by stripping out all the sections related to fiscal matters that required a quorum of Democrats: Wisconsin Senate passes public-sector union ban. This isn't over; Democrats are outraged over this surprise strong-arm maneuver, and there's going to ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Unions
A four-day Wisconsin bus tour paid for by the Koch Brothers and starring Joe the Plumber has fizzled to an end in Madison. The rally, held in Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center, drew about 600 people, said Matt Seaholm, state director for the sponsoring group, Americans for Prosperity. ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Koch Brothers, Joe the Plumber
Right wing blogs are spinning like centrifuges today, desperately trying to minimize and discount the latest New York Times/CBS News poll -- because it shows that a large majority of Americans are opposed to the right wing's anti-union agenda. The nationwide poll found that embattled public employee unions have the ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Scott Walker, Poll
Madison police chief Noble Wray said today that Governor Scott Walker's statements about planting troublemakers among Wisconsin pro-union protesters were "very unsettling and troubling." Wray said he was disturbed that Walker thought about planting troublemakers among peaceful protesters. “I would like to hear more of an explanation from Governor Walker as ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Scott Walker
Here's a live video feed of Scott Walker's news conference, happening now; Walker just said his union-busting bill is "all about jobs."
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party
Last weekend, Indiana deputy attorney general Jeff Cox logged in to Twitter and called for riot police to "use live ammunition" on the demonstrators in Wisconsin. When confronted, Cox doubled down and said, "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." Apparently, Cox was taking a page from the Muammar Gaddafi playbook. And ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Indiana
Big story of the morning: a blogger for the Buffalo Beast got through on a phone call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, pretending to be far right wing billionaire David Koch, and talked to Walker for about 20 minutes -- when Walker is rejecting all calls from Democrats. It's a ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Koch Brothers
One of the provisions that hasn't gotten much notice in Scott Walker's union-busting bill would give Walker unilateral power to sell off public utilities in Wisconsin in no-bid contracts -- a provision that would directly benefit one of Walker's major campaign contributors, Koch Brothers Industries. And oddly enough, here's an advertisement ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party, Koch Brothers
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Republican Party
Scott Walker assumes the position of Zombie Reagan: Walker warns state workers layoff notices could come next week if bill isn't passed. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warned Tuesday that state employees could start receiving layoff notices as early as next week if a bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights isn't ...
Scott Walker, Protests, Collective Bargaining, Teacher's Unions, Wisconsin, Air Traffic Controllers
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that 61% of the US public oppose laws that eliminate collective bargaining.
Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker is not only trying to destroy public employees' unions. For years, he's also been working hard to force women back into the Dark Ages: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Abortion Crusade. Walker's nearly nine-year record in the Wisconsin Assembly, the legislature's lower house, reads like a ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Abortion, Women's Rights
The right wing coalition trying to destroy collective bargaining in Wisconsin is starting to fall apart. With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Jim Hoft, Idiocy
Remember radio host and Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams, and his astoundingly racist "letter to Abe Lincoln" from "the coloreds?" Well, Williams has a new idea. Now he's going to infiltrate pro-union protests pretending to be a supporter, then try to get in front of cameras and make outrageous statements ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Mark Williams, Tea Party, Racism
DERPIt's predictable as clockwork; the sun rises in the east, water flows downhill, and wingnuts lie about the size of their demonstrations. Here's the world's densest blogger again, JIm "Dim" Hoft, with a ridiculous claim (based on nothing at all) that there were 15,000 Teabaggers yesterday in Wisconsin. In Hoft's vague ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests, Jim Hoft, Idiocy
Ezra Klein cuts through the noise and tells you what is actually being proposed in Wisconsin -- and the bottom line is simple. Gov. Scott Walker isn't only proposing to reign in the salaries of government workers; he's staging an attack on the very existence of labor unions. The best ...
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests
I'd just like to say that I stand in solidarity with the workers and students of Wisconsin tonight, and against the right wing's war on employee unions.
Wisconsin, Teacher's Unions, Collective Bargaining, Protests
In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker's bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights is due for a vote today by the full legislature, and large crowds have turned out to protest. I'm so glad to see the GOP focusing on the real problems in America: teacher's unions. The latest ...