Uppity Wisconsin
Making Wisconsin Progressive Again
Russ on Face the Nation: Afghanistan and Health Care
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:12am | mal contends
Tags: Doyle on Right Track on Early Release
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 6:51am | mal contends
"They hate us for our freedom," George W. Bush used to bellow, except for that one-in-100 people in jail thing.
Gov. Jim Doyle is calling for a cost-effective and sensible initiative in his state budget that would cut the sentences of non-violent and low-risk Wisconsin inmates, a modest proposal that is bound to draw Republican howls. (see Mark Pitsch, WSJ)
Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau is calling the proposal "alarming".
Writes Adam Liptak in a NYT piece last year:
Gov. Jim Doyle is calling for a cost-effective and sensible initiative in his state budget that would cut the sentences of non-violent and low-risk Wisconsin inmates, a modest proposal that is bound to draw Republican howls. (see Mark Pitsch, WSJ)
Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau is calling the proposal "alarming".
Writes Adam Liptak in a NYT piece last year:
Wisc Judge Tosses GOP Vote Suppression Lawsuit
Thu, 10/23/2008 - 10:56am | mal contends
Update IV: Opinion - Order and Hearing Transcript (Case No 08CV4085)
Update III: "Really the best of both worlds: Barack Obama would win Wisconsin even if the suit failed - but now another careerist Republican looks foolish having failed to politicize the voting process." - Josh Orton
Update II: GOP AG to appeal. Hoping to get to the Wisconsin Supreme Court where the GOP enjoys a 4-2-1 majority, though the case (J B Van Hollen vs. Government Accountability Board et al, (Dane County Case Number 2008CV004085)) is so clear-cut, even the WI SC might rule against the GOP. In any event, this will not result in any new voter suppression rules that the GOP had hoped for.
Friedman Rips Apart ACORN Voter Fraud Hoax
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 9:34am | mal contends
Update: See A Dose of Reality on the ACORN Hysteria.
Face it Republicans, you are going to lose and you are going to lose big.
But not without a lot of whining and lying first.
Brad Friedman eviscerates the GOP voter fraud lie aimed at the group ACORN, the Association for Community Organisations for Reform Now.
The crimes of ACORN are as Friedman writes in The Guardian:
... that Acorn managed to register some 1.3 (million) low-income (read: Democratic-leaning) voters over the past two years. The rest is, pretty much, just made up. ... Despite the screaming wall-to-wall coverage of 'Democratic voter fraud in 11 swing states' as seen on Fox News and even the once-respectable CNN, none of it's true.
Wisconsin Lacks Women Writers on Politics
Wed, 07/30/2008 - 3:59am | mal contends
via mal contends - One of my favorite political sites is WiscOpinion.
But take a look at WiscOpinion and you see a disturbing trend, echoed across the state: Few women writers expressing their political views in blogs.
It's not sexism by WiscOpinion or any other site, it's a lack of women expressing their voices.
Consider another of my favorite sites: Uppity Wisconsin.
I know women writers here, but they write under a pseudomyn, safety being an obvious concern.
There are notable exceptions:
- Milwaukee Rising
But take a look at WiscOpinion and you see a disturbing trend, echoed across the state: Few women writers expressing their political views in blogs.
It's not sexism by WiscOpinion or any other site, it's a lack of women expressing their voices.
Consider another of my favorite sites: Uppity Wisconsin.
I know women writers here, but they write under a pseudomyn, safety being an obvious concern.
There are notable exceptions:
- Milwaukee Rising
Vote Butler over Gableman, Gableman Unfit for Office
Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:58am | mal contends
Very little needs to be added to commentary on the campaign of Supreme Court candidate Michael Gableman who is a disgrace to an entire branch of government.
Justice Louis Butler's campaign sent out an e-mail this morning to attorneys across the state that sums up well why Gableman will be defeated tomorrow. It is published below:
Dear Friends:
As you probably already know, the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Bar Associations have done polls related to the qualifications of the various candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The election is this Tuesday, April 1.
Nine out of 10 of those who expressed an opinion in Milwaukee said that Justice Louis Butler was qualified. Only about a third said the same about his opponent, Michael Gableman.
In Waukesha, over 80% of those expressing an opinion said that Justice Butler was qualified.Barely half said the same about his opponent. His opponent's campaign is claiming that these results are skewed because Mr.Gableman currently serves as a judge far away from Milwaukee in Burnett County, a small, rural jurisdiction in the far northwest corner of the state.
Justice Louis Butler's campaign sent out an e-mail this morning to attorneys across the state that sums up well why Gableman will be defeated tomorrow. It is published below:
Dear Friends:
As you probably already know, the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Bar Associations have done polls related to the qualifications of the various candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The election is this Tuesday, April 1.
Nine out of 10 of those who expressed an opinion in Milwaukee said that Justice Louis Butler was qualified. Only about a third said the same about his opponent, Michael Gableman.
In Waukesha, over 80% of those expressing an opinion said that Justice Butler was qualified.Barely half said the same about his opponent. His opponent's campaign is claiming that these results are skewed because Mr.Gableman currently serves as a judge far away from Milwaukee in Burnett County, a small, rural jurisdiction in the far northwest corner of the state.
Tammy Baldwin Ought to Support Obama Now
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 3:49pm | mal contends
Voters in US Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s 2nd congressional district in Wisconsin on Feb. 19 delivered a resounding victory to Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton—65 to 34 percent.
As a superdelegate, Rep. Baldwin has pledged her support behind Hillary Clinton.
Now Clinton has engaged in unrelenting negative attacks on Obama using the Republican tactics of personal destruction, dubbed the “kitchen sink” strategy. [See Dear Hillary, We're Breaking Up for an instructive overview.]
In this despicable enterprise, Clinton is destined to fail, but not without first doing a lot of harm.
As a superdelegate, Rep. Baldwin has pledged her support behind Hillary Clinton.
Now Clinton has engaged in unrelenting negative attacks on Obama using the Republican tactics of personal destruction, dubbed the “kitchen sink” strategy. [See Dear Hillary, We're Breaking Up for an instructive overview.]
In this despicable enterprise, Clinton is destined to fail, but not without first doing a lot of harm.