Wisconsin Is All In

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Wednesday February 16, 2011 · 8:09 PM PST

2011/02/16 · 20:09

After several days of growing rallies in Madison and throughout the state, dozens of schools have already been canceled for Thursday Feb 17th setting the stage for more action at the Capitol tomorrow. Today's rallies were estimated to draw anywhere from 15-30,000 people and expectations are that those numbers will grow tomorrow as a result of a statewide show of solidarity with public employees.

As of this evening the Joint Finance Committee is meeting to consider some token amendments that will go nowhere toward backing off the assault on collective bargaining rights of public employees. It's speculated that the changes to Governor Walker's initial proposal are to include sunset provisions in which collective bargaining rights are revoked for 2 years. There is no reason to expect that those sunsets will actually be implemented as they rarely are.

In a bizarre twist, UW-Madison officials have raised alarms that the biennial budget proposal the governor presents next week will attempt to spin of the flagship university from the rest of the UW System. It's unclear what this proposal seeks to achieve but it's raised the stakes by engaging Wisconsin's higher education deeper into the fray.

The Republicans in the State Senate most likely to receive heavy pressure from public employees are those representing the western parts of the state, Dale Schultz of Richland Center and Dan Kapanke of La Crosse.

Follow developments in realtime on Twitter via #wiunion

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Madison, WI: There's beer on tap at my polling station

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 11:14 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 11:14

Chuck Cowdery, an author whose favorite subject is American whiskey asks "Can You Drink on Election Day?"

Can I drink on election day?? Hell, I have beer on tap at my polling station!

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WI: Obama 51 McCain 41 (Research 2000)

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 11:43 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 11:43

Obama Leads McCain in WI by 10

A new poll shows Barack Obama with his biggest lead in Wisconsin since July.
The WISC-TV poll of likely voters shows Obama with a 10-point lead over John McCain. The poll done by Research 2000 on Sunday and Monday showed Obama with 51 percent and McCain with 41 percent.
The last time Obama had a lead that large was in July when he was up by 11 percentage points.
The newest poll was done in the wake of turmoil on Wall Street and the passage of a $700 billion emergency economic bailout bill in Congress.
A majority of survey respondents, 57 percent, say they think Obama is better able to handle the economy than McCain.
The new poll shows only 4 percent of the 600 people polled were undecided. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

The New Top Priority for a Democratic Congress: Ban Robocalls

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 7:21 PM PST

2006/11/06 · 19:21

Nancy Pelosi has put forward a list of the top priorities for a Democratic Congress if voters give them control of the House. I can promise you that voters all across this country are absolutely fed up with robocalls. With the misleading robocalls put forth by the NRCC at the top of the list of truly dishonest campaign tactics this year, Democratic leaders should take advantage of the opportunity NOW to propose a ban on campaign robocalls.

Indiana has taken this step and if Democrats want to make hay they ought to be all over television expressing outrage at the deceptive robocalls and make it clear that they will make it a top priority in a Democratic congress to put an end to these disruptive tactics once and for all.

Democrats should take a page from Republicans. Manufacture outrage and pounce on the opportunity to score points while the issue is hot.

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