#yahoocyw Change Your World Summit in DC rocks! Discussing Internet & social media driving policy and engaging voters. http://t.co/g0iRKb1x
Shameful smear campaigns against the President won't be tolerated. Tell Romney to take a stand: http://t.co/HaPnPvmu
RT @ReidDave: Hey I just figured out where those jobs @GovWalker is claiming came from. Kathy Nickolaus forgot to add in the 50k new jobs in Brookfield
As the Assembly Democratic leader, I have traveled all across our state to listen to the people of Wisconsin talk about their challenges, their hopes and their vision for our state and its future. Unfortunately, I’ve heard far too many stories from Wisconsinites who are struggling as a direct result of the Republican assault on working, middle-class families. We need to put a stop to divisive, polarizing politics that favor [...]
We continue to hear the mantra from Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican leadership in the Legislature: It’s all about creating jobs and boosting our economy. So here’s a question: Why are legislative leaders spending so much time figuring out how to treat Wisconsin’s 400,000 technical college students like second-class citizens? This week, the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules — the name should be frightening [...]
La Crosse County Supervisor Jill Billings plans to be sworn into office Saturday as the new Representative of the state’s 95th Assembly District. Billings, a Democrat, won a Nov. 8 special election over Republican David Drewes to fill the vacant seat, which Sen. Jennifer Shilling held for more than 10 years before winning a Senate seat in an August recall election. State election officials certified the election results Wednesday. Read [...]
Cross-posted at WisOpinion.com >> At the conclusion of World War I, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, over 120,000 Wisconsinites proudly served our country as a member of our armed forces in the war to end all wars. Thousands of Wisconsin families lost a loved one due to combat operations in The Great War and a year after the cease fire that ended hostiles, [...]
Central Wisconsin Democrats cast Ohio voters’ rejection of a law weakening public employee unions’ collective bargaining abilities as a sign that Republicans have overreached Wednesday night. State Rep. Donna Seidel, D-Wausau, and state Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover, took questions at a forum partially organized by the Wisconsin AFL-CIO labor union at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. “I wouldn’t work any less hard,” Holperin said, when asked if the Ohio [...]
