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Recall - Governor Scott Walker

2011-07-27T18:01:00.001-07:00

Polarizing * Governor Scott Walker R-WI - Link

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Governor Scott Walker R- WI

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"Scott Walker: He's Not Working For Us"
Audio: Since Scott Walker has been Wisconsin governor, unemployment has gone up
Screen: Scott Walker: 9,300 Private-Sector Jobs Lost in October (Journal Sentinel, November 17,2011)
Audio: The biggest cuts in public education in the entire country
Screen: Scott Walker: $1.85 Billion Slashed from Education
Audio: Cuts about a half billion from the state medicaid program
Screen: Scott Walker: $554 Million Cut from Health Care (WKOW Madison, September 30, 2011)
Audio: Basically soaked the middle-class and the poor to reward the rich
Audio: Koch Industries was the fourth largest donor during his 2010 campaign
Audio: These billionaires have been buying up the governors to make sure they never have to pay taxes again
Audio: And they're doing everything they to crush the bottom
Screen: Scott Walker: Billions in Tax Cuts to the Rich

2011-07-27T17:58:00.001-07:00

Scott Walker - by Michael O'Reilly - Link

2011-07-07T02:38:00.001-07:00

Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law Link

2011-04-09T02:42:00.001-07:00

Governor Scott Walker R- WI

Scott Walker Testifies in Congress - WI News Video

Wisconsin Saga Under Governor Scott Walker

This is just the latest, and nearly the last, in a succession of efforts in America over the last three decades to move money from the hands of non-elites to those of oligarchs. Link - Missing Element Analysis * Scott Walker

IDAHO: If an executive order from Republican Gov. Butch Otter forbidding state agencies in Idaho from accepting federal funds to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passes constitutional muster, the state would have to opt out of Medicaid in 2014. More than 220,000 of Idaho's citizens depend on Medicaid. Unless the governor and GOP-dominated Legislature choose to drop these folks off where the grizzly bears roam, they will have to come up with the money to treat them.

That amounts to around $1 billion a year, 40 percent of the state's entire annual budget. One way to pay for it? Cut public school funding by 85 percent. Given their hatred for public education, maybe that approach would suit Idaho's elected Republicans just fine.

Saying he opposes "the overreaching nature of the PPACA and its infringements on Idahoans and the authority of the States under the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution," the governor stated in his order that "no executive branch department, agency, institution or employee of the state shall establish or amend any program or promulgate any rule to implement any provisions of the PPACA" without his consent. The Tenth Amendment is a favorite of right-wingers eager to nullify federal initiatives and take back the state sovereignty they believe has been dwindling ever since the presidency of...uh...Abraham Lincoln.

Medicaid is essentially a voluntary program. States don't have to participate. But if they don't they lose out on the federal money that makes the program possible. As the Idaho attorney general wrote in an opinion requested by a state legislator in February:

…Idaho's refusal to comply with the expanded provisions within the PPACA could potentially result in Idaho exiting the program and losing the existent federal matching funds. This could create a situation where individuals presently covered would no longer be covered, yet still require medical treatment, which likely would be required to be provided for and paid for through some non-federal means.

The Legislature went ahead with its own proposal to refuse implementation of PPACA, but Otter vetoed it at the same time as he issued his executive order. His reasoning for doing so was that the wording of the proposed law might block Idaho from coming up with its own health insurance exchange and allow the feds to do it by default.

It's hard to see how Idaho's refusal can withstand a legal challenge based on the supremacy clause, under which the federal Constitution and statutes supersede any they conflict with at the state level. But the governor's stance makes a fine platform from which to regale his fans on the radical right who increasing dominate Idaho's Republican Party.

2011-04-01T06:06:00.001-07:00

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If television was your only source of news, you might not even realize that political corruption by corporate interests is a major issue in this country. ~ Russ Feingold, Progressives United - Link

Proud of * Democratic Governor's Association

2011-03-29T19:20:00.001-07:00

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wisaflcio - Tweets from WI AFL-CIO

Even Republican legislators start to question Walker's extreme proposals that will strip our communities of needed... http://fb.me/DO9YpXHb 37 minutes ago via Facebook
Today, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi said the actions of Walker and his allies put them “in peril... http://fb.me/RjH13wWW about 3 hours ago via Facebook

2011-03-26T23:19:00.000-07:00

Past Predicts Malignant, Oppressive Use of Political Authority

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Gov. Scott Walker's past - Video Link
Walker ignores court order http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118677754.html
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American Thought Police ~ By PAUL KRUGMAN
March 27, 2011 - Source Link

Recently William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, decided to weigh in on his state’s political turmoil. He started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council in pushing hard-line conservative legislation at the state level. - Link 1 Then he published an opinion piece in The Times, suggesting that Wisconsin’s Republican governor has turned his back on the state’s long tradition of “neighborliness, decency and mutual respect.” williamcronon.net

So what was the G.O.P.’s response? A demand for copies of all e-mails sent to or from Mr. Cronon’s university mail account containing any of a wide range of terms, including the word “Republican” and the names of a number of Republican politicians. - Link 2

If this action strikes you as no big deal, you’re missing the point....

Infamous, Governor Scott Walker R-WI

2011-03-26T21:16:00.001-07:00

Jon Stewart * The Daily Show:
Gov Hurts: relationship between Republican governors and their states - Video Link

On January 3, Governor Scott Walker took the oath of office, called a special legislative session, and issued an executive order calling for lawsuit reform.
On January 11, a joint committee held a 10-hour hearing to take testimony.
On January 18, the Wisconsin Omnibus Tort Reform Act was on Walker's desk.
He signed it into law on January 27 - Link

After only 10 hours of hearings, the Republican Wisconsin legislature passed the "Kill Granny and Get Away With It" act, otherwise known as the Wisconsin Omnibus Tort Reform Act. Walker signed it into law on January 27.

The new law makes it far more difficult to sue nursing home operators, manufacturers of defective products, and other corporate malefactors.
What other states limit the liability of nursing homes who injure and kill residents and destroy lives? There is no other state that has created a law that hides these incident reports. ~ Attorney Jeffrey Pitman, January 11, 2011, Legislative Hearing
Stripping individuals of their right to take corporate malefactors to court played out with such speed that most Wisconsinites still aren't aware of what happened.
" It was greased. It was wired. It was going to happen, Madison trial lawyer John Walsh said in a phone interview. This was set up so the public wouldn't get the message."

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No degree, little experience pay off big - Link
Just in his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions. Yet he has landed an $81,500 - per-year job in Gov. Scott Walker's administration overseeing environmental and regulatory matters and dozens of employees at the Department of Commerce. Even though Walker says the state is broke and public employees are overpaid, Deschane already has earned a promotion and a 26% pay raise in just two months with the state.

How did Deschane score his plum assignment with the Walker team? It's all in the family. His father is Jerry Deschane, executive vice president and longtime lobbyist for the Madison-based Wisconsin Builders Association, which bet big on Walker during last year's governor's race.

Polarizing * Governor Scott Walker R-WI

2011-03-26T21:12:00.001-07:00

Missing Element Astrology Analysis - Link

Governor Scott Walker
Polarized Natal Chart (divisive, divides, polarizes)

Natal Incarnation, Mutable Chart * Missing Element Air

DOB 11.02.1967, Scott Walker

Natural Projection (pos.) - or - Shadow Projection (neg.), Unresolved Issues

Projection As Shadow Mirror (hostile anxiety, hostile guilt, hostile paranoia) The missing function (singleton) expresses as a 'projection' to the degree that the natal individual disavows their unconscious, unresolved inner conflicts.

Destructive Projection: what bothers us in others, particularly in relationships/friendships/other people, are those qualities and traits we hide from ourselves

The destructive and/or unredeemed expression manifests when any sense of hurt for what is missing remains unexplored or unexamined and becomes grounds - or - justification for shadow projection.

(Resolution: Constructive and Transformative * Owning the Shadow Self;
Positive Influence for Destructive Personal Relationships: Realization that we often attract what we're projecting; Natural Positive Projection * Is an extension of our own internally-derived positive feelings)

Scott Walker was born on 2 November 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

OPPOSITION

Natal Pluto @22 Virgo -cnj- N/Venus @23Virgo -cnj- N/Uranus @27Virgo

opposite

Natal Atropos @22Pisces (3 Fates, cuts thread of life) -cnj- N/Chiron @25Pisces
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YOD

Apex Yod

Natal South Moon Node @27Libra -cnj- Natal Quaoar @27 Libra (the big picture, creation, flaws, demanding trying experiences) markandrewholmes.com/quaoar.html

wax inconjunct (148)

N/Chiron @25Pisces

inconjunct

Natal Tisiphone @28Taurus (Fury) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisiphone

Fixed Natal T-Square

Apex

N/Mercury @07Scorpio -cnj- N/Sun @09Scorpio

square

Natal Klotho @13Leo (3 Fates, spins thread of life)

square

Natal Lachesis @07Aquarius (3 Fates, measures length of life-thread)

Trine Form

Mars is base vertex for aspect: Natal Jupiter - wan trine - Natal Mars - wan square - Natal North Moon Node - wan trine - Natal Jupiter

Transiting Pluto @07Capricorn -cnj- Natal Mars ( Mars ruler of Aries N.Node) -cnj- Natal Vesta @29 Sagittarius (overcompensating for sense of inner weakness)

Link - “Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out - money - from the goodness of their hearts.” ~ Molly Ivins.

"It’s crucial to understand what the regressive initiative that our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin are right now fighting is really all about, and how that fits into the context of our era.

This is just the latest, and nearly the last, in a succession of efforts in America over the last three decades to move money from the hands of non-elites to those of oligarchs.

Make no mistake, that program constitutes essentially the sum total of American politics at its core over the last generation.

All else is a sideshow or, more likely and more ominously, an intentional diversion, just as a skilled magician is careful to give your eye something else to focus on as he moves the ball from under the cup." ~ Prof. David Michael Green http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Waking_Up_In_Wisconsin.html

2010-08-29T05:56:00.000-07:00

Wisconsin - How To Get Petitions Signed By The Cart-Full

Essay by chuco35

I'm a civil rights attorney who has been involved in voting rights litigation and activism for over 30 years. This has included litigation in Texas over minority voting rights. It has also included organizing petition drives to force the ballot issue of instituting single-member district elections in Texas school districts and municipalities.

Tactics in gathering petitions, especially if you are involved in the recall drives against the white-right villains in Wisconsin, or if you care to know about single member districts:

At-large elections have been a longstanding means of marginalizing minority candidates in the South. A community with 40% minority population in its own rough contiguous neighborhoods, for example, would have a much greater chance of representation on local boards and councils elected through single member districts, where each part of the community elected its own representatives (like the Congress), than where such officials were elected at-large (where all the voters are able to vote for all of the seats on the council or board). Given polarized voting along racial lines in the South, it is not unusual to find minorities shut out of local elected office where the at-large system of voting is followed. This is exacerbated by the fact that successful at-large election campaigns can be much more expensive, since you have to reach a larger voter pool, and thus outside the reach of almost all but the well-connected -- which in the South is not likely to be a minority. Successful single member district election campaigns, by focusing on a much smaller electorate defined by neighborhoods instead of a whole city, emphasize retail politics at the expense, no pun intended, of bankrolled media campaigns. This removes many of the structural disadvantages encountered by minority candidates, especially non-rich minority candidates, in the South.

Texas law allows the voters of any home-rule city or school district to decide to elect its representatives by single member districts chosen only by the electorate from that district. However, it takes 10% of the electorate to petition for such a change to get it on the ballot. I've helped organize a number of these. So here is where it connects to Wisconsin -- and it's dated April 5th, your upcoming election day.

I've found that the best place to collect signatures is outside polling places during elections. Instead of having to go look for people, they are coming to you -- sometimes in droves. Instead of wondering whether they are eligible to sign the petition, you can rest assured because they're walking to vote. Instead of getting them one or two at a time per household, you're sometimes getting them as fast as you can get people to sign. You can put in a full 12 hour day, and start signing people up as early as 7 in the morning -- even before they get to work. In essence, when done fully, such a project will result in petitions by the cart-full, especially for an issue as well publicized as that of recalling the white-right poster villains.

We organize by polling place, building volunteer teams for each location, by shifts, composed of people from those neighborhoods. We pre-select each team's location to make sure we comply with anti-electioneering laws, and to insure the team can have the best visibility and access to voters. We make sure each team has the proper gear -- tables, chairs, visibility posters, pens, water, food, etc -- and establish runs by still another team to provide the working team with what may come up during the day. We of course have a leadership team that keeps the working teams running, and tends to whatever may come up.

Sometimes the logistics aren't the best at particular polling places, but we try to work our way around it as best we can. Sometimes we have to avoid a location because of logistics, but there is always another polling place where those people can be used. Early voting and vote by mail have cut down the numbers of people who vote on election day. But when you still have people voting by the thousands and tens of thousands, there's a lot of signatures to fill your carts full with.

It's a long, long day of work, and it gets hectic during certain parts of it. One thing for sure, though, we always have a great party at the end of the day with barrels of beer to go with the cart-fulls of petitions.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/08/the-continued-stealth-takeover-of-the-courts.html
The Continued Stealth Takeover of the Courts

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/
The Quiet Coup

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/citizens-united-judicial-elections
Why bother with a congressman when you can buy yourself a judge?

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/The-Washington-Post-Reveals-Top-Secret-America-4362

Top Secret America
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/#article-index

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Recall - Governor Scott Walker

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