It’s been eight years
It’s been eight years since the first post here on Blogging Blue. Back then, the blog was just me and a few readers (most of whom were my immediate family), but since then it’s become much more than...
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One photo sums up how Democrats feel about Bernie Sanders for president
So this happened today in Madison. Image courtesy Doug Cvetkovich The fact that 10,000 people showed up at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders tells me that his populist...
View ArticleLongtime Scott Walker aide Cindy Archer to sue John Chisholm
According to this op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition Cindy Archer, a longtime close aide to Scott Walker, is planning on suing Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm for...
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Bus drivers on strike? Maybe Chris Abele can start giving folks a ride in his...
Last week I wrote about Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele’s new security service, which will cost nearly $74 per hour for each of two guards. I noted that according to a report by Dan Bice of the...
View ArticleThe beginning of the end of public records
Unbelievably, the Republicans have put the essential repeal of critical open records laws into their 999 budget motion. To wit: Section 28 of the motion provides that “deliberative materials,” i.e.,...
View ArticleThursday Music: Well-Known Strangers: Aligned
I know it’s late in the day, but I just got this video from my buddy John Kulas who plays bass with the band:
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Republicans in Legislature give Chris Abele almost complete control of...
While many have rightfully been talking about the awful provision in the state budget that would essentially do away with Wisconsin’s open records laws, there’s another provision within the budget that...
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Lakeland Times: The Wisconsin Republican Party: Corruption, cronyism, and sleaze
Earlier this week Republicans in the Legislature decided to attempt to eviscerate Wisconsin’s open records laws, and outrage over the attempt to make Wisconsin’s government even less accountable than...
View ArticleFirst Open Records Request That Wisconsin Media Needs To File On Monday.
After another blatant attempt to hide their intentions and activities by trashing the Wisconsin Open Records laws, the GOP legislators are walking it back…originally it wasn’t totally apparent whether...
View ArticleHere’s your post-Fourth of July open thread
I hope you all had a great Fourth of July….here’s your open thread!
View ArticleSo which Republican(s) wanted the sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open...
Just keep this in mind when you hear Gov. Scott Walker talk about how he doesn’t want changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws. JFC GOP made it clear to us that @GovWalker signed off on motions...
View ArticleThis Should Be The First Bill After The Budget.
Immediately after the state budget is passed…and even before the governor completes his vetoes…the next bill to get fasted tracked through the legislature…should ban all non-budgetary items from the...
View ArticleWhy Is The Media Giving Attorney General Brad Schimel No Respect
I mean really…the lead law enforcement agent in the State Of Wisconsin, Attorney General Brad Schimel…is also one of the leading Republican electeds in Madison. And although he dramatically came out in...
View ArticleBlue Collar Jobs Lost To Legal Immigrants?
A number of GOP presidential hopefuls including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker want to halt or decrease LEGAL immigration because it is taking solid blue collar jobs away from Americans! No really…how...
View ArticleWhich Republican(s) wanted to gut WI’s open records laws? The list starts...
Last week I wrote a post wondering which Republican lawmaker(s) wanted the sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws, changes that would essentially gut those laws, and it looks like we know...
View ArticleDo Wisconsin Republicans want to use state budget to take away weekends for...
Back when he was a candidate for governor in 2010, Scott Walker promised to “strip policy and pork projects from the state budget,” but not long after he was elected governor Walker broke that promise...
View ArticleWisconsin’s awful, no good, very very bad biennial state budget
This Facebook post by Emily Mills sums up how I feel about the absolutely awful biennial state budget Republicans are working to pass. Far as I can tell, the entire proposed Wisconsin budget is a...
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