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May 9, 2012
Wisconsin wife runs husband over with SUV following Scott Walker recall argument
Modern American politics is divisive, sure, but who knew it could be this bad?Chippewa Falls resident Jeffrey Radle, 36, found himself in the hospital yesterday after a political argument with his wife, Amanda Radle, 30. The verbal dispute culminated in physical violence when Amanda ran over her hus ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Randy Hopper, former Wisconsin GOP senator, says drunk driving arrest politically motivated
And we think Minnesota's politics are bitter...Randy Hopper, a former GOP state senator in Wisconsin from Fond du Lac, testified yesterday that he believes his October 2011 drunk driving arrest was a result of his support for Governor Scott Walker's effort to eliminate collective bargaining for p ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Gov. Scott Walker: Recall election is likely
It's been little more than two weeks since foes of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker began petitioning for a recall, and they've already surpassed 300,000 signatures -- more than half of the 540,000 needed by the January 17 deadline. If they keep progressing at this pace, a recall election will be inevit ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Everyone in Wisconsin wants to walk around with a gun
Wisconsin is preparing to star in a big-budget Western. This morning, Wisconsin began taking applications for the state's brand new concealed carry gun law. By this afternoon, every single person in Wisconsin will be armed to the teeth. Shoulder holster, one at the hip, little one down by the ank ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Scott Walker under the ethics microscope for new political website
Screenshot from "Reforms & Results" website.Gov. Scott Walker could be up for re-election early if his opponents can gather the necessary signatures for a recall this fall. Wisconsin Democrats plan to file an ethics complaint against Gov. Scott Walker today accusing him of using taxpayer mone ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Morgan Freeman soundalike ad [VIDEO]
Morgan Freeman is not campaigning against Shelly Moore.Morgan Freeman has used his voice to play the President of the United States, Nelson Mandela and God. But the man whose iconic tones once narrated marching penguins did not narrate a new political ad running in Wisconsin, though one might thi ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Wisconsin state employee stabs protester's balloon with knife, cuts own hand
The man stabbing the balloon accidentally stabbed himself.A Wisconsin protester was posing with a heart-shaped balloon at the state Capitol yesterday afternoon when a state employee walked over and began "stabbing" her balloon, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. That's one way to break up ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Wisconsin Republicans' fake Democrats exposed
Gov. Scott Walker's allies get caught in a dirty trick.A number of Wisconsin Republicans are still trying to figure out how to survive the PR debacle birthed by their public employee union busting legislation earlier this year. One of the upshots is a series of recall drives being launched agains ... More >>
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April 23, 2011
Most Wisconsin voters don't believe Gov. Scott Walker's union talk
Walker's even lost the zombie vote.He's a hero to tea partiers, but Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker keeps getting bad news from statewide polls. The latest survey finds that just 31 percent of folks in Wisconsin have apparently bought into his line that he wants to strip public employees of thei ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Katherine Windels ordered to stop threatening Wisconsin Republicans
Katherine Windels got carried away.There's no doubt that pro- and anti-union forces used almost every trick in the book during the assembly battle over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. But while there was a lot of shouting, scre ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Kathy Nickolaus refuses to resign over Wisconsin election screw up
Kathy Nickolaus admits she screwed up, but says she won't resign.Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus appears to have been exposed as either a ham-fisted political hack, or simply incompetent. Or maybe it's both. But just because she flipped a much-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court election i ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
David Prosser ally Kathy Nickolaus finds him 7,500 votes
Now it's David Prosser who may claim victory over JoAnne Kloppenburg.Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg claimed victory the other day in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, and Republicans promptly assumed her 200-vote margin of victory over Justice David Prosser was shady. Which makes this new turn ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
JoAnne Kloppenburg declares victory over David Prosser, and Scott Walker
The Scott Walker proxy battle: Prosser vs. Kloppenburg.One of the recurring talking points among Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's supporters in his efforts to neuter public employee unions has been this: Voters swept Republicans into control of the state last November, so get out of the way and ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Gov. Scott Walker loses the zombie vote in Madison [VIDEO]
Zombies to Walker: Pass the brains.He's already tanked in the polls among the living, and now it looks like Wisconsin's union-busting Gov. Scott Walker is losing the un-dead vote as well. "What do we want? BRAINS? When do we want them? BRAINS!" a bunch of protesting zombies shouted as they m ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Minnesota Republicans want to be like Wisconsin
Is it time to protest in St. Paul?After introducing a bevy of union-busting bills, Minnesota Republicans are sure starting to look like their Tea Party-ing Wisconsin counterparts. One measure, authored by Waseca Sen. Mike Parry, calls for the state--as well as local county governments and schoo ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Scott Walker wins: Wisconsin Republicans through union-busting bill [UPDATE]
Sue Peacock/FlickrLet the recall efforts begin.Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly finally dropped all pretenses about Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill having anything to do with balancing the state's budget. Wednesday night, with 14 Democrats still on the lam trying to block a vote, the ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Wisconsin protesters' Capitol invasion caught on video
State troopers and protesters clash.Tempers are flaring in Madison, where Republicans in the Assembly have used a controversial and possibly illegal maneuver to ram through a public employee union-busting bill. The Senate voted on the measure last night. The Assembly takes it up today -- if ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Scott Walker tanking in another Wisconsin poll [UPDATE]
Scott Walker is falling in the polls.There's more bad poll news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who insists he's going to stand firm in his budget battle to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. Rasmussen Reports is out with a new survey of Wisconsin voters showing that ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Scott Walker called to the border by 14 Wisconsin Democrats [UPDATE]
Mark RiechersIt's not dead yet.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been invited to the Illinois state line for a face-to-face meeting with some of the 14 Democratic state senators who won't give Republicans the quorum needed to pass their union-busting bill. A showdown now that Walker's tanking in t ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Scott Walker's "David Koch" phone fail: GOP seeks to outlaw prank calls
Republicans don't want anyone getting "Koch'd" again.Two Wisconsin Republicans insist up and down that their bill to outlaw prank phone calls has nothing to do with their governor being humiliated by a blogger posing as billionaire GOP financier David Koch.
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March 2, 2011
Scott Walker defends union busting, gutting public school spending
Walker defends his budget.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stood before Wisconsin lawmakers yesterday, defended his union busting tactics against public workers, and then announced he wanted to gouge $1.5 billion out of the state's public school and local government aid spending. If he keeps this ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Scott Walker: Wisconsin has buyer's remorse
Maybe Wisconsinites are embarrassed by Scott Walker's epic phone fail.Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker gives his big budget address today in Madison, where he's expected to defend not just trying to neuter public employee unions, but also slashing funding for public education and local ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Wisconsin senate Democrats getting homesick, Republican says
Sen. Scott Fitzgerald says some of the 14 Democrats want to come home.As long as 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats stay on the lam, GOP Gov. Scott Walker can't push his controversial union busting bill through the Legislature. So he threatened again today to start laying off 1,500 public sector ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Glenn Beck dropped by Madison radio station WTDY
Devoid of "actual content."Glenn Beck has been booted off the air by Madison radio station WTDY-AM because he slagged on the broadcaster's hometown, and because of a "lack of actual content." Beck usually occupied the 10 a.m. to noon slot at a station that features a lot of business coverage fro ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Madison union supporters plan Minneapolis demonstration Monday afternoon
The rally starts at 4 p.m. Monday.More than 1,000 people turned out on Saturday in St. Paul to demonstrate solidarity with union workers in Madison, and now a march has been scheduled for 4 p.m. today in downtown Minneapolis. A rally will begin at 4 p.m. at the Hennepin County Government Cen ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Scott Walker nears triumph: Wisconsin Assembly passes union-busting bill [UPDATES]
Walker's close to getting his wish.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one step closer to getting his union-busting bill, now that the GOP-controlled state Assembly snuck in an early-morning vote on the measure while Democrats were caught flat-footed. Now if only he could get those pesky state Senate ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Keith Ellison urges Barack Obama to visit Wisconsin
Laurence O'Donnell interviews Keith Ellison.President Barack Obama shouldn't just voice his support for public employee unions, he "should come to Wisconsin and stand with the workers," if he knows what's good for him, Rep. Keith Ellison said last night on MSNBC. The president has already a ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Gov. Scott Walker's "damage control" is laughable: Comment Of The Day
Punk'dWisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is dispatching state troopers again today in his never-ending effort to hunt down Senate Democrats. But elsewhere he's a laughing stock for having been punk'd into revealing his plans for trying to bust his state's public employee unions. "The 'damage cont ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Madison police chief, mayor troubled by Scott Walker's comments
Madison Police Chief Noble Wray.There's more bad news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after his embarrassing conversation with a phone prankster posing as a billionaire Republican donor. Walker was caught in a very Nixonian moment admitting he'd thought about placing undercover troublemakers ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Mark Dayton promises no union-busting laws [UPDATE]
Mark Dayton supports unions in Wisconsin.Gov. Mark Dayton told about 1,000 pro-union demonstrators in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday that he'd block any attempt by Republican legislators to pass a union-busting bill similar to the one raising a ruckus in Wisconsin. That bill, being pushed by ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Keith Ellison denounces "dictator" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker [UPDATE]
Ellison joins in the debate over union busting in Wisconsin.Rep. Keith Ellison, co-chairman of the congressional progressive caucus, ripped into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this morning, lambasting him as a dictator for his attempt to strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Scott Walker phone fail: Wis. governor falls for prank call you wouldn't believe [AUDIO]
Scott Walker falls for a crank phone call that is so fake you wouldn't believe it.Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has fallen for a prank phone call, and in the process spent 20 minutes revealing his secret union-busting plans to the opposition. The prank call was made by the alternative weekly ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Ian Murphy prank call to Gov. Scott Walker didn't break law cause Wis. is one-party state
Did Ian Murphy break the law with his prank call to Scott Walker?Everyone is talking about the 20-minute phony phone call in which Scott Walker unwittingly reveals his master plan to a liberal newspaper editor posing as a conservative financier.The Buffalo Beast, an alternative weekly, posted the ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
Wisconsin 14 won't get paychecks until they come home
Mark RiechersThe Democrats are still on the lam.Wisconsin Republican state senators can't get their 14 Democratic counterparts to show up and vote on a union busting bill, so they're pushing through a new rule that ends direct deposit paychecks for members. If the senators on the lam want to ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Wisconsin 14 missing senator photos: Have you seen these politicians?
Gov. Scott Walker: Senate Democrats are MIA.Fourteen Wisconsin state senators are on the lam, hiding from police trying to return them to Madison for a vote on a union-busting bill that none of them support. They were last seen hunkered down in an Illinois motel. Anyone with information as to t ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Wisconsin police hunt down Democratic senators over union-busting bill [UPDATES]
Photo: Mark Riechers/FlickrDemocrats abandon ship in Madison.Republican Gov. Scott Walker wants to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, and he's threatened to call out the Wisconsin National Guard on public employee union members if they go on strike. And now, ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
Kenneth Kratz, sexting DA, claims immunity from sexual harassment lawsuit
Kenneth Kratz went looking for a "hot, young nymph" in all the wrong places.Former Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz lost his job and vanished into medical leave after the world learned that he sent lewd text messages to the girlfriend of a man he was prosecuting for trying to ki ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
David King is accused of rape in Wisc. Secretary of State race
TwitterWisc. Secretary of State candidate David King is in hot soup just days before the election.This one may take the cake for the strangest political scandal of the 2010 season. Charlette Harris was supposed to be having a business lunch with David King, a candidate for Wisconsin Secreta ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
Wisconsin court nixes gay parent rights
Mike LichtWisconsin's fourth district court ruled today that gay parents who separate from their partners don't have the right to be their children's guardian. The ruling concerns a woman identified in court records as Wendy, who adopted two children with her partner in 2002 and 2004. When Wendy ... More >>

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