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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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uppitywis.org - The New York Times recently declined to run an Op Ed column submitted by Scott Walker, so instead he's posted it on the official governor's web site (and the URL is below, in case you want to wade ...

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sfgate.com - Michael P. King / AP Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette listens to Assistant Attorney General Maria Lazar make her opening arguments at a hearing in front of Dane County Circuit Judge Ma...

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defendwisconsin.org - If it wasn’t clear last time, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi made it clear on Tuesday: Any further implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s law limiting public employee unions is barred, and a...

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huffingtonpost.com - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration insists a new law eliminating most collective bargaining rights for state employees has gone into effect. Other state and municipal lead...

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defendwisconsin.org - Three visibly uncomfortable staffers of the Legislative Reference Bureau, including the bureau director, testified Tuesday about what appears to be a pivotal, early morning meeting with Senate Majo...

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uppitywis.org - There's a huge lump of dumb in the Wisconsin Department of Justice's appeal of Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi's restraint order against publication of the Walker administration's union-bust...

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uppitywis.org - Gratifying news today from Indiana, where "the Hoosier 39" returned to the fold with positive results and cheers from crowds of supporters. Just as in Wisconsin, state Democrats in the Indiana leg...

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uppitywis.org - From WisPolitics.com ...-- Supreme Court Justice David Prosser warned Monday his defeat next week would “destroy judicial independence” in Wisconsin if the millions of dollars being spent to help h...

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uppitywis.org - PolitiFacy says Greater Wisconsin ad on David Prosser and the pedophile priest is barely true. I daresay that anyone who reads the PolitiFact narrative and analysis will reach a different conclusio...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Anyone who’s been to the month long protests, or attended a rally anywhere in the state, knows how bizarre the right wingnut claims of thuggery and vandalism are about the citizens movement to prot...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - For $42,000 Governor Walker better have gotten something out of his air travels. The people of Wisconsin surely have not. It was reported that Walker has used his tax-funded airplane a great deal t...

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defendwisconsin.org - If Stephan Thompson and the Wisconsin GOP disagree with any of Cronon’s articles or writings, I propose that they publicly engage with him on the merits of the case. If they believe his history, da...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - This is what Big Government Republican Rule looks like…god help us all.Just how chaotic is our state in right now, and how big a mess have the Republican legislature and governor made attacking mid...

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wisn.com - POSTED: 9:23 am CDT March 29, 2011UPDATED: 5:35 pm CDT March 29, 2011MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there should be no further implementation of a law taking away nearly all coll...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Every moment when one of Walker’s crew is told “no” is a happy one for me. Today State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen was told, to my understanding: - the Wisconsin Court of Appeal...

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womensenews.org - Right smack dab in the middle of Women's History Month we've been treated to the spectacle of Wisconsin's new GOP Gov. Scott Walker taking apart public-sector workers' bargaining rights and women's...

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modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/indiana-dep-prosecutor-suggests-fake.html"; Indiana Deputy Prosecutor Carlos F. Lam suggested to Wisconsin Gov. Rick Scott that he use provocat...

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ieanea.org - Jim Broadway is a 30-year veteran of the Illinois Statehouse and a reporter, lobbyist and, most recently, as publisher of the education policy newsletter State School News Service (SSNS). The newsl...

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millermps.wordpress.com - by: Jim Hightower, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Thursday 03 February 2011 Rancho Mirage, California – The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front gr...

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defendwisconsin.org - Inspiring ad about the recall campaign efforts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlQWgnMSD0

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defendwisconsin.org - Hundreds of protesters came out to show support — the biggest rally inside in perhaps a week. Many of them held signs and wore white T-shirts, themselves protest signs, that read on the back, “Rise...

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defendwisconsin.org - Tubbs’ calm, even paternal presence proved crucial to protecting people’s safety at the Capitol, Wray said. “With Chief Tubbs, what you see is what you get,” he added. “He is not flipping a switch ...

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defendwisconsin.org - Republicans broke from their party allegiance to Gov. Scott Walker in the first briefing on his budget plan Tuesday, joining Democrats in questioning the governor’s decisions to cut money for recyc...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tavis Smiley: My Conversation With Michelle RheeTavis Smiley: My Conversation With Michelle Rheeby Tavis SmileyEarlier today, I spoke with former Washington, DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee abou...

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news.firedoglake.com - It’s been really incredible to watch the situation in Wisconsin over the past few days, because it’s taking on the cast of a banana republic. The Secretary of State has authority over publication o...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Judge AGAIN Blocks Anti-Union Law | FDL News DeskWisconsin Judge AGAIN Blocks Anti-Union LawBy: David Dayen Tuesday March 29, 2011 3:46 pmTweet Share We all know how this turned out the ...

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