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Scott Walker/Fitzgerald Have Courted Their Recalls

[Originally posted, Wednesday, 8:05 p.m.]  Scott Walker and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, (R-Juneau) - - both having sworn oaths to uphold the law - - have been forced by citizen petition signatures into historic recall elections in June. An... »

Best Way To Deal With Scott Fitzgerald's Campaign Scheming

Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, (R-Juneau), is again touting party mischief - - backing fake candidates in Democratic Senate elections and  "messing around" - - his words - - and touting GOP crossover votes in the Democratic gu... »

Senate Leader Fitzgerald Hopes DA Van Hollen Can Fix Illegal Hispanic Voting Maps

That's what the Senate Majority leader told WTMJ-AM's John Mercure about a half-hour ago. Could an administrative action by the AG fix the map, and the process so harshly condemned in the decision? ...the drafting of Act 43 was needlessly secret, regre... »

Follow The Mining Bill's Complicated Procedural Path

Inside State Capitol baseball, anyone? I posted last week some emails obtained through Open Records from the office of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, (R-Juneau) from a few weeks ago - - some about lobbyists here, and another about talk radio ... »

Beware Those 'Mining Bill Dead' Stories

It is true that the mining bill is still stalled in the Legislature - - principally due to the principled stand against the Assembly's giveaway of state water quality and Native American treaty-protected resources to an iron ore mining company by State... »

WI Wildlife Federation Lauds Mining Bill Compromise

George Meyer, a former DNR Secretary, explains the advantages of the mining compromise already dissed by mining industry captive and US Senate candidate Jeff Fitzgerald, (R-Horicon), the Assembly's Republican leader: Contact: George Meyer, Executive Di... »

Republican Arrogance On Full Display In Madison, Milwaukee

* In Madison Tuesday, on a bi-partisan, compromise mining bill drafted in the State Senate, Assembly leader Jeff Fitzgerald, (R-Horicon), said "no." He prefers the anti-environment bill his house wrote in secret with the help of industry representative... »

Right-Wing Interests' Dominant Presence In WI Redistricting, School Choice Issue

Journalists in Wisconsin have been following the Right's networks and funders and their powerful political impact. Bill Lueders, a leading Wisconsin investigative reporter, discussed last week the kind of interests that had a hand in the secretive redi... »

Pre-Recall Mining Power Grab Continues In State Senate

It's a corrupting, constitutional crisis: Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, in an unprecedented and dictatorial move, has dissolved the special committee he established when he didn't like the 99%-pro-industry bill it drafted and sent matters as... »

Ironic, Isn't It? Big Government Foe Takes Biggest Gob Of Free Government Money

That would be Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, (R-Juneau), clocking in as the-number one collector last year of $88-per-day travel and meal money - - up 10% from the previous year, for good, perhaps full measure. I wish the reporting ... »

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Marc Eisen's Walker/Rail Analysis On Track

The former editor at Isthmus explains why Walker's killing the Amtrak extension was so mistaken. Now imagine an updated rail system carrying people from the Twin Cities to downtown Chicago in less than six hours — even faster than driving and on a par ... »

This Scott Fitzgerald May Go Home Again

Up for recall, too The Wisconsin Senate Majority leader and prominent Fitzwalkerstan footman Scott Fitzgerald, (R-Juneau), is, like Scott Walker, facing a recall campaign. The "RecallFitz" website is here, and makes this point: '"We feel that he has be... »

Important Streetcar Project Hearing In Milwaukee Tonight

Comments, support needed tonight for modern rail transit. Here are the details: Representatives from the Federal Transportation Administration will be in attendance and the City has submitted its application to fund a route extensions (from the Intermo... »

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