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Being in Wisconsin, the Koch brothers pop up in the news every now and again because they purchased themselves a Governor here. Although I do in fact know what they look like, my brain still chooses to picture Randolph and Mortimer Duke, from the film Trading Places. I doubt it will ever happen, but I can’t help hoping that the Koch’s story ends the same way that the Duke’s did.
The time has finally come. As of today, the petition to oust Governor Scott Walker from office has begun. We’ve got 60 days to do it, so please make sure to find someone who has a petition and sign it.
Want to help out or not sure where to go to sign a petition? Here’s a great map of all the recall offices:
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For more information on the recall effort, visit the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Recall Headquarters.
In an un-surprisingly sleazy twist, a political advocacy group called Americans for Prosperity has been caught red-handed by Politico mailing absentee ballots to Democrats with instructions to return the ballot after the election. For those unclear on this concept, this tactic is what’s known as electoral fraud.
Americans for Prosperity is a well-known tool that David Koch uses as a form of legal political money-laundering to funnel unlimited funds in to whatever cause he thinks will best benefit his financial interests. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because AFP was just in the news a week or so ago for buying $150,000 worth of ad-time to trash-talk the Democratic recall challengers in Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay.
If you, like myself, are disgusted with these tactics you can contact the Wisconsin Department of Justice to demand they investigate this election fraud.
Wisconsin’s smug corporate puppet of a Governor, who will hopefully not make it through a full term, decided after signing his union-busting “budget repair bill” in to law today, that he would turn the douche up to 11 and utilize Twitter to rub a little salt in to Wisconsin’s wounds. I have no doubts that he was all but giggling while he informed the state workers’ unions of the “good news”.
Truthfully, I didn’t previously think that the level of disgust I have for Fox News could possibly increase. Today it did.
(source)For those of you that have been watching, listening, or reading pretty much any US news coverage over the last week, other of course than the propaganda being spouted by the talking heads over at Fox News, you are probably at least vaguely aware of what has been going on here in Wisconsin. Long story short, Governor Walker created his own budget crisis as an excuse kick-start the Republicans’ attempt at union busting.
Up until today, the 40,000+ people who have thus far turned out at our fine state’s capitol have been leading entirely peaceful protests in progressively greater numbers (Again, unless you’re a Fox News watcher who believes the reporting of “anti-American” “riots”). That will hopefully remain the status quo through the weekend, but in his own “Mubarak Moment”, the puppeteers behind Scott Walker have decided to stage their own walk on Madison by bringing out their mindless teabagging faithfuls to do their dirty work. As my wife intelligently pointed out this morning “teachers are used to taking verbal abuse”. That, along with the fact that the hard-working state employees now swarming the capitol are looking to keep their rights, not start a fight, will hopefully mean a continuation of peaceful protests we’ve seen over the past week. If it does take a turn for the worse, however, all blame lies with the Republicans and their tea party horde.
My son joined his Mom today to protest Governor Walker’s proposed removal of collective bargaining rights for state workers. Needless to say, I am very proud of him and, of course, my incredible wife.
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