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By Charlie Sykes CREATED 9:43 AM
You claim that you want to end the political 'civil war" in Wisconsin. I'm not going to mention your year-long silence about the attacks on local businesses or on the person and family of Scott walker. Specifically, I want to ask you about your party's official spokesman. Do you support this sort of rhetoric? Do you condone these sorts of charges? Are you willing to disassociate yourself with the blatant lies and slurs being spread by the Democrat party's spokesman, Graeme Zielinski? Why have you not yet done so? Specifically, I would like you to comment on this: "Gov. Scott Walker is helping pay for the criminal defense of a man accused of "boy rape."
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 18, 2012
With Walker now leading in the polls this was perhaps to be expected. So far it is awfully weak tea, but clearly lefty talkers are trying to peddle rumors (can the JS be far behind) . Here's a story about MSNBC's talker Ed Schultz's rambling speculation on leaks. Despite the efforts by the legal establishment to disparage any criticism of the John Doe process, there are only two possibilities here: (1) This is just a flat out lefty rumor/smear that the Dems are trying to float in their final desperate hours, (2) The Democrat DA is selectively leaking slanted rumors from the "secret" probe to hurt Walker in the final desperate hours.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 16, 2012
And the media and the Dems are sick about it. (Note that JS doesn't headline the numbers themselves, just the "timing.") Their unhappiness is understandable, since the JS devoted a screaming banner headline to the bad jobs numbers and Tom Barrett has essentially been running on it. So the new numbers take a wrecking ball to both narratives. But for the rest of us, this is good news:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 14, 2012
Wonky, but fascinating. John Koskinen, the chief economist for the Department of Revenue calls BS on the jobs-loss numbers and says other data suggest that Wisconsin has created tens of thousands of jobs.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 14, 2012
While I was gone the local media went orgasmic over a year old clip of Governor Walker using the phrase "divide and conquer." This was considered to be big news because, well... it showed Walker saying something that could conceivably be controversial (and because Democrats wanted to use it in their campaign.) So why hasn't this video of the man who says he wants to 'end Wisconsin's Civil war," gotten the same sort of media treatment?
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 9, 2012
Make that a very, very bad, actually horrible night. Not only did their handpicked candidate get crushed in the Democrats' own primary -- after unions dumped $4 million or more into her candidacy -- but the vote had an unexpected twist: Even though he faced only token opposition, and despite some GOP crossovers to vote for Kathleen Falk, Governor Scott Walker got MORE votes than Tom Barrett and Falk COMBINED. How shocking was that? Christian Schneider has been running the numbers:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 7, 2012
One of our listeners wrote this:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 7, 2012
The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy presents this mini documentary about attempts to open an iron mine in Northern Wisconsin and efforts to modernize the state's mine permitting process. We spent several days in Hurley, Wisconsin and conducted interviews with several generations of residents to get their take on what went wrong.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 4, 2012
How much is the ongoing Democrat tantrum cost taxpayers? Originally, the recall elections were estimated to cost taxpayers around $9 million; now it looks like they will cost as much as $16 million.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 3, 2012
Interesting take from Chief Executive magazine. Will Wisconsin Rise Again? The answer: It depends on what happens June 5.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 3, 2012
What is Wisconsin most special special interest of them all? Christian Schneider discusses on NRO.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 2, 2012
Via Media Trackers:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 1, 2012
Presidentt Obama's attemot to politicize the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden was, perhaps, predictable and maybe even inevitable. But who could have foreseen how utterly cruse and classless he would be? Several reads.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED May. 1, 2012
Good summary of the war in Wisconsin: "EAGnews.org has produced an exclusive video report disclosing who and what were behind the massive demonstrations, the occupation of the Capitol in Madison, and extreme tactics employed to stop Walker's reforms from being enacted. Titled "Anarchy 101: How Wisconsin's Left Embraces Chaos," the report takes us through the protests, legal challenges and subsequent recall efforts of 2011 and 2012. It features Brett Healy and Brian Fraley of the MacIver Institute, Collin Roth of Media Trackers, an unidentified citizen journalist on the ground for many of the protests, and State Sen. Alberta Darling, a target of death threats, intimidation tactics, and a failed recall attempt last year. It also features two teachers, including Kenosha's Kristi Lacroix, and a school board member who would not be silenced by the radicals' intimidation tactics and spoke to EAGnews about the benefits of Scott Walker's reforms.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 30, 2012
A flagrant act of journalism by TV6.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 30, 2012
Wind power? Check out this trailer of the new movie, 'Windfall."
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 26, 2012
Milwaukee: 10.4% unemployment rate... but the stats on the Milwaukee Public Schools are even worse. Walker's campaign calls out the city's mayor in an ad titled: 'Accountability."
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 25, 2012
Hard-hitting new ad from Walker campaign. "Since Tom Barrett has taken over as mayor, Milwaukee residents have seen drastic increases in the city’s poverty and unemployment numbers, not to mention devastating tax hikes,” said Ciara Matthews, communications director for the Friends of Scott Walker campaign. “While the rest of the state is showing signs of growth and recovery, Milwaukee’s economy, under Tom Barrett, is still suffering and having a serious impact on Wisconsin as a whole.” Watch the new ad here:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 25, 2012
The MacIver Institute performs another flagrant act of journalism. Just eight 8 of the 1.3 million working women in Wisconsin were found by dwd to have been discriminated in the 2 years the law was in effect and none of them sued after DWD's finding. Of the 4,000 accusations of discrimination filed with DWD in that time, only 174 were gender discrimination related. Of those 174, 8 were found valid.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Apr. 24, 2012
Hilary Rosen may think that moms never work a day in their lives. This ad begs to differ. A powerful portrayal of the Olympic moms.
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