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Ryan and Walker call for return of union NFL refs
Update (below): Walker insists he’s not anti-union A blown call in a National Football League game prompted both Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to demand the return of the league’s unionized referees, despite both lawmakers’ past anti-union efforts. In video from a campaign appearance uploaded…
Wisconsin anti-union law struck down in court
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s (R) legislation gutting collective bargaining rights for most employees was struck down in court Friday afternoon. According to The Associated Press, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled the law null and void for violating both the state and federal constitution. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that…
Watch live: Wisconsin gubernatorial recall debate
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Democratic recall challenger Tom Barrett will be debating live on Friday evening at 9:00 PM CDT.…
Newt’s billionaire backer now supporting Walker against recall
Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, once the primary source of funding for the now-defunct presidential campaign of former Speaker of the House Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA), is now a major financial backer of embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) in his fight to keep his seat in a recall election…
Wisconsin Dems say DNC stalled financial backing for Walker recall election
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has not invested heavily into the recall elections against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R), according to an anonymous Wisconsin Democratic party official. The frustrated official told The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent about the disgust his colleagues are having with the DNC being restrained on their…
Union employees showed CPAC a good time — and their union pride
This weekend, as tuxedoed waitstaff quietly served drinks and dinner to paying CPAC attendees interested in the bon mots of union-busting Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R), few of the guests likely took the time to peer at their servers’ chests. If they had, the CPACers might have noticed something ironic:…
Walker insider said to be readying testimony
A former aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will testify against her former colleagues after officials filed charges of illegal campaign activity while working on taxpayer time, local media has learned. Darlene Wink, a 61-year-old former public employee charged on Thursday with two misdemeanor counts of political solicitation by…
Wisconsin recall organizers gather more than 1 million signatures
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Organizers of the petition drive to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker submitted what appeared to be more than enough signatures on Tuesday to force the first-term Republican to defend his seat in a special election. The group United Wisconsin, which opposes the collective bargaining changes and…
Scott Walker accused of violating over 1,000 campaign finance laws
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) may have to deal with another controversy, this time over failing to disclose who contributed to him financially. According to a report from the progressive campaign group One Wisconsin Now, Walker violated the state’s campaign finance laws 1,115 times since 2009. Wisconsin law requires that…
Investigation of former Scott Walker aide leads to sex crime charges
An investigation into the embezzlement of funds by former aides to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has led to charges of sex crimes on the part of the domestic partner of one of the alleged embezzlers. Computers and cellphones seized from the home shared by former Walker aide Timothy Russell and…
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