This underlying belief explains contemporary Republican governance: If the rich only had more money, things would improve. Now, 1 percenters from out of state are pouring in money by the truckloads to help Scott Walker beat the recall attempt, hoping such governance will continue.
Posted 05.20.2012
Wisconsin's biggest newspaper released an editorial on Saturday recommending that voters choose to keep Governor Scott Walker in office. (Read the who...
Roger Bybee | Posted 05.11.2012
Labor observers are noting the second recent case of a Wisconsin manufacturing company very deliberately provoking a strike to gain the insertion of a "right-to-work" provision, suggesting that Gov. Scott Walker's attack on public employee rights is spreading to the private sector.
The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.04.2012
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates and outside groups have spent more than $8.3 million on broadcast TV ads, with $3 million spent in the last 30 days...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.01.2012
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) pulled in $13 million in the most recent three-month reporting period to fight off a Democratic attempt ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.06.2012
WASHINGTON -- A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wiscon...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's GOP presidential primary in Wisconsin may have attracted significant national attention, but within the state, Republicans are...
The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.02.2012
Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who announced last week that he is running to unseat Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the upcoming recall el...
The Huffington Post | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.31.2012
FITCHBURG, Wis. -- Mitt Romney appeared confident Saturday about his chances of winning the Wisconsin GOP presidential primary during a campaign stop ...
Dave Saldana | Posted 05.27.2012
Leaving aside the false, quaint conceit that journalists are neutral, Gannett has tacitly admitted that this action was motivated not by some high standard of journalism ethics, but by fear that some political bullies might call them biased.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) pledged to add 250,000 private sector jobs in the state by the end of his four-year term, and as Democra...
Mother Jones | Posted 05.15.2012
When she had to confront Wisconsin's powerful unions, Kathleen Falk bargained hard and won millions in concessions. Faced with a similar situation, Wi...
Shorewood Patch | Adam W. McCoy | Posted 04.30.2012
It would be a photo finish in a gubernatorial recall race between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and nearly any Democratic challenger, according to a pol...
Jon Richards | Posted 04.29.2012
At this year's CPAC, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker likened himself to a new CEO who is hired to turn around a failing company. Walker would be more accurate to compare himself to the head of Bain Capital.
Caledonia Patch | Denise Lockwood | Posted 02.28.2012
A man accused of falsely writing-in his neighbor's signatures on a petition to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard is facing nine felony charges. One of thos...
Posted 03.27.2012
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) won't challenge the petitions calling for him to be recalled from office, his spokeswoman said Monday. Walker has u...
AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 04.14.2012
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin elections officials disclosed Monday that a 100-year-old white brick building two miles east of the state Capitol is t...
Posted 03.27.2012
For months the effort to recall of Gov. Scott Walker (R) has monopolized political headlines in Wisconsin. But another crucial election is taking shap...
AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 04.04.2012
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he will meet with a district attorney leading a secret investigation that has already le...
Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 01.31.2012
As soon as April, millions of Wisconsinites will vote on whether to oust Gov. Scott Walker--a rising Republican star and arguably the most polarizing ...
Posted 03.27.2012
By Brendan O'Brien MADISON--Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker, whose tumultuous first year in office saw partisan budget battles, ma...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Democrats came together to turn in more than 1 million signatures in the effort to trigger a gubernatorial recall election aga...
Patch.com | By Jim Price | Posted 01.20.2012
Protests of some kind are being planned Saturday afternoon to counter the Celebrate Walker rally in Hart Park in Wauwatosa, according to several sourc...
AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 03.21.2012
MADISON, Wis. — Nameless bureaucrats processing petitions to recall the governor shuffle in and out of the frame, stacking, unstacking and scann...
HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 01.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is facing a backlash from his attempts to consolidate his power over a veterans agency that traditionall...
Carl Gibson | Posted 05.29.2012