Sen. Jauch on Walker: "I don't believe anything he says"

I seriously question now whether Gov. Scott Walker knows the truth from lying.

Walker rebuffed a request for a meeting with the Democratic Senators and then said Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller "is firmly standing in the way" of negotiation and a compromise, a blatant lie.

"Right now, I'm so damn mad at his misrepresentation of the truth and the public should be as well," said Sen. Bob Jauch, one of two Democrats who had talked last week with the Senate Republican leader about possible compromises. "Trust is completely broken down now. I don't believe anything he says." (Bauer, AP)

Maybe Walker thinks he can lie to the people of Wisconsin because he sincerely believes he’s following orders from the Lord from whom presumably Walker was led to take $100,000s from the Koch brothers. (Rothschild)

Walker Running Rabid

Update: As gift to insurance industry, Walker wants to freeze self-supporting State Life Fund. (Zweifel)

The Oshkosh Norhtwestern has an editorial noting the Scott Walker budget makes "Walker the defacto mayor and city manager of Oshkosh," as Walker proposes to slash state aid to municipalities while installing state mandates.

Though Gov. Scott Walker never campaigned on his array of radical changes ranging from jettisoning local control, attacking collective bargaining, assuming state control of county human service functions, gutting school budgets, and cutting recycling funding, among many other attacks on Wisconsin, Walker is pursuing this GOP agenda with the fervor of someone who believes he has won a tremendous mandate from the Wisconsin people.

Hiking state taxes on working families--check, says Walker.

Whaaat, say Wisconsin families.

Walker's posture is as dishonest as the GOP effort to end same day voter registration, and install a $multi-million voter ID regime right at the time Walker insists the state is broke.

National GOP operatives look to Wisconsin today as a compass of what they can get away with.

GOP money from corrupt billionaires is flowing into the state as is GOP strategic political advice urging discord between school districts and employees, public and private workers, and mass privatization, while hoping the revealed agenda will sail through the fog without anyone noticing.

40,000-plus hit the streets as Walker goes to fundraiser

Amid the Scott Walker-ordered high security conditions at the capitol, some 40,000 protesters continued their weeks-long demonstrations against the Republican Party.

The margin of error of estimates on the size of the protest is the give-away: Give or take 1,000s.

Walker's lies on just about any topic he speaks are not carrying the day.

Walker was raising money for an anticipated recall election at the Columbus Kestrel Ridge Golf club where even there he couldn't escape from Wisconsin as 100s of protesters met Walker there.

A union man from La Crosse, drinking a beer with his son and warming up from the damp 20s air at a hotel bar on the square, said, "Extremism. That's what Wisconsin will not tolerate. Walker is an extremist, and he takes his ideology and uses it against real people and families."

No matter the induced crises and devestation to local control that Walker and the GOP believe is necessary to sell their agenda, even rightwing polls confirm the sentiment the demonstrations loudly exclaim: Stop the War on Workers!

More GOP Lies Knocked Down as 22-caliber Killer Prepares to Strike

The GOP needs to instill a sense of crisis [more cops, more cops] to jam its anti-family agenda through.

That they are bumbling, modern-day Don Segreti(s) (of Watergate fame) is just as obvious.

These guys are Nixon except the Wisconsin and national corporate press treat the Walker administration with deference, as though it has credibility.

Walker's latest lie meant to paint their opposition as renegades has just been knocked down.

"State officials admitted Friday that they may have overstated cleanup costs related to the recent two-week state Capitol camp-out by as much as $7 million as union leaders and protesters harshly criticized the estimate quoted by a state lawyer at a court hearing Thursday." (Simmons, WSJ)

Right. Overstated.

"Madison Trust (the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation) reports that those gathered at our beautiful Capitol have been maintaining the interiors with a level of care befitting its status as a National Historic Landmark," writes Anne Biebel, Architectural Historian at Cornerstone Preservation Research and Planning, which "dedicates itself to high quality architectural research and planning while working collaboratively with architects, engineers, contractors, and building owners to breathe new life into existing historic structures."

22-caliber Killer Prepares to Strike

Another lie, another farce, has led to an increased threat status and hundreds of police officers in the Capitol -- that is, 22-caliber bullets being found in several places in the building grounds.

They are hyped by the rightwing Free Republic and the like and repetitively invoked by the GOP to justify high security measures at the state Capitol.

Who planted the bullets there? And why?

Cops aren't saying; maybe they're afraid for their jobs.

Maybe they've been watching too many episodes of Criminal Minds, even the ones without Mandy.

President Obama, won't you consider making Scott Walker ambassador to something, anything?

Help the Wisconsin 14

By Jackie Captain

On March 3, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, the state's key interpreter of campaign and ethics laws, ruled that the Wisconsin 14 could use campaign funds to pay for their life in exile (see Bryon York’s piece in the Washington Examiner).

This means that contributions to the campaign coffers of these heroic Democrats can help defray the cost of living out of hotel rooms instead of in the comfort of their own homes. If you believe that the actions of the Wisconsin 14 are helping to support unions, civil rights and Wisconsin families, please consider donating money to the State Senate Democratic Committee.

Additionally, write in support to any or all of the senators (addresses are below) or phone:

Tim Carpenter - 3rd Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen03/news/

Madison Office:
Room 19 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-8535 or (800) 249-8173
Fax: (608) 282-3543
Email: Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
2957 South 38th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53215

Spencer Coggs - 6th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen06/news/

Madison Office:
Room 109 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-2500 or (877) 474-2000
Fax: (608) 282-3546
Email: Sen.Coggs@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
7819 W. Potomac Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53222
District Telephone: (414) 442-0739

Timothy Cullen - 15th Senate District

Madison Office:
Room 108 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-2253 or (800) 334-1468
Fax: (608) 267-5171
Email: Sen.Cullen@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
3711 N. Spring Hill Drive
Janesville, WI 53545

Jon Erpenbach - 27th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen27/news/

Madison Office:
Room 106 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-6670 or (888) 549-0027
Fax: (608) 266-2508
Email: Sen.Erpenbach@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
7194 Belle Fontaine Blvd.
Middleton, WI 53562

District Telephone: (888) 549-0027

Dave Hansen - 30th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen30/news/

Madison Office:
Room 5 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-5670 or (866) 221-9395
Fax: (608) 267-6791
Email: Sen.Hansen@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
3489 Blackwolf Run
Green Bay, WI 54311

District Telephone: (920) 391-2000

Jim Holperin - 12th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen12/news/

Madison Office:
Room 126 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-2509
Fax: (608) 267-0309
Email: Sen.Holperin@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
3575 Monheim Road
Conover, WI 54519

Robert Jaunch – 25th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen25/news/

Madison Office:
Room 415 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-3510 or (800) 469-6562
Fax: (608) 266-3580
Email: Sen.Jauch@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
5271 South Maple Drive
Poplar, WI 54864

District Telephone: (715) 364-2438

Chris Larson - 7th Senate District
Madison Office:
Room 22 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-7505
Fax: (608) 282-3547
Email: Sen.Larson@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
3261 S. Herman Street
Milwaukee, WI 53207

Julie Lassa – 24th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen24/news/

Madison Office:
Room 7 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-3123
Fax: (608) 267-6797
Email: Sen.Lassa@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
4901 Beaver Dam Road
Stevens Point, WI 54482

Mark Miller - 16th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen16/news/

Madison Office:
Room 206 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-9170 or (877) 862-4825
Fax: (608) 282-3556
Email: Sen.Miller@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
4903 Roigan Terrace
Monona, WI 53716

District Telephone: (608) 221-2701

Fred Risser – 26th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen26/news/

Madison Office:
Room 130 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-1627
Fax: (608) 266-1629
Email: Sen.Risser@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
100 Wisconsin Avenue
Unit 501, Madison, WI 53703

District Telephone: (608) 238-5008

Lena Taylor - 4th Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen04/news/

Madison Office:
Room 20 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 266-5810
Fax: (608) 267-2353
Email: Sen.Taylor@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
1518 West Capitol
Milwaukee, 53206

District Telephone: (414) 342-7176

Kathleen Vinehout – 31st Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen31/news/

Madison Office:
Room 3 South
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707

Telephone: (608) 266-8546 or (877) 763-6636
Fax: (608) 267-2871
Email: Sen.Vinehout@legis.wisconsin.gov

Voting Address:
W1490 Cesler Valley Road
Alma, WI 54610

Robert Wirch- 22nd Senate District
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen22/news/

Madison Office:
Room 127 South Capitol
State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882

Telephone: (608) 267-8979 or (888) 769-4724
Fax: (608) 267-0984
Email: Sen.Wirch@legis.wisconsin.gov
Voting Address:
3007 Springbrook Road
Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158

District Telephone: (262) 694-7379

Hitler, Walker and the Koch Brothers

From TPM:

High-Security Capital Shmucks

- Readers can still reach the Madison Capital Police and advise these particular wits of your opinion of the "high security" situation: 608 266 8797 -

The capital police are still carrying out the orders of the Walker regime pretending that a "high security" situation exists at the state capital.

This is the line of crap that Fox and Walker have been pushing since 10,000s began protesting Walker's assault on Wisconsin.

And Capital police are just as dumb as they appear [I checked] in going along.

So people can still only enter at the North and South Hamilton doors, and MLK (if they are willing to show IDs), under new DOA rules.

This is acceptable?

Will one capital cop stand up and say these orders are unconstitutional? I doubt it.

Judge Orders Capitol Open, GOP Attacks Continue

A shameful display of hostility toward constitutional freedoms was dealt a blow yesterday as Dane County Judge John Albert ordered restrictions on political freedoms by Gov. Scott Walker, the Dept of Administration (DOA) and Capital police be halted.

I had phoned my state representative, speaking to Terese Berceau Thursday afternoon.

Berceau's office confirmed no one has ever seen anything like the denial of civil liberties instituted at the behest of Walker and carried out by capital police who would have made 1940s-era Good Germans proud.

I, like all Wisconsin citizens, remained forbidden to walk into the Capitol and drop by my elected representives' offices without police escort.

We have an outlaw governor targeting the state of Wisconsin, with DOA employees and police carrying out the will of Scott Walker.

Clearly, the police do not take seriously any oath of fidelity to the state and federal constitutions.

Former U.S Representative David Obey faced a similar gauntlet (see story below).

Yesterday, WISN TV (Milwaukee) reported in what should be shocking video that "Democratic state Rep. Nick Milroy (South Grange) was tackled by police Thursday evening while he was trying to make it inside the Capitol in Madison."

I made phone contact with one capital police officer Sgt. David Horton Thursday, and he said he is just "following orders" from the higher-ups at the state Department of Administration.

What orders would you refuse to carry out? Would you shoot a protester, if asked? Horton refused to answer.

The assaults on Wisconsin citizens are legion. We can only hope the response meets this despicable action.

GOP Locks Capitol Down, U.S. Rep Obey (1969-2011) denied entry into capitol

U.S. Rep Obey (1969-2011) denied entry into capitol.

Call State Capital Police - 608 266 8797

Tell the police you are frustrated with not being able to go and see your state representative and your state senator unobstructed.

"Unprecedented," says State Rep. Terese L. Berceau's office, on the capital police obstruction of constituents.

"Not even 9/11 was like this," said a legislative aide.

State Sen. Fred Risser calls the capitol building has become an "armed fortress." (Nichols)

Sgt. David Horton [GOP tool] contacted by phone Thursday morning, says he's been on the capital police force for 32 years, and that he's just "following orders" [lawful or not] from the higher-ups at the state Department of Administration which is not taking phone calls.

Not good enough.

Call State Capital Police - 608 266 8797, and ask to speak to the chief's office. And keep calling until you get an explanation.

Walker-Koch Republicans

If you ask: How can Walker and the Koch brothers do this to Wisconsin families?

The answer is: It's what they do.

For two revealing pieces on the Koch Brothers:

- How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government

- The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil and the Foundation of the Right

Recall The Republican 8 Wisconsin Senators

Recall The Republican 8 Wisconsin Senators; get behind this.

"Make no mistake, these Republican Senators are vulnerable to recall for their radical partisan overreach. Senator Randy Hopper won his last election by just 184 votes. And Alberta Darling won her last race by only 1,007. By recalling just three of the eight Senators we are targeting, we can regain control of the Senate."
- Wisconsin Democratic Party

Wisconsin: Aim High

Gov. Walker is taking aim at our public schools, public anything and declaring we can do no better.

Really, this guy wants to bring Wisconsin and America (Walker thinks big when he talks to the Koch Bros) back to the President McKinley days of robber barrons and quasi-feudalism.

The question remains, can we think higher than Walker?

The anwser, yes, can be seen in the shot below from One Wisconsin Now as 100,000 strong said: Families first, ideology second.

Walker Budget Targets Public Schools, Workers, Environment, Voters ...

Seniors, students, women, minorities. You get the point.

And all this under a fake and underhanded budget deficit lie, the fake budget "crisis."

What doesn't Walker target in his new budget?

Story of Citizens United v. FEC

See Story of Citizens United v. FEC for overview of what Walker and the Koch brothers have in mind.