BiPartisanship - Lobbyists spreading money with cunning

4/10/12
Like ALEC, like the NRA ... KOCH

Bailing out of ALEC ... Coco-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, Intuit, McDonald’s, Wendy's, Mars, Arizona Public Service Company !

The things they kill or rollback ...

Repealing/blocking equal pay laws

ALEC'S REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT

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State Environmental Resource Center
Madison, Wisconsin

Some Organizations need to stay socially conscious and others need to survive ... now we understand share/stockholder protests and product boycotts and the Occupy Movements!

4/22/2012

Business Week - Book Review: Power, Inc. by David Rothkopf

A former deputy under secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration, Rothkopf has written two previous books on the power elite and is a reliable source of sound bites about U.S. foreign policy. But readers expecting a campaign-season analysis of current affairs will be disappointed, at least for the first two-thirds of Power, Inc., as they realize that the story of Kare the Goat is only the beginning of a breathless account of the last 700 years of Western political history.

WI 1848 Forward: #BiPartisanship - #Lobbyists spreading money with cunning: #NRA #Koch #Adelson #ALEC #1% #Elites vs US

Why is the Stock Market down?

Circa 8/4/2011

There will be countless explanations offered in hindsight as  to why the stock market dropped 500+ points today!  The only true narrative is fear and uncertainty!  Others will say ...  it is Europe indebtedness, Congressional stalemate, bad economic policy being forced on us by a small minority ... no one can prove it.  We tend to always take recent events and try and use them to make ourselves feel better!  Does it help?  Not really ... fear and uncertainty still triumphs. 

The problem is that although I can  figure it out (he said euphemistically) I cannot count on you to figure it out ... so in our mutual confusion we continue to flounder!

Here is my narrative, which I am sure has been said by others, more articulately.  The Tea Party and Republicans have a grand strategy to get the Presidency back.  The big money interests such as the Koch brothers which have fanned the flames of national indebtedness as the source of all ills have probably seen their strategy backfire.  There is no doubt  that unless they (Koch Brothers) have parked all their money with hedge funds they are not as wealthy as they once were after today.

There will be every effort to blame all of this on President Obama.  Just remember it is spin, spin, spin, narrative, narrative, narrative and you need to speak up just as loudly with what you believe.

War and greed also known as Iraq and derivatives (and financial collapse) are why we are in this situation today.  Who started the war?  What caused the financial collapse? Not President Obama ... Republicans, Tea Party and Wall Street are the causal agents in my mind ... but we all let it happen by not paying attention to who we were electing locally and to Congress!

Why is the #StockMarket down, erratic?

Upd 5/13 NPR Political Money: Need to Know - PBS

The original post from the PBS program Need to Know (4/29/2011). This story from NPR gives you the latest - Congressional Testimony ... what do you think. Imagine what WISDC could do with the data ;-}

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

NYTimes - Political Money - Obama ExecOrdr? - US Chamber of Commerce

... and what might Alice see through the looking glass?

Lobbyist Fires Warning Shot Over Donation Disclosure Plan By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: April 26, 2011 NYTimes

While no final decision has been announced, the White House has acknowledged that Mr. Obama is considering issuing an executive order requiring all would-be federal contractors to disclose direct and indirect political spending of more than $5,000.

The order could, for instance, force a military contractor or an energy company seeking federal work to report money it gave to the Chamber of Commerce or another advocacy group to help finance political ads and expenditures.

Illegal Contributions - remember - WISDC

Click title!

Eleven Donors Exceeded Contribution Limit In 2009

Four individuals topped the $10,000 limit in the past

April, 28, 2010
Madison - Eleven contributors to candidates for statewide office and the legislature exceeded the annual $10,000 limit on individual contributions in 2009, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.

Corporations are not people .... don't forget 4/6

Click to see Channel 3000  ...

Voters in the city of Madison and Dane County are among those who saw a referendum question asking whether they support amending the U.S. Constitution. The question asked voters whether they support amending the U.S. Constitution to no longer recognize corporate political spending as free speech. The wording varies on the ballots, with different language crafted by the Common Council and county board. The referendum isn't binding.

In the city of Madison, voters supported the referendum with 84 percent voting yes. In Dane County, voters also voted yes on the referendum, with 132,236 votes in support and 37,893 against it.

WI 1848 Forward: #Corporations are not people .... don't forget 4/6/11 #47% #99% #OWS vs #1% #Koch #Walker

Upd - Resignation - More Walker Appointees - National Search?? Oh! Attention!!

4/7/2011 :Lobbyist's son resigns from Walker administration job


4/5/2011 : Seems like everybody has noticed  ... do you think this fair, biased or unbiased or just news??

Walker creates jobs - for his friends 4/4

Click on Title to see JSOline article ... recent Walker political payoffs ... from the article ...

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca is calling on his fellow lawmakers to refuse to expand the number of political appointments given Gov. Scott Walker.

Barca (D-Kenosha) said he was making the announcement after the Journal Sentinel reported that the Walker administration gave a high-paying state job to Brian Deschane, son of Jerry Deschane of the Wisconsin Builders Association. Earlier, Walker officials hired  Valerie Cass, the woman identified as the girlfriend of state Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac).

In addition, the governor's recent budget-repair measure converted 37 state jobs from civil-service posts to appointed positions.

Other friend of Governor Walker:

Walker beefs up transportation funding Roads spared cuts as budget reverses prior raids; critics call plan 'payback' By Patrick Marley - Journal Sentinel April 4, 2011

WI 1848 Forward: #Walker creates #jobs - for his friends! Pay to Play.  #wivote #wiunion #inequality 

3/30: JSOnline - Holperin recall group reports $6,100 in receipts

Where does the money really come from ... for all the groups ... would the real "journalists" stand up please ... for all the recall efforts ... let us see if there are any patterns?

From the article -

The report, which was posted online Wednesday by the Government [Account]Ability Board lists the Madison Majority Project PAC of Washington, D.C. as the biggest donor, with two gifts totalling $2,500. The recall campaign against Sen. Robert Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie), which filed its report Tuesday, listed $2,500 in contributions from The Madison Project, which lists the same post office box as the one on the Holperin recall report.

WI 3/29 Spotlight - American's for Prosperity in Wisconsin - CMD

Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch shines some light ...

A CMD Special Report: Who Are the Headliners at Koch-Funded AFP Conventions? by Lisa Graves

 headliners at Koch-funded "Americans for Prosperity" (AFP) conventions in the state in the past two years. The events featured select candidates who were running for office, including gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker, Attorney General candidate J.B. Van Hollen, judicial candidate David T. Prosser, Jr., and Congressman James Sensenbrenner. 

American's for Prosperity ... it used to be so simple you generally knew whether a group was to left or right just by name ... this one still follows the rules!  If it has America or American in it's name it was to the right ... but unfortunately things are a lot harder now.  The "Flag" is used by everyone lately!

WI - Big Money Blog - 9Million hits

From their website -
Wis Democracy Campaign - Big Biz's Non-Denial Denial

Boycott websites like this one and Facebook pages including one with nearly 23,000 followers as of today are directing people to our website to see who donated to Walker. Traffic to wisdc.org has spiked dramatically with nearly 9 million hits to the site in just the last six weeks. In 2009 we had 3.2 million hits the whole year, which was by far the most we'd ever seen in a odd-numbered year.

WI 1848 Forward: #WI - Big #Money Blog - 9Million hits - from #2011 http://wi1848forward.blogspot.com/2011/03/wi-big-money-blog-9million-hits.html?spref=tw