Since Robin Vos and the republican party have decided that Wisconsin Taxpayers should be paying GOP leader Bill Kramer's full salary and benefits, I wonder if he was able to get out and march in any Independence day parades around Waukesha. Since Kramer is the "perfect" rep for Waukesha, I would think they would have made him the Grand Marshall!
Raju the elephant hadn’t really known a life away from the chains that
made it difficult for him to walk and left him with wounds in his
powerful legs.
It was not known how many of his 50 years had been
spent in chains, but a wildlife rescue group believes he had been
captured as a young elephant and been bound and beaten for decades.
The chains were removed and the rescue team fed him, gently touched him and spoke softly to him.
Nikki
Sharp, the executive director of Wildlife SOS-USA, told The Huffington
Post Monday that the elephant’s reaction was one that tugged at the
team’s hearts.
"The vet and our team came with fruits and just
started speaking softly to him and to reassure him that we were there to
help, and it was at that time that tears flooded down his face,” Sharp
said.
Glenn Grothman, who for some reason feels he has done enough in his time as an elected representative to warrant a promotion, made a pledge recently and even managed to do so with a straight face!
“Over the last three months as I’ve traveled throughout the 6th
District meeting voters, I’ve heard a great deal of concern that they
will get another Congressman who will be in Washington for 35 years like
Congressman Petri. “I, therefore, pledge to serve in Congress for a maximum of ten
years, or five terms. The issues facing America are so pressing that we
need to act now or we might lose our country altogether.
So says the person who has been living off the taxpayers in WI and heading to Madison(for $88/day since 1993(for the voucher school alumni in the audience, that is 22 years).
Truth is truly stranger than fiction.
Unfortunately for our friends on the right, they really are left without a choice as Joe Leibham, who also incredibly feels he is deserving of a promotion, threw a temper tantrum and refuses to participate(Glenn followed closely behind in the boycott) in any voter forum that is affiliated with the non partisan League of Women Voters!
Joe and Glenn have made it perfectly clear that no woman should ever question their authority!
Election season is silly season anyway, but made even worse when you throw in West Bend, and we are just getting warmed up!
It is undeniable that Wisconsin is dead last in the Midwest and among the lowest in the nation when it comes to creating jobs. The reason for this job lag has been subject to some discussion.
Teapublicans blame everyone and anyone but themselves, even though they have no bases for their accusations. Needless to say, some of their accusations go to the point of being absurd.
M. Kevin McGee, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, has a column in the paper that analyzes the situation and comes to the same conclusion that we knew it was all along - the devastation caused by Act 10:
The only explanation that fits the data involves consumer spending. Under Gov. Jim Doyle, state workers absorbed pay cuts in the form of temporary furloughs. According to Milton Friedman's permanent income hypothesis, those furloughs would reduce consumer spending only a little. Under Gov. Scott Walker, the furloughs were replaced by significant permanent pay cuts, in the form of higher pension and insurance contributions. By the permanent income hypothesis, those cuts would reduce spending nearly dollar for dollar.
In addition, fiscal limits on cities and counties spread those pay cuts to local public employees as well. And at the same time, there were significant permanent decreases in private-sector wages, often also in the form of wage and benefit concessions.
So well over 400,000 Wisconsin workers were forced to cut their spending significantly. Some of that reduced spending would have been on goods produced elsewhere — Detroit automobiles, foreign-made electronics, California wine — reducing job growth elsewhere.
But much of that reduced spending would have been on locally produced services — restaurant meals, trips to the Dells and hair salon appointments — reducing job growth in Wisconsin. That's where the job gap shows up — in about 30,000 fewer private service-sector jobs than expected, over the past three years.
This is the biggest factor in the gubernatorial race because Act 10 did more than heavily damage the economy and subsequently the job market. By weakening the unions, it made it easier for the Teapublicans to impose the ALEC-based laws that have diminished women's rights, increased voter suppression, left the environment vulnerable to exploitation and gutted consumer protection laws.
The biggest step to repairing our state would be the repeal of Act 10. Sad to say, neither major party - the Teapublican or the Republicratic - candidate has expressed an interest in making this fix.
Just days ago, I questioned whether more documents would be released from the federal lawsuit that is before the dishonorable Rudolph Randa. The reason for my doubt was Randa's corruption and ties to both Scott Walker and the Koch brothers.
However, an federal appellate court judge has taken some of the heat off of Randa by ordering the release of a couple more court documents:
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that a small set of documents be made publicly available in the lawsuit over an investigation into cooperation between conservative groups and the campaign of Gov. Scott Walker.
Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ordered the court clerk to make available to the public two attachments to a motion that the Wisconsin Club for Growth had wanted to seal.
Her order did not say when the records would be available or make clear what they contain. They appear to total 14 pages, according to online court records.
The fact that the John Doe investigation is being kept in the news - along with Walker's dismal record on job creation and high level of corruption and cronyism - must be playing hell with his poll numbers, judging by the fact that he is launching attack ads this early into the campaign. That is not the behavior of an incumbent that is expecting to win reelection.
It's hard to remember that Scott Walker's agenda is working when we keep seeing stories like this:
Pitney Bowes Inc. plans to eliminate 56 jobs at its supply operation in Neenah, the company told state officials Tuesday.
The cuts are expected to begin on Sept. 5. Most of the employees losing their jobs work as client retention representatives, supply sales representatives or supply client support representatives, the firm said in its notice.
Pitney Bowes, based in Stamford, Conn., makes postage meters and provides mailing services. The company earned $142.8 million last year on $3.87 billion in revenue.
Has anyone else noticed that Walker doesn't say how Wisconsin is open for business anymore? That's probably because too many people are catching on to the part he left off. The whole thing should read: Wisconsin - Open for Businesses to Leave.
Jefferson—Progressive
candidate Chris Rockwood invites the voters of the 5th Congressional
District to celebrate the opening night of the Jefferson County Fair
with him, Wednesday, July 9th. He’ll greet fairgoers at the Jefferson
County Democratic Party booth in the East Exhibit Building.
Rockwood,
who’s challenging long-time Washington insider Jim Sensenbrenner,
encourages voters to stop by and discuss their concerns with him
one-on-one. He’ll arrive at 6 p.m. and plans to stick around until the
hall closes, so he’ll have plenty of time to learn how he can help the
citizens of Jefferson County.
That’s
essential to Rockwood’s governing philosophy. While, according to
recent news reports, the independently wealthy Sensenbrenner caters to
special interest groups that offer him expensive trips and other lavish
perks, Congressman Rockwood will only serve his fellow citizens in the
5th CD. Therefore, he knows that it’s essential to hear their concerns.
EVENT:5th CD candidate Chris Rockwood @ the Jefferson County Fair
People hospitalized with a gunshot wound are 30 times more likely to come back to the hospital with another firearm injury than those hospitalized for another medical reason, according to a new study from the University of Washington.
Gunshot victims also are twice as likely to be arrested for future violent or firearm-related crime, according to a study by the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington.
Although the main conclusion of the study commissioned last year by the Seattle City Council is a correlation between gunshot wounds and future gun violence, the study also shows that mental illness does not have as strong a correlation with gun violence as previous firearm-related hospitalizations.
Gee, so a proliferation of guns really doesn't make us safer. If anything, it perpetuates and increases the problem. Whodathunkit? Besides every rational person, that is.
Wisconsin Leading the Way in State Cuts to Schools? by Senator Kathleen Vinehout
“Hard to believe we are in competition for last place!”
said Pepin Superintendent Bruce Quinton. This is hard to believe
indeed.
A recently released study of state budget cuts to
local schools has Wisconsin ranked second only to Alabama in cuts per
pupil.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looked at
state dollars spent per student. Wisconsin students receive
$1,038 less per pupil in the 2013-14 school year than when the
recession hit in 2008. North Dakota, which topped the list in new
dollars per child, posted a $1,116 increase since 2008. Changes in
spending were adjusted for inflation.
Wisconsin’s ranking
isn’t so hard to believe if you’ve lived through the last four years
working in one of our local schools.
“Less funding, more
mandates, higher expectations. No successful business or organization
runs according to these concepts. If the goal is truly to improve
education, then our lawmakers should stand up for adequate funding for
our children’s education,” wrote Mr. Quinton.
Standing up
for higher funding means voting against deep cuts that did not have to
happen. In my 2011 alternative budget I showed how schools could be
adequately funded. Again in 2013, I showed how to pay for a new school
funding formula to correct the unfairness suffered by Pepin, Alma and
other rural schools.
Instead, a majority of lawmakers voted
to cut school funding. With less state aid, superintendents were
forced to cut staff, cut teachers and send the remaining teachers back
to school to cover more subjects.
In order to survive
school administrators cover multiple roles including teaching. School
districts share sports and many other services. One school counselor I
spoke with this summer resigned after spending several years serving
three rural schools. “It’s just too much,” she told me.
One
effect of deep cuts in state school funds is an increase in property
taxes.
Earlier this year the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel reported that dozens of cash-strapped rural schools had
placed “high-stakes tax hikes to voters” to keep rural schools
operating.
“The controversial Act 10 legislation signed by
Gov. Scott Walker in 2011 decreased state aid,” reported
the Sentinel in March, “but restricted districts from raising
property taxes to make up for the budget shortfall. Instead, the
legislation allowed districts more flexibility to get savings from
employees, such as by changing health care plans or adjusting
salaries.”
“We’re told ‘you’ve got the tools’ [to cut
costs] but what does that mean?” Mr. Quinton told me. “Please explain
to me again how to use the ‘tools’ to destroy the morale of the very
people I count on to educate children.”
Personnel costs
make up most of a school district’s expenses. People have already seen
deep cuts in salaries. Schools already require employees to pay a
larger percentage of health care costs. Health care benefits have
already been deeply trimmed.
To make matters worse, the
Department of Public Instruction recently released estimated general
state aid for schools for the coming school year showing deep cuts in
aid for Pepin.
Both Pepin and Alma will receive the deepest
cuts allowed by state law – over 15%. Blair-Taylor will see over a 10%
cut in state aid. The Eau Claire Area School District received the
largest cut in dollar amount- dropping by $2.3 million. These aid
estimates do not include categorical aid targeted for specific
programs.
Overall, schools in the 31st Senate
District saw a paltry average increase of less than .04%. Statewide,
the average increase was about 2%.
In a follow-up
conversation with the Pepin Superintendent, I learned that the Pepin
district taxpayers next year will pick up 88% of the cost of educating
a student.
And the same state budget that sends Pepin
taxpayers only $1,667 of general state aid per student, will send
private schools $7,856 per high school student and $7,210 for K-8
students.
These are the direct effects of budget decisions
made by a majority of lawmakers.
I can’t think of anyone
who really wants Wisconsin to fight Alabama for the distinction of
having made the largest cuts in per pupil state aid to
schools.
A couple of days ago, my Brother in Blogging, Jeff Simpson, pointed out that Cindy Archer, long time aide to Scott Walker, just got a new job. Not only did she get a new job but she got the job without applying for it, interviewing it or being among the finalists for the job. And not only did she have this job handed to her, she also got a huge raise, 31% higher than what her predecessor got paid.
However, Jeff did make one mistake and omitted a few things. Jeff titled his post "Cindy Archer - Part Deux." He should have named it "Cindy Archer - Part Quattro."
When her boss was able to con the majority of the people of Wisconsin into voting for him, Walker took Archer along with him to Madison, making her a deputy secretary in the Department of Administration. Her pay was $124,000 in this position.
Not only did Archer land this high-paying, cushy job, but she was instrumental in many facets of Walker's early days. Not only was she instrumental in the dropping of the Act 10 bomb, but was also ironically named to the fraud commission. (There are no reports that she turned herself or Walker into the commission for their fraud and waste.)
Archer suddenly left her job for reported medical reasons. But there were no worries for her.
She came back to a guaranteed job in the Department of Children and Families. And yes, even though it was less money than she had been making in the Department of Administration, it was unbelievably higher than that of her predecessor in that job:
Now, documents provided by the state show she actually was already hired a day earlier on Aug. 18 to a $99,449-a-year job in the Department of Children and Families, as the department's legislative liaison, according to a letter released Friday from Eloise Anderson, who heads the department. Her appointment to the new job was effective Aug. 20. Anderson's letter says Archer would be "performing duties as prescribed by this office."
Whether she's drawing it yet or not, Archer's new salary is about 61% more than the last person to hold the position. Kimberly L. Collins, who held the same liaison job until May, was paid $61,859 in 2010, according to state figures.
Last summer, Archer jumped jobs again, this time going to the Public Defender's Office, where she was again making six figures:
Cindy Archer, a key cabinet member on Walker's county staff, is set to start a new six-figure job with the state on Monday.
Archer — who has bounced around the Walker administration for the past 21/2 years — beat out more than two dozen other candidates to be named an administrative services director at the state Public Defender's Office. She will be paid $101,510 a year.
And now, less than one year later, she was literally given this new job.with its hefty pay hike. I guess Walker just couldn't wait until he demolished the civil service code before he started trouncing all over it.
Walker is trying to claim that Archer got the job on merit and her knowledge of the arcane computer system. Critics are decrying the move as Walker's typical cronyism. Some have said that it is pay off to buy Archer's continued silence in the Walkergate investigations.
Archer's home had been raided in the original Walkergate investigation and her name appears all over the emails sent via the secret router, including giving Kelly Rindfleisch directions to check it frequently during the day to keep the campaign humming.
As I noted when Archer first moved over to the Public Defender's Office:
But I can't help but notice the irony of the fact that Archer is getting paid richly for working for the Public Defender's Office, the one area of the state that she should be a client, not in the hierarchy.
But when translates Walker's explanation for the move, that makes perfect sense. Obviously he would want someone intimately familiar with the illegal politicking Walker has done and continues to do to be high up int he Public Defender's Office.
When people start getting charged with crimes related to all of this politicking, it would not be surprising that they will end up spending all their money on their legal defense and eventually ending up needing a public defender. That is exactly what happened to Tim Russell. (And not everyone is fortunate enough to have millionaire and billionaire donors to their legal defense cooperation fund.)
Regardless of the reason Walker chose to violate civil service laws and hand this job to Archer over the two finalists, along with the exorbitant raise, it should be enough to give pause to most people that Walker is not fit for any kind of position that has even the most minute iota of responsibility or authority.
While the John Doe investigation and legal proceedings are complex and elaborately intertwined, there are basically three areas that bear watching, at least for the time being.
Two of these areas lie in the federal courts, one being with the corrupt Rudolph Randa and the other with the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court.
A few weeks ago, the appellate court redacted and released some of the court papers regarding the investigation. The information that was revealed in those papers were breathtaking. It not only revealed the groups that the investigators were looking into, but also revealed that Scott Walker was deeply involved with the coordination between his campaign, the campaigns of other Republicans and the Dark Money groups that were laundering the money that they use to help buy elections. Walker's involvement was shown in an email to Karl Rove, bragging about how people like R.J. Johnson, who was Walker's campaign aide and a top official with the Wisconsin Club for Growth, was coordinating these acts of collusion.
Now, more documents are being considered for release. Unfortunately, the person making that decision is Randa, who is beholden to the same Dark Money groups and to Walker. He has recently given the parties involved an extension to the deadline for deciding which documents could be released:
The same day the documents were released, Randa ordered all the parties in the lawsuit to review the rest of the case filings and report back to him by July 3 on what more should be unsealed.
The parties filed a joint motion with Randa on Tuesday asking to push the report back to July 17. They say the sealed record contains more than 3,000 documents and the parties will need to compare notes, which will mean circulating a draft report among all the attorneys and conference calls all wrapped around the Fourth of July weekend.
Randa granted the motion Wednesday afternoon.
It should not be surprising if more delays are granted, at least until the Dark Money groups can help Randa find the rationale to support whatever they want him to do.
Meanwhile, prosecutors have asked the federal appellate court to allow the investigation to resume. But don't look for a timely ruling on that:
The prosecutors have asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow them to restart the investigation. That court issued a briefing schedule Wednesday with final filings due by Oct. 2, a little more than a month before the election.
Even if the prosecutors win that battle, I sincerely doubt that they would or could take action soon enough to have an impact on the November election.
The third arena that bears watching is in regards to the original Walkergate investigation which netted six convictions. The Honorable Neil Nettesheim had ordered the documents and emails released back to the possession of Milwaukee County.
Unfortunately, it appears that I was correct in being concerned that Chris Abele would run interference for his friend Scott Walker by dilly-dallying with the release of those documents. Even though it's been more than six weeks since the documents were ordered to be released, Abele has not said a word about them. Abele did say he wanted to have a private law firm vet the documents before he released them. Any bets that the law firm is Foley & Lardner, the group that wrote the power grab bill or the law firm of Michael Best and Friedrich (I hear they come highly recommended by Walker)?
For someone that is supposedly supporting Mary Burke, one would think that Abele would have had those documents made available to the public as soon as humanly possible. Then again, Abele has said a lot of things but has only shown that he isn't even as trustworthy as Walker, which says a lot.
You can contact Abele at 414-278-4211 or email him at CountyExec@milwaukeecountywi.gov to tell him to do his job and release the emails and other documents as he is required to do by law.
When Scott Walker said he was going to do his own thing with the health care exchanges and eschewed federal funding to help expand Medicaid coverage in the state, you just knew he was going to bollox things up, and wow, did he ever:
The White House Council of Economic Advisers' report found that expansion in Wisconsin would mean coverage for an additional 120,000 people by 2016. The number of people facing catastrophic out-of-pocket costs would drop by 5,400 annually and the number of people borrowing to pay medical bills or skipping payments on medical bills would drop by 17,100.
Expansion would lead to 11,200 additional jobs in Wisconsin by 2017 and $2.6 billion in additional federal spending in the state between 2014 and 2016, the report said.
Of course, Walker denies all of this and said that the report was about those other states that didn't expand Medicaid, not Wisconsin.
Yeah, right.
This news comes at the same time that it is being reported that the state is facing a $93 million shortfall. The reason that Walker's administration gave for the shortfall, which more than quadrupled since March, was because there are more poor people applying. Needless to say, the reason for the increase in poor people is because Walkernomics is predictably not working.
Walker's administration is trying to deal with this shortfall in his usual method - delaying, if not outright denying, needed services. The time that the state is taking in authorizing requests have grown almost as exponentially as the shortfall. The process time for requests through the state Medicaid system has gone from two months to more than six months. And many times, those requests end up being denied anyway for the most trivial of reasons.
Failure to create jobs, denying and/or delaying services to people that need them and running up a deficit when federal funding is there for the takings....
Walker's train wreck of a health care system reminds me more than a bit of the wreck Walker caused by shunning high speed rail which would have helped create jobs and bring a lot of much needed funding to the state.
Don't forget to tune in to Upfront with Mike Gousha this morning at 9 to watch Jonathan's interview!
Republican
state Senate candidate Jonathan Steitz of Pleasant Prairie says his
primary opponent Van Wanggaard "waffled on Act 10." Steitz says he'll be
a more reliable conservative vote in the Senate, Sunday on UpFront.
In what reality is it a winning campaign slogan to promise to always do what you are told and never vote against party lines?
Since when was having an independent thought something that could be used against you in an election?
* I have been chief executive and chairman of HUSCO International for 25 years. During this period, HUSCO has added 1,200 jobs. Since the end of 2009, we have added 320 jobs in Wisconsin.
A state grant is allowing Waukesha-based Husco International
to expand its production capabilities and create about 165 jobs between its
headquarters and Whitewater plant.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, announced Thursday the
hydraulic and electrohydraulic controls manufacturer received a $606,000
Community Development Block Grant through the Economic Development Program.
Husco plans to invest about $30 million to expand its
manufacturing capabilities at the two Wisconsin plants. The Whitewater location
is getting a $22.3-million investment and adding about 90 jobs to the
community, according to the news release.
Under the administration of former Gov. Jim Doyle, with Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke as secretary of commerce, HUSCO
significantly reduced jobs in Wisconsin and moved them to Iowa.
“I’m proud to have worked with state, local and company
leaders to create new jobs here in our area,” Hixson said. “Husco is an
important local employer and great manufacturer. As a result of this grant and
the company’s investment in south central Wisconsin, hundreds of new jobs will
be brought to the area for hard-working local families.”
* Under the administration of former Gov. Jim Doyle, with Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke as secretary of commerce, HUSCO
significantly reduced jobs in Wisconsin and moved them to Iowa.
Mr. Ramirez, I know it was a while ago, but when you opened up the plant in Iowa you said that not many jobs would move to Iowa, but you also blamed the older unionized workforce(the gall of people who spend their lives working for you wanting raises). Also to spark your memory guess who trained the workers you left behind? Answer starts with WI and ends with TAXPAYERS. You left them behind but luckily for them, Governor Jim Doyle did not.
* More recently, the recall election of 2012 created uncertainty for those
running businesses in the state. Uncertainty and job growth run counter
to one another.
* even with the uncertainty created by the vitriolic recall politics during Walker's first couple of years...
If uncertainty and vitriol is not your cup of tea, maybe you should not have supported this guy:
A
state grant is allowing Waukesha-based Husco International to expand
its production capabilities and create about 165 jobs between its
headquarters and Whitewater plant.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, announced Thursday the hydraulic
and electrohydraulic controls manufacturer received a $606,000
Community Development Block Grant through the Economic Development
Program.
Husco plans to invest about $30 million to expand its manufacturing
capabilities at the two Wisconsin plants. The Whitewater location is
getting a $22.3-million investment and adding about 90 jobs to the
community, according to the news release.
“I’m proud to have worked with state, local and company leaders to
create new jobs here in our area,” Hixson said. “Husco is an important
local employer and great manufacturer. As a result of this grant and the
company’s investment in southcentral Wisconsin, hundreds of new jobs
will be brought to the area for hard-working local families.”
- See
more at:
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2010/oct/23/whitewater-company-creating-90-jobs-plans-expansio/?print#sthash.nEiFJ196.dpuf
A
state grant is allowing Waukesha-based Husco International to expand
its production capabilities and create about 165 jobs between its
headquarters and Whitewater plant.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, announced Thursday the hydraulic
and electrohydraulic controls manufacturer received a $606,000
Community Development Block Grant through the Economic Development
Program.
Husco plans to invest about $30 million to expand its manufacturing
capabilities at the two Wisconsin plants. The Whitewater location is
getting a $22.3-million investment and adding about 90 jobs to the
community, according to the news release.
“I’m proud to have worked with state, local and company leaders to
create new jobs here in our area,” Hixson said. “Husco is an important
local employer and great manufacturer. As a result of this grant and the
company’s investment in southcentral Wisconsin, hundreds of new jobs
will be brought to the area for hard-working local families.”
- See
more at:
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2010/oct/23/whitewater-company-creating-90-jobs-plans-expansio/?print#sthash.nEiFJ196.dpuf
A
state grant is allowing Waukesha-based Husco International to expand
its production capabilities and create about 165 jobs between its
headquarters and Whitewater plant.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, announced Thursday the hydraulic
and electrohydraulic controls manufacturer received a $606,000
Community Development Block Grant through the Economic Development
Program.
Husco plans to invest about $30 million to expand its manufacturing
capabilities at the two Wisconsin plants. The Whitewater location is
getting a $22.3-million investment and adding about 90 jobs to the
community, according to the news release.
“I’m proud to have worked with state, local and company leaders to
create new jobs here in our area,” Hixson said. “Husco is an important
local employer and great manufacturer. As a result of this grant and the
company’s investment in southcentral Wisconsin, hundreds of new jobs
will be brought to the area for hard-working local families.”
- See
more at:
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2010/oct/23/whitewater-company-creating-90-jobs-plans-expansio/?print#sthash.nEiFJ196.dpuf
A
state grant is allowing Waukesha-based Husco International to expand
its production capabilities and create about 165 jobs between its
headquarters and Whitewater plant.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, announced Thursday the hydraulic
and electrohydraulic controls manufacturer received a $606,000
Community Development Block Grant through the Economic Development
Program.
Husco plans to invest about $30 million to expand its manufacturing
capabilities at the two Wisconsin plants. The Whitewater location is
getting a $22.3-million investment and adding about 90 jobs to the
community, according to the news release.
“I’m proud to have worked with state, local and company leaders to
create new jobs here in our area,” Hixson said. “Husco is an important
local employer and great manufacturer. As a result of this grant and the
company’s investment in southcentral Wisconsin, hundreds of new jobs
will be brought to the area for hard-working local families.”
- See
more at:
http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2010/oct/23/whitewater-company-creating-90-jobs-plans-expansio/?print#sthash.nEiFJ196.dpuf
How else would you expect a divide and conquer strategy to play out?
* Virtually 100% of business executives I know would say that there have
been consequential improvements for business under the Walker
administration.
* Second, and probably more important, is the lack of available skilled
talent especially for those positions requiring a high school degree
and technical training.
Milwaukee is
by far the largest city in Wisconsin, and the dismal public education
being provided to most Milwaukee children, particularly the economically
disadvantaged, results in a labor pool possessing minimal academic and
technical skills
Since Public Schools are outperforming voucher schools in Wisconsin, glad to have you join me in calling to stop the ridiculous pillaging of our public education money for unaccountable vouchers. Let's put the money where it will do the most good, and we all will benefit!
To maintain HUSCO’s leadership in next generation technology, we
aggressively protect our core technologies through patents while
continuously monitoring the competitive patent landscape to insure that
we stay focused on the leading edge technology in the industry.
Thanks goodness for the taxpayer supplied socialist court system, and government regulations on patents, that we have in America which has allowed Husco to flourish!
PSS: My question to Mr. Ramirez: If you brought in an executive with a clearly defined goal and after four years he was not even half way towards that specific goal, would you renew his contract?
Just days ago, I questioned whether more documents would be released from the federal lawsuit that is before the dishonorable Rudolph Randa. The reason for my doubt was Randa's corruption and ties to both Scott Walker and the Koch brothers.People hospitalized with a gunshot wound are 30 times more likely to come back to the hospital with another firearm injury than those hospitalized for another medical reason, according to a new study from the University of Washington.
When her boss was able to con the majority of the people of Wisconsin into voting for him, Walker took Archer along with him to Madison, making her a deputy secretary in the Department of Administration. Her pay was $124,000 in this position. 
Two of these areas lie in the federal courts, one being with the corrupt Rudolph Randa and the other with the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court.
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