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RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson and WTMJ-AM’s Steve Scaffidi look back at 2018.
My guess is that the Wisconsin Legislature’s Republicans had no idea what kind of public relations blunder they had committed when they decided to pass a bunch of laws to make the jobs of the governor and attorney general the people of Wisconsin had just elected a little more difficult.
Every election loser knows the drill: you take the stage, speak into the microphone, concede to the winner, tough it all out and move on, because the people had spoken and that’s how that game is played and completed. Refusing to do so, and then changing the rules and the import of the result out of spite, and in service to your often secret financial backers, is a serious and dangerous thing to do.
We have very few living reminders of how our political culture once was in this state. Perhaps no one characterized that better than Kraus.
Over the last 50 years, the United States has passed legislation outlawing discrimination based on religion, race, gender, sexual orientation and political affiliation. Yet, as the racial and ethnic composition of the country continues to change, and the disruptive business landscape requires new skills and unique perspectives in the workforce, it’s no longer enough for companies to simply remain within the laws.
Gov.-elect Tony Evers today announced Joel Brennan, who ran Tom Barrett’s 2002 guv campaign and has been CEO of Milwaukee’s Discovery World for the past 11 years, will be his first DOA secretary. Evers also tapped three others from Milwaukee
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement RENEW Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Joel Brennan, who ran Tom Barrett’s 2002 guv campaign and has been CEO of Milwaukee’s Discovery World for the past 11 years, will become Gov.-elect Tony Evers’ first DOA
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz says the deal the outgoing Walker administration gave Kimberly-Clark to keep open a plant is the latest example of chasing “companies with cash payments” rather than creating
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RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson and WTMJ-AM’s Steve Scaffidi look back at 2018.
My guess is that the Wisconsin Legislature’s Republicans had no idea what kind of public relations blunder they had committed when they decided to pass a bunch of laws to make the jobs of the governor and attorney general the people of Wisconsin had just elected a little more difficult.
Every election loser knows the drill: you take the stage, speak into the microphone, concede to the winner, tough it all out and move on, because the people had spoken and that’s how that game is played and completed. Refusing to do so, and then changing the rules and the import of the result out of spite, and in service to your often secret financial backers, is a serious and dangerous thing to do.
We have very few living reminders of how our political culture once was in this state. Perhaps no one characterized that better than Kraus.
Over the last 50 years, the United States has passed legislation outlawing discrimination based on religion, race, gender, sexual orientation and political affiliation. Yet, as the racial and ethnic composition of the country continues to change, and the disruptive business landscape requires new skills and unique perspectives in the workforce, it’s no longer enough for companies to simply remain within the laws.
Gov.-elect Tony Evers today announced Joel Brennan, who ran Tom Barrett’s 2002 guv campaign and has been CEO of Milwaukee’s Discovery World for the past 11 years, will be his first DOA secretary. Evers also tapped three others from Milwaukee for his cabinet: *Preston Cole at Natural Resources. He now
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement RENEW Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Joel Brennan, who ran Tom Barrett’s 2002 guv campaign and has been CEO of Milwaukee’s Discovery World for the past 11 years, will become Gov.-elect Tony Evers’ first DOA secretary, according to multiple sources. Evers is also tapping three
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz says the deal the outgoing Walker administration gave Kimberly-Clark to keep open a plant is the latest example of chasing “companies with cash payments” rather than creating a long-term strategy for the paper industry. The Oshkosh Dem,
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