
Martha Laning: Foxonn is a costly Walker campaign stunt
The unfortunate answer to why Walker is paying billions to create jobs we can’t fill is that Foxconn is a very costly campaign stunt.
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The unfortunate answer to why Walker is paying billions to create jobs we can’t fill is that Foxconn is a very costly campaign stunt.

There’s something scarily defective about Republicans who win perk-and-privilege elections so quickly wielding their power against those with the least – – even limiting the food the poor can eat.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s announced Republican challengers have, so far, run ridiculous campaigns that suggest they are more interested in currying favor with national political operatives than representing Wisconsinites.

Wisconsin instead picks winners and losers. How is that working?

Will Flanders, the research director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, joins Editor James Wigderson on this week’s episode of RightWisconsin Conversations.

Walker’s allies on the Wisconsin Supreme Court continue to implement the governor’s anti-labor agenda.

Republican State Senator David Craig is circulating a proposal to empower a joint committee of the legislature to investigate the old Government Accountability Board.

The bill would allow the sale of prescription drugs for less than cost, just like in many other states. It should be fascinating to see the usual suspects who are opposed to any tampering with the misnamed Unfair Sales Act testify in favor of charging higher drug prices to Wisconsin consumers for their own good.

State voters rarely elect a gubernatorial candidate whose party holds the presidency.

After my first year in office, I have learned there is one constant you can always count on: Scott Walker will always choose to divide us rather than unite us.

In January, the state Public Service Commission asked investor-owned utilities to submit plans explaining how they were going to implement the federal tax bill’s changes “for the benefit of ratepayers.” Unfortunately, those plans don’t give customers enough.

Foxconn is buying a seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee from Northwestern Mutual, Wisconsin’s 161-year-old insurance giant. It will be the company’s North American headquarters and a center for activities outside its planned manufacturing plant in Racine County.
It’s beginning to look like the general, who retired from the military in mid-2016, is having too much of Donald Trump rub off on him in his role as Trump’s chief of staff.

His latest report dismissed even by conservative media.

Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?

The donation amount won’t make much of a difference in the campaign, but what does it say when the candidate’s own parents want him to fail?

The Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated its first collectively bargained contract, with the Democratic candidate challenging Paul Ryan.

You want gimmicks? Randy Bryce’s campaign staff is unionized!

Not only his campaign staff now unionized, Randy urged them on because he knows and believes in the value of organized labor.

The fairness and impartiality of our judges depends mightily on their separation from the effect and influence of campaign contributors and outside, special interest campaign spending groups.

The unfortunate answer to why Walker is paying billions to create jobs we can’t fill is that Foxconn is a very costly campaign stunt.

There’s something scarily defective about Republicans who win perk-and-privilege elections so quickly wielding their power against those with the least – – even limiting the food the poor can eat.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s announced Republican challengers have, so far, run ridiculous campaigns that suggest they are more interested in currying favor with national political operatives than representing Wisconsinites.

Wisconsin instead picks winners and losers. How is that working?

Will Flanders, the research director for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, joins Editor James Wigderson on this week’s episode of RightWisconsin Conversations.

Walker’s allies on the Wisconsin Supreme Court continue to implement the governor’s anti-labor agenda.

Republican State Senator David Craig is circulating a proposal to empower a joint committee of the legislature to investigate the old Government Accountability Board.

The bill would allow the sale of prescription drugs for less than cost, just like in many other states. It should be fascinating to see the usual suspects who are opposed to any tampering with the misnamed Unfair Sales Act testify in favor of charging higher drug prices to Wisconsin consumers for their own good.

State voters rarely elect a gubernatorial candidate whose party holds the presidency.

After my first year in office, I have learned there is one constant you can always count on: Scott Walker will always choose to divide us rather than unite us.

In January, the state Public Service Commission asked investor-owned utilities to submit plans explaining how they were going to implement the federal tax bill’s changes “for the benefit of ratepayers.” Unfortunately, those plans don’t give customers enough.

Foxconn is buying a seven-story building in downtown Milwaukee from Northwestern Mutual, Wisconsin’s 161-year-old insurance giant. It will be the company’s North American headquarters and a center for activities outside its planned manufacturing plant in Racine County.
It’s beginning to look like the general, who retired from the military in mid-2016, is having too much of Donald Trump rub off on him in his role as Trump’s chief of staff.

His latest report dismissed even by conservative media.

Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?

The donation amount won’t make much of a difference in the campaign, but what does it say when the candidate’s own parents want him to fail?

The Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated its first collectively bargained contract, with the Democratic candidate challenging Paul Ryan.

You want gimmicks? Randy Bryce’s campaign staff is unionized!

Not only his campaign staff now unionized, Randy urged them on because he knows and believes in the value of organized labor.

The fairness and impartiality of our judges depends mightily on their separation from the effect and influence of campaign contributors and outside, special interest campaign spending groups.