Politics
LOVE WATER, NOT OIL
This year the 5th annual Love Water Not Oil tour includes stops and events along the Enbridge pipeline route in Wisconsin. There will be three featured musical performers and maybe as many as 40 horseback riders from around the country. The schedule outline is below and more detailed information can be found at https://www.honorearth.org/lwno2017
July 9th - Kick-off event in Madison, WI @Majestic Theater featuring Nahko, Annie Humphrey, Gingger Shankar
Purchase Tickets online and RSVP
Doors open @6PM - Show starts @7PM
$25 Advanced | $30 at the door
July ...
Constitutional Roulette
The far right efforts to re-write the U.S. Constitution moved closer to happening this week. The Wisconsin Assembly passed several resolutions calling for a national constitutional convention. This highly risky proposal is unnecessary. It is a dangerous gamble with our democracy and current political system. And it is a con job designed to achieve an objective very different than claimed by its supporters.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows a convention for proposing amendments if two-thirds of the states (34) call for one. Amendments and other changes must be ...
DRINKING LIBERALLY IS ON JULY 11
DRINKING LIBERALLY IS ON JULY 11.
Please note the change of the date for Drinking Liberally.
Due to the 4th of July holiday being on our regular meeting time this month, we are going to postpone the July Drinking Liberally get together until the second Tuesday, July 11th.
This is a one-time change so that we all can celebrate with family and friends.
Join Drinking Liberally instead on Tuesday July 11th from 5:30 to 7 PM at Malarkey's. Hope to see you then and happy 4th!
Malarkey’s Pub is 408 Third Street, Wausau.
Phone: 715-819—3663
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WHAT CHOICES WOULD YOU MAKE?
In the next few weeks, state lawmakers are voting on how Wisconsin spends money over the next two years. The choices legislators make will affect our communities and our lives.
Lawmakers are working off a spending plan submitted by the Governor earlier this year. Changes have already been made to his proposal.
For example, the budget writing committee removed much of the new money for the University of Wisconsin System. Big spending cuts in the last budget forced, among other things, a reorganization of UW-Extension, which may leave local communities without their ...
ANOTHER LOOK AT 2016 ELECTION
While we await developments on a number of critical fronts — Will the Republicans running our state ever agree on transportation funding?
Will the US Senate stumble as it tries to formulate a healthcare bill that can pass both the Senate and the House? Will the Supreme Court issue a stay in Gill v Whitford? Will James Comey's testimony on Thursday offer the bombshell the national press is hoping for?
You might want to have a look at an analysis of How And Where Trump Won Wisconsin in 2016. Malia Jones at the UW Applied Population Laboratory has run the numbers and ...
WHAT MOTIVATED 2016 VOTERS?
Professor Katherine Cramer Walsh, author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (March, 2016), finds the split between rural and urban voters' choices to be rooted in what she calls "group consciousness." In an article published years before her book, she concludes that rural voters, at least in Wisconsin, perceive themselves to be deprived and attribute "rural deprivation to the decision making of (urban) political elites, who disregard and disrespect rural residents and rural lifestyles."
But there appear to be ...
Citizens Take Action on Opposing Restrictions of Medicaid in Wisconsin
Yet Another Middle Wisconsin Exclusive -- First on the Scene Again in Central Wisconsin
https://vimeo.com/218079172
Excerpts From Citizen Action Event Material:
Gov. Scott Walker wants to apply for a waiver from the federal government, so that he can drug test childless adults seeking Medicaid. This could also allow him to add other requirements that he sees fit. This is problematic for various reasons, but one of the biggest reasons is our current Opioid and Methamphetamine crises across the State. Someone who is struggling with addiction, but has health insura...
WHERE ARE THE FRESH DEMOCRATS?
(Denele blogs from Arkansas. You can read more at www.denelecampbell.org.)
If the Democratic Party wants to regain their proper place in American politics, that is, as the progressive, common man’s party, they have to move away from the faces and voices that have become tired and futile.
They’ll also have to step up their game. Before the Democrats assembled to vote for their national leadership earlier this year, I sent an email to the head of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. I voiced my concern about a potential leadership win by Tom Perez or Keith Ellison. I ...
THANK YOU FOR VOTING FOR THE ACHA
Thank you, Congressman Duffy, for voting for the ACHA, the Ryan healthcare bill, May 4th.
Thank you to the voters for voting for Donald Trump and Congressman Duffy on November 8th.
The Ryan healthcare bill (AHCA) has been called an “act of mercy” by Speaker Ryan.
Here is a short list, out of many provisions, that are especially ‘merciful.’
1. The federal protections for people with pre-existing conditions are eliminated. In Duffy’s 7th Congressional District this will affect 295,400 or 51% of the non-elderly population who have pre-existing conditi...
Opinions…Everybody Has One
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sociologist and former U.S. Senator.
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” Bertrand Russell, British historian
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” John F. Kennedy
“It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all.” Stephen Colbert, comedian.
Opinions are ...
