Is Unelected GAB Beyond Control ?
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 128 Current Event According to Fox6Now.com; February 7, 2012 GAB rejects petition reviews from outside groups MADISON — Two Tea Party groups are considering a lawsuit against the Wisconsin elections board over its decision not to accept any evidence they find of fraud in petitions seeking the recall of [...]
City Or State Control of Sick Leave
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 106 Current Event According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, May 5, 2011 Governor Scott Walker signed into law Thursday a measure that voids Milwaukee’s paid sick leave ordinance that was passed by voters in a referendum and upheld recently by the state Court of Appeals. Walker, in Milwaukee on Thursday [...]
Teachers Join Constitutional Challenge
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 95 Current Event According to the Journal Sentinel, June 15, 2011 Madison – One day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of collective bargaining legislation that potentially affects thousands of public-sector employees, a coalition of unions filed suit in federal court seeking to block the ruling. [...]
Analysis of Governor Walker’s State of the State Address
In his first State of the State Address as Wisconsin’s governor last week, Scott Walker reiterated his panoply of campaign promises and pledged to make job creation, business development, balancing the budget, and restoring economic prosperity his foremost priorities in the current legislative session. Even though Governor Walker’s speech lacked much on these issues, he [...]
Wisconsin Poised to Fight ObamaCare
This week, Scott Walker made history by becoming the 45th governor in Wisconsin history and the first Republican since Scott McCallum assumed power in 2001 from Tommy Thompson. As one of his first acts, Walker provided Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen with the authority to file a lawsuit against ObamaCare. In so doing, Wisconsin joins [...]
Governor-elect Scott Walker Outlines Chief Legislative Priorities
This week, Governor-elect Scott Walker unveiled a bold and ambitious agenda for the upcoming legislative session. Walker made it clear that he intends to enact all of the reforms described below within the first year of his governorship. With a large Republican majority in the Assembly and a six vote majority in the Senate, it [...]
The New Agenda for Wisconsin’s New Government
On November 2, 2010, the Republican Party gained control of the governorship and both houses of the State Legislature for the first time since 2003. In addition, Republican Kurt Schuller defeated incumbent State Treasurer, Dawn Marie Sass, and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen was easily reelected. The only Democratic state official to survive the Republican [...]
The Year of the Anti-Establishment Candidate
Last week, ten states held congressional and gubernatorial primaries. Further, in recent months, roughly fifteen states in total have held primary elections. In each of these elections a common theme has been present: anti-incumbency. If this trend continues in the coming months, it appears that establishment candidates, party-endorsed candidates, and incumbents will be in for [...]
