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 [...]
Liberal Challenge to The Wisconsin Photo ID Law
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 113 Current Event According to Madison.com Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011 Wisconsin’s controversial voter identification law violates the state constitution by creating a new class of ineligible voters, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court. Unlike lawsuits in other states challenging similar voter ID laws, [...]
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 [...]
Current Events v. Founding Documents: Collective Bargaining and the 10th Amendment
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 86 Current Event According to Wall Street Journal/AP June 17, 2010 The Senate is moving closer to passing legislation that would require states to grant public-safety employees, including police, firefighters and emergency medical workers, the right to collectively bargain over hours and wages. The bill, known as the Public [...]
WI Dept. of Workforce Development Sends Mixed Signals on Growth of WI’s Economy
Download PAI Summary & Analysis of WI Dept. of Workforce Development Report PAI PAI WI Dept. of Workforce Development Sends Mixed Signals on the Growth and Stability of the State’s Economy The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development released a report indicating that unemployment in Wisconsin decreased from 7.8 percent in October to 7.6 percent in [...]
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 [...]
Immigration Bill Pending in Wisconsin – Bill Summary
Bill Highlights: The Bill is smaller in scope than the Arizona law, SB 1070. If someone was unable to prove their identity and the legal status of their citizenship, they would be held in jail for up to 48 hours. If they could not prove legal presence in the state by then, they would be [...]
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 [...]
