minimum wage service sector jobs that don't come close to providing a livable income. And in turn he's lost career-type jobs.

More Number 1 rankings:

Wisconsin: The Worst State for African Americans

http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/03/188033/wisconsin-worst-state-african-americans


Wisconsin Prisons Incarcerate Most Black Men In U.S.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/10/03/228733846/wisconsin-prisons-incarcerate-most-black-men-in-u-s

I'm sure there's more, but there seems to be a trend...

It makes you wonder if the people there ever connect the dots.
Maybe they like being kicked in the ass.
I see the protests and wonder if the protesters are the minority.

But they did manage to get a voter id law for Wisconsin. And they are trying to pass legislation to change the independent Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), which oversees Wisconsin election, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws, into a partisan agency, giving control of elections to state Republicans. That's a bad thing considering how brazenly corrupt the Republican party of Wisconsin is- from Scott Walker on down.

It's a crying shame.

The culture of Wisconsin now embraces Walkerism.

How else do we explain three election victories in four years?

Something (or someone) must have been chipping away at the values of Wisconsin's people for a while.

So it's not all that bad.

It's just the midterms and off year elections that is killing us. Democrats need to remember to get out and vote EVERY election not just the presidential ones.

"Forty-six Wisconsin counties and 3,000 voting machines are being controlled by a two-person company operating out of a strip mall in Minnesota.

By law, voting machines must be publicly tested prior to every election. A Programmable Read Only Memory (P.R.O.M.) pack or cartridge is used to reprogram the machines with the details of the current election. Clerks receive two PROM packs from Command Central: A PRE-LAT, which is used a week or so before the election for the public test, and an “Official” pack used on Election Day. Whoever programs the PROM packs has the ability to inject all the machines with a virus that will flip votes only on Election Day. With two different PROM packs in play, it’s easy to see how public tests could be flawless and the machines could still flip votes Election Day.

In his report of his experience with the November 2010 gubernatorial election for Scott Walker, John Washburn, an election integrity investigator and professional software tester for almost 20 years, states, “I have been to dozens of voting system test sessions and have never seen any of this faux ‘testing’ actually test the voting system software correctly. This is the professional opinion of a software tester testing software since 1994.”

Washburn also filed an open records request with Command Central to examine the PROM packs from the July 15, 2011 recall election in wards 1-4 in Fox Point. When they responded that it would cost him $450, Washburn filed a complaint alleging that Command Central LLC wasn’t cooperative in responding to the open records request."
http://wcmcoop.com/2012/05/22/meet-command-central-the-people-in-charge-of-wisconsin-voting-machines/"

Excellent post & thanks for that link.

Everything in Republican policy is about transferring wealth from the lower and middle class to the upper class. I think that Democrats will do well in 2016, but voters' memories are short. After a few election cycles, the Ayn Randers will get in power again. They won't feel satisfied until Wisconsin's median income falls behind Haiti.

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Menard gives Wisconsin Club for Growth/Walker $1.5 million and in return WEDC/Chairman of the Board Scott Walker gives Menard $1.8 million in tax payer money in the form of credits. Net result is Wisconsin Club for Growth/Walker gets $1.5 million and Menard gets his $1.5 million back plus a $300,000 commission (exactly 20%!) all paid in taxpayer money funneled through the WEDC. Maybe "laundered" is a better work than "funneled"?

I'm waiting for the day Scott Walker disembarks from his private jet on his way to solicit some billionaire or meet with his voice coach or hair stylist and finds a contingent of FBI agents waiting to take him into custody. That seems more likely now than it did a few weeks ago...

Walker and Brownback are racing to see if they can get on the CPAC stage or any other right wing stage and say I'm #1 at racing to the bottom see my achievement and that they are doing absolutely nothing but attacking the American society, and they have no agenda except to attack the American society, and that they have been bought and paid for by corruption from the money they get from corporations to attack the American family and worker, now that is what's called right wing patriotism for the oligarchy, deflect what they have done and then blame the society and the worker