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Sunday, September 30, 2007
RISING\ HOSPITAL LOBBYISTS\ Senate Democrats said they were prepared to jettison a $418 million hospital tax and increases in taxes on nursing home beds and real estate transfer fees, among others.
MIXED\ TOBACCO LOBBYISTS\ Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, offered to accept a $1.25 a pack increase in the 77-cent cigarette tax and a transfer from the state's fund that pays medical malpractice claims. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle wants to use $175 million in that fund to expand health care coverage.
FALLING\SMOKERS IN HOSPITAL BEDS\ A new WisChuckleheads/CheckPoint survey shows.
ONLY GAWD CAN HIT A NINE IRON\Spurring questions about whether Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has proper procedures in place for warning golfers about electrical storms and opinions of WisChuckleheads belongs on the opinion page of the Wisconsin State Journal since WisChuckleheads, using its bully pulpit after consulting with grocer, real estate developer and other fundraising lobbyists for their brainstorming spin on the political news published in the state, lets them take anonymous snipes about who is up or down in state government policy disputes.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
$88 a Day
About four months ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that John Murray, a former $90,000-a-year state senate employee of Dale Schultz was working as a $10.62-per-hour limited term employee (LTE) in the office of Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch.
Swift Promotions and Pay Hikes Under the Marble Big Top
Now, Murray is a mouthpiece for Huebsch on the state budget process; presumably for a fatter paycheck and more job security.
But since when is it officially permitted for LTEs to be the spokespersons for the $58 billion state budget?
Albeit, Murray’s only the clerk in charge of form letters and postcards Huebsch’s office has received from citizens on the budget.
About four months ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that John Murray, a former $90,000-a-year state senate employee of Dale Schultz was working as a $10.62-per-hour limited term employee (LTE) in the office of Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch.
Swift Promotions and Pay Hikes Under the Marble Big Top
Now, Murray is a mouthpiece for Huebsch on the state budget process; presumably for a fatter paycheck and more job security.
But since when is it officially permitted for LTEs to be the spokespersons for the $58 billion state budget?
Albeit, Murray’s only the clerk in charge of form letters and postcards Huebsch’s office has received from citizens on the budget.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
$88 a Day
Wisconsin's mainstream media busily counting cars at the governor's residence in Maple Bluff seems to be the extent of the political news over the stifled state budget.
Talks on spending and debt levels and health-care reforms greatly differ between the Republicans who control the state Assembly, and Democrats who run the Senate, while blogs such as www.wischuckleheads.com post anonymous swipes about who is up or down in state government policy disputes.
But no updates on the legislative salaries, per diem, mileage and benefits it costs state taxpayers for 132 lawmakers to motor into Madison for cold ones, while the long-stalled state budget impasse continues.
No white smoke from the chimney of the governor's mansion on a quick resolution to the biennial budget debate, either.
Some disgruntled legislators complain about the poky budget process, while most perennially over-served lobbyists and politicians knock back brewskys, vino, Kessler whiskey, Korbel brandy adult beverages in downtown Capital City bars.
Interesting how the mainstream media can budget for non-news and a nonproductive process like that?
Flush 'em if ya got 'em
Another pandemic in Madison is that it's necessary to visit the nonsmoking bars and other businesses to avoid the smokers on the sidewalks.
Wisconsin's mainstream media busily counting cars at the governor's residence in Maple Bluff seems to be the extent of the political news over the stifled state budget.
Talks on spending and debt levels and health-care reforms greatly differ between the Republicans who control the state Assembly, and Democrats who run the Senate, while blogs such as www.wischuckleheads.com post anonymous swipes about who is up or down in state government policy disputes.
But no updates on the legislative salaries, per diem, mileage and benefits it costs state taxpayers for 132 lawmakers to motor into Madison for cold ones, while the long-stalled state budget impasse continues.
No white smoke from the chimney of the governor's mansion on a quick resolution to the biennial budget debate, either.
Some disgruntled legislators complain about the poky budget process, while most perennially over-served lobbyists and politicians knock back brewskys, vino, Kessler whiskey, Korbel brandy adult beverages in downtown Capital City bars.
Interesting how the mainstream media can budget for non-news and a nonproductive process like that?
Flush 'em if ya got 'em
Another pandemic in Madison is that it's necessary to visit the nonsmoking bars and other businesses to avoid the smokers on the sidewalks.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Biz License Revocation??
The watchful moose at the Madison Club says former Chicagoan and current Northwoods Birch Lake resident Nick Hurtgen’s brother-in-law Phil Prange’s Wispolitics Publishing is on the verge of having its license to do business in the State of Wisconsin revoked, again.
On Aug. 20, the state filed intent to revoke the license of the foreign corporation registered in Delaware.
It can be easily reinstated if ultimately revoked.
The watchful moose at the Madison Club says former Chicagoan and current Northwoods Birch Lake resident Nick Hurtgen’s brother-in-law Phil Prange’s Wispolitics Publishing is on the verge of having its license to do business in the State of Wisconsin revoked, again.
On Aug. 20, the state filed intent to revoke the license of the foreign corporation registered in Delaware.
It can be easily reinstated if ultimately revoked.
Jump Around
Langdon Street is no longer synonymous with Madison's upper crust; it's dirty, filthy and littered with UW-Madison's frats and sororities.
It evolved that way soon after the Phi Gamma Delta or Fiji house was over served at the Manor Bar.
Of course, Herb the bartender, who always wore a crisp, white shirt, club tie, worsteds and a white bar apron when he was still around, would vehemently deny that. Likely Lyle - onetime Madison mayoral candidate - did the over serving.
At any rate, the Manor was quiet on Saturday before the later than usual game of prime-time television revenue between the Badgers and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
No partying at the Fiji house - currently the Sigma Pi hangout - as the stone facade is mostly deserted and decaying.
On the front lawn of the Pi Kappa Alpha house, a couple of beefy ground beef fans and inebriates sledge hammered a Lee Iaocca mini van painted black with yellow Iowa lettering.
Showing no sign of class whatsoever, maybe that's why the Chi Phi fraternity wants the house back.
Plastic cups of beer flowed on the upper and lower decks of the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, while across the street the Sigma Phi Epsilon revelry crowded into the street as two uniformed Madison cops sitting on a rock wall near Acacia, casually watched the consumption.
Footballs tossed into the air bounced onto the pavement, since it was too packed to play bean bags on the sidewalk.
No indication whether the Lodge (Chi Psi) and Beta houses were partying as both are on the lake shore, far from the madding crowd on Langdon. Former Wisconsin Badger football player Marvin Artley was problematic nowhere near the blighted SAE house, which continues to mar the appearance of the alumni digs on Lake Street.
Closer to Camp Randall and a mural of famous Alan "The Horse" Ameche, fans and adult beverage consumers snacked and did 12-ounce curls in the fenced areas of Regent and Monroe streets.
Beer cost $4.50 a pop.
Langdon Street is no longer synonymous with Madison's upper crust; it's dirty, filthy and littered with UW-Madison's frats and sororities.
It evolved that way soon after the Phi Gamma Delta or Fiji house was over served at the Manor Bar.
Of course, Herb the bartender, who always wore a crisp, white shirt, club tie, worsteds and a white bar apron when he was still around, would vehemently deny that. Likely Lyle - onetime Madison mayoral candidate - did the over serving.
At any rate, the Manor was quiet on Saturday before the later than usual game of prime-time television revenue between the Badgers and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
No partying at the Fiji house - currently the Sigma Pi hangout - as the stone facade is mostly deserted and decaying.
On the front lawn of the Pi Kappa Alpha house, a couple of beefy ground beef fans and inebriates sledge hammered a Lee Iaocca mini van painted black with yellow Iowa lettering.
Showing no sign of class whatsoever, maybe that's why the Chi Phi fraternity wants the house back.
Plastic cups of beer flowed on the upper and lower decks of the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, while across the street the Sigma Phi Epsilon revelry crowded into the street as two uniformed Madison cops sitting on a rock wall near Acacia, casually watched the consumption.
Footballs tossed into the air bounced onto the pavement, since it was too packed to play bean bags on the sidewalk.
No indication whether the Lodge (Chi Psi) and Beta houses were partying as both are on the lake shore, far from the madding crowd on Langdon. Former Wisconsin Badger football player Marvin Artley was problematic nowhere near the blighted SAE house, which continues to mar the appearance of the alumni digs on Lake Street.
Closer to Camp Randall and a mural of famous Alan "The Horse" Ameche, fans and adult beverage consumers snacked and did 12-ounce curls in the fenced areas of Regent and Monroe streets.
Beer cost $4.50 a pop.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Or can they . . .
At least nobody can accuse the members of the conference committee of a doping offense in trying to negotiate a new state budget in discussions that are going nowhere.
Boozy Bob Jauch got a little laugh in with his "Romper Room" line, but Assembly Majority Leader Jeff Fitzgerald's response of not knowing what "Romper Room" is, dated the Poplar Democrat.
Still, the line sounds vaguely familiar, as if then Carol Bittner (Roessler) or Kitty Rhoades used it in previous stalemates of the lege.
At least nobody can accuse the members of the conference committee of a doping offense in trying to negotiate a new state budget in discussions that are going nowhere.
Boozy Bob Jauch got a little laugh in with his "Romper Room" line, but Assembly Majority Leader Jeff Fitzgerald's response of not knowing what "Romper Room" is, dated the Poplar Democrat.
Still, the line sounds vaguely familiar, as if then Carol Bittner (Roessler) or Kitty Rhoades used it in previous stalemates of the lege.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Copycat Ellen Foley
While it's informative of the Wisconsin State Journal to prominently run a front page story about Cross Plains developer Janice Faga purchasing one 160-acre farm and having an option to buy an adjacent 180-acre property, just west of the intersection of Old Sauk Road and Timber Lane to have the town of Cross Plains rezone the land from agricultural use to residential without sewer to build 66 homes on two-acre lots, it's also important for the paper to credit the Isthmus for running the proposed development story weeks before.
While it's informative of the Wisconsin State Journal to prominently run a front page story about Cross Plains developer Janice Faga purchasing one 160-acre farm and having an option to buy an adjacent 180-acre property, just west of the intersection of Old Sauk Road and Timber Lane to have the town of Cross Plains rezone the land from agricultural use to residential without sewer to build 66 homes on two-acre lots, it's also important for the paper to credit the Isthmus for running the proposed development story weeks before.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Lah-SAY
While the remarks of Frank Lasee convey more conflict instead of wisdom in Wisconsin politics, the mainstream news media fails to inquire whether Lasee does his flippant blog on state time using state resources.
http://www.franklasee.blogspot.com/
While the remarks of Frank Lasee convey more conflict instead of wisdom in Wisconsin politics, the mainstream news media fails to inquire whether Lasee does his flippant blog on state time using state resources.
http://www.franklasee.blogspot.com/
Way Up North
Northwoods relatives of the snooty Madison Club moose swear they recently spotted Nick Hurtgen on Birch Lake Road near Laona, a half hour drive from Rhinelander.
A northern Wisconsin location that’s about as far away from The Loop in the heart of Chicago's downtown business district as you can get.
Frequenters of the Madison Club jokingly speculate that Nick’s in the federal Witness Relocation Program. Certainly, there's no indication or reason to think that he is.
You might recall that Hurtgen, who once was managing director for the Chicago office of the investment banking house Bear, Stearns, had corruption charges against him dismissed.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/03/federal_judge_d.html
The case involved Stuart Levine, who admitted getting kickbacks from Jacob Kieferbaum Construction.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=324847
In a plea deal, once politically connected businessman Levine conceded that he conspired with fund-raiser adviser Antoin “Tony” Rezko to shake down firms that sought to do business with a state pension fund and an agency that regulates hospital construction.
Under the terms of the plea deal, Levine was expected to receive a sentence of 67 months in prison. He could have faced life in prison under federal sentencing rules, prosecutors said.
Levine’s plea agreement
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=22634&seenIt=1
Charges dismissed in health board case
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2971733
U.S. Attorney motioned for review of judge's decision in Hurtgen case
In April 2007, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, for the government, motioned the court to reconsider its order dated March 20, 2007, dismissing the seven counts of the superseding indictment against defendant Hurtgen. The government said the court erred in its analysis and urged the court to vacate its order and reinstate the seven counts of that indictment against Hurtgen.
U.S. District Judge John Grady, however, denied the government's motion for reconsideration.
Hurtgen is Maple Bluff resident Phil Prange's brother-in-law. Prange was a paid fund-raiser for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson.
A $50,000 "negligent dancing" lawsuit brought by Chicagoan Lacey Hindman against David Prange, Phil's brother, is currently in Cook County Circuit Court.
Northwoods relatives of the snooty Madison Club moose swear they recently spotted Nick Hurtgen on Birch Lake Road near Laona, a half hour drive from Rhinelander.
A northern Wisconsin location that’s about as far away from The Loop in the heart of Chicago's downtown business district as you can get.
Frequenters of the Madison Club jokingly speculate that Nick’s in the federal Witness Relocation Program. Certainly, there's no indication or reason to think that he is.
You might recall that Hurtgen, who once was managing director for the Chicago office of the investment banking house Bear, Stearns, had corruption charges against him dismissed.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/03/federal_judge_d.html
The case involved Stuart Levine, who admitted getting kickbacks from Jacob Kieferbaum Construction.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=324847
In a plea deal, once politically connected businessman Levine conceded that he conspired with fund-raiser adviser Antoin “Tony” Rezko to shake down firms that sought to do business with a state pension fund and an agency that regulates hospital construction.
Under the terms of the plea deal, Levine was expected to receive a sentence of 67 months in prison. He could have faced life in prison under federal sentencing rules, prosecutors said.
Levine’s plea agreement
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=22634&seenIt=1
Charges dismissed in health board case
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2971733
U.S. Attorney motioned for review of judge's decision in Hurtgen case
In April 2007, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, for the government, motioned the court to reconsider its order dated March 20, 2007, dismissing the seven counts of the superseding indictment against defendant Hurtgen. The government said the court erred in its analysis and urged the court to vacate its order and reinstate the seven counts of that indictment against Hurtgen.
U.S. District Judge John Grady, however, denied the government's motion for reconsideration.
Hurtgen is Maple Bluff resident Phil Prange's brother-in-law. Prange was a paid fund-raiser for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson.
A $50,000 "negligent dancing" lawsuit brought by Chicagoan Lacey Hindman against David Prange, Phil's brother, is currently in Cook County Circuit Court.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
$88 a Day
Answering to constituents or lobbyists around lunchtime today on the concrete steps of the state Capitol facing State Street, Jeff Plale, a South Milwaukee Democrat, was saying, "All right! All Right!" at lot to a big, bald, goateed dude in a black suit, who was with some other dudes.
What was that all about? Details surrounding Delphi plant closures? Uncertainties about state aid for Milwaukee?
At any rate, a Madison version of a paparazzi clicked a digital keepsake of the exchange.
Dave Ward, the Fort Atkinson Republican who left the Assembly last year, was also meeting and greeting a suit on the corner of State and Carroll streets today.
Didn't seem to be on the defensive quite as much, though.
Answering to constituents or lobbyists around lunchtime today on the concrete steps of the state Capitol facing State Street, Jeff Plale, a South Milwaukee Democrat, was saying, "All right! All Right!" at lot to a big, bald, goateed dude in a black suit, who was with some other dudes.
What was that all about? Details surrounding Delphi plant closures? Uncertainties about state aid for Milwaukee?
At any rate, a Madison version of a paparazzi clicked a digital keepsake of the exchange.
Dave Ward, the Fort Atkinson Republican who left the Assembly last year, was also meeting and greeting a suit on the corner of State and Carroll streets today.
Didn't seem to be on the defensive quite as much, though.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
$88 a Day
Inquiry points to some activity in state Capitol
Pigeonholing a potential candidate to run against Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel bureau chieftain Steve Walters, in a not-to-subtle way, let his editors in Milwaukee know he's on the job.
For example, stopped today at the Capitol by Journal Sentinel reporter Steve Walters, Lena Taylor had this to say: "I have not declared my candidacy." Asked about an account from the MilwaukeeWorld blog, which said she declared at this past weekend's "Fighting Bob Fest," Taylor said simply: "No."
A real Walter Winchell.
Inquiry points to some activity in state Capitol
Pigeonholing a potential candidate to run against Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel bureau chieftain Steve Walters, in a not-to-subtle way, let his editors in Milwaukee know he's on the job.
For example, stopped today at the Capitol by Journal Sentinel reporter Steve Walters, Lena Taylor had this to say: "I have not declared my candidacy." Asked about an account from the MilwaukeeWorld blog, which said she declared at this past weekend's "Fighting Bob Fest," Taylor said simply: "No."
A real Walter Winchell.
At Least the War on the Middle Class is Going Well
Politically capitalizing on the "deep concerns" Americans have about U.S. occupation of Iraq, George W. Bush plans to reduce the American troop strength in Iraq by 30,000 sometime late next summer, just about the time the GOP presidential hopeful begins campaigning in earnest.
The so-called reductions would leave about 130,000 U.S. troops on the ground by August 2008, or about the same level that was there before Bush ordered the buildup early this year. Now, there are 168,000 U.S.troops in Iraq.
Bush's Iraq Quagmire
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Meanwhile, students plan a protest against Halliburton - Dick Cheney's former employer - and the military-industrial complex's recruitment efforts scheduled for Sept. 20 on the UW-Madison campus.
Politically capitalizing on the "deep concerns" Americans have about U.S. occupation of Iraq, George W. Bush plans to reduce the American troop strength in Iraq by 30,000 sometime late next summer, just about the time the GOP presidential hopeful begins campaigning in earnest.
The so-called reductions would leave about 130,000 U.S. troops on the ground by August 2008, or about the same level that was there before Bush ordered the buildup early this year. Now, there are 168,000 U.S.troops in Iraq.
Bush's Iraq Quagmire
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Meanwhile, students plan a protest against Halliburton - Dick Cheney's former employer - and the military-industrial complex's recruitment efforts scheduled for Sept. 20 on the UW-Madison campus.
It's All in the Cards
Teasingly asked the other day before court began why he was dressed in black like the famous Johnny Cash, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz said it was Sheepshead night.
With the usual suspects.
Teasingly asked the other day before court began why he was dressed in black like the famous Johnny Cash, U.S. District Judge John Shabaz said it was Sheepshead night.
With the usual suspects.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Saggy Newspaper Editor
Is that Ellen Foley with her pants hanging below her derriere on the front page of today's Wisconsin State Journal, mooning the paper's few remaining subscribers?
Likewise, the Capital Times is going for broke this year in the potential awards category with its riveting front pager on the city of Madison premiering new plastic garbage cans.
High Court power dives to all time low
The makeup of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is balanced with New Yorkers, campaign contributors, politicos, minorities, crooks and white trash Annette Ziegler. Ziegler’s ethics are as threadbare and cheap as the suits of WMC lobbyists who frequent the Bamboozle Club (formerly Madison Club).
Public reprimand for Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler is minutia for failing to disclose her monetary stake in a West Bend bank involved in cases she decided as a Washington County Circuit judge.
Divorcees find lawyers a home away from home
Middleton may be #1 with Money Magazine, but what the mag doesn’t say other than it’s the “best place to live in the country among cities of 7,500 to 50,000 pop.," is the fact that lowlife divorce lawyers have roved there from their sleazy offices on Wilson Street in downtown Madison, where they took advantage of vulnerable exurb women expecting to find family law.
Once upon a time, lawyers in Middleton mostly dealt in conveyances of a different kind.
Clarke a major disaster
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. should be custodian of MMSD, not law enforcement head, since he wants to allow privileged residents such as aldermen and state politicians – the underprivileged on North Avenue have their own gun permits of sorts - to carry concealed weapons, suggesting that Gov. Jim Doyle foolishly rethink his opposition to the state's meaningful ban.
Eight is Enough
Lt. Col. Fitz admits the special legislative committee on the overdue state budget is stalemated because Judge Judy has two more high-paid staffers on the state senate payroll than he does.
Judy, 8; Fitz, 6.
Is that Ellen Foley with her pants hanging below her derriere on the front page of today's Wisconsin State Journal, mooning the paper's few remaining subscribers?
Likewise, the Capital Times is going for broke this year in the potential awards category with its riveting front pager on the city of Madison premiering new plastic garbage cans.
High Court power dives to all time low
The makeup of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is balanced with New Yorkers, campaign contributors, politicos, minorities, crooks and white trash Annette Ziegler. Ziegler’s ethics are as threadbare and cheap as the suits of WMC lobbyists who frequent the Bamboozle Club (formerly Madison Club).
Public reprimand for Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler is minutia for failing to disclose her monetary stake in a West Bend bank involved in cases she decided as a Washington County Circuit judge.
Divorcees find lawyers a home away from home
Middleton may be #1 with Money Magazine, but what the mag doesn’t say other than it’s the “best place to live in the country among cities of 7,500 to 50,000 pop.," is the fact that lowlife divorce lawyers have roved there from their sleazy offices on Wilson Street in downtown Madison, where they took advantage of vulnerable exurb women expecting to find family law.
Once upon a time, lawyers in Middleton mostly dealt in conveyances of a different kind.
Clarke a major disaster
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. should be custodian of MMSD, not law enforcement head, since he wants to allow privileged residents such as aldermen and state politicians – the underprivileged on North Avenue have their own gun permits of sorts - to carry concealed weapons, suggesting that Gov. Jim Doyle foolishly rethink his opposition to the state's meaningful ban.
Eight is Enough
Lt. Col. Fitz admits the special legislative committee on the overdue state budget is stalemated because Judge Judy has two more high-paid staffers on the state senate payroll than he does.
Judy, 8; Fitz, 6.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Negligent Dancing
Interrogatories or the written questions to discover key facts about an opposing party's case, and notice to produce or compelling the defendant to produce evidence during the discovery phase were filed late last month in the courtroom of Cook County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Budzinski, in the $50,000 “negligent dancing” civil suit twenty-something Lacey Hindman filed this spring against David Prange, the brother of Maple Bluff resident Phil Prange.
Denizens of the Madison Club wildly speculate over adult beverages what Phil and his brother-in-law, Nick Hurtgen, will do now that they don't have Tommy Thompson's political coattails to hang onto. J.B. "A Party of God" Van Hollen's?
Interrogatories or the written questions to discover key facts about an opposing party's case, and notice to produce or compelling the defendant to produce evidence during the discovery phase were filed late last month in the courtroom of Cook County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Budzinski, in the $50,000 “negligent dancing” civil suit twenty-something Lacey Hindman filed this spring against David Prange, the brother of Maple Bluff resident Phil Prange.
Denizens of the Madison Club wildly speculate over adult beverages what Phil and his brother-in-law, Nick Hurtgen, will do now that they don't have Tommy Thompson's political coattails to hang onto. J.B. "A Party of God" Van Hollen's?
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
$88 a Day
Another nonproductive sit-down on negotiating the overdue state budget today
Too many boozers on the conference committee over Senate Bill 40, which consists of Speaker Mike Huebsch, Assembly Majority Leader Jeff Fitzgerald, Assembly Leader Jim Kreuser, Rep. Kitty Rhoades, Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, Senate Leader Scott Fitzgerald, and senators Bob Jauch and Russ Decker.
You know who you are in the adult beverage category.
Never mind the very expensive and labor-intensive legislative showdown involving about 500 Republicans and Democrats, including assemblymen and senators in town for per diem, and 127 senate and 199 assembly high-paid staffers and more than 30 supporting clerks and staff wandering around the Capital City.
Why be productive when you can collect $88 a day, salary and all the bennies, not matter what inaction happens?
Stay tuned as the seven-week-old Capitol impasse rolls into next week.
Another nonproductive sit-down on negotiating the overdue state budget today
Too many boozers on the conference committee over Senate Bill 40, which consists of Speaker Mike Huebsch, Assembly Majority Leader Jeff Fitzgerald, Assembly Leader Jim Kreuser, Rep. Kitty Rhoades, Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, Senate Leader Scott Fitzgerald, and senators Bob Jauch and Russ Decker.
You know who you are in the adult beverage category.
Never mind the very expensive and labor-intensive legislative showdown involving about 500 Republicans and Democrats, including assemblymen and senators in town for per diem, and 127 senate and 199 assembly high-paid staffers and more than 30 supporting clerks and staff wandering around the Capital City.
Why be productive when you can collect $88 a day, salary and all the bennies, not matter what inaction happens?
Stay tuned as the seven-week-old Capitol impasse rolls into next week.
Madisonians see more sensationalism, violence on the front page of Ellen Foley's family newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal
Is Foley for real?
Is Foley for real?
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Rabid Bat: The unauthorized biography of Ellen Foley
Catastrophe amid muck, mire, misery and healthy young whites are happier than sick and impoverished minorities is stock in trade of the overly sensationalized headlines of the broadsheet a.k.a. the Wisconsin State Journal, published daily by its editor, Ellen Foley.
So tacky, negative and sensationalized, in fact, that the National Enquirer won’t display its supermarket tabloid anywhere near the State Journal in grocery checkout lines.
The State Journal chintz offers no real political coverage, even though based in the Capital City. Instead, it relies on www.wischuckleheads.com, a blog of political discourse and secondhand "insider" gossip the paper regurgitates in its Sunday edition.
The op-ed page offers glib and quirky political opinion that’s about as enlightened and in-depth as the abbreviated legislative coverage the AP renders as news.
If Foley wants to provide a public service, the paper of record should send someone to cover the dangerously overcrowded campus buses that UW-Madison students must ride around in.
The bromide “packed like sardines” is apropos because even the door wells are so crowded that four or five students must disembark before other passengers can exit or board at a bus stop.
Since the ride is free, Metro drivers keep packing students in – you won’t see faculty riding the bus since most of them drive luxury cars to their cushy jobs - despite the liability issues the school and Madison Metro could face from exceeding the legally authorized capacity.
But Foley, who hangs out on Fish Hatchery Road, and the fat cats on the dole in Bascom Hall that enjoy door-to-door parking from their homes to offices are oblivious to the crowded conditions that students must put up with on a cross-campus bus ride.
A comparative disadvantage is that one or two people on each shuttle were pampered with a continuous shuttle service from Lot 60 to the UW Children’s Hospital grand opening.
The system could charge twenty-five cents or so per ride at UW, and then donate the proceeds to homeless shelters or soup kitchens in Madison. A token fee could also help to alleviate overcrowding on the campus buses – but don’t hold your breath on that one.
Catastrophe amid muck, mire, misery and healthy young whites are happier than sick and impoverished minorities is stock in trade of the overly sensationalized headlines of the broadsheet a.k.a. the Wisconsin State Journal, published daily by its editor, Ellen Foley.
So tacky, negative and sensationalized, in fact, that the National Enquirer won’t display its supermarket tabloid anywhere near the State Journal in grocery checkout lines.
The State Journal chintz offers no real political coverage, even though based in the Capital City. Instead, it relies on www.wischuckleheads.com, a blog of political discourse and secondhand "insider" gossip the paper regurgitates in its Sunday edition.
The op-ed page offers glib and quirky political opinion that’s about as enlightened and in-depth as the abbreviated legislative coverage the AP renders as news.
If Foley wants to provide a public service, the paper of record should send someone to cover the dangerously overcrowded campus buses that UW-Madison students must ride around in.
The bromide “packed like sardines” is apropos because even the door wells are so crowded that four or five students must disembark before other passengers can exit or board at a bus stop.
Since the ride is free, Metro drivers keep packing students in – you won’t see faculty riding the bus since most of them drive luxury cars to their cushy jobs - despite the liability issues the school and Madison Metro could face from exceeding the legally authorized capacity.
But Foley, who hangs out on Fish Hatchery Road, and the fat cats on the dole in Bascom Hall that enjoy door-to-door parking from their homes to offices are oblivious to the crowded conditions that students must put up with on a cross-campus bus ride.
A comparative disadvantage is that one or two people on each shuttle were pampered with a continuous shuttle service from Lot 60 to the UW Children’s Hospital grand opening.
The system could charge twenty-five cents or so per ride at UW, and then donate the proceeds to homeless shelters or soup kitchens in Madison. A token fee could also help to alleviate overcrowding on the campus buses – but don’t hold your breath on that one.
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