Saturday, July 4, 2015

Once again, Wisconsin Republicans violate their most precious principle

One that obviously can't be taken seriously anymore.

  


State budget provision exempts Enbridge from Dane County insurance requirement.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/4/2015)

So much for local control.
The provision, which was added to the proposed state budget anonymously, would block a county measure to require Enbridge Energy to carry $25 million in pollution insurance before it can proceed with a planned pipeline capacity expansion.


Related Republican hypocrisy posts:
Hypocrisy alert: The Oklahoma Republican Party believes "that government closest to the people governs best and is preferred to centralized control".  (5/10/2015)
Cartoon conservative principles.  (5/6/2015)
The Usual Hypocrisy: What Scott Walker sez on his campaign website and what he does in the Governor's office are two different things.  (5/2/2015)
The "hits" to local control just keep on coming.  (2/28/2015)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board calls out Republican hypocrisy.  (2/17/2014)
And the hypocrisy just keeps on coming: Republicans can't even give lip service to their "Principles". (2/14/2014)
Yet another lesson in Republican hypocrisy.  (2/13/2014)
Another lesson in hypocrisy: Wisconsin Republicans disparage Mary Burke for her wealth.  (1/31/2014)
A lesson in hypocrisy, Waukesha County edition.  (1/29/2014)
Your Wisconsin Republican Assembly hard at work promoting Governor Walker's jobs agenda (and GOP principles).  (11/15/2013)

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Scott Walker does David Bowie


Scott Walker, Republican leaders remove open records restrictions from Wisconsin budget.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/4/2015)

As far as the open records debacle is concerned, Scott Walker is still is 'changes' mode.


Read the other Walker quotes at your own risk.

I have the feeling that 'remove' has a completely different meaning in Walker's vocabulary.

Related posts:
Open records and Scott Walker's irresolute response.  (7/4/2015) 
When it comes to transparency, ALEC wants to have it both ways.  (7/4/2015)
You have to wonder what dictionary Joint Finance co-chair John Nygren is working from.  (7/3/2015) 
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's definition of transparency: All the self-serving Republican news releases I see fit to print
Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin? (7/3/2015)
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Open Records and Scott Walker's Irresolute Response


(emphasis added)

As reported by a California news talk radio station.

Backlash over Wisconsin GOP plan to tighten open records law.  (KSRO, 7/3/2015)

The only acceptable change is to delete the offending language from the budget.  Apparently, that's not and never has been the Governor's plan.   I guess it's something that wasn't on his radar until a few days ago.


Related posts:
When it comes to transparency, ALEC wants to have it both ways.  (7/4/2015)
You have to wonder what dictionary Joint Finance co-chair John Nygren is working from.  (7/3/2015) 
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's definition of transparency: All the self-serving Republican news releases I see fit to print
Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin? (7/3/2015)
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100 Years of Frank Sinatra: "Swing Easy!"


Frank Sinatra's 8th studio album and 2nd for Capitol records was released on August 2, 1954.  The songs' arrangements are by Nelson Riddle.

According to the website All Music, the album ranks as one of his most jazzy performances, as well as one of his most fun and carefree records.


One of the 8 cuts featured on the original 10" albums.  (4 songs per side.)



Not swinging easy at Gibson Park, Great Falls, Montana


Other Frank Sinatra 100 posts:
"Our Love".  (2/14/2015)
"I'll Never Smile Again".  (2/15/2015)
"Fools Rush In".  (2/16/2015)
"Dolores".  (2/17/2015)
"Oh Look At Me Now".  (2/18/2015)
"This Love of Mine".  (2/20/2015)
"There Are Such Things."  (2/24/2015)
"Night and Day".  (2/26/2015)
"The Night We Called It a Day".  (2/27/2015)
Paramount Theater, December 30, 1942.  (3/2/2015)
Reveille with Beverly.  (3/4/2015)
"You'll Never Know".  (3/7/2015)
Higher and Higher.  (3/8/2015)
"People Will Say We're in Love".  (3/10/2015)
The Shining Future.  (3/17/2015)
"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night".  (3/19/2015)
Step Lively.  (3/20/2015) .
"Saturday Night (is the Loneliest Night of the Week)".  (3/21/2015)
"You'll Never Walk Alone".  (3/23/2015)
"Oh What It Seemed to Be".  (3/24/2015)
Anchors Aweigh.  (3/26/2015)
"Day by Day".  3/27/2015)
Till the Clouds Roll By.  (3/29/2015)
"Always".  (3/30/2015)
It Happened in Brooklyn.  (3/31/2015)
"I've Got a Crush on You".  (4/3/2015)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".  (4/5/2015)
"It Only Happens When I Dance With You".  (4/7/2015)
The Miracle of the Bells.  (4/9/2015)
The birth of Tina.  (4/11/2015)
The Kissing Bandit.  (4/16/2015)
"Some Enchanted Evening."  (4/19/2015)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game.  (4/22/2015)
"The Huckle Buck."  (4/24/2015)
On the Town.  (4/28/2015)
A blowup in Houston.  (4/30/2015)
1st television appearance.  (5/3/2015)
"The Frank Sinatra Show".  (5/5/2015)
"I'm a Fool to Want You".  (5/7/2015)
"Mama Will Bark".  (5/10/2015)
Double Dynamite.  (5/13/2015)
Frank and Ava get married.  (5/15/2015)
Meet Danny Wilson.  (5/19/2015)
"I Could Write a Book".  (5/24/2015)
His Final Recording for Columbia Records, "Why Try to Change Me Now?"  (5/28/2015)
A new musical era with Capital Records.  (6/2/2015)
Filming begins on From Here to Eternity.   (6/15/2015)
"I've Got the World on a String".  (6/20/2015)
"Young at Heart".  (6/21/2015)
Songs for Young Lovers.  (6/22/2015)
Best supporting actor Oscar.  (6/28/2015)


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Leonard Lucia (1926-2015) Warren High School Class of 1944



1944 Dragon yearbook
 
Leonard's high school activities
Basketball (2, 3); Carnival (2, 3); French Club (2).

'Leonard' has been treading water of late.  He has a long swim to get back to his level of popularity during the 1st half of the 20th century.  His best year:  1923.


Other members of the class of '44:
Mary Blackwell Bancroft.   (6/22/2015)
Kenneth Klenck.  (1/31/2015)
Dolores Nuhfer Anthony.  (9/21/2014)
Marjorie Christensen Anderson.  (10/6/2013)
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When it comes to transparency, ALEC wants to have it both ways


Highlights added

Source of quotes:
(l)   Don't Turn Out the Lights:  Interstate Compacts and State Sunshine Laws.  (American Legislative Exchange Council, January 2002)
(r)  CMD Files Open Records Suit Against ALEC Board Member Sen. Leah Vukmir.  (The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, 6/7/2013)

Related posts:
You have to wonder what dictionary Joint Finance co-chair John Nygren is working from.  (7/3/2015) 
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's definition of transparency: All the self-serving Republican news releases I see fit to print
Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin? (7/3/2015)
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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Doug Lamborn (R-CO, 5th District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Scott Tipton (R-CO, 3rd District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Duncan Hunter (R-CA, 50th District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Darrell issa (R-CA, 49th District)




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Friday, July 3, 2015

You have to wonder what dictionary Joint Finance co-chair John Nygren is working from


Especially after 34 days of closed-door meetings and a budget motion (the notorious #999) chockful of spoiled, stinky, special-interest pork.

Photo credit:  Wisconsin State Legislature

Budget motion proposes sweeping changes to records access in Wisconsin.  (Capital Times, 7/3/2015)

Related post:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's definition of transparency: All the self-serving Republican news releases I see fit to print
Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin? (7/3/2015)
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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's definition of transparency: All the self-serving Republican news releases I see fit to print


Photo credit:  Wisconsin State Legislature

Lawmakers slash public records access in budget bill.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/3/2015)
The GOP plan would limit public records requests for lawmakers' communications with their staff and for drafting records of legislation after it's been introduced. It would also exempt a host of records created by the Walker administration, state agencies and local governments and put new limits on public access to information about dismissed criminal charges in some instances.

Tell your state legislators not to support the 2015-17 budget until this item is taken out.

Related post:
Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin? (7/3/2015)
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Word of the Day: Call me 'skeptical'



Study Suggests That Google Has Its Thumb on Scale in Search.  (The New York Times, 6/29/2015)

The aphorism 'you get what you pay for' comes to mind.
Google entices people to search by promising links to the best that the web has to offer. But research released Monday, led by top academics but paid for by one of Google’s rivals, suggests that Google sometimes alters results to play up its own content despite people’s preferences.

Shocking, right?
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Good question, Albert Darling. So why the lack of transparency in Wisconsin?


Transparency:  On the Joint Finance Co-Chair's mind 2 years ago.


Today:  Fuggedaboutit

Budget motion proposes sweeping changes to records access in Wisconsin.  (Capital Times, 7/2/2015)
Included in the 24-page motion were five sections of proposed changes that would severely restrict access to the once-public records of the Legislature. 

"This is a very serious full-frontal assault on the state’s traditions of open government," said Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.


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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Mimi Walters (R-CA, 45th District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Ed Royce (R-CA, 39th District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Jeff Denham (R-CA, 10th District)




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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Tom McClintock (R-CA, 4th District)



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Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Doug LaMalfa (R-CA, 1st District)



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