Mr. Walker emphasized what he described as his battle-ready toughness, hyperbolically likening his fight with members of his own party in the Wisconsin State Legislature to the bloody Mel Gibson biopic.
"Now, I want to take that same common sense approach to the state Senate," Harris said in a copy of his speech provided in advance. "There, I’ll work to reverse the crippling education cuts that have devastated local schools, and re-invest in our kids and classrooms. I’ll work with local businesses and entrepreneurs to encourage job growth, giving middle class families a fighting chance to get ahead."
To justify the warrants, investigators wrote that they suspected Villa had broken several laws, including misconduct in public office and solicitation of public employees to commit misconduct. They presented evidence of Villa’s involvement in both an alleged bid-rigging scheme and a political action committee that Walker aide Tim Russell was suspected of doing work for while on county time.
Jim Villa, a longtime friend and ally of Gov. Scott Walker, has been named vice president for university relations for the University of Wisconsin System.
“I’m excited about this,” System President Ray Cross said Wednesday. “I’m really glad he’s going to be working with us.”
Villa, 42, will earn an annual salary of $178,000 in the newly created position overseeing the System’s state and federal lobbying and communications efforts. [emphasis added]
The Wisconsin governor also faces growing pressure from some financial backers to make staffing changes in an attempt to turn around his campaign. But in a brief interview with The Washington Post at the Los Angeles airport Thursday afternoon, Walker said he had just completed a conference call with about 80 major donors -- none of whom mentioned wanting staff changes.
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The club is employing a two-pronged approach to try to discredit the candidate. It is utilizing Mr. Trump’s previous liberal policy views to argue that his campaign promises are disingenuous. And it is highlighting his use of eminent domain as a developer to suggest that Mr. Trump has a record of hurting middle class Americans to bolster his own business interests.
Which presidential candidate supports higher taxes, national health care, and the Wall Street bailout?
It's Donald Trump.
"In many cases, I probably identify more as a Democrat." (Quote from 3/21/2004 CNN interview.)
Trump wants us to think he's Mr. Tell-it-like-it-is.
But he has a record, and it's very liberal.
He's really just playing us for chumps.
Trump. Just another politician.
"In many cases a probably identify more as a Democrat." (CNN interview quote repeated)
Citing a Wall Street Journal editorial last week, Republican state lawmakers renewed and intensified their claim that the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board is politically biased and unfairly targeting conservatives.
Little evidence supports such allegations.
Moreover, GOP leaders are ignoring key facts about the GAB as they try to weaken if not disband the independent and nonpartisan watchdog agency that oversees campaign finance, elections, ethics and lobbying laws.Related post:
So it’s a shame that he would be frozen out, but as we were chatting he reminded me that his experience isn’t unusual. He confirmed something I had assumed: Walker cannot walk through the Capitol. He is escorted in and out via Capitol tunnels. [emphasis added]
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If you’re a voter or reporter outside of Wisconsin and just getting to know our governor, give that some consideration. This is a man so polarizing and so intensely disliked in his home state that he can’t show his face in his own Capitol building. He has to be smuggled in and out like “El Chapo,” the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison the other day through a drainage pipe.
And so a president who came to office with relatively little experience has managed to tarnish experience, incumbency and institutions: a fundamental transformation indeed.Seems to me the problems lie elsewhere.
“The Middletown Library is still standing but will be closed until further notice. The other branches of the Lake County Library in Lakeport, Clearlake, and Upper Lake remain open our usual hours and available if you need to check email or use our public computers to get in contact with loved ones. All open branches also have free wifi and power outlets if you need to charge your device.
All fines and fees for those affected by the Valley Fire will be waived.Related post:
