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IBEW Local 611 Endorses Marty Chavez for Congress in NM-1
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Today, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 611 endorsed former Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez in his race for the House of Representatives in New Mexico’s First Congressional District.
“Marty has been a champion for working families throughout his career and a stalwart friend of the IBEW. During his time as Mayor, our members were working because of Marty’s policies that delivered good paying jobs to our city,” said Business Manager Chris Frentzel. “Marty has proven he can get results and I know he will continue to make progress for our families in Congress.”
Planning, Plating And Plate Lunches
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Some food for thought in this season of public budgeting:
A few days ago
I posted the rationalization for Milwaukee County withholding its $800,000+ annual annual assessment from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, (SEWRPC).
Note in
a discussion of regional planning in the Madison Capital area, we learn that
Dane County is currently blocking a similar assessment - - and I'd argue that the issues in the two disputes have overlap - - and thereby is willing to use the receipt of taxpayer dollars logically and fairly as a lever to meet land preservation and other public policy goals.
Where is the gumption in Milwaukee County government to ask SEWRPC, at a minimum, for an annual work plan in exchange for a large grant of taxpayer dollars?
I'll bet there are many agencies that would like to receive a no-questions-asked annual grant of more than $80,000, let alone more than $800,000.
And let's not think that in an era of billion-dollar budgets that $800,000 isn't real money.
SE Wisconsin Regional Transit: Stability, Instability And Insanity
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
We offer you The Good, The Bad and The Ugly that passes for a transportation system in Southeastern Wisconsin.
First the stability:
Both Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele are trying to work their way around state budget cuts to keep Milwaukee's bus system afloat by supporting a County plan from Abele to fill
part of the funding gap with one-time federal financing amounting to a few million dollars - - including transferring to bus services a relatively small amount of money that could have helped Barrett get a City streetcar Downtown moving towards its long-delayed start-up.
Give them both credit for cooperation, and to Barrett for giving ground on the streetcar, as it no doubt will give a few hours comfort to his rabidly anti-rail, anti-city talk radio critics.
But now the instability:
It all started with an Occu-Pie. Photos.
Original Author:
RLMiller
Last Wednesday, I baked a pie for my local Democratic club meeting. I named this one the Occu-Pie Apple Pie, because all good pies should have names.
A new face showed up at the meeting to tell us about a MoveOn rally on Friday afternoon. She liked my pie, the rally sounded interesting, and I decided to go.
But first, a little about Ventura County. It has the beach city of Ventura; the working-class Latino city of Oxnard; and the purple-to-red East County, home of the Reagan Library, and that's all you really need to know about East County politics, isn't it? While others howled about Occupy Wall Street police brutality arrests, I tweeted: "Videotape of police brutality does not, in and of itself, swing America to your side. Love, Rodney King country."
Keller, Maestas Criticize Romney for Calling Middle Class Tax Breaks 'Band-Aids'
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Famous photo of money-bags Romney when he and his cronies were buying up companies and laying off workers for profit
On Friday, New Mexico State Senator Tim Keller and State Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas held a press conference call to discuss Mitt Romney’s comments at the GOP debate in New Hampshire that tax cuts for the middle class were nothing more than “little band-aids” that he doesn’t support. Romney has long made noise about opposing tax cuts for the middle class, but his latest statement exposes just how out of touch Mitt really is with the lives of ordinary Americans.
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