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State Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, US Senate Candidate, Has PolitiFact Ratings Mainly False
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
We've come to expect ratings like this:
Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, State Assembly leader and US Senate candidate is just another GOP leader and
fibber - - one true, two mostly false, one Pants on Fire rating so far - - earning him about the same false-to-true PolitiFact rating
owned by Governor, Scott Walker.
There is a Wisconsin Republican struggle with truthiness, as
I noted a couple of months ago:
Another day, another "False" rating from PolitiFact for a top Republican leader from Wisconsin.
This time, it's Reince Priebus, the Wisconsinite running the national GOP apparatus these days.
In a statement, Priebus was found to have doubled the amount of money public-employee union spent in the recall elections - - turning about $15 million into $30 million.
That's a pretty big goof, both in total dollars and in as a percentage of the true facts.
Occupy Los Angeles - The Beginning Is Near
Original Author:
Marta Evry
Occupy Los Angeles - The Beginning Is Near from Marta Evry on Vimeo.
NM Blue Cross Denied Another Rate Increase Just Days After Public Outcry
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Petition delivery and press conference
Another victory for the people, thanks to the hard work of some dedicated health care advocates and your support of their petition! Less than a week after a coalition of health care advocates delivered the petition signatures of 1,500 New Mexicans calling for Blue Cross Blue Shield to withdraw its latest health insurance rate hike, the company learned that the increase was denied.
According to a story in this morning's Santa Fe New Mexican, the company failed to support the rate hike in its application to the State Insurance Superintendent.
OKC Occupation Begins
"Whose streets?"
"Our streets!"
And with that chant, the occupation of Oklahoma City began early Monday evening when approximately 150 people gathered at downtown Kerr Park to demand economic justice and fairness in the face of growing wealth disparity dictated by our corporate-controlled political system.
The group, Occupy OKC, a spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, have a three-day permit to camp at the downtown park, which is primarily concrete and decorated with fountains, and it has even brought in portable bathroom facilities.
All In For The Walker Recall
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
With a sneak attack on public employees, repetitive
deception and catering to self-serving special corporate interests, Scott Walker has made
the recall movement's announced plan for an early start to the process inevitable.
And let's be clear: he is not being recalled over one vote or controversial policy that can be corrected in the next election.
Look at the record: this has been coming for
more than 20 years.
I've cataloged Walker's flaws and failures through 1,407 posts on this blog. Feel free to use the archive through the search box.
Success for the recall is a matter of logistics, effort, commitment and money.
All in all, it's doable - - an opportunity to correct a pattern of deceit inflicted against the people. And it's a necessity if fairness and democracy is to be restored to the State of Wisconsin.
It's asking too much to wait until 2014.
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