The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Uncomfy conservatives and their enablers now even busier dismantling dissent

September 23, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

You've got to admire the chutzpah (pronounced "chuts-paw" by Michele Bachmann) of Republicans and conservatives and their opinion-leader enablers. First they mounted a bald attempt to seize permanent control of government -- and that's hardly an overstatement, since at least one GOP party official a couple years ago said flat out that was their goal. But the effort hasn't been going entirely as planned, so they're doubling down.

How, exactly, do you go about seizing control when the public isn't keen to vote your political cabal into undismissable majorities? Well, there are ways, as we are learning in Wisconsin. For example:

* Trying to eliminate or make much more difficult our state's constitutional provision for recalls of state elected lawmakers. The recalls can be for any reason the voters choose. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as of this morning has now written at least two editorials backing this dumb-down of what we ought to rename Constitutional Recall.  

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And high-end jobs, and scads of high-tech businesses in and around Madison that go with it?

It sure does look that way.

The ideologues who run the legislature, who carry Scott Walker's water, who get their marching orders and talking points from right-wing talk shows and shrill advocacy groups are now hell-bent on closing Wisconsin's best, home-grown businesses and driving some of the state's most productive research scientists, life-giving disease fighters,  skilled grant-writers, bold venture capital funders, and fearless corporate innovators to Texas, California, South Korea and elsewhere overseas.

All in a twisted application of anti-abortion politics, and in a misdirected campaign against embyronic stem cell science, as a Wisconsin technology spokesman points out.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a paper that endorsed Walker for Governor, also wants the legislature initiative stopped:

Walker trying to finish the job on Milwaukee County transit?

September 5, 2011 by Eye On WIsconsin

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today on the desperate state of the Milwaukee County Transit system. We've seen this kind of report nearly every year over the last 5-8 years. Each year the problems have become progressively worse. However there is no mystery as to what brought us to this situation. Milwaukee County's transit wounds were largely self inflicted by the political