Herb Kohl

Wisconsin's US Senators: One class act, one greedy corporate clown

September 9, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Dave Zweifel in The Capital Times, on today's corporate greed:

...[H]ere in Wisconsin all we need do is take a look at  our two U.S. senators, who both happen to be successful businessmen. Together,  they epitomize the two different worlds that Collins paints.

 

One, the soon-to-retire Herb Kohl, built a highly successful empire of  grocery stores, all the while following the rules, contributing his fair share  of taxes and helping promote the state's social and cultural life.

 

Then there's the new senator, Ron Johnson, who built a plastics business in  no small part thanks to some well-placed tax breaks, and who now spends his time  in Washington complaining about taxes, insisting that government needs to "get  out of the way," and opposing any kind of health care reform that might benefit  the uninsured.

 

Kohl spent his entire career espousing the belief that business and  government could partner to make this a better world. Johnson wants no such  partnership. Business needs to be left alone, no matter what means it must use  to achieve its ends.

 

An Open Letter to National Conservative Groups from Wisconsin’s Liberal Bloggers

September 8, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

To: Chris Chocola, Club for Growth
The Honorable Jim DeMint, junior Senator from the Great State of South Carolina

It is with great disappointment that we have learned of the efforts of some conservatives on the national level to try to dictate to Wisconsin conservatives their choice for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Herb Kohl. This is a tremendous opportunity for Wisconsinites to elect a second conservative senator worthy of being able to self-fund a campaign (at least until the unseemly outside contributions can be tallied and repaid) and one that Wisconsin conservatives will take very, very, very, very seriously. This is not only a choice of ideology and of who looks best in a tri-corn hat while eating a cream puff, but one of character, charisma and compassion, and it is our responsibility to bring Mark Neumann’s lack of those attributes to your attention.

Open Letter to National Conservative Groups

September 8, 2011 by Eye On WIsconsin

To: Chris Chocola, Club for GrowthThe Honorable Jim DeMint, junior Senator from the Great State of South CarolinaIt is with great disappointment that we have learned of the efforts of some conservatives on the national level to try to dictate to Wisconsin conservatives their choice for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Herb Kohl. This is a tremendous opportunity

Milwaukee Public Radio's odd preoccupation with conservative special interest groups

August 31, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Tune in, tune outIn terms of its news and cultural programming, WUWM-FM in Milwaukee is, like most public radio stations, a reasonably good alternative to the shock-jock, wingnut talkmeister, carnival-realilty programming you get on most commercial TV and radio outlets these days. Milwaukee Public Radio, as the station is also known, is every bit a complement to Wisconsin Public Radio.

But MPR, like WPR, lately has had a bit of a problem with balance. To some extent that's because both entities are surely stressed by the attack of right-wing "kill public radio" types, and their call to de-fund such public outlets altogether. In WUWM's case, a little bit of this problem also may spring from the fact that station manager Dave Edwards is, by several accounts, a somewhat conservative guy, like too many other people in modern American radio broadcasting.