James Rowen

Scott Walker, Koch Money And That Iran Taint

October 14, 2011 by The Political E...

Let's go out on a limb and predict that when Scott Walker is allowed to raise unlimited funds in the recall election coming his way that the Koch brothers will again be major donors.

[Update: Dan Bice discloses Walker appearance at Koch-related conservative gathering.]

And let's also predict that Walker will take every dime of these funds without flinching at the disclosures about Koch interests' bribery in relationships with Iran.

In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.

New Villard Square Library Dedication Saturday Morning

October 14, 2011 by The Political E...

Join Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for the Grand Opening at the new, green, innovative:

Villard Square Branch Library 
9:45 A.M.
5190 North 35th Street 
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Hunter Is One-Man Environmental Wrecking Crew

October 13, 2011 by The Political E...

People like this deserve long stretches in prison.

These people, too, as bad behavior against animals is a signal, too.

You Don't Have To Be An "Environmentalist" To Be Outraged By This Case

October 13, 2011 by The Political E...

Wisconsin's lakes, rivers and streams, as common waterways, belong by law and the State Constitution to the people of Wisconsin - - all the people - - yet the lengths certain people with money and a sense of entitlement will go to tamper with and damage these public waterways for their own private uses boggles the mind.

The couple did not have state permits when they began building a stone wall in August 2009, damaging more than 10,000 square feet of lake shore and bed, Van Hollen said in a statement. They also dumped 70 cubic yards of sand on the lake bed without a permit in August and September of 2009.

This took place on Upper Nashotah Lake, where others find spiritual renewal.

State Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, US Senate Candidate, Has PolitiFact Ratings Mainly False

October 13, 2011 by The Political E...

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.