A judge ruled Thursday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) must “promptly” hold special elections for two vacant seats in the state legislature — elections that he refused to call because he was afraid his party would lose.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds ruled that state law requires Walker, a two-term governor and former presidential candidate, to hold the elections in order to give residents of the two districts representation in the state legislature. The seats have been vacant since December, when Walker appointed the two representatives to serve in his administration.
“To state the obvious, if the plaintiffs have a right to vote for their representatives, they must have an election to do so,” said Reynolds, who Walker appointed to the court in 2014.
Walker claimed he didn’t need to fill the seats because the legislative session will be ending soon, and planned to keep the seats open for more than a year. Wisconsin voters named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit called that decision unlawful.
“We have nobody representing the interests of our Senate district right now and that upsets me,” Jennifer Meyer, one of the named plaintiffs, testified in court. “We’re entitled to representation.”
Damn! I have seen some desperate Republicans lately but absolutely refusing to hold elections because your party will be defeated is pretty fucked up.
Scott Walker reminds me of the kid that suddenly "accidentally" upends the Monopoly board when he realizes he is about to lose.
And really all he has done here is to ensure an insane Democratic turnout and definite defeat for the GOP candidates.
Doesn't anybody in this party understand the concept of "fair play" anymore?
Rosenstein live now - this is huge...
ReplyDeleteon the one hand - glad they caught the hackers - but on the other - IRAN !!! what if treasonous trump uses this as an excuse to start a war (instead of sanctions, and putting money into our cyber security systems) *sigh*
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-deputy-ag-rosenstein-expected-to-make-major-cyber-law-enforcement-announcement
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ab50ce4e4b054d118e2365c
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Why this openly hateful worthless, SOB is still in office, boggles the mind?
ReplyDeleteAre we that fucking dumb??
Really ?
Noam Chomsky calls GOP world's biggest terrorist organization.
DeleteThe only way to counter this unethical criminal display of leadership is to continue to educate and organize protest and action. Exposing this type of corruption and outright crime against voters is mandatory for democracy.
ReplyDeleteIt starts with the church. You expect them to see their error of worship? That's their whole error, their entire existence!! Its childish, its closed in upon itself and does not reflect an accurate understanding of the self.
DeleteIts a start.
DeleteLearn about the nature of the self. Its not about force. Rather, we are luminous and whole.
The statement from organized tax exempt religious communities is disturbing regarding the election of Donald john trump. I cannot accept their reasoning or condoning of such a criminal and liar under any circumstance. Our families, friends and some leaders have completely lost their minds. I don't have the answers but I do know what is right and wrong. And right now the gop is wrong, trump is wrong for this country. And we the people must never stop fighting for our children and life in America.
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Deletehttps://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/2/16598906/republican-tax-bill-religious-right-johnson-amendment-trump
Issues that come to mind along with the delusional current republican party is the anchor baby condos sit up around trump properties. Little Russia in florida and California. I am more concerned about that. Stop all purchase of properties in America by un American's. Stop the invasion of money laundering.
ReplyDeleteBut trump wouldn't have any money at all without the laundering of loans! Poor trump.
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John Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users less ‘limp wristed’ about war
ReplyDelete...In an interview with the New York Times, Wylie says that Bolton’s PAC was alarmed by polling trends showing that more and more Americans viewed war unfavorably — and it wanted to construct an advertising campaign aimed at reversing those views.
“The Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues,” said Wylie, a data expert who was a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Analytica. “That really meant making people more militaristic in their worldview. That’s what they said they wanted, anyway.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/john-bolton-paid-cambridge-analytica-make-facebook-users-less-limp-wristed-war/
February 2016 death of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court on March 16, 2016" "fair play" ?<RiiiggghhhttT!
ReplyDeleteSTandard conservative brain disorder 101 = the ends justify the means. They are not about fair play, and are only interested in laws when they can use them against their political opponents. They are as unAmerican as it is possible to be.
DeleteKarma is going to be a birch because Schumer is going to do the same to any Trump pick after the midterms. Illegitimate presidents who stole the election with the help of foreign powers cannot nominate federal judges. In fact all judges nominated by trump and confirmed by a traitorous GOP must be impeached immediately.
DeleteRepublican Senator Bob Corker let it slip this week why members of his party refused to stand up to Donald Trump. During an interview with the Washington Examiner, Bob Corker said that when he’s out on the campaign trail, when he’s talking to people, they’re not asking about issues. They don’t care about what’s happening in the world. They’re only asking him, are you with Trump or not? And they want to hear that he’s with Trump.
ReplyDeleteAnd the same is true for Republicans all over this country. It’s no longer about the issues. The Republican base, the hardcore alt-right part of the Republican base, a small fraction of it, just wants to know if you’re loyal to Trump or not because that’s all they need in order to vote for you. And that’s why these spineless, disgusting Republican pigs refuse to stand up to Donald Trump or to demand deeper investigations into what this man has been accused of doing, whether its with the sexual assault, the harassment, the defamation, the collusion investigation. They won’t touch any of that because, if they do, they could lose a very tiny small little fraction of their voting base. These Republicans, by Bob Corker’s own admission here, are more beholden to the alt-right, to the one percent of one percent of right wing voters than they are to the American public.
Donald Trump is inflicting very real damage on this country. That’s undeniable. And he’s doing it with the help of the Republicans. He couldn’t do everything that he’s done without their complacency on this. But he’s doing it anyway because they’re going right along with him. They don’t want to stand up to him. They don’t to tell him that his idea for a border wall is stupid. They don’t want to tell him that you can’t ban Muslims from entering the country, not because they don’t believe it or because they’re against it, but because they don’t want go against him, because then they have to go answer to those crazy people in their base, the crazy people who stand up and say, “Why did you go against Donald Trump? Now I can’t vote for you because I’m an idiot voter.” They’re afraid of those people. That’s what this is about.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/republican-senator-finally-admits-party-wont-stand-trump/
What I've thought/said from day one.
DeleteAll of what you said is true.
DeleteHOW that came to be, and WHY it is so, is 100.0% due to erroneously concretizing religious metaphor, which results in a blindness to the meaning of the metaphor. We do NOT exist inherently, permanence does not exist, we are not separate but distinct. In duality, the ignorant man GRASPS for CERTAINTY, unaware he IS that very impermanence and uncertainty - he is, if anything is to be taken literally, trying to escape the very nature of his own existence. What a skill to deny the nature of the human condition, what a skill to deny life!
These struggles are as old as man himself. We must stop grasping for certainty within duality, and see religious symbols as metaphor for our own human condition. Grasping the symbols as concrete, as righteous Saving deities, the metaphor closes in upon itself, the transcendence is lost, the meaning is gone, and the lessons cannot be learned. Life itself under these conditions then cannot be, but it does because life always wins.
I say that is a BS answer, trump supporters are only about 30% of the voters.
DeleteI think he is making excuses.
McGahn Eyeing Possible Exit From White House
ReplyDeletehttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mcgahn-eyeing-the-exits-from-white-house-trump-administration
Leaked: Cambridge Analytica's blueprint for Trump 'victory'
ReplyDeleteExclusive: Former employee explains how presentation showed techniques used to target voters
The blueprint for how Cambridge Analytica claimed to have won the White House for Donald Trump by using Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube is revealed for the first time in an internal company document obtained by the Guardian.
The 27-page presentation was produced by the Cambridge Analytica officials who worked most closely on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
A former employee explained to the Guardian how it details the techniques used by the Trump campaign to micro-target US voters with carefully tailored messages about the Republican nominee across digital channels.
Intensive survey research, data modelling and performance-optimising algorithms were used to target 10,000 different ads to different audiences in the months leading up to the election. The ads were viewed billions of times, according to the presentation.
...“This is the debrief of the data-driven digital campaign that was employed for Mr Trump,” said Brittany Kaiser, 30, who was Cambridge Analytica’s business development director until two weeks ago, when she left over a contractual dispute.
She is the second former employee to come forward in less than a week, talking exclusively to the Guardian about the inner workings of the firm, including the work she said it conducted on the UK’s EU membership referendum.
She said she had access to a copy of the same document now obtained by the Guardian, and had used it to showcase the campaign’s secret methods to potential clients of Cambridge Analytica.
“There was a huge demand internally for people to see how we did it,” Kaiser said of the 2016 race. “Everyone wanted to know: past clients, future clients. The whole world wanted to see it. This is what we were allowed to confidentially show people if they signed a non-disclosure agreement.”
Kaiser claims to be committed to human rights, but many would argue her career at Cambridge Analytica tells a different story. She has worked extensively for the firm, pitching business to clients in countries that have a history of exploitation by western political mercenaries, including Lithuania, Benin, Ethiopia and Libya.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/leaked-cambridge-analyticas-blueprint-for-trump-victory
"The interactive graphic, called “10 inconvenient truths about the Clinton Foundation,” appeared on the site for several weeks when internet users from certain swing states visited Politico, whose sponsored content team produced the ad.
DeleteCambridge Analytica boasted the ad achieved an average engagement time of four minutes, and Kaiser told The Guardian it was {THIS}
“the most successful thing we pushed out.”
The firm also pushed out advertisements on Facebook, Twitter, Google and Pandora that helped convince 35,000 supporters to install an app used by the most active Trump supporters."
"She said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had reserved YouTube’s MA$THEAD for an advertisement as most voters headed to the polls, but felt so confident of winning they gave up the space.
Google, which owns the video website, offered the MA$THEAD to the Trump campaign — which immediately agreed and showed two different ads to voters based on detailed geographical information of YouTube visitors."
Basically they brainwashed the American public with false information.
DeletecrA$$ is Right.'Senator Joseph McCarthy.
ReplyDeleteBut crA$$ the Wisconsin senator certainly was' NOW>
'The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines crass as 1) having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination, and 2) guided by or indicative of base or materialistic values.
The Oxford Dictionaries indicate that it means
“showing no intelligence or sensitivity.”
Dictionary.com adds, “without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid.”'
djt>" He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s uninterested in finding out.” "~IT~ is not coincidental that Trump’s popularity has been greatest among whites who are poorly educated, older, religiously evangelical, or from rural areas and small towns. his admirers interpret his language as being down-to-earth and contemptuous of political correctness. To their minds he is a “straight shOOter who speaks frank truths. He is the opposite of the intellectual or “egghead.” "one right-wing novelist as defining egghead as
“a person of spurious intellectual pretensions, often a professor or the protégé of a professor. Fundamentally superficial. Over-emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem.”
"Americans judge the value of anything only by asking,
‘How much money will it bring in?’”(1903), Ian Bell wrote, “they add up to a panorama of the vulgarity and commercialism of the age, in which innocence, sensitivity, and intelligence inevitably suffer, in which . . . everyone and everything are $OLD. . . . These stories are full of sensitive gentlemen and women who reluctantly serve, exist by serving, a crass civilization, who are themselves commodities or produce commodities.”
"Trump has never evidenced much of an ethical concern, he has expressed a fondness for Peale’s self-help religion. In 1977 Peale officiated at the first of Trump’s three weddings. Peale also “predicted the real estate developer would become ‘the greatest builder of our time.’ ” Trump, in turn, considered the minister an important mentor, who taught him “to WIN by thinking only of the best outcomes.”"by undervaluing formal education, refinement, delicacy, decency, and sensitivity, by considering them unnecessary for “real men,” it made crA$$ behavior more acceptable. In addition such conduct has become more common as a result of the popularity in recent decades of TV shows like The Jerry Springer Show and reality shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Trump’s The Apprentice, where he repeatedly bellowed out, “your’re fired.”
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168305
The head of the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday to obtain documents related to how the FBI handled its probe into Hillary Clinton’s email server, potential surveillance abuses and the recent decision to fire a top FBI official.
ReplyDeleteChairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who is leading a joint investigation with Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), issued the subpoena after conservatives on his panel became increasingly frustrated with what they said was the administration's unacceptably slow move to turn over documents.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/379850-house-judiciary-chair-subpoenas-doj-for-fbi-documents
WTF?
OMG we have a russian puppet in the White house and they are still going on about Hillary's emails.
DeleteOT? "She's pointing the finger squarely at one person:
ReplyDeleteSenate Majority Leader Bitch McCONnell."
" is a breach of the public's trUSt,"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/mitch-mcconnell-ashamed-blocking-sex-harassment-bill-congresswoman-says/
Biden praises Parkland students fighting for gun reform: ‘They’re going to win’
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/379924-biden-praises-parkland-students-fighting-for-gun-reform-theyre
GOP rep. posts personal phone numbers and home addresses of three clergyman spearheading gun control measure
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/gop-rep-posts-personal-phone-numbers-home-addresses-three-clergyman-spearheading-gun-control-measure/
It's a sad day in American when people think of themselves as the Kings, and Barons that they fled from hundreds of years ago. No wonder people here in America always love watching the so called royalty in England. American immigrants never got over their old country. Now 500 years later they start acting like those ruled over them years ago.
ReplyDeleteBy hook or by crook. It's the Republican way. Laws are for the little people.
ReplyDeleteOT-FYI"Craigslist wasn't the only site to make changes after the bill passed.
ReplyDelete"The Senate passed the measure on Wednesday, while the House approved it last month. President Trump is expected to sign it.
Reddit on Thursday announced new rules banning trades of firearms, paid sex, false documents or currency. It did not mention FOSTA"
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/379901-craigslist-shuts-down-personal-ads-after-sex-trafficking-bill
This Palin pal, Scott Walker, needs to be run out of office on a pole. He really doesn't understand that he serves democracy, and not vise versa.
ReplyDeleteGryph, please fix your headline. Judge Josann Reynolds, who is forcing Walker to hold these elections, is a woman. Even better, she was appointed by Walker!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I apparently did not read the judge's name and did not realize it was a she.
DeleteSo now the Wisconsin GOP is pushing to overturn the ruling of Judge Reynolds: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/23/1751499/-After-judge-orders-Scott-Walker-to-hold-special-elections-GOP-pushes-law-to-overturn-the-ruling?detail=facebook
ReplyDeleteRemember America's very first meme? It lit the fire that created our Revolutionary War abd caused us to throw off Britain's ownership.
ReplyDeleteNo taxation without representation.
Walker needs to be impeached.
Walker is a sociopath.
DeleteWisconsin voters had an opportunity to recall him and they failed.
DeleteTWICE, yes TWICE we voted to recall him. We lost twice and I suspect those elections were trial runs by Russia.
Deleteyes, we tried. Russia? who knows? such corruption in the land of the free.
DeleteHe doesn't care about democracy. He cares about power. These folks are shameless because they are amoral. It is very hard not to think that most if not all Republicans in power have no ethical base. They just want to benefit themselves and their rich cronies. They are uncharitable to the extreme.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin lawmakers are now looking at changing the law requiring the special election.
ReplyDeleteYou know. Like Pennsylvania Republicans are now impeaching the four Democratic judges on their state supreme court because they aren't being allowed to continue to gerrymander their districts.
we have the Coke(?) brothers running Wisconsin now. and we are very heavy gerrymandered here. Walker won the special election that was run here to get him out. justice may happen for us now.
DeleteSounds like something republicans would do. They are evil and the sooner we realize this the more likely we will over come their bad deeds.
ReplyDeleteYES!!!!!!!!ABOUT TIME!!! WISCONSIN WILL BE FREED!!! i hear Paul Ryan isn't running again! and Walker won't win another term. the milk will flow!!
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