Does it get any worse than Senator Dale Schultz? You received my last email about Senator Schultz blocking the mining bill and killing jobs and income in Wisconsin. You also received my emails about Senator Schultz blocking Raw Milk in his committee. Well guess what! Now his office is calling you names! I spoke with…
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Governor Walker, First Lady Announce Public Tours of Executive Residence
Madison – Governor Scott Walker and First Lady Tonette Walker announced that tours of the Executive Residence, which began on April 5, will continue until August 30. Public tours will be offered every Thursday during this time period from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. “Tonette and I are proud to welcome our fellow Wisconsinites into the…
Dan Knodl, Government Circus
Knodl Welfare Reform Bill Becomes Law
By Dan Knodl Taxpayers will no longer be on the hook when people defraud the state’s W-2 program. Senate Bill 426 authored by Representative Dan Knodl (RGermantown), State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), and Representative Scott Krug (R-Wisconsin Rapids) cracks down on fraud, penalizing first offenders. Representative Knodl says the legislation brings the W-2 program…
Paul Chesser
Fisker’s Private Fundraisers Face SEC Investigation
By Paul Chesser The Securities and Exchange Commission has notified the brokers who raised most of the private financing for taxpayerbacked electric automaker Fisker Automotive that charges may be brought against them, in connection with a private offering in 2009. The co-founders of Advanced Equities, Inc., Keith Daubenspeck and Dwight Badger, were served in January…
Paul Chesser
Taxpayers’ Green ‘Investment’ in Battery Company Withers
By Paul Chesser A123 Systems – the taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery manufacturer that famously shipped duds to Fisker Automotive, which caused one of its luxurious Karma EVs to shut down just before a Consumer Reports test – is now the defendant in an investor class action lawsuit and its stock has tanked to below $1.…
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Natural Resources – National Confusion
Ottawa must play major role in unlocking natural resource development across the country Ottawa, Ontario – The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s twin endowments of vast natural resources and well functioning institutions could unleash an unprecedented wave of prosperity, especially in the west. Yet at the very moment when these endowments could fuel an almost…