Monthly Archives: October 2012

Government Circus

K.Carl Smith Brings The True Message of Fredrick Douglas to America  By Steve Welcenbach Last Thursday evening, October 11th, I participated in one of the truly great aspects of being an American. K. Carl Smith, president and founder of the Fredrick Douglas Republicans, brought the true message of the idea of America as founded, by…

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Sen. Rich Zipperer Awarded for Job Creation Votes WMC Bestows “Working for Wisconsin Award”  Madison – Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) recently honored Senator Rich Zipperer with the prestigious Working for Wisconsin Award at the Governor’s Office in Madison. The award is given to legislators who stand up for jobs and improve the state’s business…

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Baldwin Voting Record Hurts Middle Class Jobs, Says State Chamber Baldwin Gets Low Score on Manufacturing and Business Issues  By Kurt R. Bauer Madison – Manufacturing is Wisconsin’s largest business sector employing 450,000 people and accounting for nearly 20 percent of total GDP. But you would never know how important manufacturing is to Wisconsin based…

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New Study Refutes Economic Development Claims of Milwaukee Streetcar Project National Transit Expert Authors Report for the MacIver Institute  Milwaukee – A new study rips the proposed Milwaukee Streetcar project as an expensive and inefficient scam. If City of Milwaukee Officials were truly concerned about providing affordable transportation options to their residents, they could provide…

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Where Did All Those Black Voter’s Go?  Are 60 percent of Milwaukee’s black voters from 2008 missing? That’s what a study from the New Organizing Institute claims, which estimates that as many as 160,000 black voters in the city from the last presidential election can no longer be found. Slate reports on this claim without…