New Orleans A year ago new Governor Scott Walker led the Wisconsin legislature in a bitter, highly contentious and contested, battle to attack public employee unionization. The headlines a year later focus on labor’s efforts to recall the government. What happened to the workers in Wisconsin in the face of these new laws? Short answer: nothing [...]
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New Orleans Billionaire Vegas and global casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s 11th hour $5 million contribution to a Super PAC to try to save Newt Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican nomination for US President should become a case study in the influence peddling now allowed by the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision. Any pretense that politicians [...] New Orleans Republicans, Democrats, or whatever, when something is way, way over the line, it should be roundly understood as out of bounds. A piece in the New York Times Home and Garden section this week by Kate Zernike called “The Houses of the Hopefuls” was appalling on any [...] Missoula The patterns are just too obvious now. The Republicans are into Big Brother and total government control. They are not conservatives at all! It is such a mistake for any of us to get suckered into that slick trick. What they really want it becomes increasingly clear is total government intervention, intrusion, and control [...] Little Rock Visiting with friends and comrades in Little Rock, it wasn’t long before the discussion went to the obvious: how could there be meaningful civic engagement of low-and-moderate income families in the 2012 elections without a huge voter registration effort among the poor? There are still open wounds from too many sources that [...] New Orleans Are you thinking and talking about the recent elections still? Well, yes, I am because now is the time to prepare for the coming elections in 2 years. In writing recently about the Tea Party and Me Party dominance in various elections, friends raised the new “top 2” primary system in California [...] |
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