Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett… different than Governor Jim Doyle, somehow.

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Doyle hopes Wisconsin never fixes its budget problems

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MADISON, WI [ JG ]  Call it truth in advertising: The steering wheel, one imagines, symbolizes the last thing one clutches on their way across the border in the flight toward less taxpayer/businessman-hostile climes. I’ve lifted the graphic from the state D.O.T. (note the zero in the middle of that abbreviation… a recurring theme in [...]

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MADISON, WI [ STORY : JSOnline ]  “If they don’t make enough money, we can’t TAKE it from them!” wailed Governor Doyle, speaking before Congress during his free time between job interviews for ’09 cabinet posts. Yeah, I paraphrased.  But not much. See my weekly WITI / FOX6 POLITICAL FEATURE This week’s article is: “Find [...]

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USA [ LINK : WSJ ]  Archer Daniels Midland is the self-proclaimed “Supermarket to the World” (and, if I’m not mistaken, they also recorded “the Devil Went Down to Georgia”).  They’ve reported record profits this past quarter, citing “higher selling prices” of their farm produce as the reason. Sound familiar?  Move over, Big Oil.  Big [...]

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MILWAUKEE, WI [ JG ]  Two headlines graced the front page of the final “old” edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel online edition last Friday.  The fact that they appeared together should put an end to the myth of journalistic political bias that inspires absurd right-wing editorial cartoons like this one: The first JSOnline article, trumpeting [...]

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PIERRE, SD [ LINK : Edmunton Sun ]  Nearly (if not) every state in the union has reached some sort of extortive settlement agreement with American tobacco companies. Public health is reportedly the motivation for these payoffs.  You see, smoking is by nature a dirty, filthy, untenable, and deadly habit, but once Phillip-Morris cuts the [...]

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DANE COUNTY [ LINK : AP ] The Governor has his own lexicon.  A “surplus”, for example, is referred to by it’s cuter Doyle acronym:  “Money I’m Not Earmarking”, or M.I.N.E. Last year, the Governor was apparently wandering the Capitol Building, figuratively picking locks and rifling the office chair cushions for loose change to help [...]

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