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Walker was not only illegally coordinating campaign expenditures in that moment, he was soliciting david kochs financial help from the governors office inside the state capitol. you are not supposed to solicit campaign contributions from your public office. talking about the koch brothers in 2011 is starting to feel like talking about karl rove in 2004. if you care about progressive politics or even fair play in 2011, you really cant get away from the koch brothers. they are becoming way too ubi...

Effect. now that prank call gives governor walker a whole new headache. wisconsin state democrats filed ethics complaint over what mr. walker said to the guy he thought was david koch, or what walker said to the man he believed was the oil billionaire that funded his campaign, specifically raising ethical concerns about this part. >> the coming days and weeks and months ahead, particularly in some of these more swing areas, and a lot of these guys dont necessarily need ads for them, but need a m...

Was surprised. i saw the quote from senator miller. and he wasnt saying anything we werent saying, we are ready to go back. it is not up to us. it is up to theç republicans t sit down, come to resolution over this. i talked to senator miller last night. we were frustrated last thursday night because we thought there was some sort of head way with governor walker and then the senate republicans thursday passed a resolution saying if we crossed state lines, we would be arrested, which isnt incen...

Corporation. or you get the american coal industry launching its faces of coal website, where clip art stock photos of people are passed off as real live humans who support the coal industry and have faces. sometimes the most direct way to see through this kind of corporate funded pr made to look like real politics is just by looking at the fine print on the signs. that big pro-oil rally in houston featured signs carrying the fine print "energy citizens". whats that? almost ungoogleable, if you ...

Reach out. >> in terms of how this might end, what would you need to hear from governor walker or from the republicans in order to get you back? what are you waiting to hear? >> thats a really good question. first of all, we would like to hear they are honest and sincere in efforts to bring resolution to this. we have been very up front about why we are here and about what we would like to see changed in the budget repair bill or big state budget coming up now as well. theres a couple different ...

Werent saying, we are ready to go back. it is not up to us. it is up to the republicans to sit down, come to resolution over this. i talked to senator miller last night. we were frustrated last thursday night because we thought there was some sort of head way with governor walker and then the senate republicans thursday passed a resolution saying if we crossed state lines, we would be arrested, which isnt incentive to go back. we were surprised we were getting signs from walker administration th...

To rally in support of their corporation. or you get the american coal industry launching its faces of coal website, where clip art stock photos of people are passed off as real live humans who support the coal industry and have faces. sometimes the most direct way to see through this kind of corporate funded pr made to look like real politics is just by looking at the fine print on the signs. that big pro-oil rally in houston featured signs carrying the fine print "energy citizens". whats that?...

Remember when his administration said protesters had caused so much damage to the state capitol that it was going to cost $7.5 million to clean up the horrible, horrible mess the protesters made and repair everything they had broken? walkers administration has now said that maybe that 7.5 million figure was a little high. they have since revised the cleaning estimate downward by 95.3%! i know. never mind!