Showing posts with label Legislation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legislation. Show all posts

Friday, April 4, 2014

COMMON CORE: WISCONSIN CHILDREN WERE NOT REPRESENTED BY SENATOR OLSEN

Senator Olsen’s Office Was Opposed to Common Core Repeal before March Public Hearing
Wisconsin Election Watch – Kyle Maichle

Haley Sinklair, an intern for the free-market think-tank, asked Sarah Archibald for comment on Senate Bill 619 on February 19, 2014 at 11:51 AM.  After receiving the e-mail, Ms. Archibald forwarded the message to Senator Olsen and Dee Pattack at 11:53 AM, saying: “I say we tell them and everyone else that we are NOT interested in repealing the common core but I will not respond until I receive direction from one of you two.”  Later on, Mary Pluta forwarded Ms. Sinklair’s e-mail at 12:14 PM to the Senator and all of his Legislative staff saying: “Did everyone get this.”  Senator Olsen said to Ms. Archibald at 12:19 PM, “Nothing to say to them.”  Ms. Pattack later responded to another message from Ms. Archibald and Senator Olsen at 12:23 PM saying that: “I vote for not replying before the hearing.”


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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

COMMON CORE: REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO ALLOW A VOTE

Wisconsin Republicans face backlash over support for Common Core
Wisconsin Reporter - Ryan Ekvall  - 4/1/ 2014

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republican lawmakers who supported the national Common Core academic standards are starting to face blowback from party members back in their districts.

Sen. Olsen, R – Ripon, faces a “public flogging” from party members for his support of the Common Core.

Members of the GOP’s 2nd, 4th and 6th Congressional District caucuses passed resolutions declaring “no confidence” and “no support” of Sen. Luther Olsen of Ripon and Rep. Steve Kestell of Elkhart Lake, chairmen of the Senate and Assembly committees on education, respectively. Olsen and Kestell represent portions of the 6th Congressional District.

“These resolutions are not binding resolutions; nobody is going to fire them from GOP,” said Michael Murphy, vice chairman of the Republican Party’s 4th Congressional District. “It does show the party does not support what they are doing.”

“It’s more of a public flogging, if you will, from our delegation,” he said.

Specifically, the votes come after Olsen and Kestell blocked GOP reform of Common Core, a national set of education standards requiring new curriculum, classroom resources, multi-state standardized tests and increased student data gathering.
The issue is becoming a litmus test for Republicans, especially among their tea party constituency, this primary season. Both the state and national Republican Party platforms reject Common Core standards.

The two Wisconsin lawmakers failed to schedule public hearings on Common Core required in the state budget. Instead, it was only after Gov. Scott Walker publicly supported holding the hearings that Republican leadership formed new committees to schedule them.

Those hearings resulted in a bill that would create an academic standards board that could over time adopt new standards and periodically review them. The bill would remove that power from the state superintendent of public instruction, who currently has sole authority to adopt state standards.

Olsen told reporters moments before the bill’s hearing that the bill didn’t have the support of a handful of Republicans in the Senate, but failed to name any of those senators.

Some Republicans, like Murphy, felt Olsen’s maneuvering in the press was to slight Sen. Leah Vukmir, R-Wauwatosa, who supported a full repeal of Common Core.

On Saturday, the Republican Party’s state resolution committee will meet to decide which resolutions should make it to the state convention for a full party vote.
Contact Ryan Ekvall at rekvall@watchdog.org, 608-257-1382 or follow him on Twitter @Nockian.

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

PUBLIC PENSIONS ARE ‘SERVICED BY THE PUBLIC’


Packing on the pensions:  WI reps collect state retirement on the federal dime

Wisconsin Reporter – M. D. Kittle – 7/30/3013

WI legislators collect thousands from the public when they no longer work.
 

READER COMMENT:  I sincerely wish every damn one of them, regardless of party, would cease to describe their occupation of elected office, particularly federal office, as "public service." Rather, it is more accurately described as "getting serviced by the public." Let's significantly cut back on the perks, salary, and genuflecting these folks routinely receive, making it true public service, and then observe who steps up to the plate. The current climate attracts and maintains a ruling class of pompous, elitist, arrogant horse's asses who recognize actual work by way of their observations thereof at a distance.


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

OBAMUNISM: PROOF OF WHAT YOU'VE ALWAYS SUSPECTED


“Obamunism: a word created by mixing together Obama and Communism, coined by critics of the Obama administration to describe Barack Obama’s socialistic and ‘fascism light’ economic policies.  Obamunism can also refer to Obama’s ruinous fiscal policies and reckless monetary policies which have contributed to high unemployment rates in the United States.”  (Conservapedia)

Read the both articles as the following topics are explained:

Following are some highlights of Trotsky’s speech, and I’ve added current liberal quotes next to them.   I’m doing this because any great coach will tell you–the only way we can fight the enemy is to understand their game plan.

ON CHANGE/TRANSFORMATION THROUGH REVOLUTION:
ON ‘TOP DOWN, BOTTOM UP’ THEORY:
ON USING A WEAKENED ECONOMY/SPIRIT TO FORCE CHANGE:
ON NATIONALIZING BANKING/BUSINESS/INDUSTRY ETC:
ON COLLAPSING THE US DOLLAR:
ON USING THE MEDIA TO PROMOTE COMMUNISM:
ON RELIGION:
ON LIFTING UP CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA:
ON CHANGING EVERYTHING ELSE:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obamunism-part-2

ON NATIONALIZING:
ON MANIPULATING THE MARKET:
ON MOLDING DEMOCRACY:
ON THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THEY LIKE AND DISLIKE:
ON MANIPULATING THE MEDIA:

Ann-Marie Murrell is a Conservative writer and a contributor to The Reagan Report and many other Conservative websites. Like President Reagan, Ann-Marie spent the first half of her life in show business and as a democrat. However, 9/11 changed her life and after watching the buildings in New York collapse she understood what evil truly was, and the importance of having strong, capable leaders in America. These days Ann-Marie considers herself a Conservative/Republican (in that order).

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

MARXISM: THE INEQUITY OF EQUAL OUTCOME


In truth Mother Nature will never allow any such thing as “equal outcome.” The only equality which is natural and unforced is that of equal rights and equal law – American Equality. Those who would enforce equal outcome through unequal rights and unequal law are tyrants – a self-serving class “more equal than others” – superior in rights – superior before law – superior in property. Americans agitating for equal outcome are agitating for Marxist Equality – which turns out to be equal serfdom for us and unequal (superior) ruling class status for them. Under Marxism the “little people” - seen from atop their self-serving tower of government power – appear so small as to become identical molecules of gas in Brownian motion – identical cogs in their State mechanism.

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS

4/12/2011


This form of “Sustainable Development” (capital letters) is a recipe for the destruction of capitalism.     . . .  In truth, it reads like a Marxist Manifesto. The document clearly states that the plan is to establish and maintain the “community well-being”.  . . .  Here are just a few of the web definitions of “socialism” but all say the same thing in different ways:  A political theory advocating state ownership of industry;  An economic system based on state ownership of capital; The Marxist theory of a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.


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Monday, March 21, 2011

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

WI Judge Maryann Sumi has a clear conflict of interest and should have recused herself before ruling against the Budget Repair Bill.

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/03/21/wisconsin-judge-maryann-sumi-her-seiu-afl-cio-political-operative-son/


Jake Sinderbrand, son of Judge Maryann Sumi, poses a bit of a problem for his mother.
Son of Sumi touts his work for the AFL-CIO and SEIU.
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2011/03/jake-sinderbrand.html

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