Former Top Aide of Scott Walker Flashes Big Grin As He's Released from Prison
Tim Russell is back, baby! After two years in the slammer, the mastermind* behind the criminal scheme** to steal taxpayer dollars to fund Scott Walker's 2010 gubernatorial campaign is no longer...
View ArticleStranger than Fiction: Real David Koch Keeps Promise Made to Scott Walker by...
I'll give Scott Walker this: No one can accuse him of having deflated balls. Despite getting caught on tape accepting an illegal offer from someone he thought was billionaire David Koch to "fly you...
View ArticleMyth Busting Scott Walker's "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story
This past weekend in Iowa, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker rolled out one his favorite talking points: The story of how Wisconsin's 2010 "outstanding teacher of the year" winner Megan Sampson got laid...
View ArticleWI Senate: Ron Johnson Chooses Out-of-State Chain to "Showcase Local Businesses"
As his re-election looms, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson is making a desperate attempt to fix his image of being Senator Snipe-- the Senator who is rumored to exist, but who nobody ever actually sees.So, his...
View ArticleBreaking: Smoking Gun Found of Scott Walker's Bag Man Paying For Hit on...
In Walker's Wisconsin, it's never "agree to disagree"-- it's agree to agree with the Governor. If you don't, you'll end up like former Republican State Senator Mike Ellis. Ellis was Wisconsin's...
View ArticleBait & Switch II: The Tape of Pre-Governor Scott Walker Promising to "Keep...
Tonight, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will officially release yet another budget that slashes state aid to public education in Wisconsin. Before he does, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Back...
View ArticleOh Sweet Irony: Walker Caught Lying About Removing "Search For Truth" from UW...
Yesterday, Scott Walker finally jumped the shark: He introduced a budget that removed several lines from the University of Wisconsin System's mission statement (aka a little thing known as "The...
View ArticleAnother "Drafting Error"? Walker Also Deleted "Fair and Peaceful" from WI's...
Long before Scott Walker dusted off the statutes and tried to put "search for truth" and the rest of the Wisconsin Idea in the 'ol wood chipper, he successfully obliterated something almost as big: he...
View ArticleWalker Says Wisconsin's Growing Trade Deficit is "Great News"
Wisconsin was once the flagship manufacturing state of a United States that exported far more than it imported. Milwaukee, in fact, was once known as the "Machine Shop of the World" because, you name...
View ArticleMyth Busting the Right-Wing’s "Schools Have to Make Teachers Wear Underwear"...
The latest Daily Caller,Inquisitr and Fox headlines scream out, "State Takes Over School District That Had to Make Teachers Wear Underwear." I don't know about you, but seriously? I'm for the...
View ArticleWalker Tells Fox He's Always Opposed Path to Citizenship; But in 2013 Tape He...
Welcome to How Walker Lies 101.A few days ago, class, Walker was gracious enough to give us a fresh example.A questioner--in this case, Fox News correspondent Brett Baier--asked or started to ask...
View ArticleHilarious Audio of UW College Republicans President Responding to Walker's UW...
This just in from Wisconsin's best reporter, WORT's Dylan Brogan, who asked University of Wisconsin's College Republicans President Courtney Mullen to elaborate on claims by her organization that...
View ArticleWalker Signing Union-Busting Bill at Union Shop That Had Record Earnings Last...
Today Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will sign the Orwellian-named "Right-to-Work" legislation at a company whose CEO recently threatened to move the company's few remaining Wisconsin jobs to Mexico...
View ArticleBreaking: Reagan Library Says Walker Tale About Getting Anointed By Nancy...
This is a developing story brought to you by your's truly in The Progressive. In a nutshell, Walker frequently tells a story about how he got a special invite from Nancy Reagan to speak at the Reagan...
View ArticlePolitical Arm of Reagan Library Doing Lousy Job Rescuing Walker from Bible Story
The Reagan Library has two parts-- the Reagan Foundation that is pretty much the political arm, and the Reagan Library branch of the National Archives.When I initially started researching this story, I...
View ArticleStore Walker Promotes in Campaign Stump Speech Pays Zero in Taxes & Has Wages...
Oh, this is perfect. Walker's favorite campaign stump speech is a story about how he got a one dollar sweater at Kohl's-- the store of choice for the Walker clan.He then transitions into why his...
View ArticleWalker Chooses Earth Day to Fire Half of DNR Scientists
In 2011, Scott Walker famously declared, "We're broke," and used that as cover to make the biggest cut to education in state history and make historic cuts to everything else-- including the Wisconsin...
View ArticleWalker's "Medically a Non-Issue" Claim Doesn't Ring True for Woman That...
Originally published at The Progressive.With all the certainty of a graying obstetrician, Scott Walker declared that the question of aborting a pregnancy to save a woman's life is a hypothetical that...
View ArticleCarson Got "1830s 6th Graders were Smarter than Today's College Grads" Claim...
Originally posted in The Progressive. Just how much have America's schools gone down the tubes?According to Dr. Ben Carson, a lot -- and he can prove it! The good doctor is quick to refer you to his...
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