Posted on 05/25/2015 7:18:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gov. Scott Walker has appointed the son of a president of a foundation that supports tea party causes to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. The board oversees the University of Wisconsin system, setting policies and approving budgets, among other vital regulatory duties.
Walker appointed Mike M. Grebe, son of Michael W. Grebe, president and chief executive of the Bradley Foundation, to the board. The foundation is an essential part of Walker’s “brain trust.” It’s poured millions into promoting such right-wing policies as busting unions, expanding voucher schools and eliminating social welfare programs.
In addition to his association with the Bradley Foundation, Grebe also has served as chairman of Walker’s campaign.
Walker also has appointed Jim Troupis, an attorney who often works for the GOP, as a Dane County circuit judge. The governor says Troupis will fill a seat previously held by Judge John C. Albert, who has retired. Troupis will serve until August 2016.
Madison - In the tense moments leading up to Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Albert's decision to order protesters out of the State Capitol, the judge drafted a letter intended to explain his reasoning.
But after careful consideration, Albert decided not to send the letter. Instead he directed state officials to explain to protesters why they had to leave.
But Albert released the letter.
Here is what it said, in its entirety:
"Members of the Rotunda Community:................
Supporting free enterprise and limited government is “right wing”?
That would have come as a surprise to Herr Schiklegruber
My God, I hope he’s at least SOME balance to the far left loons that dominate “higher education” today.
MORE: “.................. Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert has been listening to two days of testimony on whether he should make a temporary court order ensuring full public access to the building permanent. He is expected to rule on the matter Thursday.
He told the packed courtroom shortly after 6 p.m. that he wanted to test the state Department of Administration’s contention that building access would return to normal quickly if the protesters who have spent the last two weeks sleeping overnight in the rotunda left. He presented a draft order that would have forced anyone who was still in the Capitol after its regular 6 p.m. closing time to be out by 8 p.m. and said he planned to have DOA officials hand one to each protester.
“It’s worth a try,” a weary-sounding Albert said as he massaged his temples. “They should be out of the Capitol because it’s closed to business.”
The order would have given the 100 or so protesters still camping out in the Capitol only minutes’ notice and potentially set up confrontations with the multiple police agencies that have been guarding the building.
Assistant Attorney General Steven Means, who is representing the DOA, urged Albert not to do it. He said the order wouldn’t be fair because the protesters didn’t get a chance to be heard. Union attorney Peg Lautenschlager pointed out that the protesters may not take the order seriously because she contends the DOA has ignored the temporary court order to fully open the building.
“If you do the order, I don’t know how people in the building will react,” she said.
Albert reluctantly relented and decided to resume the hearing Thursday afternoon.
The protesters are among tens of thousands of others who demonstrated in and around the Capitol for two weeks against Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip most public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. They’ve had free run of most of the building and the grounds for days, staging massive rallies, pounding bongo drums and spending the nights on the Capitol’s floor on air mattresses and in sleeping bags. They even set up their own makeshift day care center in the building’s north wing.
The DOA announced Friday that everyone had to be out by 4 p.m. Sunday so crews could finally clean the building. Agency Secretary Mike Huebsch testified Wednesday that protesters jammed the Capitol at 4 p.m. that day hoping to get arrested, going so far as to write their attorneys’ phone numbers in marker on their arms.
Huebsch said he decided not to have police remove the protesters by force because he wanted to avoid confrontations between protesters and police. Those still in the Capitol were allowed to stay overnight, but many left after they realized they weren’t going to be arrested.....”
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/03/03/wisconsin-protesters-union
You complainers make me laugh. When you were in the “CAT BIRD” seat, who did you appoint to all these State agencies? Why you appointed your own people. Now that the tables have been turned, all you do is “BITCH” about what Walker is doing. Well boo hoo, guys, your people had done such a piss poor job and put the state of Wisconsin to debt.
Bump!
Right-wing in today’s neomarxist America used to be considered patriotic.
What is best in life?
Crush your enemies.
See them driven before you.
Hear the lamentations of the metrosexuals.
"".... Even after billions in tax cuts under Walker, per capita state spending in Wisconsin is the highest of any state in the Midwest, including Illinois. In per capita terms, its state budget is twice as big as that of Texas.... National Review Jan 2015
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Walker assumed office Jan 2011 and the "you know what" hit the fan. Since then he's survived a recall election (only governor that ever has) and then won office again in 2014.
The John Doe investigation has been ongoing for all this time (against Walker and his supporters) and still he just keeps moving Wisconsin to the right (digging it out of a VERY DEEP HOLE dug by the Left).
Squeeze them out of the universities. Those that remain must be in hiding.
All Walker needs to say is:
“I won.”
Hey, it took you liberals, socialists and communists years to destroy this state. Walker has only been in office for a fraction of that time. So, if the people of Wisconsin is smart, and I do have my doubts, they’ll continue with Walker’s programs. But you never know how the people of Wisconsin will go.
Walker has the left in a snit over his latest appointment to the U Board of Regents.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Oh my... Walker appointed a right wing..
Does this piece of garbage paper, say anything if a leftist appoints a leftist? My guess...NO!!
Winning elections have consequences....these are some good ones!!!
The LWNJ rags in Wisconsin consider all government positions to be the sole proprietorship of the Left. It’s why they act so outraged that Walker (gasp! a Republican!!) appointed a Republican (gasp!) after appointing, then rescinding, a recall signer.
I mean, how DARE Scott Walker name someone he agrees with to a political appointment!!!!!!
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