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Wisconsin should retain same-day voter registration

November 23, 2012
the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Editorial)

Gov. Scott Walker put a lot on the table during a sold-out speech last week at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in California. Among his ideas, according to Journal Sentinel reporter Jason Stein: changing Wisconsin law that allows voters to register at their polling place on the day of an election.

Ending same-day registration is a bad idea, and it will almost surely reduce the number of people voting - many of whom are inclined to vote for Democrats, which likely is the real reason the ever-political Walker wants to make the change.

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Second judge rejects state voter ID law Requirement will not be in place for fall elections

July 17, 2012
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
By Patrick Marley 
 
 
Madison - A second judge has declared Wisconsin's vot

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Walker raises $13 million in recall

April 30, 2012
Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. -
Gov. Scott Walker's campaign said he raised more than $13 million from mid-January through last week.

The governor's campaign said the money came from a total of 125,926 contributions. Walker has raised more than $25 million since Jan. 1, 2011, shattering the record for fundraising by any candidate for state office in Wisconsin. Walker himself set the record when he raised $10 million on his way to victory in 2010.

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GOP hoping voters choose fake Dems in Wis. recall election

April 23, 2012
Chicago Tribune
Associated Press


Republican leaders hope their supporters vote for fake Democrats in May 8 recall elections, a move that could result i

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Koch gives $1 million to pro-Walker GOP group

April 20, 2012
Journal Sentinel
By Daniel Bice

David Koch , the billionaire supporter of conservative causes, told a Florida newspaper earlier this year that he would be doing what he could

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recall: Big money fuels small-government fight

March 25, 2012
Washington Post

By Marc Fisher

MADISON, Wis. — Every day at the cutting and sewing business he runs
with his father, Ross Brown listened to Glenn Beck rail on the radio
against Big Government, Big Labor and Big Money. In his years of
middays with Beck, Brown had morphed from apolitical adolescence to
college student with his own talk show on the campus radio station and
on to businessman with 15 employees and not enough money to offer them
health insurance.

Then, one day three years ago, at the apex of the debate over

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Still under the influence of Scott Jensen

February 20, 2012
[Madison, WI] Cap Times
Scott Jensen, the discredited former Wisconsin Assembly speaker, remains a force within the Assembly Republican caucus.
 
The subject of an eight-ye

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Lawmakers were made to pledge secrecy over redistricting

February 6, 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Public comments were to be ignored, GOP memo shows

By Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

Election 2012

Madison - As legislative leaders secretly developed new election maps last year to strengthen their majority, Republican lawmakers were told to ignore public comments and instead focus on what was said in private strategy sessions, according to a GOP memo that became public Monday.

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Two ex-Walker aides accused of illegally doing campaign work

January 25, 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Two staffers who worked directly for Gov. Scott Walker while he was county executive were charged Thursday with illegally doing extensive political work while being paid by taxpayers to do county jobs.

In addition, Milwaukee County prosecutors expose what they say was a private email network created by top Walker aides to allow them to communicate with one another about campaign and county work without the public or co-workers' knowledge.

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