3 results for tag: Government Transparency
ALL REAL POWER RESIDES IN THE PEOPLE
ALL REAL POWER RESIDES IN THE PEOPLE
(A Closer Look at Wisconsin Civil Service)
By William Franks, Jr. AFT-W Local 4848 Retiree, Emeritus Chief Steward and former Equal Opportunity Specialist of Senior Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Senator Fred Risser’s (The Dean of Wisconsin Legislators) grandfather, Ernie Warner, introduced the legislation in 1905 responsible for creating what we now refer to as the Wisconsin Civil Service System. Warner was a Republican Lafollette Progressive. As I listened to Senator Risser’s interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, he reminded us of the reasons the Progressives, the Liberals of their day, ...
TELL LAWMAKERS TO KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF GAB.
TELL LAWMAKERS TO KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF GAB.
By Joyce Luedke
An August 25, 2015, editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel states: “As we suspected, a state audit released last week found no major problems with Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, which handles ethics complaints and supervises state elections.
Of course, you wouldn’t know that from the rhetoric coming from Republicans in the Legislature, some of whom want to gut this government watchdog. Citizens of this state need to send them a strong message: NO.
When even the MJS writes an editorial asking citizens to speak up to support the GAB and what it is ...
A Wisconsin Tragedy in Three Acts
A Wisconsin Tragedy in Three Acts
By Nancy Kaplan, Kath Michel and Pat Slutske
(of Grassroots North Shore)
The word 'free' is heavily used by the Right, even in contexts where it is not appropriate. They use it wantonly in order to control perception and influence people. Because everything 'free' must be good (like motherhood or apple pie), the word has a halo effect on other words in a phrase or sentence, magically making them inherently good too.
But beware! Right wingers use it to mask their true intentions: to strip us of the liberty and freedom democracy affords. Their war against democracy — an insidious, well-planned, and ...