2 results for author: Mark Holbrook
HOW DO WE FORGET?
How do we forget over two hundred years of the Wisconsin dream? How do we look at what our fathers and mothers bequeathed us, and throw it all away for the promise of more jobs, or less taxes? Are we so much less than previous generations that we can throw out any measure of the ideal we expect for our children and our children's children? I am asking these questions of my neighbors and fellow statesmen, because that is exactly what Scott Walker is asking us to do with his current budget proposal.
In one fiscal proposal the governor is asking us to dump the Wisconsin Idea, a philosophical ideal that has guided this state's university system, and ...
Overturn Citizens United with an Amendment
If you're like me, and of course there is no reason to assume you are except that most of us are not fools, then you are highly skeptical when it comes to believing that if someone contributes tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to a candidate's political campaign, they expect nothing in return.
If you too find that hard to believe, take action. Petitions are being circulated in our communities to ask the state of Wisconsin to place a referendum on the ballot to create a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution that overturns the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United, which defines money as a form of free speech and says that corpor...