April 2005
April 30, 2005
TPL moves to Milwaukee
Well, okay, it isn't really "moving" to Milwaukee since ideas and dreams do not have permanent locations from which to move. It would be more accurate to say The People's Legislature is "happening" in Milwaukee today.
We will gather at the United Community Center from 9:00 to 3:00 or so, listen to the Milwaukee perspective, and continue building toward Fighting Bob Fest number 4 on September 10.
The People's Legislature is very much part-time and we would recommend the same to the Lobbyist's Legislature. Unlike theirs, we have no paid staff, no PAC contributions, and no registered lobbyists. As the cover of the Shepherd Express exclaimed, "The Grass Roots Ain't Dead."
Our goal? Clean and fair elections. Is that asking too much? We don't think so.
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April 29, 2005
A progressive Attorney General
I arrived at the conference calling for new ethical standards for the Public Service Commission and saw Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager. I was not surprised. Fact is, the PSC of Jim Doyle is not significantly different than the Tommy Thompson PSC, and the rate payers are in revolt. Peg was there to call on industrial rate payers to demand a code of ethics for the PSC. For example, PSC commissioners should be barred from taking employment with utilities for one year. Hardly a radical notion.
For three years, the little person in our state has had a friend in the Attorney General's office. She has pumped life into the Public Integrity Unit, taken on the governor, demanded an end to secrecy at the Board of Regents, and she has challenged polluters and the utilities.
Did I mention that she took on the governor? Guess I did. How do we know that she is the people's lawyer and not part of the Doyle cabinet or his much smaller inner circle? The governor has made no secret of his desire to field a Democrat to take on Peg in the 2006 primary. (Just a suggestion, but he might also take a glance over his own shoulder.)
What is the argument? The Doyle argument is that Peg Lautenschlager cannot raise the money to win. I'm not making this up. The very same governor who has been raising money by the buckets from utilities, WMC members and those doing business with the state, thinks our attorney general should have been going to those same corrupting sources for funding instead of calling for campaign reform and taking on the powers that run the Lobbyist's Legislature. Whoa Nelly!
I'll take an independent AG instead of one with a tin cup welded to his hand. See you at the People's Legislature. Count me among those who believe Peg Lautenschlager has her priorities in order.
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April 28, 2005
Capacity to dream
The introduction to an art exhibit said, "Conventional reason and rationality must be overridden in order to free the mind's capacity to dream and invent." It is that spirit that brings The People's Legislature to Milwaukee this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the United Community Center (1098 S. 9th Street). We invite you to dream and invent with us.
Successful meetings in Madison, La Crosse, and Cable convince us that people are hungry for an honest political system to replace the corruption in Madison. This multi-partisan event will focus on the political process. How can citizens run for political office with a realistic hope of winning? Is public financing of campaigns possible? Is it time for citizen action instead of waiting for incumbents to reform the system?
See you on Saturday as we search for solutions. And check out the cover story in the Shepherd Express.
The rest of the art exhibition introduction said, "They opposed conformist restraints and preached a new vision of the world where imagination would thrive unfettered." Imagine, if you will, a level playing field, elections without special interest domination, competitive races. Ah, yes, we can learn from the arts.
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April 26, 2005
Laugh or cry?
Charles Duelfer has completed the CIA search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. You remember that we invaded the country because the White House and Defense Department assured us that we may face a nuclear explosion. When no weapons were found the White House speculated that the WMD's were shipped to Syria before the war.
Duelfer concludes that there never were any and so they could not have gone to Syria. Duelfer also found that the interviews with Iraqi scientists were bungled. Apparently our team was unprepared to handle interviews with those who would know if WMD's existed. Is this a sign the White House wanted to find out or is it proof they didn't want to know? Go figure.
You can go to www.cia.gov to get the report. Meanwhile the tragedy continues with more bombings, more lies, more death. What did Lincoln say: "I'm too old to cry but too sad to laugh."
Think of the 1,561 familes of our service men and women reading the Duelfer report. "The United States government is sorry to inform you that your (check one: daughter, son, brother, sister, father, mother, nephew, cousin, prized student, neighbor, minister, doctor, dentist) was killed in action in Iraq..."
I think none of us is too old to cry.
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April 25, 2005
'How stupid could you be?'
Words of a statesman questioning why Wisconsin is not pouring money into public transportation, renewable energy, schools and health care? Nope. Words from Assembly Rep. Steve Kestell commenting on the decision of the Department of Transportation to shave millions from the proposed $95 million dollar four-lane expansion of Highway 23 between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan.
Instead of four lanes the DOT will save between $30 million and $60 million by adding passing lanes. Egad! Common sense comes to Wisconsin? Not so fast. The legislators working for the lobbyists crammed this beauty into the 1999 budget before the state could even study the project. Kestell and State Senator Joe Leibham of Sheboygan vowed to fight to the death to save this pork. "If they (DOT) were to do that, I think we need to completely clean house...That kind of thinking is just dumb."
Whoa Nelly! Saving tens of millions of dollars is so dumb the DOT should be fired? How about public financing of campaigns and a part-time Legislature instead?
See you on Highway 23. Last time I checked it was doing just fine.
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April 24, 2005
Price of gas
If you think the economy is in great shape and remains unaffected by $2.35 per gallon of regular gasoline, drive on the weekend and check out the vacancy signs on motels and see if the filling stations are busy. While my observations are anecdotal only, I'd be nervous this summer if my business depended on lots of traffic. Fact is with wages stuck, minimum wage absurdly low, insurance costs up, interest rates climbing, market down, something is happening and it isn't good.
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April 23, 2005
The gap widens
I have written about the Catholic Church several times, particularly when the men who lead the church intervene in politics. Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, says, according to the NY Times, he "feels it is his duty to intervene in European politics." And, he may have been responsible for the defeat of John Kerry when he wrote that it would be appropriate for the church to deny communion to Catholic Kerry. We all remember the broo-haha that followed. It appears we will get more of the same now that he is more than de facto Pope and is the actual Pope.
Some might suggest that Pope Benedict may need to take care of his own garden. The NYT reporting from Catholic University in Louvain-La-NEUVE in Belgium, reported on a poll three years ago where 16 percent of students believed in the resurrection of Christ, 12 percent in the Holy Trinity, 11 percent in the virginity of Mary and 3 percent in the infallibility of the Pope.
A poll in this week's La Vie, a Catholic weekly found that 87 percent hoped the new Pope would approve contraception, 82 percent want priests to marry, 81 percent tolerate abortion under certain circumstances, and 72 percent want women priests.
Impressive results. Perhaps some reflection is in order before plunging into our presidential election in 2008.
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April 22, 2005
Privatize taxes
I have an idea.
Milwaukee County finances are a mess. Scott Walker, Milwaukee County exec, is running for governor so he apparently feels he must run to the right of Congressman Green. That means no new or higher taxes for any reason. With a $3 million deficit he has a hole to fill. How does he plan to do it? You guessed it. He will cut social services. Why not pick on the poor?
While Walker blames everyone for the deficit, his pals at WE Energies have no problem in raising tens of millions through "taxes" called "rate increases." Residential customers will, according to MJS, pay 7 percent more for energy this year. The "latest increase will raise $54 million as soon as the PSC rubber stamps the request. WE Energies has no hesitation in raising rates. They think, "Hey, our costs are up so stick it to the ratepayers."
If Scott Walker is afraid of raising taxes a little, why not privatize our taxing system. Hand it to WE Energies. They won't hesitate for a minute. So, Scott, why not run on a platform of privatizing Milwaukee County taxes. Or tie your tax rates to utility rates. Makes good sense to me. Run, Scott, run!
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April 21, 2005
Glad the Iraqi invasion is over
Newspapers and TV news programs are crammed with news about the new Pope, Michael Jackson, baseball, and Tom DeLay, so the insurgency in Iraq must be about over, right? (For a refreshing view of the new Pope, read the April 20 Capital Times editorial.)
Nice to have peace again. Now we can focus on the trade gap, our dependence on China for buying our debt, the budget deficit, and the destruction of EPA.
Seriously, we need our panel of "Big Thinkers for Big Plans." Our institutions will not deal with the big picture so we must.
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April 20, 2005
Arrowhead-Weston's new route!
Yes, indeed, when the Public Service Commission speaks, ATC listens. Ordered by a unanimous vote of the PSC on February 13, 2005, to find a new route for the environmental disaster called the Arrowhead-Weston transmission line, because Douglas County refused to cave to the pressures from Wood Communications and ATC and permit the line on county land, the leaders of the faux "utility" have responded. Don't crack open the bubbly yet, however, because the "new route" is through the Lobbyists' Legislature in Madison.
Yes, lobbyists are angry with Douglas County and so they called upon Republican legislators to pass a law giving utilities the power to condemn publicly held land. Whoa Nelly! Old-style Republicans must be cringing. When I grew up in the land of Fighting Bob, no one would dare suggest adding even more power to the utilities. Bad enough they can come across your private land almost anywhere they want, but to give corporate executives the authority to do whatever they want on public land would have been laughed out of the Legislature. But those were the days when citizens and not corporate lobbyists ruled the Assembly and Senate.
Stay tuned. Will the Republicans in the Lobbyists' Legislature abandon all principles of local control? Will Douglas County feel compelled to cave in? Will the Doyle-dominated PSC re-open public hearings on this line?
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April 19, 2005
Read and weep
Josh Healey's new article titled "Friends in need" states the case for university students as our system moves closer to corporate domination and turns from the mission of educating all our sons and daughters to an elite institution for those on the correct side of the class war. Then go to the Racine Journal Times for coverage of more than 1,000 students rallying to protest plans to cut all extracurricular activities.
You know, forensics, drama, art, debate, football, swimming--all the things that we used to think were essential to a liberal education. Why the rally? Voters in Racine gave us a preview of how TABOR would rip up communities every year when the voters, not our elected leaders, would decide on school budgets.
If you make it through those two articles check out the MJS article about the crisis in Milwaukee County's health program. Currently it serves tens of thousands, yes, tens of thousands, of people without health insurance. Instead of forcing the uninsured to wait in emergency rooms, Milwaukee County has for years provided a more complete service to the unemployed and underemployed. This is a big issue, but County Executive Scott Walker is too busy running for governor to propose a solution. (I am not making this up.) To qualify for service the person may not make more than the minimum wage--a wage frozen at $5.15 because Speaker John Gard (R-Sun Prairie/Peshtigo) is holding a raise hostage while he runs for Congress.
So what are our leaders doing? Well, the Republicans have decided to draft a new budget rather than amend the Doyle budget. What is the underlying agreement between the two parties? Wisconsin cannot raise taxes to cover new problems. No, that would require courage. Instead why not throw tens of thousands of indigents out of the Milwaukee County health care system, tell Racine students to join a health club and inform UW students they should start contributing to campaigns if they expect to be heard?
See you at Bob Fest!
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April 18, 2005
Honor the unreasonable ones
In trying to make sense of the lunacy in Washington, I turned to an old friend, George Bernard Shaw. He wrote, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." So, today, I honor the unreasonable men and women among us who have not given in to the cynicism of the day or to those who announce with confidence that "one person cannot change the world."
Well, Diane Nash did by sitting in at a restaurant; those who planned the march on Washington did; the women who would not accept second-class citizenship did. So join me in the celebration of the unreasonable men and women who think the People's Legislature will change the Lobbyist's Legislature. Next stop: Milwaukee on April 30 and then on to Bob Fest number four in Baraboo on September 10. Reasonable women and men need not attend.
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April 17, 2005
It's back!
Yup, just as you thought you could enjoy summer picnics, brats and beer, TABOR is back. And, as if brevity is the hallmark of good legislation, the MJS told us "It's shorter, easier to understand, and this time sponsored by the state Assembly's top two leaders and the state Senate president" in the Lobbyist's Legislature. Boy, is that exciting or what? From eleven pages to five! (The article did not mention if it is written in Crayola for legislators or printed in ink.)
But the message is clear. Republicans want two things. First, they are tired of being legislators so why not freeze the budget and then let WMC meet whenever they feel the urge to change something. Second, they are marching toward the destruction of public education so that voucher-supported private schools can become the norm. It is the Bradley Foundation-Charlie Sykes-Frank Lasee dream come true.
With the disaster of Colorado staring them in the eye, the "leaders" of the Lobbyist's Legislature simply ignore reality and instead repeat their mantra that local units of government must be stopped from supporting public education and local services. Abandon the form of government our state adopted in 1848 and go to direct legislation on spending.
And I thought conservatives valued our constitutional framework.
Gotta hand it to them. They keep your gaze off the outrageous tax breaks handed out to corporations by demanding you instead look at the third ring in this circus.
Time for a solid plan to fund government responsibly. You're it, Governor.
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April 16, 2005
Is anyone in charge?
On Friday the stock market hit its lowest close since the "election" of the Bush-Cheney team, while gasoline prices go through the roof, corporate earnings are down, and the trade gap is growing beyond anyone's wildest predictions. Meanwhile, the deficit races out of control and military spending must rise exponentially as the insurgency in Iraq just will not go away.
All this is to say, in Jim Hightower's lingo, we are "in a world of hurt."
And while indicators of our future economic health appear to be careening out of control, the state's Legislative Audit Bureau has completed a review of our W-2 program and, surprise, surprise, most of the poor have remained poor and now earn poverty wages. The author of the W-2 program, Tommy Thompson, has done much better than the W-2 participants, as he is now retained by big firms to the tune of $1.5 million per year. Shows what hard work will do for you.
But not all the news is bad news. The Republicans have eliminated the federal estate tax. Now that is a relief. I have worried that the billionaires would be forced to leave America to die in order to avoid taxes, but now they can die right here at home and not worry that their offspring will have to pay taxes.
I'm off to look for the lemmings. I have this sense that they are headed for the sea.
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April 15, 2005
Celebrate our victories
I have long believed that we spend too much time focused on our defeats and not enough on our victories. So, congratulations to the La Crosse coalition of Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Independents as La Crosse becomes just the third city in Wisconsin to raise the minimum wage. It will, by vote of the La Crosse City Council, go up by 55 cents on December 1, 2005, and another 80 cents on December 1, 2006.
This was the progressive community at its best led by the irrepressible Guy Wolf and his group of progressives. It shows what can be achieved with calls, door-to-door petition signing, and showing up at all the hearings.
So congratulations La Crosse progressives! We will chill the bubbly stuff for you at Bob Fest on September 10.
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April 14, 2005
Surprised by high gas prices?
In keeping with the great media ethic to remain silent on the root cause of problems, there is no discussion about the oil company mergers and consolidations over the past decade and their impact on the price of gasoline to motorists.
Have you noticed that when one filling station raises its price, the other ones do as well? Could there be some collusion? An old-fashioned conspiracy to fix prices? Of course not, or the Bush administration would come down hard on them.
The oil companies have made so much money they hardly know what to do with it all. And who pays? We do. Who gets blamed? OPEC. Who gets off the hook? Shell, BP-Amoco and the other oil companies.
In a true open market, one company would be reducing prices to pick up business. But they all have the same excuses. Does anyone know how to contact the Department of Justice?
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April 12, 2005
A little seduction might help
Senator George Allen told John Bolton, "You are perfect for the U.N. You're not going to be seduced by international bureaucracies."
Yikes! The guy wants to destroy the UN and he is "perfect" for the job? This is like appointing Ken Lay to head the ethics board or Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce to write the tax code. (Oops! WMC does that now, but you get the point.)
It is wonderful to watch as Bolton, confronted by his own speeches and memos, tries to respond as if someone else wrote them.
For our credibility in the world, Bolton must be defeated.
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April 10, 2005
Wake up, Democrats
They say generals always fight the last war and I'm here to tell you that incumbent Democrats seem stuck in 1992. Somehow, as Bush's approval rating drops to 41 percent by one poll and his handling of Social Security is right there with Richard Perl's credibility on WMD's in Iraq, Ron Kind and Herb Kohl jump on the bandwagon of the credit card industry and vote to help them in their fight with citizens who are down on their luck. (See Jesse Russell's article on UnKind-ness.)
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton wants to stop asking questions about the irresponsible decision to invade Iraq and instead work arm-in-arm with Republicans who now tell us things are better. Oh yeah? Who says so?
Democrats need more Tom Harkins, Dick Durbins, Barbara Boxers, John Conyers, Maxine Waters and Ted Kennedys. Not more of the DLC "go-along-to-raise-money" Democrats who seem afraid to tell working Americans who are losing the class war, "We are on your side."
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April 9, 2005
Dark clouds over Vatican
In an ominous sign, Cardinal Bernard Law was selected to say one of the eight masses for John Paul II. You will recall that Law was at the center of the sex scandal in Boston and was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002. So, forced out in Boston, promoted in the Vatican, given a choice role at the funeral of the Pope.
One suspects the ubiquitous Cardinal Ratzinger's hand was in this one. But what a sharp stick in the eye to the abuse victims.
Lots of tough questions ahead for the Catholic Church. Placing Bernard Law in a prominent position is not a good sign.
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April 8, 2005
Spreading the word
Howard Dean inspired millions of Americans to jump back into politics or to put their toes in the water for the first time. The media, yes that crowd, had to elminate him as a serious contender for the top job, and they did.
But lots of Dean supporters continued to meet, calling themselves Democracy For America, or here, Democracy For Wisconsin. I spoke to the Deaniacs several months ago about the People's Legislature and I was impressed with the diversity of the crowd and its enthusiasm for grassroots democracy. There were probably 45 or 50 people, young, old and in between.
Democracy For Wisconsin had its regular monthly meeting on April 6, but there was a surprise waiting for them. Some 70 people from the Democratic Party, including the man annointed by Jim Doyle to lead the party for the next two years, Joe Wineke, and Tim Sullivan of AFSCME, attended a meeting of Democracy For Wisconsin, for the first time, so they could vote for Joe Wineke over his opponent for party chair, Jeff Rammelt. Of course the naive Deaniacs, thinking this was their group, had no rules to protect against a hostile takeover and they allowed everyone to vote and, guess what? Wineke won the straw vote.
Incredibly, one of those who came to pack the meeting uttered these words: "This is what democracy looks like." Whoa Nelly! If a thousand Dean supporters showed up at the Democratic Convention they would be escorted from the hall.
If this is what democracy looks like then we are in trouble. Wineke should be embarrassed. He will unboubtedly be the next chair of the Democratic Party and then he will be the representative of Governor Doyle as well as all incumbent Democrats at all levels of government. And his job? Convince the Deaniacs, Greens, and politically homeless to join the Democratic (not democratic) Party. Good luck, Joe.
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April 7, 2005
Follow through
The problem with having 803 lobbyists working 99 Assembly reps, 33 Senators, not to mention the governor and the PSC, is that the reporters covering "politics" in the Capitol are understaffed and overwhelmed. On any given day there may be five or six reporters in the Capitol press room barely able to keep up with news releases--let alone real stories--while the money boys roam the halls pushing their agenda.
If we are lucky a good story will emerge once a week or so uncovering some nefarious plot against the public interest, but there is no ability to follow through. Take this loopy "Job Creation Act II", as exhibit A. Presented in draft form, right from the lobbyists, the public and the media cannot possibly formulate intelligent analyses of the proposal in part because it is still in draft form. Knowing that, the lobbyists and their legislators call for a public hearing the next day.
Now, it is, in my view, a per se violation of the spirit of open meetings laws to rush forward with a deliberate plan to keep the public out of the debate. What do we get from the Fourth Estate? An article here, a mention there, but no digging, no attempt to find out whose idea this was or to pin down the governor to find out why he and his DNR would support further weakening of our air quality standards under the false label of JOB CREATION. So, the lobbyists grin and head for the pay window, the legislators hold more fundraisers, and more of our kids will get asthma.
FightingBob.com will provide a generous reward for anyone who can locate a single job actually created by the Doyle/Gard Job Creation Acts I or II. This is a fraud on the public while the media focuses on Michael Jackson, Schiavo, and nonsense. Something is drastically wrong. The editors should be ashamed of themselves.
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April 6, 2005
Birthdays and elections
The attorney general, lieutenant governor, mayor of Madison, legislative friends (yes we have a few from the Lobbyist's Legislature including Reps Black, Berceau, Pocan, Seillor, Senator Mark Miller) joined in our celebration of birthday number two for FightingBob.com. More hell was raised than money, but what's new? We appreciate all who stopped in and others who have sent contributions. Year three is underway.
While we celebrated so did Libby Burmaster. Her DPI race wasn't close. One reason may be that Gregg Underheim could never really tell us why he wanted the job. (Other than to get away from the lobbyists.) Is he pushing virtual schools, vouchers, phonics? He never felt comfortable telling us his underlying agenda. Congrats to Libby Burmaster on a good campaign and a solid victory.
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April 5, 2005
Bucher for High Sheriff
Paul Bucher, Waukesha County District Attorney (Red territory to say the least) makes us proud to be Badgers. In last Sunday's New York Times, no less, Bucher was quoted as saying, "We need to put more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens." I'm not making this up. He went on to say, "It would level the playing field. If the person you are fighting has a gun and all you have is your fists, you lose."
And Bucher wants to be our attorney general. Yup. High Sheriff Bucher, following the carnage during a church service in Brookfield, Waukesha County, where a "law-abiding citizen" killed seven people in 53 seconds, wants your support to be our top law enforcement official. Whoa Nelly! We don't need more background checks or fewer guns we need more guns to level the playing field. "Playing field." He said that.
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April 4, 2005
Special education in trouble
Given our state's fascination with being number one in prison expansion, incarceration rates, and longer sentences as part of economic development, is it a surprise our students with special needs are suffering?
AEF reports that categorical aid for special education initially covered 70 percent of costs, then it dropped to 63 percent, then 50 percent and, if you want to cry, today the figure is below 30 percent with predictions of 27 percent in the new budget. With the special needs student population up 46 percent since 1990-2002, and costs up 59 percent, parents of these students, not to mention local schools, are faced with a crisis.
Why is this happening? A wild guess. The special needs families do not have highly paid contract lobbyists roaming the halls of the Lobbyist's Legislature pressing their case. They do not arrive at the legislative or governor's fund raisers with large sacks of money. They are not on the WMC radar screen. Simple enough.
Hubert Humphrey said it best: "The way a society treats those in the sunshine of life, the sunset of life or the shadows of life, is the moral test of that society." Wisconsin, you flunk. Go back to Morality 101 and start over.
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April 2, 2005
A People's fundraiser
What do Spencer Black, Bert Grover, Mark Pocan, Bob Turner, Donna Seidel, Mary Hubler, Frank Boyle, Louis Molepske, Kathleen Falk, John Matthews, Matt Rothschild, Christa Westerberg, Adam Benedetto, Marc Christopher, John Nichols, Dave Cieslewicz, Mark Miller, Mike McCabe, Nino Amato,our Attorney General, Peg Lautenschlager, Lt.Governor Barbara Lawton, Gail Lamberty and Hiroshi Kanno have in common?
They are sponsoring the second-ever fundraiser for FightingBob.com on Tuesday, April 5, at Cafe Montmarte at 127 East Mifflin Street in Madison, from 5:30 to 9:00. (Just off the square. One block from the Lobbyist's Legislature.) They will hear good music, engage you in interesting conversation, and help us prosper for year three! See you there.
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April 1, 2005
Keeping the utility companies happy
And the beat goes on. Burnie Bridge, Doyle's chair of the PSC is moving to a new job, and before any advocates for rate payers could think about or put forward names of people who would stand up to the utilities, Governor Doyle moved quickly to name utility friendly Dan Ebert as her replacement.
We Energies spokeswoman Beth Martin was quick to tell the Associated Press that "Bridge was fair and made objective decisions." (And, coincidentally, she sided with We Energies on the Oak Creek coal-burning, air polluting disaster that was at least slowed by Clean Wisconsin and a good decision by Judge David Flanagan.) Don't hold your breath that Ebert will side with the environment. Nothing in his record suggests he will distinguish himself from Ave Bie or Burnie Bridge.
Once again the lobbyists and insiders know what is going on in the East Wing but the people, the rate payers, remain in the dark with a candle but no matches. Will the Senate hold careful hearings on Ebert? Yah, sure Ole.
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