Posted by: Editorial Post
in The Way We See It on July 17, 2011
Tagged in: Untagged
From the July 17, 2011 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Among the high-profile political stories of the day — federal debt-limit negotiations, Wisconsin recall elections and poorly explained military operations in Libya, et. al. — the D.C. “grapes of wrath” dust-up ranks just ahead of MSNBC’s latest attempt to portray Michele Bachmann as a jabbering nitwit.
But we were, nonetheless, disappointed by the response of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to the manufactured controversy created by busybody Susan Feinberg, who recently accosted the Janesville Republican over his taste in dinnertime vino.
Posted by: Editorial Post
in The Way We See It on July 10, 2011
Tagged in: Untagged
From the July 10, 2011 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
Headed by Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court certainly is excessively partisan. The past three months alone have featured reports of name-calling, a physical confrontation in the Capitol and Abrahamson’s blistering budget-repair dissent that was, in part, an unseemly personal attack on Justice David Prosser.
For a much longer period of time, the political and pundit classes have expressed concern about the partisan nastiness of high court races that now attract large amounts of special-interest money. Most recently, Prosser survived a vicious union-led challenge that would have given a new liberal majority the ability to undo key aspects of Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s legislative agenda.
Posted by: Editorial Post
in The Way We See It on July 03, 2011
Tagged in: Untagged
From the July 3, 2011 CSI Walworth County Sunday "The Way we see it" column:
And so, it’s come to this in the Badger State. After enduring months of political turmoil punctuated by death threats, vandalism, an illegal union occupation of the Capitol, obnoxious work stoppages that closed public schools and the unseemly decamping of Democratic senators to Illinois resorts, Wisconsin residents now learn that the acrimony might well have incited violence among state Supreme Court justices.
Conservative Justice David Prosser, who survived a tawdry union-funded re-election challenge in April, stands accused by liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of choking her last month during a dispute over a ruling on landmark legislation curtailing collective bargaining by public employees. Prosser denies the allegation — police were still investigating at press time — and so, the circus surrounding Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to de-fang public-sector unions has a new sideshow.
