Subject: [big campaign] One Wisconsin Now Statements on Gov. Walker, Republican Legislature's 'War on Working Wisconsin'
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Link and release below:

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/one-wisconsin-now-statements-on-gov-walker-republican-legislatures-war-on-working-wisconsin.html

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Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Subject: One Wisconsin Now Statements on Gov. Walker, Republican
Legislature's 'War on Working Wisconsin'

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*For Immediate Release
March 10, 2011*
*Contact: Robert Doeckel
Phone: 608-217-0194*

 One Wisconsin Now Statements on Gov. Walker, Republican Legislature’s ‘War
on Working Wisconsin’ *Opposition to Walker Assault on Rights at 74 Percent
*

Madison – One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the
following statements regarding the desperate actions by Gov. Scott Walker
and the Republican-controlled state legislature to use the government to
take away the rights of Wisconsin workers and reward corporations.

“Last night’s action orchestrated by Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans,
desperate to ram through this unconscionable attack on working families and
reward Wall Street and big corporations, was a clear violation of the
state’s open meetings law. This was the worst of partisan politics as Gov.
Walker and the Republicans want the people of Wisconsin to pay for hundreds
of millions in handouts to their corporate special interests by slashing
public education, cutting tens of thousands from accessing health care and
giving Gov. Walker unprecedented power to do whatever he wants, whenever he
wants.

“Under Gov. Walker’s direction, the Republican legislature deliberately
violated the open meetings law standards it has adopted for itself and every
other governmental body in this state. The rules are clear and the
Republicans broke them to pass this extreme assault on Wisconsin’s working
families.”

“The law requires 24 hours notice of every meeting ‘unless for good cause
such notice is impossible or impractical, in which case shorter notice may
be given, but in no case may the notice be provided less than two hours in
advance of the meeting.’ Wisconsin Statutes s.19.84(3) Legislative rules
take precedence over the open meetings law, but no rule authorizes a joint
committee to meet without giving the public, and committee members, the 24
hours notice the open meetings law requires. The committee has not even
claimed to have ‘good cause’ to shorten the notice period and, even if it
could meet that standard, failed to give even the minimum two hours notice.

“Gov. Walker and the Republican legislators lied to Wisconsin. Gov. Walker
and the Republicans’ war on the middle class and working families to enrich
the governor’s special interest corporate donors undoes 50 years of
cooperation between Wisconsin’s workers, and Republican and Democratic
elected officials.

“Every part of this debacle: from the $800 million in cuts to our kids’
education, to the dismantling of college affordability, to cutting 70,000
people from BadgerCare, to making it harder for seniors to get prescription
drugs, to handing government over to high-priced private contractors and
offering $200 million to the rich and Walker’s corporate benefactors, every
piece of this nightmare is Gov. Walker’s and his Republican lapdogs’ fault.
There is no shared sacrifice when it comes to Gov. Walker and these
Republicans, only putting the needs of Wall Street and corporate profits
ahead of the people of Wisconsin.”

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effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive
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