Republicans in several states are attempting to rush through last-ditch laws that would take away power from Democratic governors. At the time time, they seek to pass lame-duck laws to advance their own right-wing agendas.
A new Marquette University Law School Poll released on Tuesday found that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers leads Gov. Scott Walker by 5 points in Wisconsin.
“What is the best way to decimate a community? Deny its people access to healthcare.”
“What is the best way to decimate a community? Shut down its largest employer.”
These questions were asked and answered by Tim Egan, CEO of Chicago’s Roseland Community Hospital, last Sunday, January 15, as he opened his comments at a rally to defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against the GOP’s ongoing efforts to repeal it. Hosted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at its Chicago headquarters, the rally included such heavy-hitting speakers as Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, and SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, among others who shared their personal testimonies of how the ACA has literally saved their lives and how its repeal would certainly put their lives in danger.
Trump has effectively functioned as a smoke screen for the remarkably consistent orchestration of a Republican scorched earth policy at the state level
Trump may promise to be the law and order candidate, but he can't even restore order in his own presidential campaign.
"We conclude that that SB 14 has a discriminatory effect on minorities' voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act."
In a cross between a demented Family Feud episode and a convention speech, Gov. Scott Walker showed why he would never be President Of The United States.
Gov. Scott Walker is asking Congress to allow him to drug test Wisconsin's food stamp recipients. The problem is that the majority of the people who receive assistance in the state are children, the elderly, and the disabled.
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) violated the state constitution when he passed an anti-union law in Wisconsin, a judge determined on Friday, tossing out Walker's signature law.
Democrats go on the attack and sound the alarm bells after Republicans in Wisconsin admit that they are trying to steal the 2016 election.
Bernie Sanders celebrated his two big caucus victories in Washington and Alaska by destroying Gov. Scott Walker and the Koch brothers during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
Rauner has chosen to plunder the state for his own private interest and those of his cronies.
Rauner is falling in with the strategy we have seen from Sam Brownback in Kansas, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Rick Snyder in Michigan
The Republican majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court thought that they killed the Scott Walker corruption case over the summer, but prosecutors aren't giving up and preparing to file an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The Koch brothers chosen candidate, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination.
The chosen candidate of the Koch brothers, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), has fallen to dead last at less than 1% support in a new Republican poll.
Scott Walker tried to attack Donald Trump and fell flat on his face as the billionaire brought up the Wisconsin governor's record of economic failure in Wisconsin.
Days after Scott Walker announced his new plan to wage war against unions, a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire shows Walker sinking to 1% support.
With his poll numbers in free fall, Walker has decided to step up his war on American workers.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stood up for workers and hammered Scott Walker's back to the past plan of federal union busting.
During an interview on CNN's State Of The Union, CNN's Jake Tapper went there with Scott Walker by questioning his ties to the Koch brothers, and why Walker doesn't oppose conservative special interests.
Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to revive his dying presidential campaign by promising to bust more unions is falling on deaf ears as he has fallen from first to tenth place in Iowa.
Arrogant Koch puppet Scott Walker has gone from leading the Republican field in Iowa to losing more support in Iowa than any other candidate, including Hillary Clinton.
GOP presidential candidates seeking to burnish their homophobic resumes, are rallying to the cause of jailed Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
Gov. Scott Walker's presidential campaign is crashing and burning. Walker's constant lies have reached an absurd level as he now claims that he never talked about building a Canadian wall on Meet The Press.
It's gotten out of hand. There is stupid and then there is Oh My God You Can't Be Serious stupid. The GOP reached that point and crossed it
During an interview on Meet The Press, Gov. Scott Walker crumbled and couldn't explain why President Obama has higher approval ratings in his home state of Wisconsin than he does.
If he was aiming for Planned Parenthood, God nailed the wrong country, and besides, things aren't looking so bad this morning, say experts
Donald Trump is talking about China, which has prompted an ill-considered attempt by Scott Walker to sound relevant regarding foreign policy
Scott Walker dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement on Friday, by saying it was ridiculous to ask him to meet with members of the group.
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham follow Donald Trump in calling for an end to birthright citizenship.
Scott Walker has unveiled his plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a system that would kill an estimated 9,800 Americans a year who could no longer afford their health insurance.
Hillary Clinton's campaign called out both Scott Walker and Donald Trump for their positions of support for extreme anti-immigrant policies.
Scott Walker was crushed and booed by hecklers today as he tried to tout his union-busting record at the Iowa State Fair.
The Iowa and Missouri post-debate polls reveal that Donald Trump remains in a strong position atop the GOP field in two key Midwest states.
At a campaign event in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton shredded Scott Walker and the Republican Party for gleefully cutting funding to higher education.
If the GOP chooses Walker as their nominee, they may have to accept defeat in Minnesota for the 11th consecutive presidential election.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rick Perry while strongly opposing the Republican bill to defund the organization.
Ted Cruz is spending this weekend with the Kochs, and what is going on in that ocean-side retreat has nothing to do with family values
Several of the leading GOP candidates are planning to attend a Koch-sponsored event in Southern California to court billionaire donors.
Trump doesn't seem impressed by the Religious Right and has shown no signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter
It would be difficult for even Fox News to argue against the idea that Republicans only campaign, and act, according to the will of the Koch brothers, and two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are already vying to impress, and best serve the interests of, the Koch brothers, not the American people.
Trump still leads the GOP field, but he trails both Clinton and Sanders by double digits, according to a poll released on Thursday.
It is likely that Walker's idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American workers as peasants
A video from the scene of Scott Walker's campaign launch reveals a very small crowd gathering to support the Republican presidential hopeful as he launches his run for the White House.
Hillary Clinton didn't just offer her vision for the American economy during a speech on the economy. She also called out Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio.
Hours before Governor Scott Walker's (R-WI) impending announcement that he is seeking the presidency, the AFL-CIO issued their statement on and it is only one sentence long, "Scott Walker is a national disgrace."
According to the Catholic justices' ruling, the Obama Administration 'must' provide an accommodation for "religious" for-profit corporations and on Friday, President Obama did just that in response to the High Court's decision. In fact, what President Obama did was effectively neuter the Hobby Lobby ruling and ensure that all women, even those employed by 'religious corporations,' will still have birth control covered at no cost to them; even if their evangelical employers object and refuse to provide it.
The poor performance of deliberately underfunded public schools allows legislators to siphon off funds to religious institutions in the name of education.
Bernie Sanders has the highest percentage of people following him on Twitter (93%) while 57% of Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie's followers are fake accounts.
In a move designed to turn the clock in Wisconsin back to the 19th Century, Scott Walker and Republicans in the state legislature have included a provision in the budget that takes away a worker's right to the weekend off.
President Obama put a stake through the heart of Scott Walker's chances of winning the White House by exposing the Walker's record of economic failure to a national audience.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke before the largest crowd drawn by any candidate in 2016 and used his platform to completely annihilate Republican Gov. Scott Walker in his own backyard.
One of Scott Walker's creations shortly after being sworn in as Wisconsin's governor released a report that exposed yet another Walker administration scandal involving taxpayer money going directly to Walker's campaign donors.
Scott Walker's lack of popularity in Wisconsin is certainly noticeable, but Walker's problem right now is his budget, which Wisconsin Republicans say is looking tailored more for out-of-state Republicans like voters in Iowa, than for Wisconsin.
Add Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) to the list, as it's revealed that he took thousands from the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, "just cool."
Walker's attempt to abolish unions and ordering the arrest of protestors exercising their Constitutionally-protected freedom to assemble peaceably to seek redress of their grievance against a Koch puppet acting like Hitler actions that have already cost Wisconsin taxpayers $45,000 with another $1 million on the near horizon.
It is typical of Republicans to rob taxpayer dollars to subsidize their favorite industries, and in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker intends on forcing taxpayers to subsidize a sports arena to save a few billionaires hundreds-of-millions of dollars.
On ABC's This Week, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) suggested that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) isn't a real presidential candidate by saying that Hillary Clinton isn't facing a "real" primary challenge.
A PPP poll found Democrat Hillary Clinton enjoying a modest 47-40 lead over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush in North Carolina.
As Republicans become more anti-immigrant, President Obama repeated his pledge to fight to bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows during his weekly address.
You might have thought it was bad enough that 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is going to sign a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks with no exceptions for incest or life of the mother. But it gets worse.
During an appearance on Fox and Friends, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) got the status of the Patriot Act wrong and launched into a new big lie while blaming President Obama for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's crushing defeat on renewing provisions of the Patriot Act.
With an almost comedic and absolute lack of self-awareness, Lindsey Graham claims Rand Paul is the GOP's looming disaster
Of course, anything 'stupid' Republicans conceive of is always at the behest of their funding machine the Koch brothers and their legislative arm the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): the latest Wisconsin stupidity is no exception.
A new lawsuit from Hillary Clinton's legal counsel is taking aim at Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Party's efforts to suppress the vote in Wisconsin.
While trying to justify his 2013 law that forces women to undergo a medically unnecessary and costly ultrasound before they can exercise their constitutionally-protected freedom, Walker compared ultrasounds to selfies.
A PPP poll released on May 21st, finds Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over all potential GOP opponents in Washington State.
At a craft brewery in Hampton, New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton called out her Republican presidential opponents for sacrificing American jobs to appease the billionaire Koch Brothers and talk radio Tea Party extremists.
Josh Duggar's admission that he molested girls has the potential to damage Republican presidential candidates as Duggar has posed for pictures with Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul.
Scott Walker's troubles are growing as Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are calling for a federal investigation into the governor's jobs agency.
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 - after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
One sentence is all it took for Scott Walker to reveal himself as the next in a long line of failed Republicans.
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn't think the United States owes them anything
Kansas has received its share of attention for its epic trickle down failure typical of conservative economics, and it is duly warranted. However, the governor of Kansas has not been tapped by the Koch brothers as their preferred Republican presidential candidate for 2016. That distinction goes to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker who has his state's financial demise keeping pace with Kansas for the top Republican economic failure.
A bunch of Republican real and presumed presidential primary candidates descended on Greenville, South Carolina, Saturday. The event was the "South Carolina Freedom Summit."
Marco Rubio wants to make like Liam Neeson in 2008's Taken, and "look, find, and kill" the Islamic State
A new Quinnipiac University poll has found that the attempts to gin up various scandals against Hillary Clinton has had no impact in Iowa as the Democratic frontrunner continues to roll.
A Monmouth University Poll found that Chris Christie is exceedingly unpopular in his home state even with Republicans.
A new NBC News poll reveals that the Republican attempts to stop Hillary Clinton have failed as the Democratic frontrunner leads every Republican presidential candidate.
While President Obama continues to set records for private sector job growth, Gov. Scott Walker is trolling the President on the economy while hoping that no one notices his record of failure in Wisconsin.
Governors Walker, Christie, and Jindal have demonstrated that they are job killers, not job creators.
It appears that although Earth Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection, only Republicans are capable of using the day to perpetuate their anti-environment agenda in service to the Koch brothers.
In an interview with Glenn Beck, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suggested that he wants to find ways to further limit legal immigration.
The Koch brothers have selected Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to be their chosen 2016 Republican candidate/puppet.
A CNN/ORC poll released on Monday finds Hillary Clinton is still dominating the Republican field in the 2016 presidential race.
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
Hillary Clinton leads Scott Walker 52-40 in his home state, and Russ Feingold is up 54-38 over GOP Senator Ron Johnson.
Now that the Koch Republicans banned government employees from uttering the words "climate change" because they wanted to prevent damage to the environment, one wonders how long before Republicans issue state-wide bans on citizens mentioning, discussing, or advocating for action to combat climate change.
In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, President Obama took a jab at Scott Walker's lack of foreign policy experience.
The Republican presidential contenders offer no alternative policy for dealing with Iran other than saber-rattling rhetoric.
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz will launch his first Campaign ads for the 2016 presidential campaign during Easter Weekend.
A Washington Post-ABC News Poll shows Hillary Clinton leading each of her likely Republican opponents by double digits.
A PPP poll shows Ted Cruz pulling into contention with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Reform groups Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center have filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission that accuse Republicans Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rick Santorum, along with Democrat Martin O'Malley of violating federal campaign finance laws.
Republican presidential contenders are lining up to defend Indiana's discriminatory "religious freedom" law.
Democrats expected Walker to eliminate the state's 'prevailing wage' law requiring workers on public projects to be paid the established going rate for their labor. Instead of eliminating prevailing wage laws, Koch-Republicans' decided to eliminate weekends and impose a 'voluntary' 7-day work week.
Even if they put Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket, Republicans are in obvious danger of losing Florida once again.
