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Wine-gate: Oddly, Paul Ryan's accuser doesn't want to talk about her own expensive wine

Hot Air

by Allahpundit

July 11, 2011

Turns out TPM's inane story did produce something useful after all - a bona fide metric of conspicuous consumption keyed to ideology.

If you oppose letting entitlements cannibalize the budget until we're at the point of fiscal collapse, then yeah, $350 for vino is too much. If, however, you support that collapse in the name of "protecting the poor," then you're fine at $80 a bottle. Question: What if you support a combination of modest tax hikes and significant reforms to entitlements in the name of sustainability? Can you get away with a $150 bottle then? $200?

Wireless e-voting machines raise concern

New Scientist News Service

by Celeste Biever

July 16, 2011

Computer scientists are concerned that new electronic voting machines - already bought by several US states - have been designed to have the capability to transmit vote tallies wirelessly.

Critics of e-voting have previously cited uncertified software upgrades or bugs in the programs as problems, but they say the new touchscreen machines' wireless potential poses a novel security threat.

Wireless startup LightSquared files for bankruptcy

CNS News

by Peter Svensson

May 14, 2012

LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Wis. judge rejects request to reinstate union law

CNS News

October 22, 2012

A Wisconsin judge refused Monday to put on hold his earlier decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen asked Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas to place his September ruling on hold while an appeal is pending. Colas refused, saying Van Hollen and the state "failed to show that they will suffer irreparable harm if the stay is not granted." Van Hollen's spokeswoman Dana Brueck said he would now ask the state appeals court to place the Colas ruling on hold.

Wis. officials unknowingly break law with Facebook

CNS News

by Dinesh Ramde

May 25, 2012

Wisconsin elections officials are reminding voters that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal - but high-ranking members of both political parties apparently missed the memo.

Wisconsin DoJ files brief with state Supreme Court to vacate Sumi ruling

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

May 27, 2011

Color the Wisconsin Department of Justice less than impressed with Maryann Sumi.

According to a brief filed today with the state Supreme Court, Judge Sumi made so many errors in her ruling that threw out the PEU reform passed by the state legislature that it amounts to "a fundamental denial of due process"...

Wisconsin GOP Finds Way Around Fleebaggers; Senate Votes to Strip Bargaining Rights for Public Workers

Michelle Malkin

by Doug Powers

March 9, 2011

Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success is just showing up.

And if you're in the Wisconsin Senate, the other 20 percent is having a firm grasp on the rules in order to work around those who don't show up...

Wisconsin GOP senate leader to Dems: You're in contempt, so you can't vote anymore

Hot Air

by Allahpundit

March 14, 2011

This is the guy who not only held his caucus together under tremendous pressure, who not only signed the orders of contempt dispatching state police to hunt down the Fleebagger 14...

I bet the death threats he's getting these days are exquisite. In a sign that Republicans are still smarting from the exodus of Democrats during deliberations on the budget, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) told his caucus on Monday that Democrats remain in contempt of the Senate. That means, he said, that Democrats can't vote on bills or amendments.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Twitter Death Threats

blogs.findlaw.com

by Andrew Chow, JD

June 6, 2012

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survived a recall vote Tuesday and is now facing death threats, some of which could result in criminal charges, police said.

Wisconsin police agencies and the state's Department of Justice are investigating the Twitter death threats, which were tweeted and shared via social media, Milwaukee's WTMJ-AM reports. "Scott Walker will die within the next week. I've already payed [sic] for the hit," one death threat said, according to the station. So when does a social-media death threat become criminal?

Wisconsin Judge Who Is Opening the Door for Voter Fraud Signed Recall Petition

The American Spectator

by Matt Naugle

March 8, 2012

On Tuesday, Wisconsin Judge David Flanagan became a controversial figure in the Wisconsin recall of Gov. Scott Walker when he placed a temporary restraining order against a voter reform law mandating that voters show a picture ID.

He did so in response to a lawsuit filed by the NAACP's Milwaukee branch and the immigration rights group Voces de la Frontera. (Voces is associated with the Wisconsin Communist Party.) While it hasn't been proven that voter ID laws actually prevent voter fraud, Wisconsin will put that question to the test, as Democratic-leaning organizations are running afoul of the state's election rules.

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