Posted on Saturday, 18th September 2010 by Roland_Melnick
When I saw this photo, the thought occurred to me that those same employees with their signs could just as easily be openly criticizing Barrett. Of course they aren’t, really. As we’ve seen, heated rhetoric is reserved solely for Scott Walker. A fact that I pointed out to a friend of mine who is an [...]
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Posted on Monday, 30th August 2010 by Roland_Melnick
According to Tom Daykin of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, developer/front man Rick Barrett only had to show real estate assets of $3.3M plus a $1M line of bank credit in order to secure a $9.3M loan from the City of Milwaukee and a $41.4M loan from AFL-CIO pension fund investments for his project, The Moderne; [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 29th August 2010 by Roland_Melnick
Snagged this from SilentE: .
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Posted on Sunday, 22nd August 2010 by Roland_Melnick
Several times the last couple of months, I’ve watched Milwaukee County Supervisor Chris Larson’s public appearances. While he is running against Jeff Plale for Wisconsin’s 7th State Senate District seat, he has been building face time criticizing MilCoExec and candidate for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The two spotlight grabs that stick out in my mind [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 6th October 2009 by Roland_Melnick
In a spectacle that drew condemnation from parties on all sides of the County budget debate, a physical confrontation erupted between two men near the front entrance to Milwaukee’s Serb Hall this past Sunday. Wanting to re-focus the dialogue on Milwaukee County’s fiscal situation, Badger Blogger brought the two men at the fringe of the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 15th September 2009 by Roland_Melnick
We’ve discussed the sweeping in of a far-Leftist cloaked as moderate-Left President. We’ve witnessed the sub-contexts hidden beneath recent labor disputes at Mercury Marine in Fond Du Lac and Thomas Products in Sheboygan. Many of us heard the strange, children-of-the-corn-like interviews of those workers who voted “No” in those cases (a “No” vote being a [...]
Posted in Labor Unions, Obamacare, Scott Walker | Comments (6)
