UPDATE: The police union voted 99.3 percent 'no confidence' against Milwaukee police chief Edward Flynn.Only .7 percent voted confidence.The results were presented at a news conference with Mike Crivello, the president of the Milwaukee Police Association, Friday afternoon.
Among likely voters, Burke’s lead among women is 49-43 while Walker’s lead among men is 58-36The other big factor in the election will be the Independent Voters. Again the Marquette Poll shows how that stacks up in favor of Gov. Walker.
Likely voters who are independents support Walker over Burke by 52 percent to 37 percentLastly taking a look deeper into the numbers, a Majority of Wisconsin Voters believe the State is headed in the right direction. Historically if Voters feel that way then making a change is not necessary. Also weighing on the Challenger is the connection between Mary Burke and the President. His approval ratings are in the 40% range and the perception of Voters that the Country is headed in the wrong direction.
The Milwaukee Bucks' co-owners are reportedly attempting to buy the property that is the corporate home of Journal Communications and the main offices of the Journal Sentinel.
According to an OnMilwaukee.com report, co-owners Wes Edens and Marc Lasry would buy the land and buildings which encompass the space between North 3rd and 4th Streets, and between west Kilbourn and State Streets. They would then use that land to build a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.
The land is also used by Major Goolsby's, a famous sports bar.
In its story, OnMilwaukee.com cites several sources which it says come from the Milwaukee Department of City Development and the real estate industry. They also say there are architectural plans for that site.
The arena would theoretically not just be home for the Bucks, but Marquette men's basketball, the Milwaukee Admirals, numerous concerts and other sports and entertainment events.
According to the OnMilwaukee.com report, the Bucks are still looking into numerous possible downtown Milwaukee sites, but the Journal Sentinel location is their preferred site.
Mary Burke is running for Governor because she knows the people of Wisconsin deserve better. A better economy that creates more good paying jobs. A brighter future and more opportunities for our children through education. And better leadership that brings people together to solve problems.So that is what is posted by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. That is what She and They want you to believe.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Two former high-level executives of Trek Bicycle claim that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke was forced out as head of European operations for her family's business 21 years ago — an allegation that Burke and the company denied, labeling it a last-minute smear campaign."I'm not saying she was incompetent," said Tom Albers, former Trek chief operating officer who left the company in 1997. "Maybe this job was too big for her."
Mary Burke's Response:
"The truth is that after getting five additional offices up and running and managing seven operations, we decided to restructure and there was no need for my position and two of the people reporting to me could directly report to people in the United States,"
Right Wisconsin:
The sales team threatened to quit if Burke was not removed from her position as director of European Operations, according to Gary Ellerman, who served as Trek’s human resources director for more than 21 years. His account was confirmed by three other former employees.
Investors.com Story
Journalism: If honest reporters were allowed to do their jobs and report the truth about Benghazi, Republican candidate Mitt Romney might be president today. That's the conclusion of one silenced network correspondent.
In a chilling new expose, former veteran CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how big media honchos in New York protected President Obama by pulling the plug on Benghazi and a parade of other scandal stories dogging his administration.
"If we knew everything then that we know now, I think that would have been really devastating to (Obama's re-election) campaign," she said about the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks, which Obama falsely blamed on an Internet video to head off campaign questions about his foreign policy strategy.
Her soon-to-be-released book, "Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington," puts to rest any doubts the Big Media are in the tank for Obama and Democrats. It also corroborates similar liberal bias whistleblowing by former CBS News colleague, Bernie Goldberg.
We can't remember a more damning insider account of how the Big Media cover for Democrats and manipulate public opinion to advance liberal causes.
Eager to shield a Democratic president from criticism, Attkisson's liberal bosses actually worked with the White House to neutralize her investigative reporting. When she refused to back down, they tried to smear her reputation. At the same time, she says the administration hacked into both her work and home computers to monitor her emails.
Attkisson, who calls herself "politically agnostic," left CBS in protest after 20 years of award-winning investigative reporting for the network.
Real Clear Politics
You have to wonder if Harry Reid feels like an idiot yet. For years now, the Senate majority leader has been cynically protecting Democratic senators — and President Obama — from difficult votes. The rationale was pretty straightforward. He wanted to spare vulnerable Democrats named Mark — Arkansas’s Mark Pryor, Alaska’s Mark Begich and Colorado’s Mark Udall — and a few others from having to take difficult votes on issues such as the Keystone XL pipeline, EPA rules, and immigration reform.
The problem for the Marks and other red- or swing-state Democrats is that, having been spared the chance to take tough votes, they now have little to no evidence they’d be willing to stand up to a president who is very unpopular in their states.
Thanks to Reid’s strategy of kicking the can down the road, GOP challengers now get to say, “My opponent voted with the president 97 percent of the time.” Democrats are left screeching “war on women!” and “Koch brothers!”
For instance, Reid killed bipartisan legislation on energy efficiency in May by denying senators the right to offer amendments. This was a wildly partisan and nearly unprecedented move, blocking the Senate from debating important issues. He did so because he feared that GOP amendments — on the Keystone pipeline, for instance — would pass with Democratic support, angering the White House.
I’m sure Senator Mary Landrieu, (D., La.) would love to be able to tout such a vote now. But she supported Reid’s tactic, shooting herself in the foot in the process.
Of course, this assumes these allegedly independent Democrats would have broken with Obama. But whether they would have or not, wouldn’t our politics be healthier if we had an answer to that question?
In attempting to explain her two-year work hiatus in the early to mid-1990s, Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke has said she was just burned out after an intense period of leading European operations for Trek Bicycle Corp., her family’s Waterloo-based global manufacturer.In fact, Burke apparently was fired by her own family following steep overseas financial losses and plummeting morale among Burke’s European sales staff, multiple former Trek executives and employees told Wisconsin Reporter.The sales team threatened to quit if Burke was not removed from her position as director of European Operations, according to Gary Ellerman, who served as Trek’s human resources director for more than 21 years. His account was confirmed by three other former employees.“She was not performing. She was (in) so far over her head. She didn’t understand the bike business,” said Ellerman who started with Trek in 1992, at the tail end of Burke’s first stint as a manager at Trek.Ellerman said Richard Burke, Mary Burke’s father and founder of the family business, asked Tom Albers, Trek president and chief financial officer at the time, to fly to Amsterdam to evaluate Mary’s performance.It wasn’t a pretty picture. The European operations were in disarray, Ellerman said.
