RSN: Here's the Green, Bike-Loving Candidate Who Could Beat Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Clinton Sounding More Like Warren as 2016 Nears

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Clinton Sounding More Like Warren as 2016 Nears

Gabriel Debenedetti, Reuters
Debenedetti writes: "Long viewed as an ally by Wall Street, likely 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton has increasingly been taking banks and big business to task while on the campaign trail for Democrats across the country."
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Midterm Anxieties
Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Talbot writes: "When does Ebola look like a gift? Apparently, when you are a Republican candidate for the Senate who sees it as a handy pretext for bringing up immigration politics while scaring people into voting for you."
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Deceptions of the FBI
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "The F.B.I. has a history of pushing the limits that protect Americans’ civil liberties. And it has continued to broaden agents’ investigative powers in troubling ways."
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In Mexico, Searching 'Blindly' for 43 Missing Students
Carola Sole, Agence France-Presse
Sole writes: "Mexican authorities have found no trace of 43 college students since their disappearance more than a month ago, laying bare a series of missteps in a case that has infuriated the country."
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Judge Suggests It's OK for Redskins to Sue Native Americans
Jessica Gresko, Yahoo! News
Gresko writes: "A federal judge seems to think Native Americans offended by the Washington Redskins team name are properly being sued by the NFL franchise."
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How Will Women Voters Use Their Power This Election?
Ann Friedman, New York Magazine
Friedman writes: "When it comes to women voters in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the metaphors are all mixed up. In some headlines, it’s a war."
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Here's the Green, Bike-Loving Candidate Who Could Beat Scott Walker in Wisconsin

 

Mary Burke and Scott Walker. (photo: MTEA/Gateway Technical College)

Ben Adler, Grist
Adler writes: "According to the latest polls, Democrats might have a shot at defeating right-wing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and replacing him with a green-friendly bicycle executive."
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Mary Burke's “Cheddarbomb”

Dear Wisconsin,

You have an opportunity to put Governor [Koch troll] Scott Walker out of office and vote for a solid candidate who will represent your Best Interests....and not the Kochs!

Think about your future!

More bad news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Newly unsealed court documents show further proof that Scott Walker may have illegally coordinated with “independent” groups like the right-wing Club for Growth.

Will you chip in $5 to help Mary Burke defeat Gov. Scott Walker in November?

While more damaging evidence against Walker gets exposed, Mary Burke has been running a very solid campaign to be Wisconsin’s next governor. Our Daily Kos Elections team recently upgraded the race from “Lean Republican” to “Toss-Up” with this explanation:

When the cycle began, Wisconsin Democrats seemed dispirited after the failure of the 2012 recall. But Burke accepted the challenge, and has proven herself a serious campaigner … Walker may have a small edge, but this is a serious fight.

We can’t control what the federal investigation proves or doesn’t prove about Walker, but we can determine the resources that Burke will have to run her campaign. Scott Walker wants to run for President in 2016, but we can make sure that he doesn’t even get re-elected in 2014.

Please contribute $5 today to Mary Burke's “Cheddarbomb.”

Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos

 

 

Today is a huge day in Wisconsin's governor's race; progressives from all across the country are joining together in a Cheddarbomb to support Mary Burke's campaign to defeat Scott Walker. This is now even more important since it's our first chance to respond to new revelations of Walker's increasingly overt corruption:

1. Corporate dark-money group Wisconsin Club for Growth didn't just support Walker's campaign -- it effectively functioned as part of his campaign, with a Walker aide advising him to tell donors he could accept unlimited, undisclosed, corporate contributions for his campaign if the contributions went to Club for Growth.

2. On Sunday, news broke that Scott Walker's administration agreed to give a $6 million tax break to a corporation that may lay off nearly 2,000 Wisconsin workers. And less than a month later, the owners of that corporation gave Walker's campaign $20,000.

Scott Walker is the king of the Citizens United era, there's no competition. But Mary Burke is in a dead heat with Walker, and today is the day when progressives across Wisconsin and throughout the country are coming together to support her. Will you join them?

I know that Wisconsin can do better than dead last in the Midwest in private sector job creation. I have a plan to help Wisconsin families through creating jobs, prioritizing education, and putting people ahead of politics.

But Walker's allies are pouring untold millions into propping him up on the airwaves. This race is close, and we have just ten weeks to make sure that right-wing outside spending doesn't drown out the voices of Wisconsin families.

It's time right now to band together and make sure that we have the resources we need to fight back. We've got the strongest grassroots team out there. And that's how we're going to beat Scott Walker: together.




 

 

 

 

RSN: ExxonMobil's New Guinea Nightmare, This Land Isn't Your Land, This Land Is Their Land, et al

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Andy Borowitz | Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A broad-based coalition of millionaires converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour."
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Ryan Gallagher | British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools
Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept
Gallagher reports: "GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA's vast troves of private communications and sought "unsupervised access" to its data as recently as last year - essentially begging to feast at the NSA's table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb."
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Peter Van Buren | This Land Isn't Your Land, This Land Is Their Land
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
Van Buren writes: "What's happening is both easy enough for a traveler to see and for an economist to measure."
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Germany, Under US Pressure Blocks Edward Snowden From Testifying
Phillip Oltermann, Guardian UK
Oltermann writes: "The German government has blocked Edward Snowden from giving personal evidence in front of a parliamentary inquiry into NSA surveillance, it has emerged hours before Angela Merkel travels to Washington for a meeting with Barack Obama."
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Meet Mary Burke, the Woman Who Could Beat Scott Walker
Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Clift writes: "Republicans call her "Millionaire Mary," but Mary Burke has plenty of assets aside from her wealth to make her a strong contender to derail the reelection of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, along with his dreams of the presidency."
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ExxonMobil's New Guinea Nightmare
Ian T. Shearn, The Nation
Shearn reports: "It was the sound of homes being buried by the landslide, which after only a few minutes had created a debris field a kilometer long, several hundred meters wide and 100 meters deep."
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Less Than 24 Hours After Virginia Oil Train Spill, Same Company Derails Again in Maryland
Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress
Valentine reports: "The CSX coal train derailement occurred less than a day after an oil train operated by the same company derailed near Lynchburg, Virginia, an accident which resulted in the loss of about 50,000 gallons of crude oil."
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