The Empire Strikes Back: WMC and Pals at WPRI Take the Offensive

It was about a year ago that we started focusing on Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce  (WMC) and their ultra right-wing cronies in deception. Since then the powerful business lobby has not been the same.

Highly visible members quit. Key companies will not serve on the WMC board. Others have demanded reform despite the WMC success in defeating judicial candidates Linda Clifford and Justice Louis Butler along with Attorney General candidate Kathleen Falk.

Despite these victories the cost is exorbitant. WMC is racked with internal dissent, the most recent board meeting a case in point.

Many of the key businesses realize that the unfavorable publicity and backlash from the despicable ads is not worth losing sales and distressing shareholders.

Waxing America, dozens of other bloggers, One Wisconsin Now, (with their own WMC Watch) and individual citizens have incessantly pounded not only at WMC, but at the businesses that hide behind the WMC logo.

The right has decided to fight back. It is not a coincidence that last week the  Wisconsin Policy Research Institute  (WPRI) posted two of its most recent 'commentaries' on Wisopinion.com.

Deb Jordahl contributed Wisconsin State Bar History is Repeating Itself.  For those who care to wade through the 2300 word attack on the mandatory bar, an issue worth discussing, will find that the real focus is the Wisconsin Judicial Integrity Committee which was created,  "allegedly to monitor the activity of candidates and other organizations during the April 2008 State Supreme Court election."

Jordahl was accompanied to the Internet by George Lighbourn with his The New WEAC , a treacherous (to the reader) 3,500 word tome that explains that the Wisconsin Education Association Council, while changed over the past 20 years, is as dangerous as ever. While I call such transformations 'putting lipstick on the pig,'  Ligtbourn likens WEAC to the Rottweiler masquerading as a Poodle, but still a vicious junkyard dog. A communist dog at that:

As with the aftermath of the Soviet Union, the rise of the new WEAC could possibly change the face of Wisconsin politics and government in ways that no one can predict. A perceptive yard sign for today might read: Fear the Poodle.

The ultra right-wing perceives lawyers and teachers to be the villians on the left that stand between them and accomplishing the Grover Norquist goal of "shrinking government down to the size when it can be drowned in a bathtub."

Expect more from WMC and WPRI in the coming months as the fall elections approach as they attack lawyers, teachers, social workers, union members, environmentalists, and grandparents.

Expect even more from us as we stand up for America and Wisconsin.

Comments

[Anon]

Gee Paul, are you already that worried that you might lose another one on the Supreme Court? You Nihilist are all the same.

[Keith Schmitz]

Sykes has also thrown in on this.

To tell you the truth, who outside a small circle of wingers are going to wade through these book-length treatments?

Continual pounding on WMC board members will yield more results.

[Laura]

The WMC, WEAC and Realtors are again working together again on Wisconsin Way. More forums on how to change Wisconsin taxes and education funding will be held all over the state this summer (http://www.wisconsinway.org). How does WEAC feel about their partners in this endeavor? I would seriously like to know.

...And I haven't had a Johnsonville Brat in a very long time.