More disturbing news from Wisconsin:

[snacker]

http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=39973

"Republican lawmakers this week began circulating a number of bills aimed at regulating abortion services, restricting insurance coverage for abortions and birth control and bolstering constitutional protections for religious groups and activities."

[msongs]

1. ya get what ya vote for nt

[Ed Suspicious]

4. Who here voted for this? What a bullshit, condescending response.nt

[Scuba]

5. Why don't you drop that bullshit? No one on this board voted for these guys. As I've posted ...

... before, it's because the corporate overlords bought every newspaper, TV and radio station in the State, bussed in astroturfers, tried to intimidate our activists and spent a gazillion dollars convincing the uninformed that recalls were a bad idea and Walker was a savior anyway long before we even finished the primary to determine who would represent our side.

Despite that edge, it was close. Despite a well-organized State-wide effort to recount the vote manually, we still don't know how close because only 71 of the State's 72 Counties have provided the legally mandated access to the ballots. One large, red County remains a holdout.

[snacker]

12. Thank you, Scuba.

I couldn't have said it better...

[tblue]

2. What happened?

I feel for all the people who tried to recall Walker. They do not deserve this. But question: What happened to the Republicans losing the majority in the state senate? They had one reasonable member who often voted with the Democrats. At least, that's what John Nichols said at the time. What happened after that?

[mojowork_n]

3. Gerrymandering.

In the last election, statewide, many more votes went to Democrats. But a lot of those votes went to giving excessively large winning margins to fewer elected candidates.

[Scuba]

6. Bingo.

[ewagner]

9. Direct answer to your question

One Democratic Senator from the north woods area who survived their recall attempt decided to retire. He was replaced by a class A wingnut..that's the race I was most familiar with...

I think there was another Senate loss in the southeastern(?) part of the state...

Scuba...can you help me on that one?

[Ed Suspicious]

10. Also a tea bagged named Rick Gudex, with the help of buckets of outside money

took a typically republican seat in the senate back from back from freshmen D senator Jessica King.

[ewagner]

11. Thanks...that's the one I couldn't remember..

Jim Holperin was the Dem Senator who retired. I was surprised we lost his seat.

[Scuba]

7. Thanks, snacker.

[PeaceNikki]

8. They've been running anti-choice ads like crazy in MKE market for past couple months.

I fully expected this. Actually I expect a 'personhood amendment'.

[Archae]

14. Where are these ads?

Billboards?
TV?
Radio?

[PeaceNikki]

15. TV. Complete with a talking fetus.

[Archae]

16. I watch some Milwaukee TV, (I live in Sheboygan,) but haven't seen the ads.

Yet.

[PeaceNikki]

17. They're big on TMJ during the early AM news.

[midnight]

13. K&R