Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Today's Teamster News 09.13.11

Ticketed for honking at Wisconsin gov every day  Chicago Sun Times   ...A Wisconsin state employee says his daily horn honking outside Gov. Scott Walker’s house in Wauwatosa is a matter of free speech...
Urgent : AB196 on Tuesday Calendar to remove Corporate reporting requirements, limit GAB oversight of Corporate spending in elections  Badger Democracy   ...The Bill has received no public hearings, and will completely limit the GAB authority to require Campaign Finance Contributions...
Statehouse Reporter Looks At SB5 Issue  WOUB Public Media   ...An OU professor and statehouse news columnist says Gov. John Kasich has an uphill battle when it comes to stopping the repeal of Senate Bill 5...
Fla. governor may reject money from jobs plan  South Florida Times   ...Gov. Rick Scott and top Florida Republicans are sending early signals they could reject the billions in federal aid that could flow to the state under President Barack Obama's jobs proposal...
Pontiac gets a new Emergency Mgr, privatization "expert" & former Mackinac Center staffer Louis Schimmel   eclectablog   ...The former emergency financial manager of Hamtramck and Ecorse is known as an expert at privatizing public services and comes highly recommended by the far-right conservative Mackinac Center think tank...
Hoffa Calls on U.S. Dept. of Commerce to Rescind Job-Killing Grant  IBT   ...Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa called on Dr. Rebecca Blank, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce to rescind a $2 million grant to Visalia, Calif., that is being used to destroy good jobs in the State of California rather than create them...