Pot calling the kettle black.

The Reporter is not an angel.

http://dane101.com/current/2011/07/08/total_recall_one_flyer_many_tentacles

.....The first individual the Wisconsin Reporter hired to write commentary was Senator Ron Johnson's former research director, Kevin Binversie. His current colleague is the Freedom Foundation's Scott St. Clair who made this cherry quote to the Daily Caller when it looked like JoAnne Kloppenburg had come out on top in the Supreme Court race: “I wouldn’t put it past somebody in Wisconsin to be selectively revealing ballots or conveniently finding ballots because this is the kind of stuff we’ve seen in the past before. I think it’s also important to note that Wisconsin and Illinois are neighbors and how they vote in Chicago doesn’t necessarily stop at the state line.”.........

susan,
Walker brought on this by his underhanded tactics and his divisiveness. He has disrespected Wisconsin's open government and its commitment to land stewardship. He places his cronies in high positions in government with increases in pay and then tells the rest of us to tighten out belts.

Here is the latest reason to recall Walker:

http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=250820

Rep. Barca: Republicans continue attack on wind energy as WI jobs disappear
10/20/2011

Democratic amendment would have allowed for significant job growth in wind energy production

MADISON – Today the State Assembly met for another day of what was supposed to be a special session on jobs, without passing any bills to immediately create jobs. As the session began, the September job numbers were released. They showed that while the United States has once again had modest gains in job creation, Wisconsin lost 12,400 jobs.

Wisconsin has lost jobs every month since Gov. Walker's budget passed in June.

Also today, the Assembly passed a transportation bill (AB 253) that will allow for the improved transport of utility components, including those for wind energy. Unfortunately, Gov. Walker and legislative Republicans have used the rules process to cripple wind energy production in Wisconsin, leading to the cancellation of several major wind projects and killing hundreds of jobs.

.......More.....

"This is a clear case of these unionista types not wanting the public to know what they are up to."

What do you mean? Everyone involved has made it clear that they want to recall Walker. No secret there.

If you expect DPW to share their tatics with the GOP, then I suppose you expect the GOP to share their tactics with DPW.

Or maybe that's not what you expect.

"If the public knew how little regard they had for the taxpayers..."

They ARE taxpayers. And citizens. And members of the public. You may not agree with them, but they have the same civic standing as you.

Tony,
Adshead is the so-called reporter. She was deceptive an dishonest. The leadership training sessions are meant for those who will be leading the canvassing for the recalls. Yet, she, who writes for the opposition signed up.
In some ways that she did this is no surprise as she just was following the deceptive tactics of those in the Republican controlled Legislature and the Walker Administration.

"Adshead told Patch that she signed up for the leadership training session online,...."

I don't see why a journalist would pass up an opportunity to cover a political party training session. They would have a chance to expose the ugly underbelly of guys like Zielinski...

And please don't ask anyone to believe that the WisGOP is as pure as the driven snow.

I think if the GOP were throwing together something like this they would have been able to weed out the reporter before it got this far. She did, after all, register using her company email addy. And as keyed into that particular news outfit as Zielinski seems to be, all the more reason it should have set off red flags.

So, Bob, are you saying that if the Dems made a mistake by letting her in they should compound it by letting her stay?

No, Greg, I'm saying that if they'd done due diligence upfront, you wouldn't have to waste your time here trying to defend them.

"CowDung, don't you see why the GOP wouldn't want a reporter in their training//planning sessions?
Really?"

The fact that the reporter may not be wanted is irrelevant.

Thanks for looking out for my interests. Bob. :-)

I don't think Zielinski really needs defending. My interest here is in calling out specious arguments, which, it must be said, abound.

CowDung sez: "The fact that the reporter may not be wanted is irrelevant."

It's as relevant as the "reporter" wanting to cover it.

But the really relevant point is that Zielinski was well within his rights to eject the reporter, whether she or you like it or not.

I reporter may want to do a story about you or me getting drunk and yelling and swearing at the refs while watching a Packer game. But we'd be within our rights to say we don't want that, get out.

Freedom of the Press does have limits, I suppose, but you can certainly see why a reporter would love to cover such an event, can't you?

CowDung sez: "... you can certainly see why a reporter would love to cover such an event, can't you?"

Sure. Absolutely. But Zielinski rightly notes that a real professional would recognize the limits on their desires and not whine about it.

So it sounds like you would also be disputing the statement “No legitimate journalist with a reputable news agency would even consider attending a political party training session...”

Greg W...
The TeaGOP so-called "reporter" actually signed up to be a volunteer for the recalls. She was using dishonest tactics to get in. She is no volunteer!!

'Dishonest tactics'? You mean like the ones used when investigative reporters pretend to be 13 year old kids on the internet and catch sex predators in the act? Sometimes there isn't any other way to get the 'real' story...

The desire for privacy while working on

Yeah, and the Packers would sell more tickets if they published their first 20 plays in the paper before each game, unless they were planning to cheat.

Conservative Digest, I love your name. Does it mean you only ingest small amounts of food or, like a true "conservative," information?

You obviously have no long-term memory to forget the Tommy Thompson years. And do you believe cutting $1.2 billion from education over the next 2 years is going to improve literacy? Digest and respond how losing 500 jobs in MPS alone is going to help, please!

Badly handled by both sides. How absolutely TRUE!