Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Nineteen-year-old Erik Turner tells TV station that he sent emails to Democrats as a joke.
A teenager who has volunteered at the Republican Party of Waukesha County’s headquarters on Pearl Street is facing investigation after Democrats allege he attempted to sell them campaign secrets, according to media reports. FOX6 News reports that Erik Turner sent two messages to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin stating that he had information for the group trying to recall Gov. Scott Walker. Turner’s Facebook page had a picture of Turner posing with Walker, according to the station. However, the 19-year-old told Today's TMJ4 that he sent an email offering to sell campaign secrets as a prank. The Wisconsin Republican Party issued a statement to FOX6 stating it did not condone Turner’s actions. Graeme Zielinski, the spokesman for the state …
Man was looking for the animal in a neighborhood about a mile from the school.
Meeting will be held Thursday afternoon at the Waukesha City Hall.
The Ethics Board will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday to consider a complaint that was filed by a Waukesha business owner against two Waukesha aldermen over their dual roles as members of the Common Council and the Waukesha County Board of Supervisors. Kathleen Cummings and Duane Paulson were targeted by Shay Johnson, owner of Leather Restoration, during the city’s discussions about the possibility of joining the county’s dispatch system while abandoning the city’s own dispatch center. The council decided last week to continue operating the city’s dispatch center, but the issue could be revisited with additional information. “Both receive a higher payment from the county than the city,” Johnson wrote in the ethics complaint. “Therefore they …
Monday, May 21, 2012
The lieutenant governor, who faces a recall election in about two weeks, stood shoulder to shoulder with Amy Kremer, Chairman of the Tea Party Express, at a press conference Monday, May 21.
The national Tea Party Express has been a prominent player on the Wisconsin recall scene for nearly a year, and on Monday, it promised to remain one until Election Day. In a joint press conference in Milwaukee, Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, publicly endorsed Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Mahlon Mitchell in the June 5 recall election. “I want people around the country to know the accomplishments of the lieutenant governor and how she has been a strong conservative supporter for Governor (Scott) Walker and stood behind him,” Kremer said, as Kleefisch stood by her side. “They have been working hand in hand to make sure (good) things happen for the citizens of Wisconsin.” Kremer said the …
A conservative watchdog group reports that David Budde, a lead investigator in the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the probe into Scott Walker's aides, has anti-Walker signs at his Wauwatosa home, but the DA defends him, saying they were pu
A lead investigator in the John Doe investigation into aides to Gov. Scott Walker during his stint as Milwaukee county executive has a "Recall Walker" sign in the yard of his Wauwatosa home, according to a conservative watchdog group. In a story published Monday morning by Media Trackers, a home identified as that of David Budde, who works for District Attorney John Chisholm, appears in photos with the address number blurred out. Media Trackers' writer Brian Sikma noted that along with the recall sign out front there is a "Blue Fist" union sign in the front door. Sikma wrote: "The news could call into question the present impartiality of the probe at a time when Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett and his allies have begun to use …
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says voters deserve to know if Gov. Scott Walker is involved in the John Doe investigation of county employees using taxpayer time to campaign for Walker's run for governor.
After reading from an email he says pulls an even darker shadow over Gov. Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Monday it's time for the governor to come clean about a John Doe investigation now under way. At a Milwaukee press conference, Barrett put more pressure on Walker to disclose his involvement in the investigation that centers around staffers from Walker's time as the Milwaukee County executive conducting campaign activities on county time. The May 2010 email stems from when Walker aide Darlene Wink resigned from her county job after admitting that she posted online supportive messages for her boss' campaign on county time. The email was written by Walker and sent to former aide Tim Russell, who has been charged with …
Brian White, who served as 6th District alderman since April 2011, died of heart failure on Sunday.
Waukesha Alderman Brian White, who died Sunday from heart failure, is being remembered as someone who did whatever he could to make the city a great place to live. “He knew what he believed in and what he liked, and he fought for what he believed in,” said his brother, Alan White. “All communities go through changes and there were changes he didn’t believe in that passed or got through, but he did his part to keep the things he believed in in the community.” Brian White, who was 55, died at Waukesha Memorial Hospital. Alan White said his brother was very active throughout the community and in other activities, such as the Tripoli Rocketry Association, ham radio and volunteering at the National Weather Service station in Sullivan. The …
Since 2006, the water utility has already adopted the first daytime ban on sprinkling, the first conservation rate structure and the first toilet rebate program in the state.
Editor's Note: The following news release was submitted to Patch by the Waukesha Water Utility. The Waukesha Water Utility Commission approved an update of its Water Conservation Plan Thursday night to increase its conservation efforts. The utility’s goal is to achieve 365 million gallons of measurable water savings by 2050, or an estimated 10 percent of the total water that would have been used if not for conservation. “No matter where we get our water from, we must implement cost-effective conservation measures to protect the environment and reduce costs,” Commission President Dan Warren said. “We are proud to continue our longstanding water conservation leadership role in the Midwest.” Waukesha is seeking to switch from groundwater to …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
A day after Gov. Scott Walker called recent jobs numbers inaccurate and sped up the release of federal statistics, the state Department of Workforce Development reported the state lost private sector jobs for the second consecutive month.
Employment has become central to the decisive recall battle for the state's top office, and Gov. Scott Walker experienced yet another setback Thursday as state labor officials reported the state lost 5,900 jobs in April. The new monthly data, which the state Department of Workforce Development stresses is preliminary and subject to revision, shows the state lost 6,200 private sector jobs, but added 300 government jobs, netting out at a loss of 5,900 non-farm jobs. The data was gathered through a survey of 3.5 to 5 percent of Wisconsin employers. Since December 2010, the month before Walker took office, the state has added a total of 400 jobs. It's the second consecutive month of private sector job losses in the state. The state's …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Oak Creek residents could see water rates decrease by as much as 25 percent if the city's water utility successfully lands the Waukesha contract.
Oak Creek, one of three cities that might provide Waukesha with Lake Michigan water, could find out by July if it will add the city to its service area. A successful negotiation could pay off for Oak Creek residents -- under current projections, rates could go down by 25 percent if the city got the contract, utility engineer Mike Sullivan said. But discussions still have a little ways to go. And after the negotiations made headlines in March, Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak gave the Oak Creek Common Council some background about the city's quest for lake water in a presentation Tuesday night. Waukesha is in this situation because problems such as radium, saltwater and arsenic have put the city's water supply out of …
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11:28 pm on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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