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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:52 AM Original message |
Wisconsin GOP demands emails from professor who blogged about ALEC |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Holy shit. n/t |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
2. After the UW passes into Republican control, these will seem like the good old days |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. For the person who tried to post about ALEC before, I REC big time! |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 02:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Did you mean me, since I've been posting about ALEC? |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
29. Yes you. |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Thanks for explaining! |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
51. ... |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
52. If you wouldn't mind linking me to your explanation of Alec I would love to read it... |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. Here's the link -- and much of the info about ALEC is in the replies and the links they |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. Contact the WI Dem-14 and tell them about this. n/t |
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guruoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
5. k&r |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not sure I understand if this is an accurate use of the open records law? |
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sense (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I'm not sure it is either. |
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Very_Boring_Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:39 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. The agency is the American Legislative Exchange Council |
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Maine_Nurse (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Well...he apparently used a state-owned email address so... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. I keep wondering why people still use "employer" email/computers |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
26. But his blog is published separately no? This is a fishing expedition... |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #11 |
53. This is exactly the issue. It will be interesting to see... |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:10 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. I'm not sure that the university will comply, given that academic e-mails have privacy issues. |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
54. He has a personal computer as well as his work computer in his office. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 04:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
49. U of WI servers and email address (nt) |
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Skip_In_Boulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. What can you say, Republicans are agressive |
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999998th word (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
10. I read that and I learned a lot from it.Thank you,we need to see this stuff. |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
12. Steve Cronin is Cool!!! I've heard him on NPR... Boy did they pick the wrong prof. to fuck with. |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. Wow, they really don't like people knowing about ALEC, do they? I'll have to keep posting about it. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 04:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. + infinity ! |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
37. Thanks! We should all try to make sure voters know what ALEC is doing. |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
14. Walker is a megalomaniac out of control, abusing his power, and targeting anyone who questions him |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 03:00 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. The question is why all these people didn't see this coming when they elected the scumbag |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 03:08 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. It's like Kang and Kodos said: "It's a two-party system, you have to vote for one of us" |
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tcaudilllg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 04:22 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Because Republicans suck at seeing the flaws in each other. n/t |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
57. Knowing that ALEC is orchestrating these policies & has probably included |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 03:04 AM Response to Original message |
17. K & R |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 06:30 AM Response to Original message |
21. I don't know why he wouldn't have known this. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. +1 |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
58. He has his own computer at work for personal e-mails. And because e-mails originating |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
22. Do what Republicans & FOX News does scrub, lather, rinse & repeat. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Probably not possible. n/t |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
25. I'd tell them to fuck off... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. Doesn't he have a personal email address he could use?? |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. As I understand it from what he wrote in that post, he doesn't use his university email for anything |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:31 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. if his academic specialty included this topic, then he would use his school email |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
31. Bill Cronin's blog post of March 15th is worth posting as an OP in itself. |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. You can occasionally find copies of ALEC's model legislation in news stories, though, |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I've already read your OP twice, and just went back and skimmed it again. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. Sounds like a job for Anonymous! |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I'll admit that I've fantasized about how Anonymous could "redecorate" the ALEC website. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Lol, I was watching RT (we now get Russian/English TV which |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:47 PM Response to Reply #43 |
59. I agree! I'd like to see how this secret organization plans to further ruin people's lives. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
32. Kicked and recommended for exposing ALEC. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
35. Will Snotty Scotty be sending Major Hochstetter around |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
36. John Nichols, writing about this in The Nation: |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. Yes, I noticed that myself after I read both the blog post and the NYT op-ed piece. |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
38. I am admittedly ignorant of ALEC |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 11:04 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Lots more info on ALEC here, in a DU topic with over a hundred replies: |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. thank you! |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
47. Cronon was my professor a couple years ago |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
48. The story is the front page main top headline at TPM Talking Point Memo now! |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-25-11 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
50. An even bigger shark than ALEC is The Business RoundTable |
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