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The final (as of October 26th) Wisconsin delegation for Continental Congress 2009 is, in order of number of votes:

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The 19 states that allow philosophical exemptions for persons who object to immunizations because of personal, moral or other nonreligious beliefs are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (by regulation), Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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Forbes Magazine ranks Wisconsin 3rd worst in the country for best states to do business. Wisconsin fell from the 8th worst on the list last year. Forbes uses employer costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, economic climate, growth prospects, and quality of life in its ranking. Only Michigan and Rhode Island were below Wisconsin on the list.

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But when cigarette and telephone taxes went up yesterday by $415 million, you could have heard a pin drop in Madison. All totaled, Doyle’s budget raised taxes and fees by $2.1 billion including:

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It is precisely because Governor Doyle raided the segregated transportation fund to pay for other programs that the fund is running a massive shortfall. Between 2003 and 2009, Doyle used over $1.3 billion in one-time money from the transportation fund to fuel non-transportation related spending. Doyle’s solution for the shortfall is a new tax on oil companies that has twice been rejected by the legislature.

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The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Realizing that they had just voted themselves out of jobs, union members began calling for another vote – but IAM headquarters in Chicago immediately shut them down.

A day late and a dollar short, Governor Jim Doyle issued a statement claiming he had done all he could to keep Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. Doyle outlined demands that Mercury Marine create and retain 2,700 jobs and maintain a significant presence in Fond du Lac for 12 years. In exchange the state would provide unspecified financial incentives.

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Such passion Dr. Kagen. I’m not sure you got the message these caring and concerned constituents were sharing.

When asked how you were going to pay for any health care reform bill coming out of Congress, you said you would find $800B – $1T wasted. Wow. When asked if you will vote for health care reform if the majority of your constituents oppose the bill, you took a big sidestep – “It’s [the final bill] something that doesn’t exist yet.”

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Wisconsin is in a competition with 49 other states for job creation and retention. Based on the performance of our leadership this year we are losing that competition. There are jobs moving and being created during this recession in the United States. They are just in other states like Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Unfortunately, some of those jobs moved and were lost from right here in Wisconsin.

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Hundreds of Thousands of Americans protest decades of tyranny, usurpation, corruption, bailouts, TARP, stimulus packages and utter Constitutional contempt by the U.S. Government.

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From the left, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy published its annual report in late 2008 with this unhappy summary:
“The national economy has grown more rapidly than Wisconsin’s, leaving the state’s per capita income more than $2,500 behind the national [average].”
From the center, the non-partisan Competitive Wisconsin group reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 benchmark report: “Wisconsin has moved further away from the national average in per capita income, number of new jobs created and number of new private businesses.”

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