{"id":3676,"date":"2011-02-21T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-for-one-welcome-our-billionaire-masters-not\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:49:28","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-our-billionaire-masters-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-for-one-welcome-our-billionaire-masters-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I, For One, Welcome Our Billionaire Masters &ndash; NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/18\/business-teaparty-wisconsin\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Koch Industries Slashed WI Jobs, Helped Elect Scott Walker, Now Orchestrating Pro-Walker Protest<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">A number of the big business interests standing with Walker are beneficiaries of his administration\u2019s tax giveaways.<\/font> But the greatest ally to Walker is the dirty energy company Koch Industries. In response to the growing protests in Madison, Koch fronts are busing in Tea Party protesters to support Walker and his union-busting campaign.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/18\/business-teaparty-wisconsin\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb Koch Industries Slashed WI Jobs, Helped Elect Scott Walker, Now Orchestrating Pro-Walker Protest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexiken.com\/2011\/02\/all-you-need-to-know-about-wisconsin\/\">NewMexiKen | All you need to know about Wisconsin<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Originally posted Saturday, February 19, 2011&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic state senators went into hiding to deprive the Republican majority of the quorum they need to pass Walker\u2019s agenda. The Senate majority leader, Scott Fitzgerald \u2014 who happens to be the brother of the Assembly speaker, Jeff Fitzgerald \u2014 believes the governor is absolutely right about the need for draconian measures to cut spending in this crisis. So he\u2019s been sending state troopers out to look for the missing Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>The troopers are under the direction of the new chief of the state patrol, Stephen Fitzgerald. He is the 68-year-old father of Jeff and Scott and was appointed to the $105,678 post this month by Governor Walker.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/19\/opinion\/19collins.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Gail Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmexiken.com\/2011\/02\/all-you-need-to-know-about-wisconsin\/\">NewMexiKen | All you need to know about Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb Koch Industries Slashed WI Jobs, Helped Elect Scott Walker, Now Orchestrating Pro-Walker Protest A number of the big business interests standing with Walker are beneficiaries of his administration\u2019s tax giveaways. But the greatest ally to Walker is the dirty energy company Koch Industries. In response to the growing protests in Madison, Koch fronts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-for-one-welcome-our-billionaire-masters-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I, For One, Welcome Our Billionaire Masters &ndash; NOT!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}