Ruth Conniff

2 weeks ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Ruth Conniff

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore contacted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Friday to ask the agency to remove a statement from the top of its website describing Milwaukee resident Ramón Morales Reyes as “this illegal alien who threatened to assassinate President Trump.” The bizarre accusation that Morales Reyes wrote a letter threatening to kill the president has been disproven, and the man who tried to frame him has confessed to forging the letter.

4 weeks ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Ruth Conniff

You have to hand it to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. As Republicans across the country run in fear from their constituents, refusing to hold town halls lest they be asked to answer for brutal federal budget cuts and threats to health care, nutrition assistance and Social Security, Johnson showed up at a Milwaukee Press Club event Wednesday and appeared cheerfully unperturbed as he took questions from journalists and a skeptical crowd. Not that his answers made sense.

1 month ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Ruth Conniff

More than 100 citizens from an array of grassroots groups packed the Wisconsin state Senate parlor and marched on Gov. Tony Evers’ office Tuesday, their chants bouncing off the marble walls inside the Capitol. They were there to deliver a letter — which they urged others to sign online — demanding that Evers veto the state budget if it doesn’t include key elements of the governor’s own budget proposal.

1 month ago | progressive.org | Ruth Conniff

It can happen here. In fact, it is happening here. Forced disappearances. People seized and deported for political speech or imprisoned abroad without due process. Mass firings of federal workers. The gutting of federal agencies and safety-net programs that have been in place for generations. A judge in Milwaukee arrested and paraded in handcuffs for not cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

1 month ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Ruth Conniff

As Republicans in Congress struggle to deliver President Donald Trump’s massive cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, education, health research and just about every other social good you can think of, in order to clear the way for trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the richest people in the U.S., here in Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and state lawmakers are working on the next state budget.