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Walker to talk mining, jobs during three stops

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 6:53 a.m.
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MADISON—Gov. Scott Walker plans to talk about mining and jobs during three stops around Wisconsin.

Walker will visit Valley Plating and Fabricating in Green Bay Wednesday morning to promote his mining agenda. Then he heads to Schofield where he’ll address employees at L & S Electric.

The governor will make his final stop of the day in Milwaukee where he’ll meet with employees at Phoenix Products Co.

The Legislature is expected to revisit Wisconsin’s mining regulations after the session begins this month.

Republicans have worked to help Florida-based Gogebic Taconite open a huge iron mine just south of Lake Superior. Company officials have promised the mine would create 700 jobs in the economically depressed region, but want legislators to ease the regulatory path.




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donnaw
Jan 3, 2013 at 12:24 p.m.
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It's spelled Al Jazeera and its an anti-American pro terrorist group. Gore wouldn't sell it to Glen Beck because he wanted to sell it to an organization that was more in line with his beliefs.

donnaw
Jan 3, 2013 at 12:20 p.m.
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mouse...you must really be upset with Al Gore's recent sale of his cable channel to Al-Jeezera, and the group that will now grow this network across this country. Good old Al made $500 million of the oil barons money. What a hypocrite.
Also all the pork included in the fiscal cliff bill...Hollywood, electric motorcycles, NASCAR to name a few receipients of the millions. No wonder Biden hawked the bill. So you see mousie, the Dems have dirty hands too.

donnaw
Jan 3, 2013 at 9:46 a.m.
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And Obama takes off for Hawaii. Like he hasn't had enough vacation. If that was Bush with that much money in FEMA and it didn't get to those who needed it, the ...... would hit the fan and it would be every newspaper headline across the US.

wislady
Jan 3, 2013 at 7:50 a.m.
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There is plenty of time to clean up the pork in the Sandy relief bill, FEMA has a lot of money available. It has been 3 months and they have get to pay out the money to victims. Where is the outrage on the government/Obama response?

"Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has roughly $5 billion left in its Disaster Relief Fund and $5.4 billion still available under the cap put in place by last year’s Budget Control Act."

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/12/14/hurr...

donnaw
Jan 3, 2013 at 7:43 a.m.
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And those politicians...dem or rep....who piled on their own little greedy goody list to the bill should be real proud of themselves, as they have delayed these needy people some help. I think a part of the relief bill, hopefully without the pork, will be presented today.

RetiredAirForce
Jan 3, 2013 at 6:28 a.m.
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donna yadamouse is only capable of repeating, not critical thinking.

donnaw
Jan 3, 2013 at 5:31 a.m.
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Mouse..do your homework and google the Sandy relief bill and see all the crap in it. And we wonder why our debt is so high and growing.

wislady
Jan 2, 2013 at 9:26 p.m.
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dtb

I suggest you take a look at the numbers for the Walker recall. Also, the fact that republicans are in control of all the branches of government in Wisconsin. I think the majority has spoken loud and clear, more of a mandate than Obama's 51%. Wisconsin taxpayers do not want to be ruled by the unions.

wislady
Jan 2, 2013 at 9:21 p.m.
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Mouse
The relief for the Sandy victims will be passed, but NOT full of the pork projects. Where has Obama been for them, after his campaign stop, they were merely a distraction for him. He did nothing to relieve their suffering. This was far worse than Katrina.

dtb
Jan 2, 2013 at 5:09 p.m.
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916, that's the Koch/Far Right Wing Agenda, not what the majority of the people want.

HighRoad
Jan 2, 2013 at 4:48 p.m.
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Republicans will ram rod their shoddy laws through the legislature, the shoddy law will be taken to court, the Republicans will lose in court yet again when their shoddy law gets over turned, the tax payers lose again, and Scott Walker's no bid law firm prospers.

dustyd
Jan 2, 2013 at 11:34 a.m.
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Walker's jobs plan is not working. Last Thursday the state Department of Workforce Development reported that unemployment increased in all 12 of Wisconsin's metro areas.

wislady
Jan 2, 2013 at 10:59 a.m.
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Now the democrats can sit back and watch, as the republican controlled government in Wisconsin, passes legislation that the majority of Wisconsin voters want. This is no different than what the democrats in the Senate, and Obama have been doing for the past four years. Remember..."we won", and who spoke those words.

donnaw
Jan 2, 2013 at 10:22 a.m.
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pro artist...he IS listening to the people. We re elected him to keep turning this state around on the right track.
Mouse...go back in your hole and take that ridiculous Koch rant with you! It's past it's expiration date.

916WI
Jan 2, 2013 at 10:22 a.m.
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proartist......he has been LISTENING to the PEOPLE. The majority of people wanted unions to be reigned in, they wanted concealed carry legislation, they wanted Voter ID laws passed. Hopefully he continues listening to the people and attempts to reign in entitlement spending.......

lovemycountry
Jan 2, 2013 at 10 a.m.
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Yes, we are getting the needed iron mine in Wisconsin. To all those who are anti-mining, who apparently think the steel you use is magically delivered by fairies, northern Wisconsin is gaining the much needed jobs.

proartist
Jan 2, 2013 at 9:48 a.m.
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Wouldn't it be refreshing if Walker stopped talking privately to his corporate donors and, instead for once, LISTENED to the PEOPLE. Not likely any time soon as he and his cronies once again begin a careless path running rough shod over the entire state. People who believe any words spouted from Wisconsin's GOP legislative cadre are like trees who think chainsaws are their friends.

916WI
Jan 2, 2013 at 8:47 a.m.
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cynicaleye.......happy new year! I hope your resolutions involve seriously working on your negativity and your bad attitude! Good luck:)

cynicaleye
Jan 2, 2013 at 7:38 a.m.
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Jobs? Walker will be talking jobs? Shouldn't he have been doing that rather than attacking teachers and other public employees, trying to limit voting rights, gerrymandering districts to limit voting for other parties?

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