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So I've been thinking about doing this for awhile. I have always wanted to know what films I considered the best in my library. Before I jump in and drop the list though I do want to qualify it a little just so every one is on the same page with me.
I have an upcoming list of the top 100 Film Classics I haven't seen or need to revisit. Obviously, ALL those movies are disqualified from my list and next year when I have finished my list of movies I need to see some of those will be added to it.
It was only a year ago I became critically interested in films. I hope this list dramatically changes every year as I become more immersed and educated in the study of film
I believe in stakes and context. Lists aren't interesting unless we give them stakes. So the stakes of this list is: if every film in the history of the art form was destroyed and I could only save 100 theses are the 100 I would save and in the order of importance. I'm not saying these are the 100 greatest films of all time. I am saying these are the 100 most important films to me as someone fascinated in the art form of film
In the coming days and weeks I will write a paragraph of WHY these moving are so important. I considered lots of things while making this list:
Nostalgia
Importance in cinematic history
Quality of the Film
Acting
Directing
Writing
Entertainment Factor (still haven't made it through Lawrence of Arabia or Ten Commandments acting and directing aside they are soooooooo boring)
Popularity- Is this movie present on other top 100 list? Was it commercially successful? Does that matter?
Relevance to the time it was released. Citizen Kane if it were released today as is would be garbage but for the time it was a tremendously good and important film
Things I do not feel qualified to assess or comment on:
cinematography
lighting
editing
Foreign Films
Westerns
War Movies
All of that qualifying aside in the coming days and weeks I will have blogs dedicated to why I think each movie is important and why it is where it is. I also will have that Upcoming Top 100 movies I need to see. Submissions for ideas on films I need to see are greatly appreciated. Without further adieu let's look at my Top 100 films:
Hello everyone! It has been a busy summer, but I am ending my hiatus and getting back to doing what I love and forcing myself to grow as a writer, thinker, and artist. I will have a future post about the things I have been up to this summer, but right now I would like to jump right into my thoughts about The Dark Knight Rises. I just got out of the midnight premiere and I want to write this before I talked to anyone else. I had a very strong reaction to this film and I want to get my thoughts out now. I am writing this mainly stream of consciousness so bear with me I will attempt to organize my thoughts as coherently as I possibly can after an almost 3 hour movie and a 11 hour day of work. But first we need to qualify everything I am going to say.
My History with Mr. Nolan and his Batman Franchise
I can already tell where this movie is landing with the general reactions of this film. I was in the theater I watched the twitters and the facebooks explode. I didn't have anywhere close to the same reaction, but in an attempt to not have everyone tune me out I want to explain where I was on Nolan and Batman going into this movie.
I have been an advocate and defender of Chris Nolan for many years now. I think he has released incredible work and consistently manages to release work that is commercially successful, but also challenges its audiences. When Nolan's name is in the credits I feel confident that I am going to get something more than your average run-of-the-mill summer popcorn movie (NOT that there is anything wrong with those. I've seen Avengers twice now and loved it even more the second time). I also think that through the years Nolan has received unfair levels of scrutiny and his films have been nitpicked to death by the cinefile community (admittedly a minority of the film consuming audience).
I have felt like there is this unwritten rule in Hollywood. Option A is making work that challenges it audiences and gets critically rewarded, but dies in the obscurity that is the indie and small budget film circuits (e.g. Tree of Life or Coriolanus which are both films criminally under seen). Option B is releasing massive budget blockbuster movies that are cash cows for the studios. The price an artist pays for this of coarse is creating the least controversial fluff possible that acts as escapism at best (e.g. The Avengers or Hunger Games). Nolan's movies, especially Memento, The Dark Knight, and Inception have managed to bridge a gap and have massive budgets and massive box office success while delivering the audience with something more (in theory).
The massive popularity of these movies make the cinefiles nuts. Michael Bay movies do 300 million at the box office. How can Inception be as visionary, groundbreaking, and challenging as everyone thinks it is if its massively popular? And so the cinefiles start to nitpick the shit out of Nolan holding him to a level of scrutiny that directors like Steven Soderbergh or David Fincher aren't held to, even when they release movies like Magic Mike or Girl With the Dragon Tattoo respectively.
I have defended Nolan over the years. Is the Dark Knight or Inception the greatest movie ever made? No there are flaws and problems with both, but they are great movies. I would take movies with these kind of vision and ambition over Hollywood popcorn any day.
Also less professionally I am a HUGE comic book nerd and a HUGE Batman fan. So now that you know I went into this film being a Nolan Defender and Batman fanboy the gloves need to come off. I need to say my piece and make an appeal to the more reasonable and logical part of your brain as you digest this movie.
*Spoilers*
(^ you were warned no fanboy rage cause I ruined the movie. Also don't read reviews before you see movies you are passionate about.)
The Dark Knight Rises
Let me start this review with explaining why the Batman predecessor worked so well for me. It really boils down to four major things:
Realism- Nolan worked hard to make it clear these movies are meant to be taken as realistically as possible. The universe he sets his franchise in operates with the same rules as our own universe. It is in some ways a rejection of the superhero genre. Unlike in comic books, characters die. Violence is earned and felt as opposed to WHAM and BOW and sassy one-liners. Villains though extreme are believable. They don't have super powers. Batman's gear while heightened isn't far from what we have.
Characters- the characters in these movies are well developed. Characters like Lucius Fox though having little screen time are three dimension.
pseudo rejection of CGI and 3D madness- Most of the action in these movies is shot for real. That semi scene in Dark Knight is so powerful because it is a real semi. Batman throws real punches and hits real people. Instead of Web-slinging around green screens and punching CGI'ed giant lizards.
The question of morality- these movies stop and ponder what kind of person throw on a costume and decides the take the law in their own hands. Actions have REAL consequences. Batman's choices result in an entire section of a city getting gassed with a permanently mind altering drug. It also results in people dying including the love of his life. Unlike Thor who levels a small town with no recourse or Spiderman whose superhero hobby results in hurting his school work, job, and girlfriends. When Mary Jane gets tossed off a bridge we KNOW she will make it. When Rachel and Harvey gets strapped to bombs we don't know if they will (spoilers they don't).
And now why the Dark Knight rises was not any of that....
The soul of Gotham
This whole trilogy is suppose to chronicle the Batman's struggle for a city in desperate need of saving. This film opens with victory. If we have won and the city is safe then why do we have a movie? It is ridiculous as an inspirational Sports movie about a team that has everything, is the best, and has no way to improve. There is no conflict if Gotham's soul is won. The next turn is completely unbelievable. Bane blows up two buildings and then gives a speech and then the whole city pretty much agrees to overthrow any sense of rule of law. If Gotham was won the authorities should be able to handle Bane's threat.
The movie ends with Batman swooping and saving the day at the sacrificing of his own life (just kidding... but I'll get to that). From there it is hard to see how Gotham can be saved. The masses overthrew the ruling class and elected a system of anarchy maintained through violence and intimidation. But after Batman saves the day, Nolan just kind of sweeps the whole movie under a rug and Gotham's order and rule of law is restored. If the city's soul is a character then why it's arch in this movie is a circle and no one learned anything. The next time a terrorist attacks Gotham the city will be in shambles again and Batman will need to reteach it the same lesson.
The Bomb and other Suspension of disbelief issues
In the Dark Knight there was a high level of chaos. The Joker had a master plan and was always several steps ahead of the law enforcement. But we saw a response of the law enforcement and they seemed to being acting in a reasonable manner with logically choices even though the joker was ahead of them the whole time. They responded to a terrorist how our society would.
Bane gets to a place where he is basically holding the city hostage with a bomb that is basically an atomic bomb. If anyone tries to interfere with Gotham or leaves the whole cities goes up in flames, but even if everyone follows the rules and let the oppressed oppress people... everyone goes? 1) It is a no-win situation where is the moral complexity or angle? 2) More importantly where is the state government? or the federal government? NATO? UN? SHIELD? An international terrorist takes hostage one of America's largest cities with a nuclear bomb and the global community's response is: fuck it let the nut job in the Bat costume handle this shit.
Another major point in the movie where my suspension of disbelief hit Transformers levels (yes I went there) was Bane's instant rise to power. The movie dwells on the fact that Gotham is won. There is no organized crime left. And yet Bane blows up TWO buildings and then the entire law enforcement branch falls in line and elected officials submit their power. Again all while the global community does nothing.
There was also a heist that kind of happened that didn't happen. Bane kind of used Wayne's fingerprints to hack the Gotham Stock Exchange (strikingly similar to the NY stock exchange) and bet big on futures that don't come through. Which would in theory destroy Wayne enterprises which is also apparently bankrupt because they sunk ALL funds into one energy project and then Bruce refused to green light the final product. You know like GM put all its resources into building a hydro-electric car and gets a prototype and then says never mind and does nothing. I know Bruce Wayne is supposed to be negligent but there is an entire board of directors that does nothing? Giant commodity's future scandal and the bankrupting of a multinational S & P 500 company and the global financial communities' response is... Nothing?
Ok back to the bomb. Batman takes the atomic bomb out of the city about a mile into the ocean that didn't exist in the last movie and then it explodes. I'm no expert on atomic weaponry, but I know enough to know that the distance he got it out of the city in time would have still leveled the city. He also somehow SURVIVES a nuclear explosion? You know like Indiana Jones! I guess the Batwing had a refrigerator he could hide in.
Finally Bruce Wayne himself. He opens the movie with a limp and cane (no explanation). Later he goes to the doctor who tells him he has no cartilage between his bones from all of the massive beatings I guess. Now this happened to my grandpa. He literally has worked all of the cartilage out of his knee joint and could barely walk until he got surgery. Wayne puts on knee brace and can then fight and be Batman... ok. Then Batman gets his back broken and then thrown down a well that is as deep as skyscraper (with a broken back) and he survives. He gets his back fixed by a monk punching a vertebrae and he trains and he is back to normal... again.
Any sense of realism of the first two movies is completely gone in this film.
Let me go through Character quick fire
Bruce Wayne- socially a hermit and then not. He goes through the same arc and learning curve of the first movie.
Catwomen- She is in this movie as an after thought. Her plotline go nowhere and she is in this movie to where sexy leather, kick ass, and act as a love interest in the finale because Nolan murdered Rachel. Props to Anne Hathaway though best Catwoman even with very limit writing and screen time
Lucius Fox- Why are you in this movie?
Albert- You get mad at Bruce and say you're done and you cannot handle burying Wayne. Then you bury him and cry (an overact) a lot. But then it is all undone cause Wayne is alive healthy and gets a happily ever after.
Joseph Gordan Levitt Character- This character just got shit. He ran around the whole movie acting as one of the only people trying to do his job as a cop and the entire time had superiors step on him and condescended. He also got equal screen time to Batman (the title character) even though it was all about setting up the new Batman for the next franchise (studio goes caching caching). It also made no sense how or why he knew who Batman was. NO sense.
Bane- annoy voice kind of hard to understand. I missed the joker a lot. Not just for the performance but for the actual master plan and the fun.
Marion Cotillard- This character was the least believable and had one of the worse death scenes I have seen in a movie in a long time.
I think why this movie is being so well received is the scale of the action is unbelievable. Nolan sacrificed writing and character development for mindless explosions. Because this movie is so long and the last act of it is nothing but action people get lost in it and the plot points move so fast and the editing moves rapidly that there is not time to stop and think about.... well anything really. To fair a lot of the action is breathtaking and could not be done by another director. I'm pretty sure the studio gave Nolan a blank signed check for the budget of this movie.
So if you love the Batman movies for the explosions and action scenes and you just love Batman go see this movie. If you followed these films because they are smart and clever and maybe made you think a little prepared to be let down.
As always I encourage and want discussion. These are my views and opinions and a dialogue can help me find the weak points of my arguments and even change my opinions on things I got wrong. Look for more content soon.
The Dark knight Rises ended up being the film the studios needed not the film the fans deserved
Will
PS: Totally called Joseph Gorden Levitt being Robin. Everyone said I was wrong. I win!
So I have realized that I cannot dedicate the time I need to keep this blog at the level I want it to be at. With two jobs and a play there is just no time. I apologize profusely to my very dedicated readers and promise that this fall and I will do this bigger and better than ever.
So I have two jobs this summer. I work at an accounting firm where I basically push paper all day long. Its a job I feel like a sixth grader could do, but they pay me very well and I am very grateful to have the job. My second job is at a local family Restaurant where I wait tables and help out in the kitchen. after two weeks of work I have come to three life revelations:
1) I cannot spend my life in a cubicle
A lot of people work hard in college. They get good grades they work for their bachelors degree maybe they go to grad school, maybe they just enter the work force. They marry, have kids, place a down payment on a house and start a family. It is the American dream. They hopefully act responsibly save enough for retirement and hopefully a little extra to get their children through college. Though this is a fulfilling route for most (and no disrespect to those at all who pursue it) I realized it is not the path for me.
As I sit in my cubicle doing my work and my mind wanders I start to think: what if I had to do this for a year. Two Year? What about of an entire lifetime? A lifetime of pushing paper for other important partners helping the very wealthy and companies pay little to no taxes. Where is the fulfillment in that? Where is the satisfaction?
I have worked this job for about there summers now and I have come to realize that I hate working in a cubicle. First it is way too claustrophobic. There is little to know sunlight, and I am completely isolated from all human contact (other than the small jaunt to the water cooler or the bathroom). This maybe the path for some people, but frankly if I spent my life in a cubicle I might just breakdown one day and do this:
2) Madison's economy has taken a dramatic hit
Working at a pretty mid level restaurant I get a pretty good gauge of where people's spending is at. In good times the restaurant is packed and people are willing to buy big and leave nice tips (which is almost my entire income but I will get to that in a bit). Now I have only been back in the restaurant the past two weeks and the season is still early (my restaurant is primarily outside food service so weather does effect attendance). That being said there are significantly fewer people going out to eat.
Business is very slow, even on night where it should be jammed packed. I worked Sunday brunch this morning which is a always a huge seller and we were severely understaffed. We were waiting for the impending doom of the morning rush coming and the few servers running around like chickens with their heads cut off, but the rush never came.
Now when we suffered total collapse of the economy back in late 2008 Madison was doing better than most areas of the country. Why was Madison protected and why has it now fallen in harder times? The answers to both those questions is public-sector unions. With all of the school districts, government agencies, UW hospital, and the University of Wisconsin all in Dane county a fairly large percentage of our market have union contracts.
Now I'm not here to start a political fight of whether what has happened to public unions in my state is right, at this point that is for the voters to decide at the polls on Tuesday June 5th (PLEASE GO VOTE WISCONSINITES!!). Instead I am just sharing my observations:
When the economy got hit hard the unions help keep Madison afloat
Now that the unions are under attack it seems like the whole boat is sinking.
Food for thought...
3) I am very lucky to have just not just one job but two.
Several of my friends are home from college and now looking for employment. They have student loans to be concerned with or are trying to avoid them. What they are finding though more and more is there are no jobs. Seasonal jobs that were always covered by college and high schools students are being now being filled by parents trying to pick up part time jobs to just get by.
I will share a few stories just to give you an idea how what the job market is like. I am changing names to protect identities of my friends but their story is what is important.
My friend Ted worked at a prominent clothing store for three years. He was very proud to get his three year pin last summer when they thanked him for all his service. Ted went out of state for college and therefore did not continue working at this clothing outlet. He left with the assumption and security of knowing he would have a job when he got back next summer. Ted got home and went in to give the store his availability. They then informed him that since he has not worked for so long that he would have to be retrained. Since he is only home for three months the only 8 hours of training weren't worth it and he was fired. How is that for loyalty? Three years and a spotless record and Ted is told he is a liability.
My Friend Robin dropped out of school this semester. Since she decided to take a break she decided she needed to save up some money so she has assets when she wants to go back to school. She spent a month unemployed. She filled out 40 job Applications, ans visited the employment pool several times. She was dodged for interviews left and right, lead on and then rejected. Robin finally got a job at a coffee factory, but with tuition hikes and cost of living for Minneapolis going up she realizes she probably needs another job to get back on track and get back to school. The search has started again and it is just as unfruitful as before.
My Friend Lilly is a great student. She is double majoring in global studies and economics. She went to one of the best public high schools in the country and in college she took on heavy loads both semesters and pulled off an impeccable GPA. There is no reason anywhere wouldn't be thrilled about hiring her. And yet she got home to find nobody wants her. She has filled out approx. 30 job application and only gotten two interviews. She even applied to Chick Fillet... and was rejected (quite demoralizing when even Chick Fillet doesn't want you). She might spend the whole summer on Pottermore now because nobody wants to hire a college kid for three months when there are plenty of laid off adults willing to work to just get by.
I have several other stories like these and I hope they ring true to you. I think everybody know someone that is looking for work. This just goes to show that the recovery Obama promised never happened. Unemployment even roused this past month even as Obama has been slowly chipping away at it month after month. We need a massive stimulus bill to get the economy going again. It should be real domestic spending for average working-class people. The corporations and the rich got their tax breaks and the results are in. The jobs supply side economics were suppose to delivery never happened. Lets put these signs to real use:
Walker Lies again
I am not going to go on another Anti- Scott Walker rant again (If you want to read that go here.) Like I said people's minds are made up and it is time to see what happens at the polls on Tuesday, There was a news update that was just too important to let slide.
Scott Walker has been running one of the ugliest smear campaigns against Tom Barrett in Wisconsin state history. Watch this ad and Barret's response:
Now the quote he used is from a criminology professor. The quote makes Barrett look especially bad... too bad the professor was never talking about Mayor Tom Barrett. The professor held a press conference late this week where he said basically that Walker was misusing his quote and that Mayor Tom Barrett has no control over whether the Milwaukee police department is corrupting their crime statistics. I will end with this bombshell quote from Barrett on Thursday nights debate.
"I have a police department that arrested felons you have a habit of hiring them!"
Peace and Love,
Will
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As many of you know I have gone home for the summer back to Madison, Wisconsin. In my state right now there is an unprecedented and historic recall election taking place. The Governor is facing an election for his destructive union-busting budget repair bill that removed most collective bargaining rights of most of the public employee unions. That is not all this recall election is about, what most people from outside my home state don't understand is the budget repair bill was just the spark that ignited the fire. Scott Walker has done things in my home state that have set Wisconsin back decades and have significant ramifications for the rest of the country.
Walker's national polling is still at about 80% around the rest of the country. I don't blame the people of our country for that. I blame the media. They have not covered Wisconsin honestly or fairly. In this post I will detail some of the atrocities that have occurred under Scott Walker this past year. I hope this post can convince some people on the opposing side of the political civil war in Wisconsin to come to the side of justice, democracy and the Wisconsin way. The election is less than a week away and polling is not as positive for the outcome. I will explain how Wisconsin is going to effect us all if we do not win this fight.
Why Wisconsin Matters
The right wing of this country is using Wisconsin as a social experiment. The full effects and powers of Citizens United have never been tested in the election ring. The 2010 elections were just the beginning of the new era of unlimited corporate donations to election funds. In Wisconsin this past year over 35,000 volunteers braved the cold of Wisconsin winters to collect almost a million signatures to recall the Governor. These were average working-class people reminding us all we still control our democracy and that politicians answer to the people on election day not their campaign backers.
The ring wing is challenging this very notion. They believe that money will win elections and their political pawns cannot be held accountable for their corporate greed. The proof of this is in the pudding as they say. Scott Walker has raised a war chest of over 25 million dollars to spend on this campaign. If you include all the Super- PAC's, the Republican Governor's Association, and Third Party groups such as Americans for Prosperity the total money being spend in Wisconsin for the Governor will be about $45 million dollars.
Over 70% of Scott Walker campaign contribution are coming from out of state donors. That should tell you everything you need to know. In comparison the Democrat, Tom Barrett (The mayor of Milwaukee), has raised just barely 4 million dollars. Scott Walker's direct campaign is out spending Barret and a ratio of 12:1.
Citizens United has created a sever threat to Americans democracy. Never before have corporations and wealthy individuals been able to influence our political process. The million people that have mobilized are testing whether people power and real grass-roots level organization can defeat big money. If Scott Walker wins next Tuesday that will signal to every corporation and wealthy individual that money CAN and WILL buy elections and the floodgates will be opened for the 2012 election. They are already predicting that 2012 will be a Billion dollar election. If Scott Walkers wins It will be a 2 or 3 billion dollar elections and the elite of this country will be playing for keeps.
If Scott Walker wins in Wisconsin his radical agenda for our state will become the mandate for the country. Mitt Romney will be run around the country saying Walker is a hero and he has fought for what the majority of Americans want. Just so this agenda is very clear this is what Scott Walker has done to my home state:
Removed almost all collective bargaining rights of public union as well has forced them to pay more towards their pensions and pay towards their health care. Effectively a pay cut of $500-$700 a month ($6,000 to $8,400 a year).
Under Walker's leadership Wisconsin lead the country in job losses last year with a net loss of over 33,000 jobs, while the governor ran on jobs and promising creating 250,000 private sectors jobs by the end of his term.
He has cut 1.5 billion dollars from K-12 education while at the same time capping property taxes (how school districts raise most of their money) effective cutting education twice.
He has cut numerous social programs and tax credits for the poor, elderly, and minorities while giving huge tax cuts to millionaires and corporations.
He has passed one of the most radical voter ID bills in the country while at the same time closing several DMV's in the state and radically reducing services hour. Effectively suppressing the democratic voice of students, elderly, and minorities.
He repealed the the Fair Pay Act in Wisconsin which gave women more inexpensive legal avenues to sue their employers for wage discrimination (Women made a national average of 77 cent to every male dollar in this country. In Wisconsin it is 75 cents).
He has repeal comprehensive sexual education that required schools to teach contraceptives if they chose to have sex ed in their school. Now schools are encouraged to focus on abstinence only education.
He signed a bill that requires women to privately conference with a doctor before performing a abortion to make sure she isn't being "threatened" into the procedure-- a blatant attack on women's reproductive rights.
He has put a radical anti-conservationist in charge of the DNA who is busy undoing every environmental regulation that environmentalists have fought for. Prime example: Wolves, a species we almost hunted into extinction, are now legal game.
The list goes on and on, but these are some of the most major points. Looking forward it is also important to know what is still at risk in the state of Wisconsin:
Scott Walker has hired a deer Czar that has concluded that they need to privatize hunting rights and government land use for the state of Wisconsin. This is one move if he stands election.
With the budget repair bill Walker now has the authority to sell off state assets with a no-bid process. If Walker stands an election you will see Highways, airports, State forests, and most importantly state power plants sold off to Walker corporate backers for pennies on the dollar. Millions of dollars of value we can never get back.
Walker will expand his voucher system in Milwaukee to the rest of the state supporting private for profit charter schools and dealing the final blow to our education system.
I have no doubt in my mind that if Walker stands an election he will pursue right-to-work legislation (or right-to-work-for-less) effectively ending private sector unions in this state.
Scott Walker is a Fascist.
Now I understand the severity of the word I just used and I do not use it lightly. I will provide some evidence to prove my point.
In this video a prank caller identifies himself as David Koch (one of Walker's major backers) and they start talking about massive protests taking place outside the capital. The prank caller asks Walker if he considered putting a few troublemakers in the crowd to turn to demonstration violent. Walker says they considered it but it was too risky of a calculation. He considered risking ten of thousands of peoples lives and putting the police force in danger. He decided against it not on moral grounds, but on it could be too politically costly.
start listening at 4:20
Also during the protest last year Walker said he would not hesitate to call out the national guard if necessary. Comparable to the violent Vietnam War Protests in Madison or the Democratic National Convention.
Here is a video of Scott Walker's Capital Police force arresting people who are sitting peacefully in the public state assembly because they have political signs pinned to their shirts:
Also remember that Scott Walker tricked protesters out of the capital building during the protests and then locked the Capital building for days. The Wisconsin Capital historically has always been open to the public. People were unable to petition their state representatives.
Here is Walker describing that the Collective Bargaining law was intended to be use to "divide and conquer the state" not for budgetary reasons:
He also was recently before the Federal Ethics Committee where he was repeatedly asked by congressmen if he used his collective bargaining bill to punish public unions. He under oath said it was for solely budgetary reasons. He was repeatedly asked if he meant with single campaign contributors and discussed the strategy he said no. He technically committed perjury under law and members of the ethics committee have sent letters for him to reclarify his statements made under oath. (read about that here).
Scott Walker is a criminal
I will end my plea for the residents of my state to see reason. There is an ongoing John Doe investigation in Wisconsin investigating Walker's days as County Executive. So far 14 felonies charges have been filed and 10 current and former Walker officials and donors have been granted immunity. Walker has a legal defense fund and has spend $160,000 in legal fees to private law firms. An innocent person doesn't have a defense fund and they don't rack up 160K in lawyers fee with discussing with the DA.
We don't want to be the most embarrassing incident since Watergate. Nixon got a landside victory and then was forced to resign for threat of impeachment. Walker will do the same and this investigation surrounds him.
Please Vote on June 5th and support Tom Barrett. Wisconsin needs an end to this civil war and we need to prove to corporations that people power will beat big money every time.
Yours truly at the protests last year.
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