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Posted Ron Johnson on how poor blacks, kids and seniors are ruining our country to One Wisconsin Now
Johnson said people who value their local community need to get involved to help turn around what he called a "culture of entitlement" to benefits such as Medicare, Social Security, food stamps and other programs he said have led to: The increase of the out-of-wedlock birth rate from 7.5 percent in the 1960s to more than 40 percent now....
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Posted Ron Johnson threatened more one-man gridlock in Senate to One Wisconsin Now
Johnson has accomplished nothing, voted against everything, even things most Republicans supported, and single-handedly brought the Senate to a halt last summer to make a point about the fact that a federal budget hadn't passed. He threatened to continue, but some of the GOP leadership must have slapped him around enough to get him to knock it off. Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson's Advice To Women Who Can't Afford Contraception to One Wisconsin Now
"Google 'What If I Can't Afford Birth Control?'" Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson on opposing child abuse victim protections to One Wisconsin Now
Check out the video here...
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Posted Ron Johnson after being asked to explain exactly how the government should respond to the issue of homeless vets to One Wisconsin Now
"I don't believe this election really is about details. It just isn't." Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson on his thoughts regarding man-caused global warming. to One Wisconsin Now
"Oh I totally disagree with it you know...it always does surprise me that the people think this is the sweet spot in, you know in global history in terms of this is where we should be climate-wise. You know we live in Wisconsin I'm glad there is global warming or we'd be standing on top a 200 foot thick glacier....
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Posted Ron Johnson defending the concept of rock-bottom minimum wage. to One Wisconsin Now
See it here...
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Posted Ron Johnson on his opposition to unemployment insurance and programs to help the poor to One Wisconsin Now
"When you continue to extend unemployment benefits, people really don't have the incentive to go take other jobs. They'll just wait the system out until their benefits run out, then they'll go out and take, probably not as high paying jobs as they'd like to take, but that's really how you have to get back to work." Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson claims that Obamacare is a greater threat than communism and terrorism to One Wisconsin Now
AL HUNT: "...you wrote a column a few months ago that said, "the single greatest assault on freedom in my lifetime" - more than communism or terrorism - was the Obama health care plan.." JOHNSON: "When government is going to decide what kind of care you can have, where you can get your care - and that is what we're..." AL...
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Posted Ron Johnson claims sunspots are behind climate change to One Wisconsin Now
A global warming skeptic, Johnson said extreme weather phenomena were better explained by sunspots than an overload of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as many scientists believe. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: "I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," Johnson said. "It's not proven by any stretch of the imagination." Johnson, in an interview last month,...
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Posted Ron Johnson on moving jobs to China to One Wisconsin Now
"I'd encourage people to go onto Youtube and type in Steve Wynn. He does about a five-minute piece where he's talking about- he's the fellow who does Wynn resorts in Las Vegas. He's also creating resorts in Macau in China, communist China. And his point is, the level of uncertainty, the climate for business investment is far more certain in...
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Posted Ron Johnson on being a U.S. Senator to One Wisconsin Now
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Posted Ron Johnson on how being a rich guy in Wisconsin inspired him to public service. to One Wisconsin Now
"I was watching FOX News and, uh, Dick Morris came on. He was talking about, uh, hey Russ Feingold is really, really vulnerable. Hey, if you're a rich guy in the state of Wisconsin maybe you ought to decide to run." Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson on what he would say to the millions of women who cannot afford birth control. to One Wisconsin Now
See it here...
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Posted Ron Johnson on his alternative to helping our economy. to One Wisconsin Now
"As someone that's been in business for 31 years, I recognize where jobs are created and that's the private sector...I'm not totally opposed to some deficit spending if it had been prioritized at real prioritized infrastructure projects and targeted tax cuts that would actually create demand for products and actually puts money in the pockets of business people..." Read...
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Posted Ron Johnson supports oil drilling in the Great Lakes to One Wisconsin Now
WISPOLITICS: "Would you support drilling, like in the Great Lakes for example?" JOHNSON: "You know, the bottom line is we are an oil-based economy. There's nothing we're going to do to get off of that for many years. I think we have to be realistic and recognize that fact and, you know, I, I think we have to, get the oil...
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Posted Ron Johnson Said Keeping Guns From 'Demented Individuals' Will 'Restrict Our Freedoms' to One Wisconsin Now
See it here...
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Posted Ron Johnson Doesn't Know Rate Of Uninsured In Home State Of Wisconsin to One Wisconsin Now
It's hard to believe that Republicans take the health care debate very seriously when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) -- one of the party's main spokespeople on Obamacare -- doesn't even know the number of uninsured in his own state... He then went on to falsely claim that his home state of Wisconsin enjoys similarly high rates of insurance coverage. Read...
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Posted Ron Johnson voted 100% for Koch Brothers during first year in US Senate to One Wisconsin Now
Five members of the US Senate were 100% reliable votes for the Koch Brothers right wing agenda in 2011, Think Progress reports. Guess who made the list? Read More...
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Posted Ron Johnson speaks at an 8th grade level to One Wisconsin Now
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing may be debatable. But we suspect in Johnson's case it is not a deliberate dumbing down so people can understand him. It fits perfectly with his simple view of the world. ... In Johnson's case, it is more likely his speech writers trying to use words that Johnson can understand. It's...
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Posted Ron Johnson speaks at an 8th grade level to One Wisconsin Now
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing may be debatable. But we suspect in Johnson's case it is not a deliberate dumbing down so people can understand him. It fits perfectly with his simple view of the world. ... In Johnson's case, it is more likely his speech writers trying to use words that Johnson can understand. It's...
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Posted Ron Johnson speaks at an 8th grade level to One Wisconsin Now
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing may be debatable. But we suspect in Johnson's case it is not a deliberate dumbing down so people can understand him. It fits perfectly with his simple view of the world. ... In Johnson's case, it is more likely his speech writers trying to use words that Johnson can understand. It's...
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Posted Ron Johnson Said Employers Should Be Able To Deny Coverage To Cancer Patients Because 'Our Nation Was Based On Freedom' to One Wisconsin Now
See the video here...
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Posted Ron Johnson Blocked veteran employment opportunity legislation to One Wisconsin Now
Veterans have some kind of strange instinct inside; that they should serve their country. Once their discharge comes through via disability or retirement, there are civilian jobs where they can continue their ambition to help America. Mitt failing to mention anything about the troops during his RNC speech was a precursor to a few Republicans who blocked a vote that...
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Posted Ron Johnson Doesn't See a Problem with Outsourcing to One Wisconsin Now
Dear Peter, Thank you for contacting me with your opinion on the "Bring Jobs Home Act" (S. 2884). On July 19, 2012, I voted against a motion that would have allowed the bill to be considered on the Senate floor. ...Contrary to what the authors of this bill imply, business outsourcing is not responsible for our weakened economy. ...Sincerely, Ron Johnson United State Senator ...
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Posted Ron Johnson Said Investing In Green Energy Is Turning America Into The Soviet Union to One Wisconsin Now
O'BRIEN: You're surely not suggesting that the idea and the concept behind Solyndra and other green energies like Solyndra is comparable to the Soviet Union and Cuba, right? JOHNSON: No, I am suggesting that, because when you take taxpayer money and you invest that into businesses, that's the taxpayer money put at risk. And let's face it, the lesson of...
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Posted Ron Johnson May Have Been Improperly Funded By His Own Company to One Wisconsin Now
After dropping nearly $9 million from his own pocket to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, Ron Johnson didn't have to feel the pain for very long. Johnson's plastics company paid him $10 million in deferred compensation shortly before he was sworn in as Wisconsin's junior senator, according to his latest financial disclosure report. The first-term Republican declined to...
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Posted Ron Johnson said Obamacare is more threatening than communism, terrorism to One Wisconsin Now
Another doozy from the archives: For the record, in the senator's lifetime, America has endured segregation, the Cold War and the threat of terrorism. That fact was not lost on Hunt, who pressed Johnson about his oft-repeated refrain and asked him specifically about the threat of communism. "I wasn't threatened under communism," Johnson countered. "You weren't threatened by terrorism?" Hunt...
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Posted Ron Johnson thinks Obama did not come into office with the economy in a free fall. to One Wisconsin Now
Sen. Johnson: Economy was not in free fall when Pres. Obama took office CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien and the Starting Point panel discuss the presidential debate and records of the candidates with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI). Senator Johnson says, "The reason we're not creating those jobs is because of the choices, the policies, that President Obama took. You know, because...
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Posted Ron Johnson Said Greenland Used To Be Green to One Wisconsin Now
Johnson also invoked an interesting -- though not altogether accurate -- argument supposedly proving that climate change is no biggie. "There's a reason Greenland was called Greenland," he said. "It was actually green at one point in time. And it's been, since, it's a whole lot whiter now." Read More...
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