Here & Now; 429
- Series
- Here & Now
- Episode
- 429
- Contributing Organization
- PBS Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/29-30bvqdx8
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Here and Now, using tax money to perform campaign work, This afternoon yet another former state lawmaker plead guilty to using tax money to perform campaign work at the state Capitol. Steve Foti appeared in Dane County Court today, the fourth of five elected officials snared in the Wisconsin caucus scandal. Foti had been charged with a felony, but he plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the standards of conduct for public officials. That in return for agreeing to testify in the case against the final legislator to face campaign charges, former Assembly Speaker Scott Jenson. Jensen is scheduled for court next month. Jay Heck of Common Cause of Wisconsin was in court today and joins us now (video of steve foti in court) , also this week, also this week - kohl and feingold asked us supreme court nomoniee sam alito questions, 5 milwaukee men charged with slashing tires on GOP vans that were to take voters to polls in 2004; nino amato ousted (reader - no video) , mark green statement about s-b 1 and returning money, Congressman Mark Green said Wednesday he hoped to give back contributions received from former house majority leader Tom DeLay of Texas. Delay faces money laundering charges in state court in Texas. Green also supported changes in Wisconsin campaign finance laws - S-B one (senate bill 1) would merge the state elections board and ethics boards into one, new, Government Accountability board. This would have increased enforcment powers. (video of mark green making statement) , public support of campaign reforms, Assembly bill 226 would increase the income tax checkoff from a dollar to five dollars. It would use the money to increase grants to candidates. It would give added money to candidates targeted by independent issue ads and would prohibit fundraising when the legislature is working on the state budget. With me now is the sponsor of that bill, Representative Steve Freese of Dodgeville. , public financing of elections, The Patron Saint of Campaign Finance Reform' In 1999, at the age of 89, she walked the length of the country to preach the need for brooming away big money from elective politics. Last fall she ran for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire at the age of 95. And on January 23 Doris 'Granny D' Haddock will appear at the State Capitol as part of a session of the 'People's Legislature.' joins us now from Manchester, New Hampshire. , FSBO - for sale by owner - real estate sales, Former social worker, and her cousin who decided over coffee that there had to be a better way to buy and sell a house. The New York Times story went on to say that F-S-B-O-Madison---which stands for 'For Sale by Owner' is the most successful cyber-home-seller real estate company in America. Mary Clare Murphy and Christie Miller are the brains behind For sale by owner-Madison.
- Created Date
- 2006-01-13
- Rights
- Content provided from the media collection of Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, a service of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. All rights reserved by the particular owner of content provided. For more information, please contact 1-800-422-9707
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:31
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Wisconsin Public Television (WHA-TV)
Identifier: WPT1.3.2006.429 MB (Wisconsin Public Television)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:27:46
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Here & Now; 429,” 2006-01-13, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-30bvqdx8.
- MLA: “Here & Now; 429.” 2006-01-13. PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-30bvqdx8>.
- APA: Here & Now; 429. Boston, MA: PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-30bvqdx8