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Company representative says governor-elect expressed indecision on high-speed rail line

Madison — Governor-elect Scott Walker reached out to a Milwaukee train manufacturer Friday, seeking to keep its operations in the state long-term as he advocates for stopping a passenger rail project involving the company.

“Governor-elect Walker is reaching out to leadership at Talgo to encourage them to stay in Wisconsin,” Walker spokeswoman Jill Bader said Friday.

A spokeswoman for Talgo, the U.S. unit of the Spanish firm Patentes Talgo, said that Walker told company officials that his decision to stop a proposed Madison-to-Milwaukee passenger rail line is “not final.”

Walker, a Republican, campaigned on an unambiguous promise to end the passenger rail line, funded with $810 million in federal stimulus money, which he has called a boondoggle. Bader said Walker was not backing away from that promise.

I wish I could say that I was shocked when I saw a recent news story that quoted Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson blaming the recession on the Community Reinvestment Act – a 1977 law that increased lending in communities where credit had traditionally been denied.

His argument is not new. But the argument is still wrong. At this point, nearly everyone knows that lax oversight of Wall Street fueled this recession.

Republicans in Congress have been wrongly pointing the finger at low-income, minority Americans and the CRA as cause for the subprime crisis and the recession for years.

If they took a closer look, they would know that it’s actually quite the opposite. CRA loans are safer. CRA banks have to prove that applicants can pay a loan back. But we got into this recession because regulators turned a blind eye and let banks give high-cost, high-interest loans to people who had no way to repay them.

Milwaukee Congresswoman Given Visionary Leadership Award by National Network to End Domestic Violence

U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) was honored by the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) for her work to end domestic violence and help victims recover.

Congresswoman Moore said, “I am extremely honored to receive this award – but this isn’t a time to celebrate, it’s a time to refocus and redouble our efforts. We have a real crisis on our hands. In my state alone, deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years. The increased incidence of abuse along with the fact that shelters are operating on shoe-string budgets – fails victims – and we can do better. Shelters cannot do more with less. We need to expand services. We need to give victims and their families a safe place. And we need to end domestic violence.”

Moore worked to include funding in Wall Street Reform Bill

This week, U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore (DMilwaukee) announced that Wisconsin will receive more than $51.5 million to help keep unemployed homeowners in their homes.

This announcement comes on the heels of news that after months of decline, foreclosure rates in Southeastern Wisconsin rose last month.

Moore, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, worked to create this new program in recently enacted Wall Street reform legislation. The bill was signed into law last July and the Housing Department began distributing the funding this week.

We’ve just a got our shipment of brand new Gwen Moore for Congress Yard Signs.  Will you show your support for Gwen by displaying a Yard Sign? You can pick up a yard sign at the Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign Offices listed below: Northside: 7980 W. Appleton Avenue or Southside: 808 W. Historic Mitchell Street

Representative Moore praised for her leadership

For Immediate Release: September 30, 2010

Contact: Tony Gibart, WCADV 608.255.0539 x 310

Madison, WI – The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV) and the National Network to End Domestic Violence applaud Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) and the U.S. House of Representatives for passing S. 3817, a bill to reauthorize the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVSPA) as part of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).  Now heading for the Senate, this bill authorizes a vital federal investment in domestic violence shelters.

“We commend Representative Moore, who is a remarkable leader and a passionate advocate for domestic violence victims,” said Patti Seger, Executive Director of WCADV.  “She has been a driving force behind the reauthorization of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.  Victims in Wisconsin and across the nation will be safer because Representative Moore has taken a stand against violence.”

Two Milwaukee banks will receive a total of $1.2 million to provide loans to small businesses and for affordable housing in low-income neighborhoods, according to a news release issued Thursday from U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee).

Legacy Bancorp Inc. and North Milwaukee State Bank will each receive $600,000 as part of the Bank Enterprise Award from the U.S. Treasury. The program is distributing $25 million based on lending and investment in areas where 30 percent of the population lives at or below the poverty level and where unemployment is 1.5 percent higher than the national average.

Individual assistance granted

On Sept. 18, FEMA announced Milwaukee residents will be eligible for individual aid following the July flooding. Originally, the state’s request for Individual Assistance was denied.

FEMA denied the state’s request for Individual Assistance because they deemed the damage insufficient to qualify for individual federal aid. In response to the denial, Mayor Barrett said, “We were all disappointed with FEMA’s initial decision, but we were not deterred.”

In the immediate aftermath of the July flooding, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett worked tirelessly with representatives from FEMA and other state and local officials to ensure that the citizens affected by the floods would receive assistance.