Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Controversy and Recalls Collection, 2011-2012
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Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Controversy and Recalls Collection
Inclusive Dates: 2011-2012

Call Number: M2012-010; M2011-094; M2012-037; M2013-034; M2013-040; M2013-041; M2013-042; M2013-043; M2013-044; M2013-045; M2013-046; M2013-047; M2013-048; M2013-049; M2013-050; M2013-053; M2013-056; M2013-057; M2013-058

Quantity: 17.2 cubic feet, 16 compact discs, 10 photographs, and 4 DVDs

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Materials collected from the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, and other sources documenting the 2011 budget bill debate and subsequent recall elections. Materials consist of posters, flyers, meeting notices, emails, exhibits, campaign materials, photographs, and ephemera.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2012010
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Biography/History

The 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, was legislation proposed by Republican Governor Scott Walker and passed by the Wisconsin Legislature to address a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit.

Arrangement of the Materials

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 19 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Access Restrictions

WHS is not equipped to play the Blu-Ray disc in Part 16 (M2013-053).


Use Restrictions

Some individual accessions have copyright restrictions which are detailed in the holdings.


Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M2012-010, M2011-094, M2012-037, M2013-034, M2013-040, M2013-041, M2013-042, M2013-043, M2013-044, M2013-045, M2013-046, M2013-047, M2013-048, M2013-049, M2013-050, M2013-053, M2013-056, M2013-057, M2013-058


Contents List
M2012-010
Part 1 (M2012-010): Original Collection, 2011
Physical Description: 11.4 cubic feet (3 archives boxes, 12 flat boxes, and 23 oversize folders) 
Scope and Content Note: Printed email messages regarding the Budget Repair Bill, flyers and posters, house rules and meeting notices, produced primarily in February and March 2011, supporting public sector workers, their unions and collective bargaining and other issues surrounding the Budget Repair Bill. The flyers and posters are arranged by themes, which range from the Repair Bill specifically to solidarity and support for unions and state workers, songs, rules, announcements, capitalism, teachers and education, and attacks on and messages to Governor Scott Walker.
Box   1
Folder   1-19
Move.on emails
Box   2
Folder   1-8
Move.on emails
Box   2
Folder   9
Move.on message totals, other signs
Box   2
Folder   10
Transcript of phone call with Murphy posing as David Koch
Flyers
Box   2
Folder   11
General
Box   2
Folder   12-30
By theme
Posters and signs
Box   3
Folder   1-3
General
Box   13
Folder   3
General
Box   3
Folder   4-9
By theme
Oversize Folder   1
Appeals to politicians
Oversize Folder   2
Anti-war
Oversize Folder   3
Budget
Box   4
Folder   1
Capitalism
Box   9
Folder   1-2
Class warfare
Box   4
Folder   2
Collective bargaining and state workers
Box   13
Folder   1
Collective bargaining/workers' rights
Oversize Folder   16
Conservatives/Fox News
Oversize Folder   4
Corporations/corporate donors
Box   7
Folder   1
Corporations/corporate donors
Box   4
Folder   3
Democracy
Box   10
Folder   1
Democracy
Oversize Folder   5
Dominoes
Oversize Folder   17
Education/teachers
Box   4
Folder   4
Education and teachers
Box   14
Folder   1
Education/teachers
Box   10
Folder   2
Expectations
Box   13
Folder   2
“Fab 14”/Democratic senators
Oversize Folder   6
“Fab 14”/Democratic senators
Box   12
Folder   1
Health care
Box   14
Folder   2
Health care issues/health care workers
Box   4
Folder   5
Kill the Bill/bill issues
Box   11
Folder   1
Kill the bill
Box   14
Folder   3
Kill the Bill/SB 11
Box   4
Folder   6
Koch brothers
Box   5
Folder   1
Koch brothers
Oversize Folder   7
Koch brothers
Oversize Folder   18-19
Koch brothers
Box   11
Folder   2
Labor, general and support from
Oversize Folder   8
Middle class
Box   12
Folder   2
Middle East references
Box   11
Folder   3
“Our House”
Oversize Folder   9
Public workers
Box   4
Folder   7
Quotations and public figure references
Box   4
Folder   8
Recall
Box   13
Folder   4
Recall
Oversize Folder   10
Recall elections
Oversize Folder   20
Republican legislators
Box   4
Folder   9
Republican legislators
Box   13
Folder   5
Republican senators
Box   5
Folder   2
Rights
Oversize Folder   11
Riot/troublemaker
Oversize Folder   12
Rules, announcements, requests
Box   4
Folder   10
Rules, announcements, directions
Box   14
Folder   4
Rules/announcements
Box   11
Folder   4
Rules/requests
Oversize Folder   23
Solidarity
Box   4
Folder   11
Solidarity and support messages
Box   5
Folder   3
Solidarity and support messages
Box   10
Folder   3
Solutions
Box   6
Folder   1
Support, by businesses
Box   7
Folder   3
Support, by unions
Box   10
Folder   4
Support, out of town
Box   8
Folder   1
Support/solidarity
Box   14
Folder   5-6
Support/solidarity
Oversize Folder   13-14
Support/solidarity
Box   7
Folder   2
Strike
Box   9
Folder   3
Strike Day, May
Box   9
Folder   4
TAA (Teaching Assistants Association)
Oversize Folder   21
Transparency in government
Oversize Folder   22
Walker, Scott
Box   4
Folder   12
Walker, Scott
Box   5
Folder   4
Walker, Scott
Box   6
Folder   2
Walker, Scott
Box   9
Folder   5
Walker, Scott
Box   11
Folder   5
Walker, Scott
Box   12
Folder   3
Walker, Scott
Box   13
Folder   6
Walker, Scott
Box   15
Folder   1-3
Walker, Scott
Box   10
Folder   5
Wisconsin values
Box   8
Folder   2
Workers' rights
Oversize Folder   15
Workers' rights
M2011-094
Part 2 (M2011-094): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) and 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2011, consisting of print-outs of graphic designs used for posters during the Budget Bill protests at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, in February and March and a compact disc with approximately 110 images of the posters and photographs of the posters being used.
Use Restrictions: WHS may provide access and allow reproduction of the images for editorial and non-commercial use.
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Folder   1
Graphic designs used for posters, print-outs
Disc   1
Images of posters
Disc   1
Images of posters being used
M2012-037
Part 3 (M2012-037): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 folder and 1 oversize folder) and 2 compact discs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2011, consisting of materials from an American Majority-Wisconsin rally held at the Capitol on February 19, 2011 to show support for Governor Scott Walker, including remarks from Ned Ryun, a sign, and photographs including images of Joe the Plumber (Samuel Wurzelbacher) on two compact discs (76 images).
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Oversize Folder  
American Majority sign
Folder   1
Bumper stickers
Folder   1
Agenda
Folder   1
Ned Ryun
Folder   1
News release
Disc   1-2
Photographs
M2013-034
Part 4 (M2013-034): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 2.7 cubic feet (4 flat boxes, 1 archives box, and 1 oversize folder) and 1 DVD 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, February-March 2011, consisting of posters, flyers, and signs that were used in protests at the Capitol in February 2011 and exhibited in "SolidARTity: The Art of Protest," March 1-9, 2011. Additional materials include a digital video disc (assigned call number VDA 199) and an exhibit statement and guide.
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Box   5
Folder   1
"SolidARTity" exhibit statement
Box   1
Item   1
Is this about the money?
Box   3
Item   2
Defend the commons
Box   3
Item   3
I Am a librarian
Oversize Folder  
Item   4
I Speak for the union
Box   1
Item   5
Just say no to Walker's diktat
Box   1
Item   6
Budget billionaire repair
Box   3
Item   7
I [heart] my students
Box   3
Item   8
United steelworkers
Box/Folder   5/2
Item   9
Need sleeping stuff?
Box   3
Item   10
The gap between rich and poor
Box   3
Item   11
Badger boys should play nice
Box   3
Item   12
14 Dems = heroes
Box   1
Item   13
Wisconsin is the new animal farm
Box   3
Item   14
In Wisco we drink beer, not tea
Box   3
Item   15
Thanks for all your "help"
Box   3
Item   16
Union buster
Box   3
Item   17
Time to derail
Box/Folder   5/3
Item   18
Koch Brother's Scottie
Box   3
Item   19
Look who is in the Koch …
Box   3
Item   20
WI open to business
Box   3
Item   21
I'm multilingual
Box   3
Item   22
Care about educators
Box   3
Item   23
$900 million
Box   3
Item   24
What we need
Box   3
Item   25
These boots were made for Walker
Box   1
Item   26
Thank you Fab 14
Box   3
Item   27
Walker thanks for nuthin
Box   3
Item   28
$Revenue$
Box   3
Item   29
Wisconsin gladiator
Box   3
Item   30
Listen to your teacher
Box   3
Item   31
Stop the attack
Box/Folder   5/4
Item   32
It's about freedom
Box/Folder   5/5
Item   33
Another citizen for workers' rights
Box/Folder   5/6
Item   34
Please remember this is a peaceful protest
Box   3
Item   35
Power to the people
Box   3
Item   36
I [heart] WI 14
Box/Folder   5/7
Item   37
Beware of Walker
Box   3
Item   38
Kill the bill
Box   3
Item   39
This is what solidarity looks like
Box   3
Item   40
Stop the war on workers
Box   1
Item   41
Madison East students
Box   1
Item   42
Mother Walker
Box   1
Item   43
Ashes ashes
Box   3
Item   44
Stand with Wisconsin
Box/Folder   5/8
Item   45
I [cheese heart] Wisconsin
Box   3
Item   46
Peaceful protest [peace sign]
Box   3
Item   47
Nice work, Scott
Box   4
Item   48
Imperial Walker
Box   4
Item   49
The king's speech
Box/Folder   5/9
Item   50
Please use blue tape only
Box   4
Item   51
Rules of the gallery
Box/Folder   5/10
Item   52
Prepared+peaceful
Box   4
Item   53
Walk out
Box   1
Item   54
Democrats bypassed
Box   4
Item   55
Hey hey! ho ho!
Box/Folder   5/11
Item   56
Jesus called Governor Walker
Box/Folder   5/12
Item   57
Digital photos from the Capitol
Oversize Folder  
Item   58
On Wisconsin
Box   4
Item   59
Walker you are a radical
Box   4
Item   60
Union cab
Box   2
Item   61
ABC
Box   4
Item   62
Koch Industry Inc.
Box   2
Item   63
Our school
Box   2
Item   64
Walker is a weasel not a Badger
Oversize Folder  
Item   65
Clearly Gov. Walker did not graduate
Box   2
Item   66
Scott--just talked to Dave ...
Box   4
Item   67
IAMAW (blue fist Wisconsin)
Box/Folder   5/13
Item   68
WI protest PO
VDA 199
"Runaway Walker" protest video
M2013-040
Part 5 (M2013-040): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of panoramic photographic collage taken from the top of the Wisconsin state Capitol Building on March 12, 2011, by Kevin Winter, showing an area from West Washington Avenue past State Street and beyond Wisconsin Avenue filled with thousands of protesters.
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M2013-041
Part 6 (M2013-041): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 oversize folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of a self-published book of photographs, We are Wisconsin by Brent Nicastro, showing protesters in and around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, from Valentine's Day 2011 to March 12, 2011, demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. The book is signed by Nicastro.
Use Restrictions: Donor retains copyright until January 1, 2050.
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M2013-042
Part 7 (M2013-042): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of color digital photographs (11 tif images) by Timothy Hughes of protesters and supporters, including Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, in and around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, from February 19 to April 9, 2011, demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. Scenes include the tractor parade and mounted police.
Use Restrictions: Donor retains copyright until January 1, 2050.
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M2013-043
Part 8 (M2013-043): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of color digital photographs (11 jpeg images) by Jennifer Hughes of protesters and supporters, primarily protesters dressed as "zombies," in and around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, from February to April 2011, demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. Supporters include filmmaker Michael Moore.
Use Restrictions: Donor retains copyright until January 1, 2050.
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M2013-044
Part 9 (M2013-044): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 oversize folder) and 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of color digital photographs (369 images), taken by Michael Connors of protesters and supporters in and around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 17 and 22, 2011, demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. Also included is Connors' poster, "Stooges ruin Wisconsin," with the Three Stooges representing Governor Walker and Senate and Assembly leaders Scott and Jeff Fitzgerald.
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M2013-045
Part 10 (M2013-045): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 oversize folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of a poster, "Emperor has no clothes," made and used by Laura Frye-Levine at the protests against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, in February and March 2011.
Use Restrictions: Donor requests that she be cited as the creator of the image in any reproduction of the sign.
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M2013-046
Part 11 (M2013-046): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 1.2 cubic feet (2 flat boxes) and 9 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, consisting of protest signs made and collected by Andrew Rubin and Anette Hansen and nine color photographs taken by Hansen during the protests in February and March 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin, against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. Additional materials include bumper stickers and other ephemera.
Use Restrictions: WHS may provide access and allow reproduction of the images for editorial and non-commercial use; name of artist should be cited.
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Box   1
Folder   1
Heroes and villains
Box   1
Folder   2
Union tree/union battlegrounds
Note: 2 parts
Box   1
Folder   3
Forward united collage
Box   1
Folder   4
Capitol collage
Box   2
Folder   1
Republican shame
Box   2
Folder   2
A black stain
Box   2
Folder   3
Scot this is your next calling
Box   2
Folder   4
Fat chance go directly to jail
Box   2
Folder   5
Commercially produced signs and ephemera
PH Box   28
Folder   1
Protest photographs by Anette Hansen
M2013-047
Part 12 (M2013-047): Additions, 2012
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2012, consisting of Inside at night--origins of an uprising, a catalog of photographs and an accompanying narrative from an exhibit at the Tamarack Studio and Gallery featuring nine photographers working inside the Capitol during the protests against Governor Scott Walker's budget bill in February and March 2011. The nine photographers who took part in the 2012 exhibit and catalog were: Brent Nicastro, Nataraj Hauser, Tom McInvaille, Katie Jesse, Douglas Bosley, John Riggs, Don Sylvester, Leslie Peterson, and Matthew Apps.
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M2013-048
Part 13 (M2013-048): Additions, 2012
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) and 2 compact discs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2012, consisting of a self-published book of photographs, The Winter of Our Discontent, written and photographed by Joe Lynde, shows protesters in and around the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, in February and March 2011, demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker's attempts to end collective bargaining and other measures. Additional materials include two compact discs: one includes the approximately 475 images included in the book as well as its layout; the second includes the book's images and possible additional images of the Occupy Madison encampment on East Washington Avenue and the "zombie" protesters.
Use Restrictions: Donor retains copyright until March 11, 2032.
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Folder   1
The Winter of Our Discontent / by Joe Lynde
Disc   1
Book images and layout
Disc   2
Book images, also Occupy Madison and "Zombie" protesters
M2013-049
Part 14 (M2013-049): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 2 compact discs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2011, consisting of color digital photographs, by Ting-Li Wang (February 1 to March 22, 2011; 1,635 images) and Jay Salvo (February through December 2011; 264 images), photographers for the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly, respectively, of legislators, demonstrators, supporters and members of the media before, during, and after the demonstrations against the Budget Bill, primarily inside the Capitol building.
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Disc   1-2
Photographs by Ting-Li Wang and Jay Salvo, photographers for Wisconsin Senate and Assembly
M2013-050
Part 15 (M2013-050): Additions, 2012
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 folder and 1 oversize folder), 1 compact disc, and 1 photograph 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2012, consisting of materials from the Kewaunee County Recall Walker Committee, including two signs, ephemera, other items documenting the efforts to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and a compact disc of 16 images of volunteers and 1 print photograph.
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Folder   1
Recall petitions, committee roster, ephemera
Oversize Folder  
Signs
Disc   1
Images of volunteers
PH Box   32
Photograph
M2013-053
Part 16 (M2013-053): Additions, 2011-2012
Physical Description: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 2 oversize folders) and 3 compact discs and 3 DVDs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2011-2012, (bulk February-March 2011) consisting of digital videos and photographs, flyers, signs, campaign materials, announcements, songbooks for the Solidarity Sing-Along, ephemera and other materials relating to demonstrations for and against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill and recall. An Americans for Prosperity rally at which Sarah Palin appeared is featured on the Madison Protest video.
Access Restrictions: WHS is not equipped to play Blu-Ray discs.
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Box   1
Folder   1
"30 Days for democracy," by Peter S. Werner
Box   1
Folder   2
Boycott lists
Box   1
Folder   3
Ephemera: stickers, buttons, coupons
Box   1
Folder   4
Event announcements
Box   1
Folder   5
Flyers and signs
Box   1
Folder   6
General strike flyers
Box   1
Folder   7
Miscellaneous
Box   1
Folder   8
Other candidates
Box   1
Folder   9
Recall flyers and mailings
Oversize Folder   1
Recall signs
Box   1
Folder   10
Solidarity Sing-along songbooks
Box   1
Folder   11
Tea Party-Walker support
Oversize Folder   2
Walker support sign
Box   2
Folder   1
Recall petition materials
Visual materials
DVD   1
WewantourWisconsinback.com, 2011
DVD   2
Madison Protest Gov. Walker, 2011
DVD   3
2011 Protests @ Capital by Cal Calkins
Physical Description: Blu-Ray disc 
Access Restrictions: WHS is not equipped to play Blu-Ray discs.
Disc   1
Scott Walker rally, photographs by Marie Schmidt, undated
Sound materials
Disc   1
"Scott Walker blues," by Bonobo Secret Handshake
Disc   2
"Cheddar revolution: songs of uprising," by 19 artists
M2013-056
Part 17 (M2013-056): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2011, consisting of a school essay, "Scott Walker Shouldn't Be Governor," by Gracie Ann De Broux, 11, of Madison, Wisconsin, and journal entries of her experiences at the Capitol protests against the Budget Bill in February 2011.
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M2013-057
Part 18 (M2013-057): Additions, 2011
Physical Description: 1 compact disc 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, February-June 2011, consisting of 106 digital photographs taken by Eloisa Callender of protesters and supporters of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill and recall vote.
Use Restrictions: Donor retains coypright until 30 years after the donor's death; credit line must include "Photo by Eloisa Callender."
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M2013-058
Part 19 (M2013-058): Additions, 2012
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (2 oversize folders) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 2012, consisting of 3 banners and 18 handmade signs used at an Election Night party, June 5, 2012, at Waukesha Expo Center to celebrate Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's victory in a recall vote.
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