Newly elect Gov. Scott Walker (WI)

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UK wrote:Nothing new, Falk is one of the leaders right now. She's backed by the unions. Feingold isn't running, I'm hoping for Barca.
Can't remember exactly what it was about Falk the fam didn't like - something that made her an easy target (she resigned before her term or something, pand/or something bad happened under her watch at an agency.

It's all about electibility. I've heard it's 32% decidedly for Walker, 32% strongly against, 30% not going to vote no matter what, -which leaves the 6% of amazingly still undecided dumbass voters that hold the reigns. It doesn't matter that the candidate appeals to the Recall Walker people, their vote is locked in no matter what, the candidate has to appeal to the 6% dumbasses.

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Is Wisconsin still a state, or has it become a fiefdom of the military-industrial complex?

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Hungary Jack wrote:Is Wisconsin still a state, or has it become a fiefdom of the military-industrial complex?

Actually the teachers, intellectuals, and unionistas are all being rounded up and shipped to a gulag* in Waukesha County behind the new TIF financed Walmart.


*no-bid contract to operate gulag is an efficient private enterprise, owned by the Koch Brothers.

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Come to Wisconsin, where work makes you free.

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UK wrote: Personally, I believe in more transparency and signatures should be made public but with street addresses blocked out automatically.
Mixed feelings about that UK. You live up there - it is definitely possible that people could lose their jobs for having signed that list. The technology is there with OCR and database technology to get close enough in verifying these signatures.

That douchebag Fitzpatrick -already has put the addresses out for people that signed his recall petition. Sent postcards to them etc.

WI had proportionately 6 times the signatures as California had on Grey Davis in about 1/3 the time.
It's no wonder Walker is gallivanting around the country stroking the base of billionaires for donations. Proxy war being fought in cheeseland.

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Freed Roger wrote:
UK wrote: Personally, I believe in more transparency and signatures should be made public but with street addresses blocked out automatically.
Mixed feelings about that UK. You live up there - it is definitely possible that people could lose their jobs for having signed that list. The technology is there with OCR and database technology to get close enough in verifying these signatures.

That douchebag Fitzpatrick -already has put the addresses out for people that signed his recall petition. Sent postcards to them etc.

WI had proportionately 6 times the signatures as California had on Grey Davis in about 1/3 the time.
It's no wonder Walker is gallivanting around the country stroking the base of billionaires for donations. Proxy war being fought in cheeseland.
They knew it was a public document, also the previous Senate recalls were made avail to the public. The precedent is already in place.

I don't like that they listed the entire street address though.

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UK wrote:
Freed Roger wrote:
UK wrote: Personally, I believe in more transparency and signatures should be made public but with street addresses blocked out automatically.
Mixed feelings about that UK. You live up there - it is definitely possible that people could lose their jobs for having signed that list. The technology is there with OCR and database technology to get close enough in verifying these signatures.

That douchebag Fitzpatrick -already has put the addresses out for people that signed his recall petition. Sent postcards to them etc.

WI had proportionately 6 times the signatures as California had on Grey Davis in about 1/3 the time.
It's no wonder Walker is gallivanting around the country stroking the base of billionaires for donations. Proxy war being fought in cheeseland.
They knew it was a public document, also the previous Senate recalls were made avail to the public. The precedent is already in place.
That makes it all the more remarkable, the quantity of signors. Even if 15-20% are dismissed.

if Walker were a clean politician (ha ha) I'd still loathe the peckerhead, for what he's done on behalf of the Koch Bros and this tea party power grab and partisan politics. But after reading a bit more on the FBI investigations and the charges amassing around him - and adding to it Walker's history - ...Walker is near the Rodney Blagojevich level of [expletive].

Assuming Walker get's shamed, which I pray he does - it will be interesting to see how gracefully the rightwing nuts back away from him, as well as the more mainstream GOP who agreed with his failing policies.

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Yeah, even conservatives who are being overly optimistic are saying that likely 650K votes will be legit.

Walker will still be loved by conservatives for trying to bring down unions, I doubt they'll see his corruption as a negative or his dirty/illegal tactics.

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Scott Walker's logic....

(Ad-currently being played here in WI)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFrt_jw ... r_embedded][/youtube]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolit ... 63973.html

Gov. Scott Walker's administration has touted for months its efforts to balance the state budget, but now it also has acknowledged a significant way in which the budget isn't balanced.

To keep the possibility alive of making further cuts to state health programs, the Walker administration quietly certified to the federal government on Dec. 29 that the state had a deficit.

Federal law allows the state to drop tens of thousands of adults to save money on health care costs if the state can show it has a deficit. Walker has said he wants to cut health care spending in other ways, but hasn't ruled out dropping those 53,000 adults if the other methods aren't approved by the federal government.



http://www.jsonline.com/business/walker ... 70349.html

Wisconsin will use a chunk of its $140 million share of a national settlement over foreclosure and mortgage-servicing abuses to help the state budget rather than assist troubled homeowners, Gov. Scott Walker and state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday.

Walker and Van Hollen said the majority of the settlement amount earmarked to Wisconsin under a $25 billion proposed nationwide agreement announced Thursday still would go to aid consumers in Milwaukee and other communities struggling with the specter of home foreclosure.

But of a $31.6 million payment coming directly to the state government, most of that money - $25.6 million - will go to help close a budget shortfall revealed in newly released state projections. Van Hollen, whose office said he has the legal authority over the money, made the decision in consultation with Walker.


Severe cuts to Education & Collective Bargaining, so he can give huge tax breaks with a state with one of the worst job records of the last 12 months and since Wisconsin isn't generating the same amount of revenue, still has a deficit. Now, he wants to take away funds from obviously intended for struggling homeowners and use to it towards making up the revenue difference that should be coming the tax breaks he has given those who line his pockets (corporations).

Having lived in IL during Ryan's and Blago's tenures, Walker makes those two seem like they tore tags off of mattresses.

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One more thing...

http://www.channel3000.com/politics/304 ... etail.html

Gov. Scott Walker gave President Barack Obama a friendly tarmac welcome in Milwaukee, but opted out of accompanying him to a Master Lock factory during his visit.

Walker's spokesman Cullen Werwie said Wednesday that the Republican governor was recovering from a "nasty case of the flu" and canceled his plans to be with the president at the padlock maker. Walker said in a Tuesday message on Twitter that he was sick with an upset stomach.

http://www.wisn.com/news/30432905/detail.html

"A few weeks ago, the CEO of Master Lock told me that it now makes business sense for him to bring jobs back home. Today, for the first time in 15 years, Master Lock's unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity," President Obama said.

Let's see..... Able to greet President Obama at the tarmac and unable to attend an event in front of union employees?

*cough* *cough*

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