Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

[AeWingnut]

democrats against democracy unite



Far Left protester Patrick J. Knauf, 43, of Eau Claire was arrested on Wednesday for the violation of making a bomb scare under state statute 947.015.

He was released on a $3,000 signature bond.

On Wednesday a bomb threat was made at an aviation business in Eau Claire just hours after Governor Scott Walker spoke there. Police brought in a man who was protesting this week against the Republican governor.
The Pierce County Herald reported:

An investigation continues into a bomb threat made this week at an aviation business in Eau Claire, just hours after Governor Scott Walker held a news conference there.

Authorities said a 43-year-old Eau Claire man allegedly called in a threat to Heartland Aviation on Wednesday evening. The facility is next to the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire. The man is free on a signature bond. No charges have been filed yet, but the man is due back in Chippewa County Circuit Court on April 19th.

Investigators said the man took part in public demonstrations at the airport on Monday and Wednesday. His home was searched yesterday, and police are checking phone records and interviewing people. Eau Claire Police have asked for tips with more information.

Amazing!
A bomb threat was called in on a Walker rally and the media doesn’t report on it?
Unbelievable.

[Riot]

"As a state economist and policy analyst, I was surprised that no one asked me about this proposal. I analyzed it for its economic impact. If public employee salaries are cut (through increased withholdings as proposed) by enough to fill the $137 million budget gap, the resulting drop in consumer spending will lead to:

1) a loss of over 1,200 nongovernment jobs;
2) a loss of about $100 million in business sales statewide;
3) a loss of nearly $35 million in personal incomes of nongovernment employee households;
4) ironically, a loss of nearly $10 million in state tax revenues."

-- Robert Russell, economist and analyst, Madison.
Wisconsin Public Radio interview

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

"As a state economist and policy analyst, I was surprised that no one asked me about this proposal. I analyzed it for its economic impact. If public employee salaries are cut (through increased withholdings as proposed) by enough to fill the $137 million budget gap, the resulting drop in consumer spending will lead to:

1) a loss of over 1,200 nongovernment jobs;
2) a loss of about $100 million in business sales statewide;
3) a loss of nearly $35 million in personal incomes of nongovernment employee households;
4) ironically, a loss of nearly $10 million in state tax revenues."

-- Robert Russell, economist and analyst, Madison.
Wisconsin Public Radio interview

4) ironically, a loss of nearly $10 million in state tax revenues."

Wrong! When you add in the $137 million saved by having public workers contribute to their own health and pension plans you have a net revenue gain of $127 million for the State. Divide 137 mil by 39,000 (number of State workers) you come to just over $3,500 per employee.

Wish private citizens were offered such a deal!

BTW I'd like to see some Madison professor explain how graduation rates for high school have been steadily rising while ACT scores have been steadily going down? New Math or are teachers 'cheating' students?

[Danzig]

http://factcheck.org/2011/03/wiscons...budget-battle/

Analysis
Newly elected Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, introduced a state budget repair bill on Feb. 11 that has attracted national attention because it seeks major changes to the state’s collective bargaining laws. The bill, which is needed to close a $137 million budget gap in the current fiscal year, would allow most state workers to keep their bargaining rights on salaries — but end collective bargaining on all other issues, including health care costs, pensions and workplace conditions. The AFL-CIO and other unions see this as an attack on unions, while the governor sees it as a necessary way to control future labor costs and avoid another budget crisis.The budget repair bill has led to a showdown between the Republican governor and Democratic state lawmakers — some of whom fled the Capitol in an attempt to prevent a vote on the bill. It has also caused some confusion among people trying to follow the budget crisis.




Wisconsin is facing a potential $3.6 billion shortfall for its next biennium, or two-year budget cycle, according to figures released by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau in January. The budget period begins on July 1, 2011, and ends on June 30, 2013. That figure is more than $2 billion less than the $5.9 billion projected deficit that former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle had to tackle at the beginning of the 2009-2011 fiscal cycle. So, that was not quite "double" the deficit that Walker is potentially looking at, as our reader was told.

Doyle was able to erase a large portion of his projected gap through a series of spending cuts and tax increases. But funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — known as the stimulus act — also played a significant part in easing the state’s budget woes. More than $2 billion in stimulus funds were used to narrow the budget gap for the 2009-2011 cycle. That’s money the state will have to do without this time around, since those funds run out at the end of June, according to Robert Lang, the fiscal bureau director

[Danzig]

http://factcheck.org/2011/03/walkers-tax-cuts/

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://factcheck.org/2011/03/walkers-tax-cuts/

Just to be fair shouldn't there be an outcry by the left of " MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow LIES !!" ?

I want to hear what Rachel Maddow's neck mole has to say before I pass judgment.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by geeker2

Just to be fair shouldn't there be an outcry by the left of " MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow LIES !!" ?

But she apparently didn't. Even PolitiFact said that when discussing what was being talked about when confronted by the Maddow show. LOL - even Scott Walker has been using that number.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

A bomb threat was called in on a Walker rally and the media doesn’t report on it?
Unbelievable.

There was no bomb threat to a Walker rally. Read your own story :-) Looks like the loser threatened a business that hosted Walker, after it closed. I also heard Walker was asked to leave a local restaurant this week, the patrons were all booing, but couldn't confirm it.

The Koch Brothers are paying for a bus to go town to town to support Walker this weekend. I guess 40-50 people is all they could find?

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

The Koch Brothers are paying for a bus to go town to town to support Walker this weekend. I guess 40-50 people is all they could find?

At least it was one more bus than Jesse Jax could find.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by Riot

There was no bomb threat to a Walker rally. Read your own story :-) Looks like the loser threatened a business that hosted Walker, after it closed. I also heard Walker was asked to leave a local restaurant this week, the patrons were all booing, but couldn't confirm it.

The Koch Brothers are paying for a bus to go town to town to support Walker this weekend. I guess 40-50 people is all they could find?

I heard that people were asking zer0 to leave and were booing him but I can't confirm it