Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by Riot

You really have some bizzaro prejudices, assumptions and ideas that are not true. You'd probably do better dropping everything you "think" you know about where I get information about Wisconsin, and sticking to reality.

"Biased media polls"? You mean every poll taken in Wisconsin this past week, including the most right-wing biased conservative ones? You just don't like what those polls are now showing.

Elections elect a governor, but they also elect state legislatures, where the different reps represent the concerns of the locals from their areas. There is no "taking over" in the legislature. Judging by the actions of your fellow citizens, it's clear that Walker wasn't elected dictator as he mistakenly believes, he's not going to get away with major changes that he didn't campaign upon and tried to sneak through, and there is a great deal of buyer's remorse. Such is democracy.

In case you forgot I actually live in WI and interact with the public citizens of WI on a daily basis and there is plenty of support for walker and outrage against the dems that the media refuses to cover. More importantly Go UWM panthers!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

In case you forgot I actually live in WI and interact with the public citizens of WI on a daily basis and there is plenty of support for walker and outrage against the dems that the media refuses to cover. More importantly Go UWM panthers!

Sorry that's not showing for you in the conservative polls, or on the YouTube videos of local town halls (not media productions), nor in the number of "pro Walker" supporters that are not showing up in anywhere near the numbers of the anti's.

The Koch's got 400 or so at one of the bus stops this weekend. That's good!

[Danzig]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41977974/ns/us_news/


Wis. gov. proposes union compromise in e-mails
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— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office.

The e-mails, some dated as recently as Sunday, show a softened stance in Walker's talks with the 14 Democrats who fled to Illinois to block a vote on his original proposal that would strip nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers and force concessions amounting to an average 8 percent pay cut.

[Scav]

Sneaky bastards

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by Scav

Sneaky bastards

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions

Finally! Now I can get back to the Charlie Show.

[Riot]

Yeah. They've just signed their guaranteed recalls. Wow. And Walker again lies outright to the Democrats. I can't understand why he's so willing to sign his own political death warrant as a demagogue. He's not a smart guy, is he?

"You are cowards!" spectators in the Senate gallery screamed as lawmakers voted. Within hours, a crowd of a few hundred protesters inside the Capitol had grown to several thousand, more than had been in the building at any point during weeks of protests.

"The whole world is watching!" they shouted as they pressed up against the heavily guarded entrance to the Senate chamber.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yeah. They've just signed their guaranteed recalls. Wow. And Walker again lies outright to the Democrats. I can't understand why he's so willing to sign his own political death warrant as a demagogue. He's not a smart guy, is he?

smart enough to fool the Dems.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

This is why I think the stupidest person that ever comes on here is the guy who thinks both parties are the same. No, simpleton, they are not the same. This is one issue that displays it in full. One party supports the rights of unions, and the other does not. 1 Republican voted against taking away collective bargaining rights (because he's from a tough district.) 18 yes 1 no. I guarantee you the Dems would of all voted against it. One would have to be so damn stupid to think these two parties are alike. The only reason they get results that don't differ greatly is because members of the other party are there in rather equal numbers. When they aren't, like right now in Wisconsin, you now see that, (given an overwhelming majority to work with,) the parties are indeed very different in ideology.