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Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« on: February 24, 2011, 09:04:49 AM »
More bad polling news for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker—not to mention other conservative chief executives, like Ohio’s John Kasich and New Jersey’s Chris Christie, who seem determined to use state budget crises to smash public sector labor unions.

Gallup and USA Today issued a new poll yesterday which found broad public disapproval of the idea of stripping public unions of their collective bargaining rights. According to the survey, 61 percent of adults across the country oppose Walker plan to strip public workers of their rights (maybe people are stuck on that word—“rights,” as in something that can’t be taken away by fiat). Drilling down a bit, not only do Democrats oppose the idea overwhelmingly (18 percent in favor, 78 percent oppose), but independents line up against the idea by a 2-to-1 margin (31-62). Only Republicans like it, and that by a relatively close margin (54-41). This is the second poll released this week showing that Walker’s idea is unpopular. As I noted yesterday, the Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner had a survey with broadly similar results.

This is, as I said, bad news not only for Walker but for other GOP chief executives. As USA Today notes, “Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Iowa, and other states with Republican governors are considering similar laws.” The protests made Wisconsin the national face of this anti-union blitz. Walker’s obstinacy—refusing to accept the unions’ offer to agree to his benefit cuts in exchange for leaving their bargaining rights alone—has made him the national face of Republican over-reach.

And the Gallup poll has further reason for disquiet among Tea Party conservatives who believe they have a special “cut spending” mandate from the voters. Gallup asked about two other possible remedies for state fiscal woes—reducing or eliminating certain state programs or reducing the pay and benefits for state workers; neither had either general support or support specifically among independents. As my bloleague Anson Kaye pointed out last week, voters snookered the GOP on spending cuts. Again

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2012, 08:38:56 AM »

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 08:52:30 AM »

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his potential opponents in the upcoming recall election are locked in a dead heat, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

Walker looks set to have very close races with whoever ends up as his Democratic opponent, although voters are split — 49 percent to 49 percent — on whether they support recalling the governor before his term is up, according to a Public Policy Polling survey. His approval rating is 47 percent, but over half, or 52 percent, say they disapprove of the job the Republican governor has done.

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According to the poll’s matchups, Walker’s top declared Democratic challenger Kathleen Falk leads the governor with a 48 percent to 47 percent advantage and Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, who has not entered the race but ran against Walker in 2010, would receive 49 percent of the vote to Walker’s 46 percent.

“These are the most encouraging numbers we’ve found for Democrats in Wisconsin related to the Walker recall since last August,” PPP president Dean Debnam said in a statement. “Walker’s numbers had been seeing some recovery, but now it appears they’ve turned back in the wrong direction. The big question now is whether Democrats can find a candidate to take advantage of Walker’s vulnerability.”

In PPP’s last poll of the race in October, Walker led Barrett and Falk by two and eight points, respectively.

While former Sen. Russ Feingold has said he would not run in the race, the pollsters found that he would beat Walker 52 percent to 45 percent.

The poll tested five other Democrats — Walker beats former Rep. David Obey 47 percent to 45 percent and state Sen. Jon Erpenbach 47 percent to 44 percent. Secretary of State Doug La Follette, who has filed paperwork to challenge Walker, trails by one point, with Walker receiving 46 percent and La Follette getting 45 percent. Walker also leads state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout 46 percent to 44 percent.

Meanwhile, Rep. Ron Kind has a one point lead over Walker with 46 percent to 45 percent.

If Barrett decides to enter the race, the poll found he would be the front runner in the Democratic primary with 45 percent support. Falk, a former Dane County executive, has 18 percent, followed by La Follette with 14 percent. But if Barrett doesn’t run, Falk would lead the Democratic field with 41 percent to La Follette’s 23 percent.

Walker’s campaign said they felt confident voters would back Walker in the recall.

“In 2010 an overwhelming majority of voters elected Governor Walker to take bold action in addressing the state’s long-running budget crisis. He ran on a promise of closing the $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, laying off public employees, or making cuts to essential services. Governor Walker has kept those promises, and we are confident that because the positive effects of his reforms continue to create more jobs and keep more money in the pockets of taxpayers, voters will reaffirm the decision they made a year ago,” the campaign said in a statement.

Wisconsin recall group We Are Wisconsin executive director Kristen Crowell said in a statement the poll shows voters no longer have faith in the governor.

“While Scott Walker lies about imaginary out-of-state spending against him, the people of Wisconsin have taken democracy into their own hands, collecting over one million signatures to hold him accountable at the ballot box,” she said. “After spending millions in dirty corporate cash trying to cover up his extreme agenda and his divisive and corrupt administration, Scott Walker and his out-of-state billionaire backers have absolutely nothing to show for it — in fact, the needle has moved in the opposite direction. After countless lies and the most divisive record in Wisconsin history, Scott Walker is proving that no amount of money can buy back voters’ trust.”

The poll surveyed 900 Wisconsin voters Feb. 23-26. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.27 percentage points.



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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2012, 04:25:54 PM »
since when do the democrats care about public opinion?

the majority of ppl still want to repeal obamacare...

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2012, 06:14:42 PM »
First, there's a difference between public-sector unions and private-sector ones.

Are the lefties afraid that, if people have a choice whether to join a public-sector union or not, they will opt NOT to do so (especially if the union bosses are backing candidates or policies with which they disagree)?

Since when is offering someone a choice equivalent to "busting" something?

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2012, 06:01:44 AM »
RNC Says a Tuesday Walker Win Means ‘Lights Out for Barack Obama’
 ABC NEWS ^ | May 31st 2012 | Shushannah Walsh



The Republican National Committee had some strong talk about their chances next week in the Wisconsin recall and what a victory for Gov. Scott Walker would mean for their state’s going red in November.

“Certainly [if] Wisconsin goes red, I think it’s lights out for Barack Obama,” said RNC Chairman and Wisconsinite Reince Priebus on Wednesday.

This is on the heels of a new Marquette University Law School poll showing Walker over Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett by 7 points, 52% to 45%.

Despite their tough talk, it’s not so cut and dry that a Walker win would automatically mean an Obama loss. The same survey also shows President Obama over Mitt Romney 51% to 43%.

The RNC said they have made “over two million voter contacts” and identified “nearly every Wisconsin voter” ahead of Tuesday’s vote, on a conference call the committee held Wednesday. That date will then in turn be quickly used for get-out-the-vote efforts ahead of November.


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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2012, 06:03:07 AM »
Wisconsin unions see ranks drop ahead of recall vote
Wall Street Journal via Fox News ^

Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:36:47 AM by sgtyork

Public-employee unions in Wisconsin have experienced a dramatic drop in membership -- by more than half for the second-biggest union -- since a law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker sharply curtailed their ability to bargain over wages and working conditions. Now with Mr. Walker facing a recall vote Tuesday, voters will decide whether his policies in the centrist state should continue -- or whether they have gone too far. The election could mark a pivot point for organized labor. Mr. Walker's ouster would derail the political career of a rising Republican star and send a warning to other elected officials who are battling unions. But a victory for the governor, who has been leading his Democratic opponent in recent polls, would amount to an endorsement of an effort to curtail public-sector unions, which have been a pillar of strength for organized labor while private-sector membership has dwindled. That could mean the sharp losses that some Wisconsin public-worker unions have experienced is a harbinger of similar unions' future nationwide, union leaders fear. Failure to oust Mr. Walker and overturn the Wisconsin law "spells doom," said Bryan Kennedy, the American Federation of Teachers' Wisconsin president. Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.


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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2012, 01:52:50 PM »
The Road to Recall: One Left-Wing Loss After Another in Wisconsin



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Tuesday’s recall election in Wisconsin is the culmination of a long political campaign waged by the left to reverse the results of the watershed 2010 election, and to prevent reforms that might be imitated elsewhere. These included: tax cuts for job-creating businesses, spending reductions to turn deficits into surplus, and collective bargaining reforms that freed state and local governments from the onerous cost of union benefits.
 
As important as the 2010 election was nationwide, it was even more dramatic in Wisconsin. It brought Gov. Scott Walker to office, but also swept aside liberal stalwart Sen. Russell Feingold and ended the career of veteran Democrat Rep. David Obey. It boosted Rep. Paul Ryan to the head of the House Budget Committee, and eventually saw Wisconsin’s Reince Priebus take over the Republican National Committee.
 
Gov. Walker’s first move was to declare the state “open for business,” hanging a sign to that effect on the Wisconsin-Illinois border--a sign of Walker’s determination to attract jobs fleeing Illinois and other union-dominated, high-tax and high-spending Midwestern states. By lowering taxes on businesses and balancing the state budget by focusing on spending cuts, Walker sought to transform the state’s economy and its political culture.
 
Next came Walker’s infamous collective bargaining reforms--legislation that ended the privilege enjoyed by public sector unions to sit on both sides of the negotiating table when wrestling with state and local government over employee benefits and work rules. The reforms also made union dues optional for public employees. (Shrewdly, Walker exempted public safety employees from the reforms--a lesson that Ohio’s Republican leaders failed to learn when their own collective bargaining reforms were defeated.)
 
As Walker would later point out, the end of mandatory dues was what worried union bosses the most. Teachers’ unions were also scared to lose their monopoly over the health insurance market in school districts state-wide. But they quickly framed their self-interest as “workers’ rights,” and made their fight against Walker into a national cause.
 
It is almost difficult to remember just how many battles the unions fought--and lost--en route to attempting to remove Walker from office. First there was the dramatic standoff at the state capitol in Wisconsin, which began when Democrats literally fled the state to deny Republicans the quorum they needed to pass Walker’s collective bargaining bill. The unions brought crowds of demonstrators--including children dragged from school, and physicians handing out fake doctors’ notes--to lay siege to the state legislature.
 
When the law passed, Democrats sought to overturn it in the courts on procedural and other grounds. That led to the first electoral battle--a close election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court between incumbent Republican David Prosser and Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg. Kloppenburg declared victory, but turned out to have lost when a local Democrat official discovered over 7,000 missing votes. A recount confirmed the result.
 
The summer of 2011 saw the first recall effort, in which Democrats sought to swing the balance of power in the state senate by toppling six Republican incumbents. They just needed to win three of the six contests, but managed only two--turning broadcaster Ed Schultz’s live victory rally-style results coverage on MSNBC into an on-air funeral.
 
The next battle was the recall election itself. Democrats boasted that they had obtained one million signatures--far more than necessary--to recall Gov. Walker. But as Walker’s reforms began to have their effect--new job creation, budget surplus, lower tax burdens, and (ironically) fewer layoffs for public employees--voter enthusiasm for the anti-Walker cause diminished rapidly, and radically. In their own primary, Democrats spurned union-backed Kathleen Falk for Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett--Walker’s opponent in the 2010 race, who spent the interim putting Walker’s collective bargaining reforms to good use.
 
And so we arrive at the recall election itself--a contest Democrats have called a dry run for the 2012 presidential election, but which they have already lost. No longer running on collective bargaining, they have made voter ID and the so-called “war on women” their top priorities. President Barack Obama, wisely, is keeping his distance. However, he can no longer keep what has happened in Wisconsin from happening everywhere.

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2012, 03:35:53 PM »
When is D-Day for this election?

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2012, 03:36:58 PM »
When is D-Day for this election?

Teusday



Remember Obama said he was going to put on his marching slippers? 


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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2012, 03:43:52 PM »
Teusday



Remember Obama said he was going to put on his marching slippers? 


LOL!!!!

Based on his fund-raising woes, he's traded the marching slippers for rainbow kneepads.

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2012, 07:36:01 PM »
Pro-Walker Marine veteran dragged out and arrested at Bill Clinton-Barrett Rally in Wisconsin
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 1, 2012 | Jim Hoft
Posted on June 1, 2012 10:13:15 PM EDT by Wisconsinlady

A pro-Walker Marine vet got into a few confrontations at Democrat Tom Barrett’s rally today with Bill Clinton in Wisconsin. The Franklin Center has video.

They couldn’t handle the truth. So, union cops were called in and dragged him out of the rally and arrested him. They didn’t like what he was saying.

The Marine is predicting a 10 point win for Scott Walker. I second that.

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2012, 02:05:34 PM »
DOJ to Monitor Wisconsin Recall Election
 Breitbart ^ | 6/4/12 | Dana Loesch

Posted on Monday, June 04, 2012 4:45:21 PM by Nachum

Eric Holder's Department of Justice will monitor a number of Wisconsin polling places on Tuesday.

The state Department of Justice will dispatch a team of assistant attorneys general and special agents from the Division of Criminal Investigation to Appleton as part of its efforts to prevent voter fraud.

Appleton is one of 12 cities that will be monitored Tuesday during the recall election. Seven teams will monitor Milwaukee in conjunction with the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, two teams will monitor Madison, and single teams will be sent to Beloit/Janesville, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Kenosha/Racine, La Crosse, Waukesha, and Wausau.

“The June recall election is a significant event in our state’s history,” said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. “The people of Wisconsin need to have confidence that their rights are being protected and the laws are being followed.

Apparently, the DOJ is suddenly interested in voter fraud.

So how prevalent is voting fraud? It’s practically nonexistent according to repeated studies, including an extensive review of Wisconsin elections.

Even voter fraud where it legitimately doesn't exist.


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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2012, 05:28:43 PM »
DOJ to Monitor Wisconsin Recall Election
 Breitbart ^ | 6/4/12 | Dana Loesch

Posted on Monday, June 04, 2012 4:45:21 PM by Nachum

Eric Holder's Department of Justice will monitor a number of Wisconsin polling places on Tuesday.

The state Department of Justice will dispatch a team of assistant attorneys general and special agents from the Division of Criminal Investigation to Appleton as part of its efforts to prevent voter fraud.

Appleton is one of 12 cities that will be monitored Tuesday during the recall election. Seven teams will monitor Milwaukee in conjunction with the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, two teams will monitor Madison, and single teams will be sent to Beloit/Janesville, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Kenosha/Racine, La Crosse, Waukesha, and Wausau.

“The June recall election is a significant event in our state’s history,” said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. “The people of Wisconsin need to have confidence that their rights are being protected and the laws are being followed.

Apparently, the DOJ is suddenly interested in voter fraud.

So how prevalent is voting fraud? It’s practically nonexistent according to repeated studies, including an extensive review of Wisconsin elections.

Even voter fraud where it legitimately doesn't exist.


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LOL!!!!!! 

As usual, the left only cries fraud, when they're about to lose.

That's why I want Walker to CRUSH Barrett. A "WeAskAmerica" poll has him up by 12. Yet, the media keeps citing a PPP poll that has him up by only three.

A massacre leaves no excuses for the liberals. I think Walker wins by at least 7 points.


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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2012, 08:35:23 PM »
Ed Schultz Lurches From Panic to Incoherence Over Wisconsin Recall
News Buster.com ^ | June 4, 2012 | Jack Coleman
Posted on June 4, 2012 9:50:50 PM EDT by Kaslin

What a difference 48 hours makes in the barren wasteland known as Ed Schultz's mind.

Back on May 29, Schultz warned of giant flaming acorns falling from the sky if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker prevailed in a June 5 recall election against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who was defeated by Walker in the 2010 gubernatorial race. (audio clips after page break)



sounding the alarm that a Walker victory could foreshadow President Obama's defeat in November, which in turn would usher in an era of permanent GOP control of the White House (audio) --

They are trying to set it up that if Mitt Romney gets elected, if Mitt Romney gets elected, there will never  be a Democratic president again in the history of the United States. The future is just, this is the way it's going to be. There'll never be a Democratic president in our lifetime again. And when I say in our lifetime, I'm talking about long, long, long, long, long time.

This is why Wisconsin's so important. The people of the country need to know that you can defeat it. And this in many respects is doing the country a favor, the way they're operating, the way they're lying, the way they're backing up the worst candidate, the worst governor in the country, his record's horrendous, and who he's a puppet to.

So that's why this is so important. They're trying to make it so Barack Obama doesn't get re-elected and no Democrat ever will be elected into the White House.

"This is why Wisconsin's so important" -- Walker wins, Obama in turn loses, and it's the end of the world as we know it. 

Two days later, Schultz was crooning a different tune. More accurately, he was part of a liberal chorus singing the same line, that of Walker winning in Wisconsin hardly mattering at all. Silly you, why would you have ever thought otherwise? (audio)

I get a kick out of the Twitter world 'cause they're working me over saying, oh, it's going to be fun to watch Eddie, he'll be crying in his beer, whatever. No I'm not! No, no, there's no downside about this recall any way, shape or form. Obviously we want Walker to be thrown out because he's a radical and he's not good for America. But look at the other side. They are throwing millions of dollars at a guy who is on the verge of being indicted for a felony. Now, how are they going to feel, win lose or draw, when this happens?

Two years into a fishing expedition by a partisan district attorney whose office is filled with like-minded Democrats, who'd think an indictment of Walker would have happened by now. Rest assured, if it never does, Schultz will claim "no downside" to that either. Whatever it takes for Schultz to save face, regardless of the contortions that ensue.

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2012, 05:33:00 AM »
Wisconsin gov’s collective-bargaining reforms have been resounding success

BY STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley.cst@gmail.com June 4, 2012 7:24PM


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, shakes hands with J & D Manufacturing employee Steve Poppe of Eau Claire, Wis., during a visit Monday, June 4, 2012 to the Altoona, Wis. company. The governor scheduled campaign stops at six of the state's largest cities on the day before Wisconsin's historic recall election. Walker's wife, Tonette, takes a photo, at right. (AP Photo/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Steve Kinderman)



Updated: June 5, 2012 2:12AM



Wisconsin struts onto the stage Tuesday in the drama known as the crisis of the entitlement state in the Western world. The state’s recall election of Gov. Scott Walker upstages, however briefly, the story line of Illinois trying to come to grips with its unfunded $83 billion liability in government employee pensions, the comedy of Gov. Jerry Brown pursuing an extravagantly expensive high-speed train to nowhere as California sinks under a $16 billion budget deficit, and the starring role of Greece in the wrenching euro zone tragedy.
 
Passions typical of a Greek tragedy are driving polarized voters to the polls in Wisconsin to determine Walker’s fate. He is, according to your world view, a heroic figure who has tamed the avaricious public sector unions leeching off the taxpayer or a villain spearheading an assault on workers, their rights and their unions.
 
The curious thing is that, judging from the campaign rhetoric, the issue that prompted today’s recall election, Walker’s reform of public employee unions, isn’t at center stage in the debate. It hardly got mentioned in the closing weeks of the campaign by Democrat Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee, to unseat Walker. Rather than campaign on collective bargaining, Barrett talked about the economy and jobs, women’s issues and an investigation into Walker’s aides during his previous elective office in Milwaukee.
 
The reason for that is quite simple: Walker’s collective bargaining reforms turned out to be a resounding success.
 
Public service employees are finally making reasonable contributions to their pension and health benefits. Government employee unions no longer dictate work rules. Local school districts and governments with new latitude to renegotiate contracts have saved Wisconsin taxpayers $1 billion, according to the governor’s office.
 
Collective bargaining for government employees can never survive much scrutiny. Their unions are by their nature in conflict with the interests of taxpayer. Unions use their numbers, their voting booth clout and their members’ dues to elect politicians who then return the favor in contract negotiations. Liberal good government types constantly advocate bans against government contracts for businesses that make significant campaign contributions to politicians. But they fall silent on the inherent conflict of interest in labor contracts negotiated by public employee unions and the politicians they help elect. Talk about a corrupt bargain — that’s the very definition of one.
 
Taxpayers have grown weary of financing generous benefits that most of them never see in their lives. President Barack Obama must recognize that voter attitudes on this are changing. Despite the appeals of Wisconsin Democrats for a big show of support, the closest Obama came to Wisconsin was flying over the state recently on his way to a fund-raising dinner in Minneapolis.
 
Walker never trailed in the polls but some surveys showed a tightening of the race in the final days. The voters have the final say Tuesday. They will decide whether Wisconsin will lead the nation in rescuing taxpayers from grasping government employee unions and the self-serving politicians who have appeased them by caving to their demands or return to policies that risk bankruptcy for government budgets, endangering vital government services and leaving taxpayers with the staggering bill.

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Re: Public Dislikes Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Union Busting
« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2012, 06:02:58 AM »
Even that 12 point advantage by Obama over Romney a few months ago seems to be dwindling. Most polls in Wisconsin have it at 4 to 6 points now. I don't know if Romney will win there, but it's going to be closer than most people think.