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Government e-mails reveal plot to stall budget repair bill
FOX News ^ | 9:35 p.m. CST, March 2, 2011 | Bryan Polcyn

Posted on 03/02/2011 8:17:58 PM PST by Brown Deer

Before protesters stormed the capitol, the Mayor of the City of Madison tried to pull a fast one. The Governor's budget repair bill was on the fast track, and Madison Mayor Dave Ciesliewicz was racing against the clock to pass new union contracts first.

E-mails obtained by the FOX6 Investigators show that the mayor enlisted the help of State Senator Mark Miller. They both tried to convince the Secretary of State to hold up the bill by taking the maximum 10 days allowed by law before publishing the bill.

They were trying to buy some time so they could ratify new contracts to protect workers from benefit cuts. Citizens for Responsible Government Rep. Chris Kliesmet says, "This suggests, and this is a harsh word, collusion. There is collusion between some politicians and public sector employee unions. Period."

(Excerpt) Read more at fox6now.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: budget; chriskliesmet; collusion; daveciesliewicz; democrats; fleas; markmiller; runandhide; union; unions; walker; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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Read the e-mails between Senate Minority Leader Mike Miller and Madison Mayor Dave Ciesliewicz. It appears the 14 Senators orchestrated their trip to Illinois to buy time for unions all over the state to work out new deals.
1 posted on 03/02/2011 8:18:00 PM PST by Brown Deer
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To: Jean S

ping


2 posted on 03/02/2011 8:18:34 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: EdReform; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Brown Deer.

G’night all!


3 posted on 03/02/2011 8:26:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Brown Deer
There is collusion between some politicians and public sector employee unions.

Oooh a realization ... well golly, perhaps better late than never.

4 posted on 03/02/2011 8:31:19 PM PST by glock rocks (I am Dyslexis of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.)
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To: Brown Deer
Our government is comprised of THIEVES!!!
5 posted on 03/02/2011 8:31:31 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Brown Deer

I’ve negotiated numerous labor contracts for public agencies. In most cases, my bargaining team was composed of managers and administrators who were in the same group, for insurance purposes, as the employees the union was representing, and stood to get the exact same benefit increases the union mugged the taxpayers out of. They could also count on getting the same raise as the union members after the contract was settled.

The governing body of the agency invariably had a least one or two, and sometimes a majority, of elected members who were elected with strong union support, and in a few cases even had members of the union elected. The entire process of public agency union collective bargaining is rotten to the very core, and amounts to no less than legally sanctioned plunder of the treasury. No one represents the public and the taxpayer in the process, and if there was any justice the corrupt politicians who foist this system on the American public in many states would find their rotten carcasses rotting in jail.


6 posted on 03/02/2011 8:33:57 PM PST by Spartan79 ("We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed." ~ Ths. Jefferson)
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To: Brown Deer

dimoKKKRATS caught red handed fleecing the tax payers to help their union buddies so that they can contribute money to the DNC. Just an old fashion con-game at the expense of the tax payer.


7 posted on 03/02/2011 8:36:58 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Brown Deer

Who cares? Nobody gets fired, nobody pays a price, Anarchy is reigning at the WI Capital, Nobody is arrested. It’s all about PR, not law and order.


8 posted on 03/02/2011 8:48:03 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: Brown Deer

“They both tried to convince the Secretary of State to hold up the bill by taking the maximum 10 days allowed by law before publishing the bill. “

hmmmmmm....Secretaries of State.....bought off by Soros.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/soros-eyes-secretaries/print


9 posted on 03/02/2011 8:50:20 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Brown Deer

10 posted on 03/02/2011 10:02:35 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: Brown Deer
"That's the way collective bargaining works. It ought to be a negotiation, but at the end of the day we want to have good working relationships between labor and management here in Madison."

Good relations and no money works for me.

11 posted on 03/02/2011 10:02:36 PM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Parley Baer

The Unions might as well officially become part of the DNC. Or is that the DNC become part of the Unions? Hmm.


12 posted on 03/02/2011 10:09:56 PM PST by matt04
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To: Brown Deer

ping


13 posted on 03/02/2011 10:27:03 PM PST by SideoutFred (B.O. Stinks...it really does)
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To: Brown Deer; Diana in Wisconsin
For the WI ping list.

They were trying to buy some time so they could ratify new contracts to protect workers from benefit cuts. Citizens for Responsible Government Rep. Chris Kliesmet says, "This suggests, and this is a harsh word, collusion. There is collusion between some politicians and public sector employee unions. Period."
Just as has been speculated on the WI board!
14 posted on 03/02/2011 10:59:23 PM PST by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: Brown Deer

Every last one of these pond scum-swilling reprobates oughta be found dancing under the trees with their loafers two feet off the turf.


15 posted on 03/02/2011 11:28:23 PM PST by HKMk23 (It won't be "Justice" until wicked people fry.)
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To: tennmountainman

Yep. You nailed it. There won’t be any repercussions for the Dems. There never are, and I imagine some GOP members will take the fall without any support, solely because the GOP doesn’t have a slush fund of taxpayer dollars to spend.


16 posted on 03/03/2011 12:18:45 AM PST by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: Brown Deer

Crooked!


17 posted on 03/03/2011 1:03:14 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: Mortrey

The Secretary of State project.

Thank you for the link.

I live in one of those states...


18 posted on 03/03/2011 1:19:31 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: Brown Deer

Democrat corruption in a concentrated parasite nest (”city”) like Madison, Wisconsin?
No. That just can’t be. I’ll believe it when our crackerjack FBI hands up the indictments.


19 posted on 03/03/2011 1:27:17 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Brown Deer
Chris Kliesmet says, "This suggests, and this is a harsh word, collusion. There is collusion between some politicians and public sector employee unions. Period."

Finally they are starting to wake-up. See this post from me last night,

58 posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 7:56:52 PM by EBH

And I have been saying this for awhile and being politely FR ignored. I am tellin' you all if we don't start muckraking the democrats across the coals and forcing prosecutions we're are going to lose the battle to keep our country a Nation of Laws!

IF the GOP won't prosecute, and we really need to stop depending on them to do this, it is up to We the People to demand justice!

20 posted on 03/03/2011 3:30:17 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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