Posted on 07/24/2015 1:50:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
SAN DIEGO — “First off,” Scott Walker proclaimed, “we took on the unions, and we won. We won!”
Taking on the unions is usually first off for Walker, the Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential candidate. It is the very rationale for his candidacy. And on Thursday, he took a detour from the campaign trail to appear here before the annual meeting of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of state legislators dedicated in large part to defeating unions............
Walker then went on to celebrate his triumphs over the demonstrators who objected to his dismantling of Wisconsin’s public-sector unions, portraying the pro-union forces as violent thugs. “Those big government interests — they believe they can win by intimidating elected officials,” he said. “There were amazing things they did to try to intimidate us. The good news is we didn’t back down. We remembered the reason we were elected was not to serve the few in our state capitol, but to serve the masses.”
This is the essence of Walker’s appeal — and why he is so dangerous. He is not as outrageous as Donald Trump and Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), but his technique of scapegoating unions for the nation’s ills is no less demagogic. Sixty-five years ago, another man from Wisconsin made himself a national reputation by frightening the country about the menace of communists, though the actual danger they represented was negligible. Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy, but his technique is similar: He suggests that the nation’s ills can be cured by fighting labor unions (foremost among the “big government special interests” hurting America), even though unions represent just 11 percent of the American workforce and have been at a low ebb.......
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You can't win re-election in solid blue Milwaukee and in blue-purple Wisconsin without the votes of those who do not normally vote Republican.
And trust me on this....no "real man", no matter how solidly Democrat, will pull the lever for Hillary. They might say they support her to pollsters and such, but, in the privacy of the voting booth they just won't be able to do it. I think the same factor was in play during the last Governor's election....the unlikable millionaire Mary Burke polled much higher than the reality of the electoral outcome.
“There is no other situation that I can think of where workers are allowed to vote for and donate to their bosses who decide their raises and employment status. Public sector unions are inherently a gross conflict of interest and should be abolished.”
Rockitz
“The state branch of the National Education Association, once 100,000 strong, has seen its membership drop by a third. The American Federation of Teachers, which organized in the college system, saw a 50 percent decline. The 70,000-person membership in the state employees union has fallen by 70 percent.”
For this reason alone Walker is a viable option.
L
>>>Sixty-five years ago, another man from Wisconsin made himself a national reputation by frightening the country about the menace of communists, though the actual danger they represented was negligible.<<<<
Only 100 million killed. The definition of negligible.
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