Posted on 09/24/2014 8:12:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
When one talks Republican policy and politics, from the size and cost of government to the role of some notoriously out-sized GOP enemies such as public sector unions, including in education, there may not be a more critical battle space nationally-speaking, than Wisconsin this year.
Democrats have been gunning for incumbent Gov. Scott Walker since he and the Republican-controlled state legislature passed Act 10 — a measure curbing the collective bargaining powers of some public workers — forcing them to contribute more for their health care and pensions, and ending the automatic collection of union dues.
It's hard to remember the incredible intensity that surrounded passage of Act 10 three years ago. Democratic lawmakers fled the state rather than allow a vote on it. Protesters took over the state capitol. There was an ugly Supreme Court fight. But it became the law.
As the GOP struggles to capture the Senate, those races have been rising and falling on issues like immigration, the economy and even foreign policy. But as important as those may be, the issues at the heart of Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker's re-election bid are perhaps even more critical to the success of any larger national GOP agenda.
And Democrats know it, " "We have a score to settle with Scott Walker. He took collective bargaining away from us. He stole our voices, in a state where we were born," Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees told the Washington Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If you have no enemies, you’re not doing anything.
This will never stop until these people and their families are all eliminated from the face of the earth. It’s time to stand up.
Gov. Walker better get fitted with a bullet-proof vest, because union backed democrats have been known to attempt assasinations of political figures that they can’t intimidate or coerce into submission, especially in heavy union states like Wisconsin.
How dare Governor Walker keep these people from mooching from the state treasury. The liberals cry like little babies when they can’t mooch off the taxpayers. They don’t give two cents about average people. It’s all about controlling the political process and especially the money!!!
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