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As protests continue, Walker says he's forging ahead
Wisconsin State Journal ^ | 2/16/11 | State Journal Staff

Posted on 02/16/2011 10:59:37 AM PST by bigbob

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he has the votes to pass a bill removing collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Walker says he is open to making changes to the measure, but that he will not "fundamentally undermine the principles" he is proposing.

Senate Republicans met in secret earlier Wednesday in advance of a planned vote on the bill in the Legislature's budget committee.

More than 13,000 protesters descended on the Capitol a day earlier to participate in a 17-hour public hearing. Thousands more came on Wednesday, with hundreds chanting outside his office door, "Recall Walker now!"

(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: governorwalker; union; unionbusting; walker; wisconsinshowdown
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Another gutsy Governor with the audacity do what he was elected to do.
1 posted on 02/16/2011 10:59:45 AM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob
Do it Wisconsin Republicans. And a note to Governor Walker:

Fire any State employee who engages in 'sick-ins'.

2 posted on 02/16/2011 11:01:17 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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Wonder how long it will take Holder to sue Wisconsin?


3 posted on 02/16/2011 11:03:34 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberalism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven.)
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To: bigbob

More governors should join this choir as well.


4 posted on 02/16/2011 11:06:00 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: bigbob

Walker/Christie


5 posted on 02/16/2011 11:06:25 AM PST by Signalman
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To: bigbob

Hang tough, Mr. Walker. The country is behind you.


6 posted on 02/16/2011 11:07:30 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: bigbob

“So many people are against this,” UW-Madison senior Kylie Christianson said early Wednesday as she sat in the Capitol rotunda on her blanket, putting the finishing touches on a protest sign.”

But more people are for it.

And what’s a student have to do with it?


7 posted on 02/16/2011 11:11:55 AM PST by Castigar
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Thank you, Gov. Scott Walker, for giving us a glimpse at what the public union thugs will do when we castrate them at the Federal level. We can see that patriots are going to have to meet the thugs’ violence with arms.


8 posted on 02/16/2011 11:12:33 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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I hope the governor fires any state employee who engages in an illegal job action. There must be tons of unemployed people in Wisconsin who would love to have those jobs and those “awful” working conditions.


9 posted on 02/16/2011 11:12:33 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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If they follow the California model, the unions and the Left will start setting up flying actions designed to punish the general public for having the temerity to elect representatives that will stand up to the demands of organized labor. For example, watch for flying pickets that shut down major transportation routes at rush hour.

They can be expected to do this when they realize that the public is behind the Governor and legislature on this.

10 posted on 02/16/2011 11:12:57 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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She’s just ‘community organizing’...


11 posted on 02/16/2011 11:14:21 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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I hope the governor fires any state employee who engages in an illegal job action.

Reagan (God rest his soul) showed us the way with the Air Traffic Controllers' Union: fire 'em if they strike.

12 posted on 02/16/2011 11:14:21 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: snowrip

I voted for him and support him and I’m a retired state of Wisconsin employee, though I was not union, still. These young’ns don’t realize how grateful they’ll be when the state remains solvent and it’s their turn to step down. My retirement isn’t juicy or anything but at least I have something in old age and my kid has something to look forward to. Robbing the future generations so you can have more is disgusting.


13 posted on 02/16/2011 11:24:00 AM PST by the rifleman
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For the first time in a long time I am proud to say I am from Wisconsin. How much better does it get? Super Bowl Champions and a governor that has some guts!


14 posted on 02/16/2011 11:27:10 AM PST by mom4america
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That will only increase support for Governor Walker. I bet quite a few independents might undergo an epiphany into conservatism while sitting in traffic as a result of one of those public sector temper tantrums.

The way to deal with bullies is to smack them in the snout. Governors Walker and Christie are leading the way on that!


15 posted on 02/16/2011 11:29:22 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: mom4america

Yep, you’ve got a lot to be proud of this year! I’m in IL and wish we could re-draw the state-line


16 posted on 02/16/2011 11:30:22 AM PST by bigbob
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The protestors are on the public payroll - Madison public schools shut down today, keeping kids home, so that the union employees could overrun the capital building.


17 posted on 02/16/2011 11:33:37 AM PST by sbMKE
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That’s been one of the problems right along - that the State Capitol is in Madison - a teaching town and the most leftist city in the U. S. Those thugs have been intimidating legislators for decades and abusing the system.

Thankfully, the conservative talk radio hosts of southeastern WI are very supportive of the governor and the Repubs in the Senate and Legislature. They reach a wide audience.


18 posted on 02/16/2011 11:38:54 AM PST by chickadee
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If Governor Walker hangs tough it could some day be President Walker. Wouldn't that be something!
19 posted on 02/16/2011 11:40:39 AM PST by the rifleman
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And what’s a student have to do with it?

Iwas reading another story earlier in whicha UW-M graduate assistant was complaining that cuts in his benefits, mainly his health care benefits for his two children, would be cut.

And it struck me as odd that he seemed to be talking about being a grad assistant like it was a career in and of itself.No wonder education costs are going up.

20 posted on 02/16/2011 11:44:27 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (I'm sick of damn idiots)
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