Posted on 02/26/2011 5:30:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
For Wisconsin’s Democratic state senators, it’s simply bad business to offend labor unions.
Thirteen of the fourteen have received generous contributions from unions over the years; their cumulative donations range from $5,750 to $113,603. And anything less than, well, fleeing the state in order to prevent Gov. Scott Walker’s public-union-busting bill from passing could threaten those vital cash flows.
“Judging from the reaction, the emotion you see on the capitol square, [Walker’s legislation] is obviously something labor unions care deeply about,” says Brett Healy, president of the MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin-based free-market think tank. “I suspect when they’re communicating with these individual senators, they’re making it quite clear what they would like to see happen and what they would like to not see happen.”
If the unions are communicating, the senators are likely listening attentively: Those union donations constitute a significant chunk of their campaign funds, according to the data compiled by Wisconsin Democracy Campaign..
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The absent Democratic senators are preventing Wisconsin from launching initiatives that will help close a budget shortfall. But they are ensuring that their own campaign coffers will be well stocked during the next election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
some big numbers there.
and that doesn’t include hundreds of millions spent each election cycle on the “get-out-the-vote” efforts and the expenses of paid protestors and bussed-in paid union supporters of Democrat candidates.
Sounds like the Unions/Wisc-14 are guilty
Have you considered a recall petition against Spencer Coggs?
A group from Utah has already started the process and the 60 day clock is running.
See. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2678381/posts
WI Statue 9.10 covers recall elections.
If someone is going to do a recall - need to get organized as 60 days come very fast.
There is a manual at the WI GAP (Government Accountability Board,
http://gab.wi.gov/publications/manuals/recall
Here is a report from 2000 that shows the waste of WEAC of at least $ 50 million a year times 10+ years === 1/2 billion dollars. According to Gov Walker this excess cost is now $68 million per year. WEAC controls 85% of teacher health insurance without competition.
http://www.wpri.org/Reports/Volume13/Vol13no8.pdf page 20
The market for teachers’health insurance in Wisconsin is characterized by several traits. The health insurance is determined through the collective bargaining process. The health insurance plans provided by the districts are rarely put out to bid. The WEAInsurance Corporation, an entity affiliated with the state’s largest teachers union, provides insurance coverage to roughly 85% of the districts. The peculiarities of this market suggest that competition between insurers to write health insurance coverage is severely limited in most districts. The current study reports the results of a statistical analysis that tested whether the WEAInsurance Corporation charges more for health insurance coverage than other insurers. The analysis controlled for various factors believed to be associated with the price of insurance coverage. The results suggest that the WEA Insurance Corporation does charge more for its insurance product than other insurers. Reform that would foster competition in the market for teachers’ health insurance would serve the interests of Wisconsin’s taxpayers and teachers. A model for reform is the health insurance pool for state employees. This is administered by the Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF), as is a similar pool available to Wisconsin public employers. On a statewide basis, savings that could accrue to school districts through participation in the state employee health insurance pool are estimated to be approximately $50,000,000 per year.
They all are.
Then the thugs would start kidnapping Republicans.
You might want to look at this admission by NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin - such an honest man he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-piPkgAUo0w
“......who “flee” to avoid a vote.”
Has this ever happened in our American history ever before? I really don’t know if it has?
Yep, Texas 2003. Republicans caved.
“Then the thugs would start kidnapping Republicans.”
Care to guess what the next logical step is after the kidnappings?’Cause I see the blood in the street that these fools always talk about,their blood and lots of it.
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