Posted on 03/15/2011 5:48:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Considering how many people are employed by the govt sector, 56% is about right.
If the legislation survives challenge, then Repubs have struck a mortal blow against government unions in WI. Union revenues will be greatly diminished, and union contributions form a major part of Dem campaign revenue, which would tend to handicap the Dem party in WI.
As Charen points out, look at the wording of the questions. The 56% opposing reduction of pay or benefits were obviously asked a skewed question.
In WI the question was not about reducing their pay or benefits at all. It was about the public employees being asked to contribute a minor amount to their own benefits.
That could be spun into a ‘reduction,’ as in a few less $ in their wallets, but not a reduction in salary nor in benefits.
So now, with the reaction of the public sector employee unions and the abandoning of their state by the Dem legislators, WI passed a bill whereby each of the public sector unions will have to be re-certified each and every year.
51% of all members (not just those voting) will have to be in favor of re-certifying, or the union is de-certified.
Initially, union members will turn out to vote, so that will most likely happen, but it’s going to be hard to sustain over time.
Overall, I’d say Walker won. Big.
Hillary Clinton. She’ll come charging in on a white horse and talk a good fight to the unions and government employees. Here comes Hillary!!!!!!!
That's Klavan's tactic all right. I don't think it terribly effective because too many people can't repeat the logic in conversation.
IMO, this one works, albeit with a lousy tag line ("tell Obama you've had enough" my a$$; should have been, "tell your friends").
Timing is everything. There’s still nearly two years for the scum to go back to sleep and forget all about the fun party and the bused-in college kids and homeless debris who did $75 million worth of damage to the state capitol building.
Now there's something I never heard before.
I could see TV ads that make lefty/commie heads explode.
I’ve had a look at the various Obama Youth videos on YouTube. Very few delirious entries less than two years old.
If your description of the recent Boston fundraiser is accurate his base of support has narrowed immensely and even those who would die rather than criticize The One will not turn out for him.
The way he backpeddled from Wisconsin just days after committing the DNC and OFA to the fight says loads. Maybe Gov. Walker was smart in letting this clusterf***k go on for three weeks. America got an eyeful and earful watching these obnoxious thugs make a spectacle of themselves. The budget battle is just beginning but no way are most of the 14 dem senators going to allow themselves to be shanghaied again.
I agree with the columnist who said our Dems would do better to rename themselves the “Labor Party,” like their Brit and Euro counterparts. That who they were always all about. The other constituencies are disposable.
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