Posted on 08/10/2011 5:06:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politics: Unions' failure to recall four Republican state senators shows that their days of power through intimidation are over. If this was a rehearsal for 2012, the White House should start making other plans.
The natives are still restless, the pitchforks sharp and the Walker revolution safe. Portrayed by union leaders as an aberration fueled by a generic voter wrath against incumbents, the GOP grab of both houses of Wisconsin's legislature and the governor's office in 2010 was predicted to fade once voters realized "workers' rights" were at risk.
Then a funny thing happened on the way to the polling booth, that shrine to the secret ballot so anathema to union leaders. Voters decided they liked a limited government that said there are things we just can't afford. They also liked the idea that taxpayers had rights and could and should control how their money is spent.
It didn't help the union cause when the city of Milwaukee announced it will save at least $25 million a year — and potentially as much as $36 million in 2012 — from health care benefit changes it didn't have to negotiate with unions, as a result of provisions in a 2009-11 budget-repair measure that ended most collective bargaining for public-sector unions.
Nor did it help the unions that Wisconsin, under the business-friendly leadership of Gov. Scott Walker and a Republican legislature, accounted for more than half the jobs created in the U.S. during June. Walker's office reported that 9,500 jobs were added that month and 39,300 since he took office in January. So far this year, the state's unemployment rate has remained at least 1.5 points below the national average.
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Still smiling over the Prog/Union loss! 2012!
Thank Heavens. Yeah Whoo!!!
Sounds like the WI Republicans are doing what they are suppose to be doing.
I was not in a district with a recall. I am proud of the voters who came out and re-elected the four. We hope to Pick up at least one more next week.
I was not in a district with a recall. I am proud of the voters who came out and re-elected the four. We hope to Pick up at least one more next week.
Let's make sure their power through voter fraud is over too.
Congratulations Jean S!
Fleebag Senators leaving the State did not work. The banging of drums at the Capitol did not work. Threats and thuggery by the unions did not work. The lies did not work. Disrupting the State Fair did not work. The wasted money on recounts did not work. Negative campaign ads did not work. Face it liberals – your in the minority now!
Praying for you guys. You are certainly leading the way.
Hi Kaslin, as you know we in WI have another round of recalls next Tuesday.
This morning I posted a vanity to help the 2 repubs running in that recall election. The post has the 2 campaign websites in it.
Here is the linky for anyone who wants to help us win next Tuesday.
Thanks!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2761792/posts
One of the republicans that won in the recall is considering joining the democrats. Found this on a defeat Obama site...Throughout today we’ve learned more details about the possibility that ‘moderate’ Republican Dale Schultz may bolt the GOP and join with the Democrats. He is under intense pressure from Senate Democrats to switch sides - in fact Schultz once was a Democrat. Schultz also was the ONLY Republican who voted against Gov. Walker’s budget reform bill and then publicly criticized Governor Walker for his efforts to bring fiscal sanity to Wisconsin.
We learned today that Schultz even went to the Democrat Leader in the Senate and offered himself as a vote for them in the Senate.
This would be disastrous and would mean Democrats would be able to block Gov. Walker’s agenda in Wisconsin. We can’t let the Left win this way.
Ping
What I couldn’t figure out was why, when it became clear that regaining the legislature via recall was the plan, why the (R)’s didn’t file as many or more recalls of (D) legislators. This way it became “will the Republicans lose enough seats to lose the majority?” when the possibility could have existed to PICK UP seats or at least hedge against possible losses of (R) seats to keep from losing the majority. Were all the remaining (D)’s from such staunch hard-core-D districts that there would have been no point?
Site I was referring to...hope it is wrong. http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=34126b04b133206bac72ba109dcd76c6
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