You said it ... they stink on ice ...
Posted on 02/13/2012 11:14:20 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Some rank-and-file members upset with WEAC endorsing a unproven candidate for statewide office who has lost twice already.
As Wisconsin taxpayers are faced with an expensive recall election for governor, rank-and-file members of the state’s largest teachers union are fuming mad over the endorsement of a candidate that was hand-picked by their leadership.
Kathleen Falk, the former Dane County executive, was endorsed by Wisconsin Education Association Council bosses on Wednesday, with one condition: Uphold a promise to veto the budget reforms instituted by Gov. Scott Walker.
Hours after the endorsement, a petition on change.org was created to demand that the union rescind its endorsement of the former chief executive of the second largest county government in Wisconsin. Rank-and-file members were upset with WEAC endorsing a unproven candidate for statewide office that lost two times.
Any keen observer of Wisconsin politics knows of Falk’s failed runs for statewide office. In 2002, she finished dead last in a three-way Democratic primary for governor to then-Governor Jim Doyle and former Congressman Tom Barrett. Four years later, Falk lost a bid to be Wisconsin’s attorney general during a wave election for Democrats.
Falk was forever infamous during the 2006 attorney general’s race for blatantly lying about J.B. Van Hollen’s role in a child sex predator case and accusing him of releasing him on bail despite he was not district attorney at the time of release.
(Excerpt) Read more at brookfield-wi.patch.com ...
Wisconsin Teachers Angry At Union Ping
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Since the law instituting the reforms has already been signed by Gov. Walker, aren't they immune from veto?
Or is this just another example of Wisconsin union idiocy?
Welcome to the club. Signed, Conservative Republicans.
Regarding the first three words of the title: they sure are!
You said it ... they stink on ice ...
WEAC may as well be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Communist Party, but fortunately Kathleen Falk is such a horrible candidate that even the progressives of Madison know it, even though it’s only whispered. She has a track record of losing and outside of Dane and Milwaukee people don’t like her much at all. Think of Pelosi on a local level and you’re not far off...
In 2006, she was the Democratic Party nominee for the office of Attorney General of Wisconsin. She was an Assistant Attorney General and Public Intervenor in the Wisconsin Department of Justice from 1983 to 1997. Prior to her tenure as a prosecutor, Falk served as co-director and counsel to the Wisconsin Environmental Decade.
Falk is married to former Democratic State Representative Peter Bock.
She earned a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1973 and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1976. She is also a graduate of Harvard University’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program.
Falk has served as an award-winning environmental advocate, an assistant attorney general and as Dane County’s longest-serving chief executive. During her more than three decades in public service, a fierce advocate for the poor, an aggressive environmental steward.
Delicious, demonRATs eating demonRATs.
Don’t like what the union is doing. I have the perfect solution. STOP sending them money!
IOW - communist scum.
VIDEO: Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk Announces Resignation 6pm 10/4/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O4gToPmeeo
No easy way to do that. As per contract, their dues are deducted from their pay by the school district payroll department. You can't hold back what you never had in your hand. Quit the union? Can't do that and hold your job, school districts are closed union shops. However, you can become a "fair share" member where you lose your voting rights, grievance protection, &c. Basically your out of the union but still pay a "fair share" which by some cosmic coincidence just happens to be equal to a regular member's monthly dues.
Those strictures are the same (or nearly so) as any blue collar union worker faces. Sweet deal (for the Union Brass) but white collar workers have followed their blue collared brothers and sisters right down the same schmitt hole.
Regards,
GtG
PS Of course you could always quit and seek employment in a private school. But it's likely that you will need two such jobs to break even...
You forget that they passed a law prohibiting the use of state funds to collect and distribute union dues.
“Kathleen Falk is such a horrible candidate that even the progressives of Madison know it, even though it’s only whispered. She has a track record of losing and outside of Dane and Milwaukee people don’t like her much at all. “
My guess it that more rational potential RAT candidates see the recall for what it is (or will become after Falk looses) and prefer to wait for a normal election to try for the governorship. So here’s hoping Falk and a couple more losers run and dilute her numbers even more than they would otherwise be. The RATs of Wisconsin have really let their anger at legitimate losses in power cause them to step in their own stuff.
If you want a good laugh, go read the outraged comments at the petition site. What fools!
You are right, I did.
So if you stop paying dues (legal) does the union demand you be fired? I can see a growth industry in lawsuits as teachers are dismissed w/no cause. Or did the closed shop die with the forced collection of dues?
It appears we all live in interesting times...
Regards,
GtG
As I understand it, the unions contacted the teachers and requested they set up a monthly automatic credit card payment of dues. Not sure how that turned out, but I will bet there was some attrition.
It is wonderfully ironic that the petition is at change.org, which is a leftist site.
Notice none of male heavy-hitters in Wisconsin politics are running against Walker. The girls will be the sacrificial lambs, IMO. There should be a bitter primary fight, as well, pitting the *big city* Falk against the *central state* Vinehout. There won’t be any ideological differences, but it will still come down to an us vs. them, w/both candidates being leftist donks.
It is a great way for them to waste yet more money.
I would guess that the unions cannot tell the state who to fire.
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