Scott Walker Courageously Takes On Unions

NewsMax ^ | March 9, 2015 | Ira Stoll

[Cincinatus' Wife]

One threatening letter to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker promised to attack his wife and “gut her like a deer.” Another talked about killing his sons: “I already follow them when they went to school.”

Then there was the time the governor’s car was attacked by protesters who, as Walker recounts in his book, “surrounded the car and began beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle.”

....The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, which keeps a trademark on the Profile in Courage Award, would, alas, be unlikely to give it to Walker, even though his actions in Wisconsin surely fit the award’s criteria of standing up for principles even in the face of pressure to bend from powerful interest groups.

.....A JFK Profile in Courage Award for Walker might actually be a good fit.

.....In an April 4, 1957, speech to the Lynchburg, Va., Chamber of Commerce, Sen. Kennedy warned that “Labor racketeers are using their positions with a union to practice extortion, shakedowns and bribery;threatening strikes, labor trouble, physical violence or property damage to employers who fail to give them under-the-table payments,personal gifts,or other contributions which the union members never see.”

Robert Kennedy famously took on the Teamsters Union as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor corruption.

Alas, mainstream liberalism of the sort that used to embrace Kennedy’s willingness to take on the excesses of organized labor now seems to have lost interest. There’s no better example of this decline than the New Yorker magazine.

That magazine helped launch Kennedy’s political career by publishing John Hersey’s account of the PT-109 shipwreck,under the headline “Survival,” in its June 17, 1944, issue.

The New Yorker recently wrote about Gov. Walker in an article that began,“let's stipulate up front that Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is an odious politician whose ascension to the presidency would be a disaster.”...

[Secret Agent Man]

you are reading with a bias filter on.

he said - SAID - he wished the republicans would not push this forward at this time.

i stated that he said he’d sign it, and he did.

i stated i like him and was glad he signed it.

you seem’to have completely’missed those points and only want to focus on what you think are bad points because you cannot handle the slightest perceived criticism of him.

you better get thicker skin because what i stated was extremely mild criticism. plus compliments as well.

[GeronL]

Church of Walker acolytes and disciples cannot accept even the slightest criticism of their guy. A Messiah of their own.

[Lakeshark]

My preferred candidate is Cruz. Talk about thin skinned and a lack of comprehension......sheesh.......and YOU mr secret WERE less correct in your characterization than the post I referred to.

[Secret Agent Man]

dunno. nothing i posted was incorrect. anywho. cruz is a potentially good option too. maybe a little less personally since i just saw a posting about how he’s now on board with GMOs and how awesome they are, and everyone who’s against the science is going to be labeled like climate change deniers are/were.

[Lakeshark]

Post 17 has it more correct than you. The science is settled..........:-)

[napscoordinator]

And they shouldn’t until the timing is right. I applaud him for his forthright truthfulness and reality. When you have so much on your plate, you have to pick and chose because if done correctly all will be successful and that is Walker to a tee. He is our best politician in the last 35 years.

[hinckley buzzard]

He also allowed the legislature to take the lead on RTWL on the advice of legislative leadership, which is something the anti-Walker forces on FR choose to ignore

Of course. He got Right to Work with the expenditure of little political capital. It is obvious from the fulminations here that one can harbor generally conservative sentiments and still be politically naive.