Posted on 05/24/2015 5:33:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
He makes them crazy.
MEGA KUDOS for posting this anti-Walker screed. It shows what a really great conservative he is and how he’ll get things done in DC if we elect him president. By seeing him from the standpoint of the enemy we get an even better idea of how good he really is, a better view than we can even get from his own people.
Under the plan, board members would no longer be elected districtwide (as are the vast majority of school board members in Wisconsin). Instead, each member would represent a small section of the district. The GOP's goal is to reduce the influence of the city of Racine (a Democratic community with a substantial minority population and a history of supporting unions) while increasing the influence of suburban areas (which tend to be more Republican, have a smaller minority population and are presumed to be friendlier to the governor’s agenda).IOW, ridding it of at-large 'representation', which Jesse Jackson has condemned in a public speech right here in little old Grand Rapids; instead, there would be (a restoration of) districts, making the board representative, instead of a Demagogic Party rubber stamp.
The sick days were part of Act 10 which broke the strangle hold pubic employee union contracts had on local government.
The focus of the article’s lament is a proposed state law that would take failing Milwaukee schools out from the dead thumb of Milwaukee’s school board/school admin and appoint a special master to try to better the school.
Real conservatives typically object to top-down interference in local matters.
Normally I would agree. However, if the locality is running a deficit and is expecting the state to bail them out, it would make sense to have some state control over how the money is being spent.
In other words, a locality can't vote themselves a larger share of the state budget. Especially if that vote is heavily influenced by public employee unions.
GOOD!
"Democracy" is two coyotes and a sheeple voting on what's for dinner.
It was striking down a requirement that all PRIVATE businesses provide paid sick days to their employees. It was the equivalent of a $15 min wage.
The bill about schools in Milwaukee is designed to fix failing schools. No unexpectedly, Milwaukee Public Schools is a basketcase. The vulnerable ones in the schools are the kids stuck in classrooms where no one learns.
Unlike the liberals and “progressives” like the author of this misleading pile of garbage, the Wisconsin GOP is trying to put in place policies to help kids in Wisconsin’s inner cities. Both Milwaukee and Racine schools have effectively refused to put in place the reforms from Act 10, leading to layoffs and other fiscal woes.
Are those who are opposing the measure to EXTEND “democracy” to each district served by a board of education really as stupid as they sound. They are trying to argue that area-wide representation is more representative than district-by-district representation, when everyone knows that area-wide representation winds up serving the top one or two districts in the area with the most people, and the expense of equal representation of all the other districts.
I think no one educated them to understand we have “representative” government using democratic means, and not a “democracy” which is always a tyranny of the majority over everyone else.
If John Nichol’s panties are in a twist, you KNOW Scott Walker is right on target! :)
Nichols is our local Vocal Socialist who has a BIG megaphone through ‘Das Kapitol’ Times.
When the effects of unlimited immigration start to take hold and most statehouses and legislatures are run by liberals, the few remaining conservative enclaves will be sad to find that their attempts to maintain conservative policies will have been preempted by policies such as Walker's.
Why not allow liberal cities and counties to create and enforce liberal policies? If we conservatives are right then those policies will fail and people will tend to elect conservative politicians to represent them.
She shows a total lack of understanding of state government. It is the state legislature that created counties and granted city charters, not the other way around. The state legislature has the right, if not the inherent duty, to abolish corrupt and unworkable local government structures.
I was born & raised in Wisconsin.
The Capital Times was a worthless rag 58 years ago when I graduated High School & it has only gotten worse.
My brother has tried many times to get me to return there to live & there are 2 major reasons why I won’t:
The weather—which no one can change.
The ABHORRANT taxes, which I cannot afford.
I have 5.58 acres, house, garage, fenced & cross-fenced in N Nevada & he has a 2000 sq ft house on about 1/4 acres.
HIS taxes are over 10 times MY taxes.
I am pretty certain that he doesn’t get 10 times the fire protection—10 times the police protection—or 10 times the results out of the schools.
Pretty much says it all.
I think Wisconsin is fed up and waking up.
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