Posted on 02/27/2015 6:51:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Seeking to wow a crowd of conservative activists on Thursday, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker decided to trumpet what first made him a Republican hero: his crusade against organized labor.
In what many saw as a boast that he could handle Islamic State, Walker talked of besting labor and said: “If I can take on 100,000 protestors, I can do the same across the world.”
With that red meat line at a gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference(CPAC), Walker won raucous applause about the episode that thrust him on to the national stage–his success in pushing through legislation in 2011 to curb collective bargaining by Wisconsin’s public sector unions, notwithstanding huge protests by unions and their allies. Walker argued at the time that government employee unions needed to be weakened, saying their demands and costly benefits, like pensions, were squeezing Wisconsin taxpayers.
On Thursday, as he vied to win what was essentially a conservative beauty contest among potential presidential contenders, Walker boasted about a new war against unions. This week, with his backing and sparking new union protests, Wisconsin’s Republican-dominated legislature launched a polarizing push to enact a right-to-work law.
“Just breaking,” Walker told the CPAC crowd in Washington, again to enthusiastic applause. “As of next week, Wisconsin will become the 25th state in America that has a right-to-work law.”
Right-to-work laws prohibit unions and employers at private sector workplaces from reaching any agreement that requires workers to pay union fees.......
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No he wouldn’t.
Bodyguards? When the little union sh*ts went after Walkers parents, his mother she went out to give cookies to the goons... That family has backbone.
Bodyguards? When the little union sh*ts went after Walkers parents, his mother gave cookies to the goons... That family has backbone.
We have to make sure we all have more than one horse to bet on.
Oh I lived it daily... :)
Thankfully in a WOW county and not in Dane.
The race is the GOP's to lose. Again.
Walker is waging a fight against government backed extortion.
Labor unions should be prosecuted under the RICO statutes.
Gov’t employee labor unions, for sure.
interstate and international organized labor, both gov’t and gov’t run have been the foundation and bulwark of leftism in this nation for a long, long time.
Scott Walker understood that; had a strategy to defeat inter-industry and public sector organized labor; and had the courage—even risking his own life and family—to fight it out to the bitter end as necessary.
i’m hard pressed to see any GOPer doing that at the national level (Cruz, Lee and Sessions are perhaps good seconds in the Senate). he deserves far more gratitude and loyalty for his actions then many on this site seem willing to give.
Republican government/DHS shutdown bad, very bad, dangerous.
Union shutdown US Ports, fair & just.
What I can’t get over is the focus by the left of one of Walker’s comment at CPAC. Walker was being sarcastic about a comparison of terrorists and protesters; look at the video and look at his face as he states this PARTING SHOT. Frankly. I thought it was great; the left is always using that tactic seriously (as also noted by your photo) – Walker was just sarcastic and throwing it back in their face.
If Geraldo is trying to make a sarcastic comment into a 'Dean scream' moment, Walker must be okay.
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