Scott Walker moving to weaken tenure for state college professors

Hot Air.com ^ | June 18, 2015 | JAZZ SHAW

[Dr. Sivana]

Why won’t Walker announce his candidacy if he is supposed to be the front runner? What is he scared of?

Reagan didn't announce his candidacy until November of 1979. On the one hand, Wisconsin has a biennial budget, and Walker wants to get that finished before he goes full-time.

Part of campaign strategy has to do with using the timing of an announcement in order to maximize publicity, etc. Some guys start in two years early (Jimmy Carter), and it works. Others wait until later (Ronald Reagan), and it works.

Each election is different. I lived and worked in Wisconsin under Walker. He's not afraid, and he's not trying to sell a book or get the #2 spot. He intends to win, and timing the announcement for a time when more people are paying attention is part of his strategy, it appears.

[Osage Orange]

Ok...one last time.

Do you not think...progressive liberal socialist marxist democrats control our state colleges?

And I will add....tenured Profs too?

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Those 1/3 are likely lying liberal socialist marxist progessive democrats that are supposedly “teaching” our future.”

You have no clue who those people are. None, nada, zippo. For all you know they are all Reagan Democrats. Hey 996 people who need to be destroyed I tell you, destroyed. Kill them. :-)

[Jacquerie]

Considering your vacuous comments regarding Article V you are an educated idiot.

[Osage Orange]

Give us some links to verify please.................

[Osage Orange]

You have no clue who those people are. None, nada, zippo. For all you know they are all Reagan Democrats. Hey 996 people who need to be destroyed I tell you, destroyed. Kill them. :-)

Taking away their tenure is "destroying" them????

You are arguing like a Liberal...

Do you realize that?

[trisham]

Agreed.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Hey here is your new bumper sticker for Scotty: Scott Walker, keeping America safe from college professors.”

That will get him in the White house. :-)

[Dr. Sivana]

The Wisconsin budget deficit is not looking good either.

Walker inherited a $3 billion deficit courtesy of outgoing Dem Jim Doyle. He turned that around into a surplus within one year, which he in part returned to the taxpayers in the form of state income tax refunds and property tax relief, and in part as local property tax relief. The WEDC funding all told was just shy of $200 million dollars, or one 15th of the Doyle deficit.

Individual counties and municipalities (except Milwaukee and Madison who signed union extensions before Act 10 kicked in) also saved big money. Walker has been dealing with the deficit by cutting spending in the right places (U of Wisc system), and NOT increasing taxes.

Since you don't want to have government spend money through a business subsidy system, what else should he do besides hold the line of taxes and cut spending and sign off on Right to Work?

By the way, Wisconsin's unemployment rate is 4.4% as of April, 2015 ( http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.wi.htm ). Since Wisconsin did not go as far in the tank during unemployment, there is not as many jobs to restore during a recovery. For comparison, Illinois is at 6%, Michigan at 5.4%, Indiana at 5.4% and Minnesota at 3.7%.

[Osage Orange]

You are losing any credibility you have had here.......

Good luck.....

[Dr. Sivana]

That’s 996 out of 3470 teaching faculty in WI so less than 30%.

If you have ever spent time on a big league college campus, you will find that tenured 30% is the tail that wags the dog of the other 70%. In the same manner, U.S. Department of Ed money is a small portion of the states' education budget, but it is enough to get them to implement Obama lunch and Common Core through much of the country.

Walker is actually attacking one of the main arteries that transmits poisons into our system. It is NOT just about the money (theough U of Wisc. DID try to hide $600 before Walker found out about it). It is about leftists using our own money to create a professional class of agitator to be used to destroy us.

[Osage Orange]

God forbid...you give this tag team real numbers.

Thanks!

[conservativejoy]

The point is Wisconsin is still 50th in new businesses, 40th in job creation, still having jobs shipped overseas. Just saw another article on that this week.

Good luck selling that as a good record on jobs. Sheesh!

[Dr. Sivana]

You have no clue who those people are. None, nada, zippo. For all you know they are all Reagan Democrats.

Besides having been a college student who knew a lot of these profs, I was also an administrator at a top 20 Liberal Arts college for 2+ years. It was bad when I was on some of those campuses decades ago, and it is worse now. A conservative academic who is not in the closet has as much chance in most academic institutions as a pro-life conservative has a chance to rise in Hollywood according to ability. Tenure is the way of locking in and perpetuating the old guard. The results speak for themselves.

[Dr. Sivana]

The point is Wisconsin is still 50th in new businesses, 40th in job creation

If you insist on cherry picking misleading stats, I can give you a math lesson. How many jobs can get created in a state with full employment? NONE. Any state with full employment is guaranteed to be in last place in job creation. Michigan had the greatest amount of job creation. That does not make Michigan a better place to seek employment.

You still don't have an answer as to what Walker should have done differently. Spending cuts, tax cuts, tax rebates, structural debt reduction, the most solvent state employee pension system in the country, right-to-work. That is the conservative approach.

[trisham]

Well said.

[Dr. Sivana]

Scott Walker, keeping America safe from college professors.

If he could figure out a way to keep us safe from the Associated Press, the New York Times and Reuters, too, I'd say we have a plan!

[conservativejoy]

Link to Wisconsin 40th Link to Wisconsin 50th

[Dr. Sivana]

Good luck selling that as a good record on jobs. Sheesh!

Here is a more personal statistic. When my company was bought out in 2009, the parent company realized that staying in Illinois made no sense, so my position was moved to North Carolina. Thanks to Obama/Illinois' economy, I couldn't afford to sell the house I built in 2006. I had an extended spell working part-time on the Internet and doing bits of consulting here and there, and it was only after Walker was elected that I was able to land a full time position as a contractor for Wisconsin DOT.

It was a 90 mile commute, but it fed the family and kept the roof over our heads. We ultimately were able to take care of the house, and I now have a better job now in Georgia, but that ONE job that Walker created is a very meaningful statistic to me.

[conservativejoy]

How about not creating the WEDC to pay back his donors while they are shipping thousands of jobs overseas?

There are states all around Wisconsin that have had unemployment challenges, but they are beating Wisconsisn’s socks off in job creation.

North Dakota and Nebraska are states that have a 3.5% unemployment rate, lower than Wisconsin. North Dakota still led the nation in new jobs.