Posted on 09/12/2015 11:59:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISON, Wis. — Sinking in the national polls, the bumbling campaign of onetime frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is preparing to double down with renewed attacks on working people. Career politician Walker’s desperate bid to remain competitive on the backs of the middle class and working people will be unveiled in a Monday speech in Las Vegas Nevada, hometown of anti-union, Walker mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.
“Scott Walker has always been willing to do or say anything to try to win an election,” commented One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. “It’s no surprise he’s now trying to boost his sagging poll numbers by promoting the same kinds of attacks on working people that vaulted him to national prominence while conveniently ignoring how his policies left Wisconsin in shambles.”
Annette Magnus, Executive Director of Nevada’s Battle Born Progress, noted Las Vegas is home to the notoriously anti-union Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. The casino magnate reportedly poured in excess of $92 million into supporting GOP presidential candidates in 2012 and has been quoted saying that as long as the ultra-wealthy could buy elections, he would do it.
“We know one of Sheldon Adelson’s top priorities is lower wages for workers and fewer rights in the workplace. On this front Scott Walker is Adelson’s dream candidate having eviscerated the pay and rights of workers in Wisconsin,” said Magnus. “Now it looks like he’s doubling down on those attacks in the hopes of hitting a big payday in Las Vegas.”
Walker and Adelson are no strangers according to Wisconsin campaign finance records. In 2012, exploiting a campaign finance loophole, Adelson wrote Walker a $250,000 check for his recall election while family members donated another $30,000. In his 2014 election, Walker was limited to a $10,000 maximum donation from individuals to his campaign. So Adelson wrote a $650,000 check to the Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW), and, on the same day it was received, the RPW made a $450,000 contribution to Walker’s gubernatorial campaign. More recently Walker travelled to Israel at Adelson’s behest and on his dime with the Republican Jewish Coalition along with Walker’s “Our American Revival” political group paying as yet undisclosed sums for the junket.
According to Ross, Walker’s signature attack on worker rights known as Act 10 significantly reduced the take home pay of public employees like teachers, nurses, prison guards and other state and local government workers. Other measures he has signed into law as governor are also leaving Wisconsin families with less income like his repeal of an equal pay law and a wrong for Wisconsin right to work law that will cut union and non-union families annual incomes by up to $5,000. Walker most recently gutted a state prevailing wage law that helps protect jobs by ensuring infrastructure projects go to local firms that hire local workers, rather than firms that bring in lower wage workers from other states.
Ross commented, “Scott Walker crapped out in Wisconsin where 60 percent of state voters disapprove of the job he’s done, leaving us divided as never before, short on jobs and dealing with record cuts to public education.”
Magnus concluded, “The record shows, this guy is a bad bet for working people.”
One Wisconsin Now is a statewide communications network specializing in effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive leadership and values.
Because Walker, and you, could not care less that union members have their dues withheld from their paychecks. You, and Walker, care when the unions support Democrats. When they support Republicans then Walker, and you, are just fine with dues being withheld.
“You don’t want to talk about forcibly taking their money.
Why?”
I didn’t read your full comment.
In response..
Do you think firemen and policemen get fair and equal treatment from elected Democratic Party officials?
And what was Trump’s positions two years ago? Hell, last month?
Like most Walker supporters, ignorance is bliss. You put on blinders to the fact that your candidate is imploding and that he's in danger of winding up at the kid's table for a future debate. And his fixation on unions, something the overwhelming majority of people could not care less about, is indicative of how clueless he is.
-—“We know one of Sheldon Adelson’s top priorities is lower wages for workers and fewer rights in the workplace.-—
Unless something’s changed recently, another high priority issue with Mr. Adelson is the elimination of online gambling which, of course, will force people back into the brick and mortar casino buildings.
I am 100% with Adelson on that one. And I don’t see why Scott Walker would object.
It’s true where I work. I’m the IBEW unit president at a company in a right to work red state.
He'll be hunting for a union job that pays enough to support him and his family...
Your “probing” questions is meant as nothing more than a dispersion to put me on the defensive in addition to you trying to change the argument. Just like unions, it does not work on me because no matter how many times you try;
Your 2012 Perry is still showing.
“Maybe it’s time for people to look honestly at the candidates - evaluate what they have done vs bluster about what they can only say they will do.”
I’d say it’s high time.
Lol...the notion that Trump had to donate to Nancy Pelosi or the Clinton Foundation in order to build a high rise in NYC is an absurdity.
However if were true that Trump engaged in this type of political bribery and quid pro quo favoritism to make money, it would simply demonstrate how corrupt and amoral he really is.
I try to be polite to you but you don’t want to have a conversation with me, and it’s becoming clear why.
You don't want to have a discussion, you just want to lecture on your favorite subject.
: )
Like a petulant adolescent, you don’t want to be corrected or questioned.
See, you’re teaching me how to push back.
From the link you provided:
A spokeswoman for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Hope Hicks, wouldn’t tell us if Trump still supports that plan and said that he will release his current tax plan later in September.
But in 2011, talk show host George Stephanopoulos asked Trump if he still supported that tax, and Trump said it was no longer viable.
"Well, at a time, it would have paid off the deficit. I mean, you wouldn't have a deficit, at that time," Trump said (though he confused debt and deficit). "Unfortunately, the world has changed, today you can't do it. Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases. And the reason I'm-"
"So, you're no longer for that tax?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"No, no. I'm no longer for that tax, no," Trump said.
This is not DU...Dishonesty is not appreciated here...Your headline says just the opposite of what the article states...Apparently you are hoping people won't check out your links that you use to attack Trump to see if you are telling the truth...
No doubt in my mind that when Walker leaves you'll be supporting Bush...
Doesn't add up...Either Wisconsin is a Red State or Walker is a Blue Governor...
If you get rid of the unions you are left with the incompetent management that was there with the unions but without the organization prowess the unions provide...
Scott Walker is a Red Governor bringing a Blue state to its senses.
The day is young, Trump’s positions are likely to change.
What union are you in?
You want “more rights in your job”???
Cough up the $$$$$$ yourself & start your own business.
Those on the outside looking in & screaming about how much money a business owner is making need to have the experience for themselves. IMO.
As a life-long bookkeeper—mostly for small business, I can tell you the unions are NOT the path to go down.
The stranglehold that Unions have on some areas of American commerce are not helpful.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.