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.
Walker has cut taxes.
Trump wants to raise taxes.
Liar.
When given the choice most choose NOT to have their earnings automatically deducted for "dues."
Public Sector Unions
Top Contributors, 2013-2014
National Education Assn $24,960,749
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $9,988,870
American Federation of Teachers $4,391,881
American Federation of Govt Employees $4,072,005
International Assn of Fire Fighters $2,184,303
National Assn of Letter Carriers $2,113,796
American Postal Workers Union $1,007,341
National Rural Letter Carriers Assn $735,500
National Treasury Employees Union $681,550
National Active & Retired Federal Employees Assn $441,000
American Federation of Teachers Solidarity 527 $405,151
National Assn of Postal Supervisors $382,300
Aft Solidarity 527 $350,000
National Postal Mail Handlers Union $274,500
National Assn of Postmasters $230,400
Federal Aviation Admin Managers Assn $162,500
California School Employees Assn $127,015
National Assn/Farm Service Agency County Employees $71,500
Garden State Forward $65,000
Prof Engineers in California Government $64,190
PERS has a $12.5 billion unfunded liability.
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/may/18/are-public-pensions-too-generous/
I’m totally fine with Walker coming here and explaining how they got it done in Wisconsin where everyone wins. I have zero desire to see Nevada go bankrupt, especially since they raised business taxes on gross revenues, not profits to fund education.
I know quite a few good teachers here that would lose their job if the teacher unions had their way in Washoe.
That’s all you have, ‘cause you have no link.
The Donald would say that you are “terrific, amazing, fantastic.”
Anyone, ie you, who tries to demean Walker in this way is not serious about fighting back against the left in this country.
Again look at overall Union members in the last 20 years. They are being phased out.
Winconsin as a heavy leftist state makes Walker’s victories there that much more impressive.
“One Wisconsin Now” ultra leftist and socialist group attacks Scott Walker again. Ho Hum. Cincinatus’ Wife said it best — with enemies like this, Walker is on the right side of the argument.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
I’ve posted the damn link to you over and over again—you know full well that was his position and that there are online stories reporting it.
You therefore know full well that I’m not lying and you continue to mislead by countering only with what Walker has said on immigration in the last three months.
The usual game is that I post the link and then you have nothing more to say, because you’ve been exposed as fraudulent on the subject—yet again.
No I am not. Never have worked for a campaign or a pac, or anything like it.
You can't back up what you've said with a link so you attack me.
It’s not the private sector unions, it’s the government unions. They are bleeding this country dry while they fail at their putative jobs, day after day after day.
Three (or four?) generations of illiterates coming out of the unionized public schools isn’t enough for you?
Yeah, sure, Donald Trump will change all of that. Except he won’t because I predict a Ross Perot like drop out in his future. Then we’ll be left with our thumbs up our behinds while Joe Biden cruises to victory.
THAT is my nightmare scenario.
And guess what, we’ll have NO ONE to BLAME but OURSELVES.
Yes.
All those government departments [stocked with union employees], with their big fat convention budgets, as they fail to do their jobs and work to criminalize conservatives.
You don't want to talk about Public Sector Union numbers and power, and their power to automatically suck money ("dues") from government workers.
He’s low in the polls, so there is no harm to Trump or Cruz. And you’re right that this isn’t a national issue so I don’t think he’s doing it for poll points.
If he’s going to use his candidacy to come here to Nevada and explain how we can throw education back to local rather than the state or fed, we should welcome that.
We’re 49th in the entire US when it comes to education and they keep bringing the losers up from Las Vegas to further wreck our schools.
There is an alternative to raising taxes again or laying off good teachers. Not everyone can afford to live in Galena or Incline Village.
I don’t know how else to explain this to the both of you.
NEVADANS DON’T WANT OUR GOOD TEACHERS LAID OFF!
We’re ranked 49th in the nation for education. That’s the last thing we want to do.
We don’t want our taxes raised AGAIN by a Republican state legislature and a Republican governor and keep throwing money at the problem.
We don’t want to increase the $12.5 billion in unfunded pension liability — the biggest contributor to that is Clark County School District.
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/may/18/are-public-pensions-too-generous/
Walker can’t affect Trump or Cruz positively or negatively in Nevada. This doesn’t help him at all nationally, but if he wants to donate his time to help a few people understand how it’s possible to save our teachers from the union working against them and the taxpayers, then let him. We’re six lousy electoral votes, and no one trusts our delegates thanks to the Ron Paul fiasco last time.
“If I worked in an industry where a union added value, I would join one.”..........
Please name one.
I’m sure whatever Walker does on Monday will pale in comparison to what Trump is going to do on Tuesday. Everyone knows a billionaire speaking on a battleship trumps a governor from some midwest state.
They’ll be little if any coverage of this outside of Nevada.
Trump’s hotel towers over Adelson’s Venetian from I-15 lol.
Public Sector Unions confiscating worker’s pay to fund the Democratic Party Machine is a national issue and Walker’s talking about it Monday in Nevada.
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