Posted on 02/20/2011 8:06:04 AM PST by peggybac
MADISON, WIS. - On a Tuesday afternoon in September 2003, during Scott Walker's first term as Milwaukee County executive, scores of union workers gathered at the local courthouse to protest layoffs he had ordered as part of an aggressive effort to balance the budget and avoid what he said would otherwise be necessary tax increases.
They shouted anti-Walker chants, and union officials and Democratic officeholders took turns denouncing his slash-and-burn approach.
The layoffs Walker had announced that summer decimated the county's public parks staff and also reduced the number of county social workers, corrections officers and janitors. As a result, park bathrooms were shuttered and pools were closed. Trash was piled up so high in the Milwaukee County Courthouse that visitors had to sidestep apple cores and coffee cups, and some judges resorted to cleaning toilets, a local newspaper reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
More agitprop from the comPost.
If you believe that, I've got a bridge that I love to sell to you.
Seems to me that Mr. Walker is quite interested in avoiding more layoffs and thus making life more difficult for the taxpayers of Wisconsin (along with those being laid off...although the unions could care less).
A good person, for sure.
OMG, apple cores and coffee cups.
So the slobs threw their trash in front of the Courthouse?
Oh the inhumanity of it all.
When you take in two billion and you spend three billion that’s the result.
And WaPoo would have us believe that this is a bad thing?
My thoughts exactly.
Dennis, 31, was author Bob Woodward's research assistant on The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, the fourth volume of Woodward's Bush at War series. He worked for Woodward after seven years as a staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times,
And if the teachers don't go back to work then make sure they find other jobs..Do the teachers there get paid by tax payers if so the tax payers should get new teachers..Their children are being taught to lie and you can get away with that lie..So that is where our kids are learning to lie..In the class room not by other children but by their teachers..
As more and more average Joe’s tell the unions to ‘kiss off’, the rat media will have an increasingly difficult time spinning the story in the unions favor.
Read the article carefully. It’s actually quite fair to Walker. Indeed, if this is all the support the Illegal and his union accomlices are going to get from the Post, they’re in deep brown, smelly stuff.
Walker should use this article as a campaign commercial. It makes him sound fantastic.
if they did it was their private bath.....
Let me guess; some judge joked that now he had to clean his own private bathroom... Usually prisoners clean courthouses anyway.
I thought it was a campaign ad. I like this guy better all the time!
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Union /Community ‘Organizers’ should be doing the perp walk for:
collusion
restraint of trade
anti-competitive practices
anti-trust offenses
price fixing
influence peddling
abuse of process
local, state & federal corruption violations
local, state & federal elections violations
racketeering
workplace harassment
promotion of hostile work environment
beat me by 11 seconds!
I think he’s worth looking at from a national perspective.
He’s like a better looking, more likeable Chris Christie.
The question to ask is why is Obama encouraging this and a shutdown of the government? What is the short goal and long term goal?
What our reporter friend, Brady Dennis, failed to include in his story are these items.
a) The trash piled up because a bunch of union hacks went around and made messes in order to “prove” to the media that the job wasn’t getting done with either less workers or outsourced janitors.
b) Walker has had in place a Parks director, Sue Black, who has done a great job with a limited budget the past few years. The Milwaukee County parks won the national award last year.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/64228862.html
But of course none of that fits the narrative. They had to make up some dirt on the guy.
The one thing wrong with Christie is he is probably a RINO. I would think twice before making him POTUS because we would still have big issues like the immigration one. I like what he is doing if it is what he is really doing and not a slight of hand where he still leaves stuff in place without telling you. These Congresscritters are tricksters.
We will see if Walker holds the line and what he does in office.
LOL. I don’t believe that either.
Here’s what I don’t get, why do these unions seem to prevail in these contract talks? Why not just let the contacts expire, then they have no contract and all these union scum can be eliminated. Then, non-union private sector can come in and do the jobs much better and much less expensively.
The women were out cleaning up the trash left behind by the ‘inspiring’ demonstrators in Egypt.
Pigs always expect others to clean up their messes.
“decimated”—oh, the huge manatee!
Mostly because the unions negotiate the contract with people that they put in office and doesn't have to pay the bills.
Taxpayers should be the ones to vote to approve any public sector union contracts, not a school board made up of brainless soccer Mommies and retired school teachers.
WOW!!! ...from the Washington Post?
That article could have been written by Walkers campaign manager. Eagle Scout, drives an old Saturn, watches American Idol with his wife, has been kicking public sector unions asses for 2 decades...what’s not to love?
I’m stunned.
Those pompous bastards wouldn't know how to begin.
Maybe, just maybe, they were smart enough to bring a plastic bucket, but I'll bet they forgot the lid {at least on the first day}.
Don’t forget to sell them that ocean beach property in Arizona either....:O)
If you can sort thru the crap, the article gives some good insight into the character of the gov. He’s a conservative Long Marcher for sure.
Usually the WP does a good job of dressing the pig, but even with their best effort the unions still come out smelling in this article.
If Unions cared about their members and children:
They would lower their compelled dues that members pay until wages catch up to the increases costs.
Create a sliding scale to match annual increases.
Lower from the 1,000+ annual dues to 500.00 and raise a few points each year!
I see the washington post continues to make up baloney out of thin air, with no sources.....LOL. My lord how has the MSM fallen so low.....
Yeah and Thats probably Why they Elected Him
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.
"The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees.
"A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable."
-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 16th, 1937
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