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Some Unions Collapse in Historic Wisconsin Vote
media trackers ^ | December 19, 2013 | Brian Sikma

Posted on 12/19/2013 5:01:04 PM PST by george76

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To: eyedigress

I Agree!


21 posted on 12/19/2013 5:31:41 PM PST by Keen-Minded
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To: george76

Had to laugh when I heard this on the radio coming home from work tonight. Good work, Gov. Walker! Well done!


22 posted on 12/19/2013 5:34:45 PM PST by februus
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To: morphing libertarian

Or 5. Your call


23 posted on 12/19/2013 5:35:05 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: george76
One thing I noticed was the ones who voted ‘yes’ by far outnumbered the ones who ‘no’. For instance in the Dane County substitute teacher assoc mentioned in the article, the votes were 128 yes to 1 no vote to recertify.

But since the total membership was 320 members, the vote to re-certify was defeated.

The percentage of those who voted ‘yes’ must be over 50% of the entire union membership.

They are counting a failure to vote as a 'no' vote.

As a nation, we do not require our political winners to receive over 50% of the total available registered voters, including ones who did not vote, but only 50% of those who actually voted. Why do we do different here?

24 posted on 12/19/2013 5:40:03 PM PST by rawhide
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To: eyedigress

50 it is

Please track I have a bad habit of losing track


25 posted on 12/19/2013 5:40:50 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Keen-Minded

Christie will find treading water in the South will be impossible.


26 posted on 12/19/2013 5:41:25 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: morphing libertarian

I’ll ping a private reply and call it 50 on Christie.


27 posted on 12/19/2013 5:42:35 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: eyedigress

K


28 posted on 12/19/2013 5:43:37 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: eyedigress
Christie doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. of being elected. However, the media will work hard to see him nominated.
29 posted on 12/19/2013 5:46:31 PM PST by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“People don’t want unions taking their money and giving it to Rats.”

I couldn’t imagine the teachers’ union members here in NJ every voting against their union; they have among the highest pay in the nation (for 180 partial days of work - not 9 to 5), they get steep pay increases from BS degrees “earned” with no coursework from diploma mills, and they are now our upper middle class (since the real jobs are leaving NJ. They have no marketable skills; they are unemployable outside of the public school classroom.

They would always vote to keep the gravy train rolling; they have a stranglehold on the NJ taxpayers, and the lucky ones of the hosts are those that can flee to another state.


30 posted on 12/19/2013 5:50:11 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: eyedigress

I didn’t really know a whole lot about Walker until a few months ago when I heard him speak. I still am not sure of his stances on things.

Thia guy has it all over Christie. He is smart, articulate and polished.

He would be a force to be reckoned with.


31 posted on 12/19/2013 5:51:36 PM PST by dforest
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To: JoeFromSidney

I know they will. I don’t think he has 24-7 whistlestop from mid-America, thru the NE and then through the South in him.

He will be a pile of glue and pudding before the TN primary.


32 posted on 12/19/2013 5:51:51 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: dforest

I don’t think Walker will run.


33 posted on 12/19/2013 5:52:37 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: george76

As it should be.More will follow later but this is a great start.


34 posted on 12/19/2013 5:53:00 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: george76
Liberals are all in favor of unions as long as they don't have to join one.
35 posted on 12/19/2013 5:57:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: george76
I am so so sorry that the unions lost members. I guess I'll just cry. :-)

Scott Walker would make a great president. Hell, after O, Jimmy Carter would make a good president.

36 posted on 12/19/2013 5:57:56 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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To: eyedigress

Probably right. I see Walker as a technician. Christie and Obama are all yak and bluster. LOL


37 posted on 12/19/2013 6:00:06 PM PST by dforest
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Collective bargaining against tax payer dollars should be against the law.


38 posted on 12/19/2013 6:02:40 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: george76

WOW!


39 posted on 12/19/2013 6:07:23 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Reagan 1980: Shining city on a hill / RNC 2013: Dim flickering candle in a dark deserted dungeon.)
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To: eyedigress

Just like the last carpet bagger.


40 posted on 12/19/2013 6:10:00 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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