Governor Scott Walker not backing down

Wisconsin Reporter ^ | 2/17/2011 | Kevin Lee

[FromLori]

With more than a hundred union supporters protesting just outside his office, Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday announced he would not budge on eliminating most collective bargaining rights from public employees.

Walker introduced a budget repair bill focused on adjusting the state’s budget until July but drew the ire of public employee unions by eliminating their ability to negotiate on matters such as health care benefits, pensions and vacation time.

In a news conference in the Wisconsin Capitol, the governor reiterated that the move would give state and local governments maximum flexibility to manage their budgets.

[FromLori]

GOP might not need Democrats to pass controversial legislation

[Sopater]

[sand lake bar]

Time is not on the governor’s side. He needs to act right now, get the kids back in school, use whatever means possible. If this lingers through past Monday, Walker, the Republicans, and the good guys in general will lose.

[bigbob]

Thanks. For some reason Rush keeps saying the Democrats aren’t needed, but it would take the changes described at your link for that to be true:

Because the legislation is deemed a fiscal bill, three-fifths of the Senate needed to be in attendance before a vote could be taken. With 19 GOP senators, the Republican majority was one senator shy of the 20-senator requirement.

It’s a quorum thing, unless the bill is modified so that a 3/5 majority is not needed.

[Noob1999]

Start the firing immediately.
Cut 5000 teachers.

Maybe that will get their attention

[Sopater]

Time is not on the governor’s side. He needs to act right now...

Although I'm in favor of the Governor acting right now, I can't say that I agree with you regarding time not being on his side. As long as the delay, and the result being the kids missing school due to teachers "skipping" class, the public will lay the responsibility on the teachers, unions, and democrats for reacting like spoiled children.

[Zakeet]

[tennmountainman]

When the Union buses and Thugs head to Tennessee, we Tennesseans will show you how to handle these union thugs.
We know how to counter protest these thugs and we have a New Governor, that will not be afraid to fire teachers who call in sick, but show up to protest.

We WILL NOT be weak and wobbly like the Citizens of WI. That I can guarantee.

[sand lake bar]

But I can imagine parents saying, “just fix it.” And it’s the gov. and the legislators who can “fix it” right now by cancelling the vote and inviting the Dems back.

Mind you, I think that would be a catastrophy—but I just see so many voters as being completely unprincipled when it comes to things like this.

[Sopater]

But I can imagine parents saying, “just fix it.” And it’s the gov. and the legislators who can “fix it” right now by cancelling the vote and inviting the Dems back.

Not the parents who just changed the entire state legislative and executive branches from Democrat to Republican with a mandate to fix the budget issues that the Democrats had gotten us into.

[NeverForgetBataan]

I would love to see the teachers fired too. But who can really do that?

If its the Superintendents and the other admins... don’t look for it to happen. They are laying low and trying to avoid the
massive $hit storm flying just above their overpaid heads.

That’s because if they are not next on the list, then they damn well should be.

[red irish]

what would Ronald Reagan do?

[FromLori]

All I can say is I hope he finds a way to fire them it was done out East because the teachers didn’t want to work 15 more minutes a day. He should call on the school boards they hire the Superintendents and Administrators. There must be a way for them to with hold state funding for them being in violation of their contracts by not going to work.

[bmwcyle]

There is our President.

[El Cid]

Time is not on the governor’s side. He needs to act right now, get the kids back in school, use whatever means possible. If this lingers through past Monday, Walker, the Republicans, and the good guys in general will lose.

I'd say this would be a good time to launch an initiative to privatize the schools. Get the government out of the education business. Let the parents decide if they want to go the home schooling or private schooling route.

[bert]

where? when?

[Uncledave]

I can imagine it too, because that’s been the cycle for a long while.

But this time is different. I think the gov and reps are ‘all in’ now and there’s no backing down.

[tennmountainman]

I don’t know the voting schedule in Nashville. But when Union Thugs start invading our State, is when we need to act, unless called out sooner by Talk Radio Host, like the State Income Tax protest.

[FrankR]

"He needs to act right now, get the kids back in school..."

No, he doesn't. He can lay the whole thing at the feet of the "runaway democrats"...THEY are the ones who are stalling the process.

The longer they hold out, the more infantile they appear. This "if I don't get my way I'm taking my ball and going home" crap will only play for a few days, then folks are going to start getting PO'd at the COWS (Cowards Of Wisconsin's Senate).

On the other hand, if the Gov gives in, the unions have won and that would be a disaster not only for Wisconsin, but for many other states trying to balance the budget.

The senate is majority Republican because that's the way the PEOPLE voted, and the dems will have to live with it, or resign.

A legislature cannot be run by strikes, or threats of strikes.

All the kids are going to miss is a few days of praising obama and everything there is to know about MLK, and we get enough of that crap on TV to make up for it. With what those union-head teachers are presenting to children these days, they'd be better off NOT being at school for a while.