OK, the Primary Election, to determine the Pubbie and Dem candidates in all the Recall Races, is May 8. The General Election, to see if the Pubbies or the Unions win, is June 5th.
Right on, hopefully these fights will drain the unions dry and the state isn’t acting as their collections agency any more...
Tom Barret is a rat, but Kathleen Falk is a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist rat. Barret may be playing a delicate game of hoping to be far enough left to win the D primary, then move to the center in hopes of knocking Walker out while refusing to categorically say he would consider letting the collective bargaining bill stand.
Barret isn’t stupid or blinded by Madistan-ism like Falk and he knows full well that the budget reform is working and producing results. Falk would repeal it strictly on ideology, but Barret might let it stand and just turn Walker into a scapegoat. Time will tell.
Maybe they have a role, but I'd vote to eliminate all unions in this day and age. Even if not completely powerless and defunct, they won't have the influence they've used maliciously in the last years.
Their secret ballot initiatives are nothing but a means to make intimidation easier for them. They don't know whom to threaten if they don't know how their members voted. To hell with them.
This will be a preview of the kind of election fraud tactics they have lined up for November.
is it the northern European stock?
the rest of the midwest is not this bad
i know those of you here who post obviously are different and i feel for ya'll...I truly do...I have pals from Edina to Iowa City to Holland and Traverse City and know how they feel
what percentage of the white population is Republican...forget conservative for a minute
in 2008 whites in MN and WI voted Obama 53% and 54% respectively
the Dakotas voted the same but for McCain
Michigan voted 51% for Obama, Iowa too and Illinois
Indiana and Ohio voted 51% for Mccain but not enough to offset black vote
it would appear that the midwest and upper midwest whites vote either slightly GOP but it's not enough or they vote slightly Dems
amazing...whites as a rule are just plain different than down here...we are 80% more likely to vote for the party of reconstruction...who woulda ever figured that
and to some degree for the same reason...there is no escaping that notion...whites in the South unless they stick together will be held prisoner by a leftist statist black dominated Democrat party...a party they themselves as social conservatives once owned prior to LBJ
and now the party of Lincoln helps them keep the finger in the dike....we are talking states that are 35-40% black
northerners don't have that pressing political threat which might help explain why they vote like they do but then again not really
I think it comes down to the how the women vote...white southern women and white midwestern and upper midwestern gals are very very different
anyway...good luck ya’ll...polls don't look too bad...if the Dems lose....what a waste of everybody’s money eh?
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Reason is that [with the new laws and policies]:
1) Unemployment is under 7% ...
2) State tax receipts are up [more money for state services] ...
3) Businesses are being persuaded to locate in the state [which decreases #1 and increases #2 even more, above] ...
People are gonna vote their pocketbooks in the recall election - and they are gonna vote for Walker ...
“As we’re forced to wage these fights to defend what we’ve got, it’s a win-win for the other side because they force us to spend a lot of money to plug holes in the dike.”