Posted on 03/11/2015 1:48:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
That includes LABOR BOSSES - the Democratic Party money and muscle machine that Walker and the WI Legislature have defanged in WI.
“.....Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, a group that advocated for the law has also weighed on on Obama’s statement. WMC President/CEO Kurt R. Bauer said:
“It’s disappointing that President Obama has come out against a policy that gives workers freedom of choice in the workplace. The fact is, right to work states grow jobs and wages twice as fast as forced-union states do. By contrast, the President supports a wage policy that the Congressional Budget Office said will likely kill 500,000 American jobs. Gov. Walker remains focused on providing freedom and economic opportunity to workers.”
“What we`re gonna be seeing is a WEAKENING of the power of labor over the next couple years and along with that the WEAKENING of the power of the Democratic Party.
It`s almost like what we`re seeing (Monday) is the moment Wisconsin becomes a Republican state,” UW-Milwaukee Professor Mordecai Lee said...
On a thread you posted yesterday here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3266171/posts
Starting at reply #17, you can read the comments of a “conservative” F.R. member, who is opposed to Right To Work laws.
Oops, it starts at #3.
You’re in the Congo? How interesting.
Who is your choice for GOP candidate?
Or are you going for another party?
I live in the conservative area of Illinois, which is the entire state except Cook county and one collar county and I like Walker.
You have the Congo flag on your profile page - so reason for the question [?].
: )
“Obama personally criticized Michigan’s “right to work” legislation one day before it came law in December 2012.”
It just goes to show that criticism from Obama is benign, if not beneficial to his target.
3 or 4 years ago, I had the Illinois flag. I started getting super long copy and paste messages that appeared on my “News/Activism” page. I had to scroll and scroll and scroll to get to the news articles.
I couldn’t figure out how to just drop the flag (and message board) but did figure out how to change it to some other message board.
I chose the Congo, assuming that I’d get very few messages from there. So far, zero. So I just leave it there.
What state do you live in?
Gracious!
I’m in Texas but I was born in Wisconsin.
Don’t forget Rock Island county. It’s the second most corrupt county in IL. The Dem hold is slowly weakening as it loses union jobs.
- ex lifetime Chicagoan (Cook) now living across the river in right to work Iowa.
I honestly believe Democrats are very, very UNenthused about Hillary Clinton, and that they could live with Jeb Bush, if Clinton craters.
I also think the Dems will join forces with the GOP to weed out Walker supporters and donors, and grow Jeb’s. The Union battle lost to Walker makes him a mortal enemy to the Left, and a target for political incineration by the right if he continues to interfere with the Bush machine.
I agree. Look at this article [out this morning] about Walker.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-walker-is-riding-high-but-can-it-last-through-2016/
The war against the Left needs to focus on removing their sources of funding and power. Labor unions are a big part, as a source of funding, as a source of activists, and as a source of intimidating thugs.
The next target should be the myriad "non profits".
Much of the left is funded by government, it needs cut off
That's something the next conservative President needs to get into. Have an Executive Order that no grant can be issued by any federal entity without approval by (some designated person the Pres trusts), with the approval application listing exactly what legislation mandates this grant, and how the grantee expects to use it.
Also, an Executive Order to forbid the Justice Department from having "settlements" of cases which involve the defendent making some contribution to some left-wing group.
I forgot about Walker having some kind of campaign financing issue that his opposition naturally will have interest in exploiting, but that certainly pales in my opinion to Jeb’s pushing the answer on too many things to be that the government is the answer, and his liberal affect that goes with it.
Jeb has let monumental issues morph into liberal playing fields and outcomes. Regardless of his claims, Common Core has become a pathway for runaway heavy handedness socialist curriculum, and the extreme examples on youtube.com are simply undeniable.
If he is so smart, he should have anticipated that his bright idea would become a tool for the Left, because HE LEFT THE DELIVERY SYSTEM IN PLACE, which is Public Education.
Also from that link I sent you above: "....Walker has denied any wrongdoing, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court could decide this summer whether to throw out the investigation.
"It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court ultimately reinstates the probe," Franklin said."
In fact!.....
Now it's costing the WI taxpayers to DEFEND the Milwaukee County DA who launched the probe against Walker in 2012!
"...MADISON, Wis. — Taxpayers conservatively have spent north of $775,000 defending the prosecutors of a politically charged John Doe investigation driven on a legal theory that even the prosecutors have rejected.
The state, as of Monday, had paid $368,654.60 for the legal defense of Francis Schmitz, the special prosecutor for the multi-county John Doe probe into dozens of conservative organizations and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, according to information obtained by Wisconsin Reporter through an open records request.
Taxpayers are on the hook for another $407,643.58 in attorney fees to defend Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, the Democrat who launched the probe in late summer 2012, two of his assistant DAs and a special investigator contracted by the state Government Accountability Board.
“That’s an awful lot of taxpayer dollars to advance a legal theory that the state itself has already repudiated,” said Andrew M. Grossman, an attorney for political activist Eric O’Keefe and his Wisconsin Club for Growth, one of 29 conservative groups targeted in the campaign finance probe.
The expenditures were released by Walker’s legal counsel, who, under state law, is in charge of handling the legal bills of the same people who for the past few years have gone after Walker’s campaign and the Republican governor’s conservative allies. Costs reflect only money spent defending the prosecutors in federal court."....... More
This will be a nothing burger I bet, in the end.
Walker has certainly had to endure a Democrat Party witch hunt his entire career. He will be invicible emotionally in any kind of election contest, whether it be local, state or national. Good for him.
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