I really just don’t understand the stupidity of some voters and the knowing corruption (”yeah, I know he’s just an honest conservative, but f*** him because he’s making me pay for FIVE PERCENT of my own benefits”) of others.
By any objective measure, Walker’s reforms are a huge boon to school districts and other public employers.
Nor is Walker (like Ohio’s John Kasich) a personally “in your face” sort of guy. Nothing wrong if he WERE, but my point is, he looks and acts like Milton the Accountant or Pharmacist. This isn’t exactly a raging Woody Hayes type here.
Yet they hate him so very much.
Wisconsin, if you recall him and uproot these reforms of his, and go Ohio’s route, you are financially damned. And you will deserve it. (And as a Californian, I know whereof I speak — but it is too late for us here. Wisconsin still has a chance.)
not to worry, because when they fail (and they will) they will just blame it on Bush or some other Republican boogyman.
The counties are finding ways around the property tax limits.
The school teachers are crying everywhere and to everyone how they have *lost* $5k/year in *income*. They then cut back their expenditures, which hurts local small business.
We sent money we really could have used elsewhere to Walker, but I hear life-long Republicans from Republican families hem and haw about “Well, the other side _says:(blah-blah-blah).”
We don’t deserve it. But the donks are going to try and make sure it happens, anyway.