This is from a CA article, but notice Wisconsin pension fund is doing well as compared to other states.
Posted on 09/12/2015 11:59:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MADISON, Wis. — Sinking in the national polls, the bumbling campaign of onetime frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, is preparing to double down with renewed attacks on working people. Career politician Walker’s desperate bid to remain competitive on the backs of the middle class and working people will be unveiled in a Monday speech in Las Vegas Nevada, hometown of anti-union, Walker mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.
“Scott Walker has always been willing to do or say anything to try to win an election,” commented One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. “It’s no surprise he’s now trying to boost his sagging poll numbers by promoting the same kinds of attacks on working people that vaulted him to national prominence while conveniently ignoring how his policies left Wisconsin in shambles.”
Annette Magnus, Executive Director of Nevada’s Battle Born Progress, noted Las Vegas is home to the notoriously anti-union Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. The casino magnate reportedly poured in excess of $92 million into supporting GOP presidential candidates in 2012 and has been quoted saying that as long as the ultra-wealthy could buy elections, he would do it.
“We know one of Sheldon Adelson’s top priorities is lower wages for workers and fewer rights in the workplace. On this front Scott Walker is Adelson’s dream candidate having eviscerated the pay and rights of workers in Wisconsin,” said Magnus. “Now it looks like he’s doubling down on those attacks in the hopes of hitting a big payday in Las Vegas.”
Walker and Adelson are no strangers according to Wisconsin campaign finance records. In 2012, exploiting a campaign finance loophole, Adelson wrote Walker a $250,000 check for his recall election while family members donated another $30,000. In his 2014 election, Walker was limited to a $10,000 maximum donation from individuals to his campaign. So Adelson wrote a $650,000 check to the Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW), and, on the same day it was received, the RPW made a $450,000 contribution to Walker’s gubernatorial campaign. More recently Walker travelled to Israel at Adelson’s behest and on his dime with the Republican Jewish Coalition along with Walker’s “Our American Revival” political group paying as yet undisclosed sums for the junket.
According to Ross, Walker’s signature attack on worker rights known as Act 10 significantly reduced the take home pay of public employees like teachers, nurses, prison guards and other state and local government workers. Other measures he has signed into law as governor are also leaving Wisconsin families with less income like his repeal of an equal pay law and a wrong for Wisconsin right to work law that will cut union and non-union families annual incomes by up to $5,000. Walker most recently gutted a state prevailing wage law that helps protect jobs by ensuring infrastructure projects go to local firms that hire local workers, rather than firms that bring in lower wage workers from other states.
Ross commented, “Scott Walker crapped out in Wisconsin where 60 percent of state voters disapprove of the job he’s done, leaving us divided as never before, short on jobs and dealing with record cuts to public education.”
Magnus concluded, “The record shows, this guy is a bad bet for working people.”
One Wisconsin Now is a statewide communications network specializing in effective earned media and online organizing to advance progressive leadership and values.
This is from a CA article, but notice Wisconsin pension fund is doing well as compared to other states.
Yes, what is next? Walker is now following Perry and bowing out of the campaign.
They say you can tell a lot about a politician by who his enemies are. This tells me Scott Walker would make a damn fine President.
I firmly agree with outlawing government Unions. They have no place there. Private Unions; no problem. There is someone on the other side of the bargaining table then.
You are all focused on a tiny sand grain on a beach full of problems.
Instead of pulling back and looking at the entire beach you have directed all your energy and time on one tiny sand grain.
I get it you like milk toast politicians like Walker.
This country needs a real candidate that can get it done.
The weakness, the caving in to political correctness, not understanding the basics of rigid trade deals or the weak approach to the flooding of immigrants. That’s your little boy Walker.
We need a man and not a scared boy as a leader. That’s the way Walker comes across. He is a complete Establishment sell out.
Let me guess. You were bitten by a union organizer as a child?
You didn’t even bother to read the article, did you?
You know, you are a broken record with a broken candidate.
Have fun!
“Either Wisconsin is a Red State or Walker is a Blue Governor...”
What?
Why would a Democratic State elect a Republican Governor??? Unless the State isn’t really a Democrat State or the Governor isn’t really a Republican...
“Why would a Democratic State elect a Republican Governor??? Unless the State isn’t really a Democrat State or the Governor isn’t really a Republican...”
Brilliant analysis.
What a stupid title to this article. Revolting lack of fairness and objectivity combined with a reflexive hyperbolic partisanship.
its all they got
And I'll wager you have zero illegal aliens as IBEW members or working at that company.
Thanks!
You would win that wager!
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