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.
Unions are a minor part of today’s economy. I live in a right-to-work state, now and in the past. I have my own business and have no place or welcome for unions in my business. That said, there are some industries that have needed unions in the past, some that need it now. If I worked in an industry where a union added value, I would join one.
Exactly.
If Public Sector Unions are prevented from automatically deducting “dues” from millions and millions of government employee paychecks - and put into the hands of the Democrat Party Machine - there will be hell to pay.
Trump is for Trump, big deal. That's the positive as he is not bought by someone else. That he may have bought others in the past, who cares. I sure don't.
Greta? She's clueless, stupid, and her politics and interests suck. Hard to believe, even if only briefly, that she was once a federal prosecutor.
Fiorina?! She "surged to 3% in the polls", played her gender affirmative action card to get in the upcoming debate and is, by common observation hard to stand for more than a few minutes--whether you attribute it to her views, her voice, her looks, whatever, I really don't care. And what she represents--failed business leader, job destroyer, failed candidate, supporter of Islam, backroom dealmaker with the Russians, etc.--is nothing I'd want near the White House or leading the country. Face it, like Walker, she's a loser.
Next?
No it's is a HUGE part of today's economy [the Democratic Party money and muscle economy - and you haven't seen anything yet until you see all the people they're planning to unionize who'll be needed for Obamacare].
Add up the number of federal, state and local government employees and then reconsider.
A FReeper back in 2010 ran some numbers:
"...So this means that there's a government employee for every 13.5 people in the country."
“Next?”
Not needed. You’ve expressed yourself clearly.
Don’t forget Fiorina is big on “Global Warming”. She believes the lie.
Fiorina like Walker is an Establishment back up candidate.
"He really has gone after every single piece of environmental protection: Land, air, water—he's left no stone unturned," said Kerry Schumann, executive director of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters. "It's hard to imagine anyone has done worse."
Here's a rundown of Walker's inglorious history of anti-environmentalism........
What is your take on unions?
Walker is done.... What are his poll numbers now?
I think Walker is great for Wisconsin. His campaign is about as exciting as watching the grass grow.
You want “excitement.”
I want a proven conservative to become president.
Besides no college degree..., Scott Walker has no Charisma. We need a leader that has Charisma.
What has Scott Walker done in the private sector?
He is extremely weak on immigration and rigid trade deals too.
I’m sorry but our country is in great trouble. He is just another typical bought off politician.
“What has Scott Walker done in the private sector?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3319962/posts
Adelson is massively pro-amnesty, effective open borders, and cheap immigrant labor.
It’s no wonder Walker two years ago said his approach to the border would be to make it so easy for anyone from “Mexico or any other country in the world” to come here legally that nobody would bother to try to cross the border illegally.
“He is extremely weak on immigration and rigid trade deals too.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3336245/posts#6
http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/06/walker-revokes-in-state-tuition-for.html
Fiorina and Walker are not only Establishment backup candidates, but they are also meant to help split the conservative vote, as candidates in the Jeb-alternative lane. And now, Fiorina, along with similar candidates such as Carson Jindal, are also charged with attacking Trump.
You misunderstood me.
Where in the private sector, besides flipping burgers at McDonald’s, has worked?
Where did Scott Walker work in the private sector. How many people did he hire?
I will never vote for Fiorina, Walker, Carson or Jindal.
Trump and Cruz certainly yes.
I’m hoping to vote for Trump/Cruz.
“On the policy front, Adelson’s political agenda has long been dominated by his ardor for Israel and his hawkish views on defense and national security — subjects that are less important to many of the Koch network’s libertarian-leaning donors, who have often pushed for fewer foreign entanglements and tighter defense budgets. But other domestic ideological and bottom-line concerns, as well as political exigencies, seem to have brought the multibillionaires’ agendas closer together.
Adelson, the Koch brothers and a number of the network’s wealthy donors, for instance, are said to be strong foes of estate taxes, which in the last year have increasingly become a target of AFP and some other Koch-backed groups. Likewise, both the casino mogul and the Koch brothers have poured big bucks over the years into efforts to curb union clout, in part by backing the various campaigns of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) as he has fought to limit public sector unions’ bargaining power.
A few Koch network groups, including AFP and 60 Plus, have in the past year expanded lobbying drives at the federal and state levels to pressure lawmakers to kill estate taxes. This spring, the House passed a bill calling for an end to death taxes after a lobbying blitz by a coalition that included a few Koch-backed advocacy groups and other powerhouses like Americans for Tax Reform and the American Conservative Union. A similar bill is pending in the Senate, but Democrats may filibuster it and the White House is firmly opposed.
Another area of overlapping political interest is the Koch network’s multimillion-dollar funding for Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group launched in 2012 that focuses heavily on health care reform for veterans and the need for tougher national security policies. The group’s founder, Pete Hegseth, previously ran another outfit, Vets for Freedom, which received $1.4 million from the Adelson-backed group Freedom’s Watch and spent close to $5 million during the 2008 election season, according to public records.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/14/sheldon-adelson-koch-brothers_n_7563866.html
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