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.
Walker: "“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
Of course the HuffPost isn’t going to point out the big area of Adelson/Koch agreement: cheap (illegal) immigrant labor.
Here is Walker on immigration. How about following the law Scott????????
Like I said WEAK....,
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/politics/election-2016-scott-walker-immigration/
and
Unfortunately for him, he is not resonating with the voters
Walker worked for IBM and the American Red Cross.
Walker’s policies have laid off a lot of government workers.
Here is your boy pushing Obama Trade
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/scott-walker-pushes-obamatrade-on-eve-of-vote/
Again.... WEAK!!!
That’s what he’s saying now, but just two years ago he was for citizenship for current illegals and effective open borders so nobody would bother coming here illegal in the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/13/nyregion/trump-says-he-didn-t-know-he-employed-illegal-aliens.html
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/23/pro-lifers-shouldnt-fall-for-donald-trumps-latest-abortion-con/
http://www.infowars.com/donald-trump-talks-gun-control-assault-weapons-gun-free-zones-self-defense/
http://anewdomain.net/2015/07/23/donald-trumps-achilles-heel-eminent-domain-property-seizure/
Give me the link.
That's what I though.
If you like the Obama presidency, then vote for Walker. For the most part it's the same thing.
Quite frankly I'm sick of Establishment candidates, and Scott Walker is 100% in the tank for the Establishment.
I’ve given you the link approximately 10 times in the last several months. You’re part of his paid staff and you know full well that was his position.
What is your position on unions?
Oh please give it a break.....
What is Scott Walker polling at now?
Humor me, put the link here on the tread so FReepers can compare it to how you’ve written it out.
Cover your eyes, plug your ears, and don’t say anything bad about Trump’s liberal ideology, support for the Democratic Party leadership and membership in the Democrat Party from 2001- 2009.
Scott Walker wants to fire AMERICANS and send jobs to slave labor in China and Mexico. Trump wants to bring back jobs to the United States. Make us strong instead of weak as Scott Walk prefers. After all he is for the status quo.
I want jobs here in the United States.
As for the Unions there are pretty much being phased out. Just look at their membership over the last 20 years.
I know it's still big in Wisconsin. Wisconsin does not look like most of the United States.
No you just failed to understand.
In order to be a major business player in New York City you have to play ball with the politicians or you will never make it. That’s the way it works New York. Certainly in the Real Estate business.
Yeah, Walker worked part-time at IBM while he was in college, before dropping out. Then he got stuck working for the Red Cross (the “Dreaded Private Sector” as Boston’s Howie Carr puts it, even though it was a nonprofit/NGO) because he lost his first bid to crack the Wisconsin state legislature. But he made it in three years later and hasn’t left government service since.
No, I’ve dug it up more times than necessary and I’ve represented it accurately.
You won’t because you’ve misrepresented it facts.
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