All told, close to $110 million in political advertising has been spent through May 21, according to Mike McCabe of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks such spending, and it’s left residents with a bad case of election fatigue.Yes, it is insane. Too much politics. It's really unfair to normal people.
“And that leaves a good three weeks of spending not accounted for yet,” McCabe cautioned. “Just a ton of money for a relatively small state. Insane.”
June 4, 2012
"Wisconsin voters essentially have been asked to cast ballots every 60 days for more than a year..."
"... and they’ve been exposed to a relentless barrage of television and radio advertisements, mailers, phone calls, yard signs, stump speeches and debates."
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 209 of 209Great article, as always, from John Fund, "If Walker wins, what are the lessons",
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/301674
Read the well researched article but some key points and quotes:
* it is very likely Walker will win
* the left will blame Obama some for Walker's victory
* the recall process has helped put Wisconsin in play in the prez election
* voters see Walker's reforms as working, Walker solved the budget crisis without raising taxes or cutting services, Wisconsin's business climate has improved tremendously.
Great quote:
"Walker victory will expose for all to see the dirty little secret of the power of public-sector unions in America: It depends on having the government collect union dues from every employee’s paycheck, and turning the dues over to the unions without the employee’s consent. No other private entity in America — no charity, no association, no company — can do that.
Walker’s reforms ended that practice. Workers can now decide if they want to pay union dues. Clearly, the answer is no in many cases.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees was founded in Madison in 1936, making the state the launching pad for all public-sector-union organizing in the country. But now AFSCME’s Local 24 in Madison, which represented 22,300 Wisconsin state workers last year, has seen its membership shrink by two-thirds, to 7,100. Statewide, AFSCME’s membership has dropped by more than half. Similarly, the American Federation of Teachers has lost 6,000 of its 17,000 members. Small wonder. Teachers’-union dues in Wisconsin range from a hefty $700 a year up to more than $1,000.
Labor historian Fred Siegel says Walker’s changes could provide a model for reshaping American politics. “Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues and gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits,” he told me."
The reason that dems are completely incapable of arguing persuasively is that their position is indefensible. How is a dem supposed to defend compulsory confiscation of state worker's salary to pay union dues? They can't so the discussion inevitably deteriorates into name calling.
The article also points out the conflict between public union members and private sector unions that can be exploited by the GOP. Read the article.
"If Walker wins, what are the lessons",
Walker's reforms poll in the 70s, but his recall support is only in the 50s. Lesson: roughly 20% of Wisconsinites know his actions are good for Wisconsin but still want him gone because their loyalty to the Democratic Party is greater than their desire to improve economic conditions in their state.
And Finchy, I'm immune to anything the poo-throwing monkeys have to say, it really doesn't affect me the way they want it to, because I KNOW BETTER what I am capable of.
Perhaps you need to learn to recognize truth when you see it.
Well, Finchy, how can you argue against ironclad logic like that?
"purplepenquin said...
This video shows that he was answering a question about how to get Right to Work laws passed in Wisconsin, and that "Divide and Conquer" is an exact quote from his response."
More falsehoods. There were two questions dumbshit:
1) Becoming a completely red state and dealing with the unions
2) Becoming a right to work state
Walker started answering before the second. He was answering the first. The divide and conquer was separating the public unions and other special interest groups from government to allow reform. Which is why the video ended where it did and the videographer would not release the rest. Because he lists the reforms. Nothing further was said about "right to work".
Liar and and an idiot.
Alllie, you are an idiot. Painfully dumb.
And very proud of it.
Which is why the video ended where it did and the videographer would not release the rest. Because he lists the reforms
Show me a link that shows him saying what you claim he said.
Liar and and an idiot.
You talk like this in real life? No wonder your families and friends have stopped discussing any differences of opinion with you.
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