Protestors staged a march in Madison this weekend, one year after the radical anti-union bill was passed, and the GAO ruled the recall of the governor and 4 Republican senators can proceed. Even more bad news, the Governor set up "The Scott Walker Trust" to pay for defense lawyers to help him in the John Doe investigation (Mar. 12, 2012).
Grab your calendar and circle the date of Tuesday, June 5, 2012.
That's the likely date that Gov. Scott Walker and five other union-busting radical Republicans will stand for recall in Wisconsin.
Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess approved an agreement today that schedules any required primaries for May 8 with a general election set for June 5.
Four Republican state senators definitely face recall elections. The Government Accountability Board, which runs elections in Wisconsin, has until March 30, to review signatures on recall petitions against Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
It appears nearly certain that both Walker and Kleefisch will stand for recall since they haven't challenged the more than 1.7 million signatures submitted, and it takes 540,208 signatures to trigger each of their recalls.
The recalls were motivated by anger over Walker's proposal that was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
Maybe it's just as well Walker find another job. On Monday, he told conservative radio host Charlie Sykes that his wife "would love it if I'd go back to the private sector and make some real money" as opposed to his current $144,423 salary."
Walker makes three times the average salary of a public school teacher in the Badger State. Didn't his union-busting law take money out of the pockets of those teachers?
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I'm not his wife, but I'd LOVE to see him go back to the private sector or somewhere really, really hot. :D
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Please read that article^^^...Because of Scott Walker, Milwaukee County now owes its employees millions of dollars.
Maybe to Walker $144,423 is peanuts to him, but not most Americans, I would love just make a quarter of what he makes. At least he admits that State workers wages are horrible compared to the private sector. This is something we all knew, but of course the righties like to spin a different way. That's why collective bargaining was so important to us. Ok we paid very little for our health insurance and pension, because our wages are so far below the private sector. Now we are paying more for health insurance & pension, but our wages are frozen for 2yrs. We have not seen a cost of living raise in 3yrs, so it will be 5yrs before we even get one. But Walker is hiring all kinds of Republicans for very high paying positions, in some cases they are making triple the amount the person before them held, with little to no experience, and they wonder why moral is so low for state workers.
This are looking up, come June 5 we will RECALL WALKER!!
Scott Walker, Governor since last fall,
Figured he was most powerful of all.
Against unions, he'd win -
But great pride is a sin,
So that, now, he is facing recall.
Scott Walker set his state adrift.
And used it as his source of grift.
He displayed so much gall,
He is facing recall...
After June 5th, he'll be taking the Fifth...
excellent, david. they're all a bunch of grifters.
Governor Walker has been quite the phony,
Giving jobs out to many a crony...
Why put up with his guile?
'Stead of having a trial,
Let's send him to Africa's Joseph Kony...
I would love to see Walker in a perp walk right out of the capitol.
Walkers main argument against collective bargaining was the tax payers were not represented at the table. This is the reason to recall him, elected officials are elected to represent the tax payers. If he can't do his job, he needs to be fired. In government that's called being recalled. So by his own admission Walker has called for his own recall. Please oblige him.
Most of Wisconsin would love to see him go, anywhere but here. They said we wouldn't get enough signatures, then they said most of them would be thrown out,they said there would never be a recall, now they are saying he will win a recall. They have been wrong on everything, so hopefully for the people of Wi.the pattern holds. He passed the voter ID to disenfranchise voters for the recall, that is not working. Nothing he has done so far has worked. No balanced budget, taking homeowners money, no jobs, making war on womens health issues, taking pay from middle class workers, so these consumers have no money to put into the ecomomy. All the while giving corporations millions of dollars in tax breaks, for what? For all their job creation?
Vote walker out. Oh and every other Republican. Go Wisconsin
I live in wisconsin and cannot wait to vote scottie out (hopefully he gets a perp walk first). He destroyed 50 years of workers' rights, hundreds of teachers fired, appropriated money for struggling homeowners to balance a budget he claimed he had balanced with union busting, destroyed our education system, takes calls from fake koch, etc. he is an embarrassment with his beady eyes and my way or the highway approach. scottie doesn't understand democracy is about compromise, scottie is a pathetic bully. bette stated it well. scottie runs all over the country collecting money instead of doing the job he is supposed to. hopefully scottie and the rest of the recall repubs will get their pink slips.
Captain Koch! Captain Koch! beam me outta here.Sorry Scottie transporter's broke.
He doesn't want to lose power, So he must Klingon!
I'm in New York, and I'd love to see him go.
Just think how much he could save the State if he joined the ranks of the unemployed. I don't know who would hire him. Public relations would definatly be a no no no nooooooo!
He'll be on his knees again satisfying the Koch Bros.
xxx ooo,
very very funny.
scott walker doesn't have to worry-there will be a job for him.
Hit Em on the Chin! Scrap Em on the Jaw! Leave Scotty Raw! Raw! Raw! Go WISCONSIN, Yaaaaaaayyyyy!
In Mn we have the GOP who doing the same thing as Walker and we have a lot of stupid people here. We have one thing going for us is Gov Dayton.
Palmquist,
love love love Minnesota, i grew up there.
i heard the other day that repubs are fighting to make Minnesota a "right to work" state. can Gov. Dayton stop that?
Scott Walker credits his meeting Ronald Reagan as his "inspiration and model" (wikipedia). And it shows, Reagan was notorious for being against Unions, firing over 11,000 people that were protesting as a union in the early 80's. He froze minimum wage, slashed welfare, and housing, and tried cutting disabled people off of disability. But like walker he took care of his own, cutting taxes on the rich, cutting funding of regulatory bodies. I'm glad Reagan wasn't pres. when the teachers took off work to protest their rights. I wonder how is it that still so many people still vote for these fools. Might be because the Republicans were smart and integrated abortion, gay rights, and gun control into their economic agenda.
Considering the impact of his recent legal woe's, Scott's wife might consider turning states evidence.
It may not be long before he drags her name into his illegal web corruption.
Not the least of which, is his connection with the Koch Brother political destruction of democracy; which, by the way, looks more like “treason” than it does "bribery"/ "lobbying".
It wouldn't be the first time that monetary enticement were received in the wife's name.
Clarence Thomas and his old lady do it all the time.
so would the rest of us