Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC'S The Ed Show sets the stage from Madison, Wisconsin on the third governor recall election in U.S. history.
Voter turnout key in high-stakes Wisconsin recall vote
Mon Jun 4, 2012 4:02 PM EDT
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Ed Schultz never have the stakes been so high. It absolutely comes down to the voters. The volunteers have given there all. They have been fighting to get him out of there state and only the people can defeat him. So much money has been spent and if this over shadows the voters there ,then we in this nation are in very big trouble. Please Wisconsin VOTE! Hit the road Walker!
Democrats it is your vote that will count, defeat the walker/koch/republican 1% agenda. Good luck at the polls and keep them honest.
Above all else.......
"Money can't buy him love!"
Nothing will keep them honest. They abandoned that in the '90s.
The grassroots support for Gov. Scott Walker among independents, moderates and conservatives continue to carry the tide of support of 7% gap between him and Tom Barrett as people turn their backs on the old crony politics of public union corruption with Democratic leaders. The citizens of Wisconsin are voting to protect the tax paying middle class in the state, balance the budget, improve the economy, which will ultimately create many good paying jobs. A victory for Walker is a victory for all the people of Wisconsin that want prosperity. Tom Barretts record in Milwaukee is one of failure and deception. It's time for the people to stand up and protect the interests of their families against union self-interest and greed.
WACKO -- do you try and make a comment on EVERY PAGE.. my goodness you have NO LIFE!! Suck it.. Go Wisconsin GO Tom Barrett .. the has beaten the Punk and Criminal Scott Walker to a pulp in every debate that was given.. Barrett is showing a big upward trend people of Wisconsin.. RECALL this Governor Walker and send him packing so he can get ready for his criminal investigations
If you put Whacko on ignore, he won't bother you any more. Just click the exclamation point next to the vote button, and scroll down.
Mary, you are the one talking wacky. Just to show how ignorant you really are...you call Gov. Walker a criminal. You have no idea what you are talking about. In face, I'll bet if someone asked you right now, you have no idea about any investigations....you are just repeating the left psycho talk.
You guys are going to lose so now you are talking about that crap. YOu don't even know what Tom Barrett stands for. You are just a mouthpiece with no knowledge to back it up....like most lefties on this blog. Some do know what they are talking about. I can tell you don't.
We are going to make comments on every page. We are sick and tired of the way the unions and thug dems have controlled things. Its time for them to get the boot....and now Wisconsin has a govenor with enough guts to do it and you people want to throw him out. He wants to do nothing but good for Wisconsin and he has so far. The far left demmies who get their money from the bad unions are the ones screaming.
Go Govenor Walker. Keep standing up for what is right for Wisconsin.
Walker beat him like a drum in 2010 and the governor of Wisconsin is in a pretty good position to do the same again. Still, there’s always 2014 to consider, and goodness knows that there’s nobody as credulous as a Wisconsin progressive, so Barrett is actively fundraising off of his ever-so-principled opposition to Walker’s reforms. The Journal-Sentinel excerpted this quote from Barrett’s fundraising email: “By his actions from his first days in office to today, Scott Walker has put special interests ahead of the common interest.”
“Special interests ahead of the common interest.” Well, Brian Bolduc of National Review Online notes something interesting about that: which one of those two best describes Milwaukee residents?
Walker’s other serious opponent, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, has a problem: He used Walker’s reforms to save his city $25 million and thus balance the budget without raising property taxes. Should Barrett prove to be the nominee, Walker can’t wait to use that fact against him.
As well Walker should. Hypocrisy from Democrats is, of course, just something that you just have to learn to expect, like dust or smudges on glass surfaces. But this is pretty special. Barrett, of course, could not have possibly refused to take advantage of the opportunity to repair his city’s budgetary problems; if he had, he’d be the one looking at a recall election right now. But it takes a certain kind of arrogance – willful, stupid arrogance, at that – to call your own constituents a ‘special interest’ and to complain about the fact that Scott Walker apparently twisted your arm and made you not raise their property taxes.
You Pasty faced blimp. You know nothing about what the Wisconites think. They are no longer Union controlled there. They don't want Democrats or anything that is like Obama. So shut up.
Very well-reasoned comment. Very erudite. Entirely representational of the Republican party.
Good job.
Do you think that silencing people is the way to have your way? Stop all individual thought. We aren't allowed an opinion? Don't bet your life on it!
LOL at you very hard.
"You Pasty faced blimp."
that should get you a day off. as TRC said you do a great job as a stand up republican comedian with no talent.
LOL like the rights number one funny man Miller.
That's all they can hope for. Shut people that disagree up. Call them names, insult them. The good ole GOP. They have nothing new in their bag of tricks. Lie, cheat, steal....but they have added, you disagree shut up.
We are on the verge of a world domination crisis. This is not some outrageous hyperbole, but a very scary truth. The triumvirate today is the three C's in their power order; Countries, Conglomerates, and Citizens.
Countries are ruled by brutal oppressive powers, or some form of democracy. At the moment the great powers, with the exception of China, are ruled by some form of democracy, but business conglomerates play a a significant role in each.
An oppressive government rules by force, and conglomerates supply the weapons. The conglomerate reaps the benefit of the ruler's purchases. They play the role of benevolent guide to these despots, at a tidy profit of course.
The democracy relies on public elections. In today's era that means advertising to reach the masses, a very expensive proposition. The wealthy owners of the conglomerates supply the biggest share of money to the citizens-politicians. The money is pumped back into a variety of conglomerates involved in these communication businesses. The politicians-schmucks show their appreciation of these conglomerates by enacting laws that benefit the conglomerate over the citizens, and they cut the conglomerates taxes. The irony here; conglomerates supply the money. It is fed back to conglomerates. The laws and tax-cuts enacted by the schmuck-politicians always have a much larger money return that the corporations originally provided.
The conglomerates' power is obvious, but for now it is still not dominant. Country's laws are still dominant. They can break-up companies, and even dissolve them on occasion. Conglomerates realize this to be the current circumstance, temporarily. Conglomerates have already set up a court to shift power from countries to conglomerate businesses, and the countries let them do it! TheWTO rules on world commerce matters, for now. WTO is the final arbiter when the disputes go beyond the mere borders of countries.
The leadership of businesses are not encumbered by term limits. Germany, at the end of World War II, was divided into two countries with totally different forms of government, but Krupp, the steel manufacturer, that designed and built the ovens for the concentration camps remained Krupp. Democracies change leadership continually on a short term basis.
That brings me to a monumental world altering event that will happen tomorrow in Wisconsin. Conglomerates are battling citizens for control of a democratic government. Unions are the only source left to provide money and organization to lowest common denominator of a democracy; the citizens right to be the real source of a democracy's power.
This election, if won by conglomerates, is a gigantic step in the neutralizing democratic governments all over the world. In very shot order, the mask will be ripped from the WTO. It will be replaced by a Global Business Court and the laws of all individual countries will be subordinate.
They created the current world mess. Countries have been making them whole for their losses with the money of citizens who are left with the debt. Now as I am typing they are deliberately stifling business activity to ensure business subservient politicians gain control of the democratic process. Wisconsin elections matter much more than people realize.
M McM - Perfectly stated -- I Agree - Corporotacracy is at Our doorstep !!!! and Many are blind to it ,whether it be intentionally Or ignorantly !!!
Michael.. You said it ..AGREED.. and I am so glad someone posted what has been going on in this country for many many years, behind the scenes and quiet. People of the mass and mainstream do not see the underbelly of what has been taking place in this Country and in this world.. they are streamlining an attempt at something that was only seen in Nazi Germany before WWII, and there are the ones in our country who let em.. so blind to the fact that if Corporations and Big Business take complete control of the biggest POWER in the World-- the USA-- they can RULE the world as a one world order.. Understand that people are not Corporations and Big Business.. only run by an ELITE group.. Corporations have no feelings... they will step on you as they look at you..
The UW's Teaching Assistants' Association (TAA) has declined to endorse Democratic challenger and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who faces Walker in the June 5 recall election.
The TAA also withheld its support from Democratic primary candidate Kathleen Falk on the grounds that she wouldn't commit to a firm stance against budget cuts and concessionary contract negotiations with state workers.
"Through his use of Act 10 against the workers in Milwaukee [Barrett] has shown that he is not deserving of support of unions in Wisconsin," says Dan Suárez, a member of the TAA and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UW-Madison. Barrett made use of Walker's collective bargaining restrictions in Act 10 to increase pension and health care contributions for workers employed by the city of Milwaukee.
Barrett has said he took those steps to avoid layoffs of public workers.
Without an endorsement, the TAA won't expend any of its volunteer or financial resources on electing Barrett, although individual members are still free to contribute as they wish. The union will continue to mobilize its members to vote in the election.
"What this means for the TAA is that the conversation is going to shift back to how to meaningfully and effectively rebuild our membership [instead of wasting] time and money on supporting a candidate who doesn't care about us," says Suárez.
MickMcM: So true! I believe the collapse of 2007 was planned just with that in mind the completion of the Corportocracy, but China may be the last hurdle after to get control of what they conceive as a windfall they will call a threat and make war against.
Also I have a thought about SuperPac moneys, Since they are hidden all the PAC money should be put into a kitty that is divided evenly among all of the candidates regardless of party. What do you think of that?
So wacko, in my experience TAA has never endorse a Democratic President or other democratic candidate. That is why it is such a worthless organization.
Obama Obama Obama sound like a song to my ear's yeah!!
LMAO!
I am afraid the song is finally on the final verse. You will not be singing any more after November 6. Thank goodness.
I love president Obama!!
Cheers Creamer, or is it Cheese....either is good. Go Wisconsin Democrats.
Bruce Van Brunt: that is not an accurate picture of Wisconsin. The unions are indeed being marginalized in Wisconsin, but that can hardly be a collective agenda of the people of Wisconsin. Do you recall "Fighting Bob" LaFollette? It was in Wisconsin where the progressive movement started. It was in Wisconsin where the fight for unions and labor laws and women's rights were staged. It is in Wisconsin where open and participatory government has long been a way of life. It is Wisconsin that belongs to those so-called "swing states," because Wisconsin has never been a place of bitter partisan squabbles. No one from Wisconsin could conscientiously tell another person to "shut up."
What can you say to a knuckle dragging Neanderthal. John, nice try, and do not shut up. Just keep talking. But there is a bitter partisan squabble now, and who brought it on.......Maybe a guy named Walker?
Somehow Ed, Clinton and friends need to go home. Wisconsin elected a governor based on balancing the budget. The good people of Wisconsin will figure out that they have been a victim of the liberal media. Ed loves to make news. Before now he was 3rd rate radio jock. Now he is leading the dems in Wisconsin to their biggest embarrasment ever! Hopefully he will just please "be quiet".
LOL
thanks for that laugh, but you seem new and well you do have a very hard act to follow with the rest of the wacky radical right/wrong wing comedians.
Monday is traditionally amateur night in the clubs.
Your right, I do have a hard act to follow in this group. The scary part for me is isn't if Walker loses, its the new liberal regime that may bankrupt Wisconsin for a decade. If dems can't balance a budget, its your kids that will pay for this, not me I will be long gone from this state.
LOL
see i notice you given it the old wacko radical right/wrong wing try. sure glad you all had a easy winter without much snow, or you be still trying to remove it.
Big Labor does not like Tom Barrett. It was reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that WEAC president Mary Bell and AFSCME president Marty Beil met face-to-face with Barrett last December to urge him not to run in the recall against Walker.
The reasons for the animosity are fairly simple to glean. First, Barrett has already run against Walker statewide and lost. Second, Barrett would not sign Big Labor’s “veto pledge.” And finally, Barrett’s cardinal sin against the unions was that he actually used Governor Walker’s collective bargaining reforms to exact pension and healthcare contributions from public employees that saved the city of Milwaukee $25 million.
funny you here the troll cry walkers is in the lead in the polls, but why doesn't walkers camp release their polling? maybe cause they know its in the tank.
Hey there Pilot - Howzit goin' ? They just wont stop it will They !! Earlier we were having some descent discussions - but now as I stated earlier I knew it wouldnt last !!!
If you put 'em on ignore, it's like they aren't here. It's really very pleasant.
Big Labor does not like Tom Barrett.
that might have been true, now it`s like 80-20 for him. opps.
LOL kind of like your candidate Mitt no one liked him until now and well you all lie so easy i can not believe you like him now.
LOL
Precisely !! I cant help but just shake my head !!! Looks like Its Time TO ROCK !! Again !!
MD checked your email lately?
Hey xxx ooo = I'll go look !!!
TALONS!!!!
Dragons have talons too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=6d-jBI-35K8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=6d-jBI-35K8
TM - Yes - the 4 elements - but - there Is a 5th !!! The 1 element that Not Everyone Possesses !!!
Tuesday is Big Eddies Waterloo when he loses.
It will be Walkers Waterloo, when he loses the election and then his john doe will be .......What? when he goes in to hiding. He is no Nepolean, his hands are always in someone elses pocket, or in his own counting his ill gotten gain, Not in the front of his coat where his heart should be.
It's not cold enough in Wisconsin for Walker to put his hands in his own pockets.
"It will be Walkers Waterloo, when he loses the election and then his john doe will be .......What? "
exiled to the barren and isolated South Atlantic island of Saint Helena?
Pilotshark laughing as usual....Thankful mom calling everybody names she doesn't agree with.....Mary commenting on things she has no idea about....Creamer Maggie...Oh Lord, I am scared to even guess about her...wait a minute....she just luvs Obama so much....hmmmmm.....maybe she is out for some of that Obama money....like that lady on TV said...."we just want that Obama money".
Welcome to the world of Ed Heads. Those people who believe anything Ed Schultz does....whether it be spinning....screaming....cursing....ranting....raving.....lying.....misreporting.....The Ed Show....lowest rated show on the last place network. What more can you ask for?
These people love that kind of thing and do not support anyone who wants to do the right thing for the people of Wisconsin.
Funny, I have asked this 5 times on this blog and not one of these Ed Heads has answered: Why didn't Barack Obama get involved personally in this election?
Lets hear your answer....each one of you please.
You know...everytime he says Scott Walker is against the Wisconsin worker, that is just not true. He is doing all he can to make sure the middle class in Wisconsin thrives....and just because some leftie mouthpiece like Schultz stirs up what he does...you believe him and riot.
I will tell you people one thing. After tomorrow night. If Scott Walker is voted out. I will respect the people of Wisconsin and we will just make the best of it.
And I want Ed and all of you to do the same if he is voted to stay the Govenor. Live with it. Make the best of it. OH NO....I can hear all of you crying now....voter fraud!....not fair!....they out spent us.....lets recall again.....lets throw stones and break car windows.....lets set things on fire.....lets march and camp. I can hear you now.
Ed Schultz better say....THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN HAVE SPOKEN. He won't though. Mark my words...if Walker wins...Ed will start his crusade getting to Walker another way. You watch. He is such a sore loser.
You guys try it at the ballot box next election...the way its supposed to be.
Whatever the outcome tomorrow night....win or lose.....lets see who responds the right way.
We watch Fake Noise when we need a good Laugh! I just don't like the rib pain that comes with it.
j-boy - why dont you respond in the rite way - Now !!!! Why wait ???
j-boy - I do Not know just who it is that You Think that You Are == Why Do You not go ask President Obama ???? As IF He would answer to an arrogant slob such as yourself !!! he he he !! I Think NOT !!!
For all these folks that hare Big Eddie, they sure spend a lot of time on his blog. They must also spend time watching and litening to him. Kinda makes ya wonder.
You got it...I don't want you to wander any longer. In order to properly comment on Ed Schultz, you do have to watch a little of him and listen to a little of him.
UNLIKE
The people who never watch the Fox News Channel but spew their bad remarks without any knowledge whatsoever.
You had better believe I watch and listen to Ed, until the point it gets so obsurd and repetitious, I turn it off....some of it is actually funny. You have to tune in to people like Schultz, Maddow, O'Donnell, Matthews and just listen for a moment how obsurd they are and the nuts they get to go on their shows just to agree with them. Nobody on the other side...just clones that agree. Its hilarious.
And we will continue to try to show the truth on this blog. Ed spins so much, it confuses his followers, so some of us have to come on here to set it straight. So you see Larry, you have nothing to fear.
You must be dizzy from all your spinning.... spend a lot of time spinning don't you?
LOL. in fact ROTFFL just thinking about it.
Larry
I listen to Sirius left off and on all day. I don't listen to Conservative talk because Conservative values have been the same for decades. It's you lefties that change with the wind almost every day and I also like listening to all the constant whine of liberalism.
Some of these people don't ever bother to check to see what they are saying is true, because they are so paranoid and think everything is a corrupt and is out to get them! But that's just what they are brainwashed to do by the corporate puppet masters.
FICTIONFOXNEWS
You didn't answer the question thankfulmom. Will give you another shot.
Why didn't Obama step foot in Wisconsin to back the democratic candidate?
j-boy - Who are You to be so demanding of others ?? Just Who do You Think You Are ???
What am I demanding? I must have missed that part? Tell me what I am demanding....please.
j-boy - You Certainly Are Missing Something !!!! ha ha haaa !!! You Had Better Read What You Post !! Hmmmmm !!
Johnnie who said he won't! And I guess he doesn't care for (Tea Party FAKE) gun nutz!
smiling, before i LOL
well that's easy to explain but be to hard and complicated for you to understand.
cause its a state thing, and he is the President of the Country, besides the other top notch Democratic US President went.
but maybe if you stopped and really took the time to think for your self and all the way though you answer your own question.
and those are just friendly pokes.
Hoping for the best tomorrow. Ideally, he'll lose, the Senate will go Democratic, and Walker will be convicted. He's a menace, a cheat, and a liar. And those are his good points.
Matt - Rite On - I Agree !!! There Is No other Way !!!
I would like for you to explain how he is a menace and how has he cheated and lied. Bet you cannot right now without looking it all up somewhere where some leftie reporter has written it down.
Come on...right now...explain yourself.
j-boy - You certainly Are a Demanding little wench arent you !!!! WHO ARE YOU ????
Come on MD...who demanded what? Cannot answer...typical Ed head.
MD...maybe you can explain the accusations that Matt leveled on Gov. Walker....without having to go look it up. You agreed with him. How is he a menace, a cheat, and a liar.???????????
j-boy - You Truely need a mirror or some phsycological Chemicals or something !!! he he heeee - Your blood pressure Is Peaking - little girl !!!
j-boy - IF You DEMAND Respect - You Will Recieve NONE !!!!
Sorry pal...I am not like you...with the chemicals you must be on....with your hateful writing. I wish they would kick off people like you who like to cause trouble and slander people and the like instead of discussing the issues. You entire attitude goes with your photo. It tells you who really are. You want to know who I am? None of your business who I am.
If you want to discuss what is going on with Walker...have at it. You want to start something...go somewhere else.
j-boy - You Obviously Deserve NO RESPECT !!! GOMER !!! == Again - LOOK Into Your Own Mirror !!!! It Wont be long before you blow a vessel - Perhaps you need to calm down a bit !!!!
Matt they will have to build a new prison for him and all of his staff!
The up side is he will finally be making jobs!
gee may john doe would know LOL he another john.
oh there that little lying to congress as well
but just a few facts quickly.
LOL
5 minutes has passed Matt. You must be looking up the basis of your accusations. I thought you knew right off the top of your head.
Funny thing here, ed thinks citizens united is a real bad thing, beats on them all the time.
Yet he attempts use his radio & tv show to influence the voters..
So does John McCain do remember voting for him or is he just another random person? 70% of voters don't agree with you
http://unitedrepublic.org/mccain-whitehouse
Petition to end PACS
If Obama did stop in Wisconsin OH BOY you guys would follow your lead from your masters! Whine and cry about it! But the President isn't taking the cheese!
Everybody like Matt says Scott Walker is a menace, a liar, a cheat, yet they cannot tell me how he is those things. Matt cannot without looking it up....MD cannot because...well...because he is out there some where....
Obama did not back him at all. Not even mention his name? Did he? If he did, I apologize...I have never heard Obama talk about Walker lately....or that race.
j-boy-little girl - I can See the Veins In your Neck Pulsating/Pounding !!!!!
MD....you still have not told me what I demanded? Until you tell me what demand I made, I cannot respond.
j-boy-little girl - as I stated prior - Go Back and Read Your Own Posts !!!! You Have NO Self-Controll !!!
Johnnie don't wanna!
In England Queen Elizabeth has been 60 years on the throne!
Boy that's gotta leave a ring!
Hope she has One of those Hemmroid Cushions - hey !!!!!
I hope I never meet her!
I'll be dammed if I'll kiss her ring!
When ever she is done it's a royal flush!
Mitt Romney wants Rick Perry as his VP so he can dodge and Perry!
Romney/Perry 1812
Not a bad idea! If we could only send them all back TP and the whole bunch they may finally find out what being a patriot means!
What the undecided voters of WI should consider about Scott Walkers commercials for his campaign; is that according to Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Gurbels: when you repeat lies the more people will believe them. Then, there is a classic video clip from the TV show 'Seinfeld" whewre George tells Jerry that it is not a lie if you believe it.