Our Gov. Walker Is moving WI Forward. The Dems want to keep us down and broke. If you want better teachers, more private sector jobs and lower taxes, Walker is the Only choice. If you vote against him, you just want union control over WI and you can't think straight or for yourself. It's just that simple. Walker is turning around the mess left by the Dems ten years of control and he is doing it very quickly. Keep the union leaders out of WI. They just want your money and your children. Don't sell WI out people. Support Walker!

Democrats want Wisconsin to look like bankrupt Illinois. Walker is a leader who wants Wisconsin to prosper! Cull the herd of the over paid, over fed and under worked government workers!

ALEC and or Koch

* first !

I find it interesting that he said the recent law change for women that's can't sue now on state level has never been used? If so, then why was the law changed at all? How was that so important to take out options for women if it wasn't costing any money? If never been used then it probably costed the state more money to change it!

Funny; people want free health care, but they do not want to give up the right to sue if the Dr. misdiagnosis or makes a mistake!
I wonder if one can sue Barak Hussein if their free birth controll doesn't work?

FYI, for Wisconsin's 2011-13 Biennial Budget, Governor Walker proposed, and Republican legislative majorities approved, a ten-percent cut (- 10%) in state funding of four-year-old kindergarten start-up grants to public schools (- $400,000), as well as a ten-percent cut (- 10%) in state funding of Head Start programs (- $1.4 million); Governor Walker also proposed a $106 million cut in state funding for the Wisconsin Shares budget, which is the state funding source from which private childcare businesses such as KinderCare may be paid.

See, Wisconsin Council on Children & Families, "Comparative Analysis of 2011-13 Biennial Budget Bill", 7/6/11, at http://www.wisconsinbudgetproject.org/budget_comparative_analysis_2011-13.pdf; and "Falling Support of Schools Threatens Wisconsin's Economic Future", 1/9/12, at http://www.wisconsinbudgetproject.org/education_cuts_wisconsin.pdf

@ ACE

Walker moving Wisconsin forward? More and more undeniable FACTS and NUMBERS that show the complete opposite and you still believe that load of garbage? Sounds like you are the one who can not think for yourself. How sad.

Could anything make matters worse for Democrats? Yes, and it’s already happened. Moody’s Investors Services last week downgraded the City of Milwaukee’s bond rating.

@ Gearhead

Educating our youth isn't an essential?! And since when have 4k and headstart been failures and a 'boondoggle'? Only in your self-centered, limited, little world.

What a hypocrite! His concern is the "out of state money coming in from special interest groups"! Make me gag. All the time he is spending out of state begging for his special friends for $ for his recall and his defense!!
And he doesn't think people want to rehash the slaughter of the middle class workers at his hand, think again, why else are you being recalled! He really isn't very smart! Scooter,you angered alot of people with you bulling tactics and your failing policies speak for themselves. I have spoken with numerous Wisconsinites who voted for you last time, but not this time. You time is up!

Is this bad?

"“Governor Walker understands the needs and concerns of small business owners and has helped us operate in a better environment for job creation,” said Pete Madland, executive director of the Tavern League of Wisconsin. “Governor Walker’s decisive leadership has led to the creation of 15,600 private sector jobs in 2012, the state’s lowest unemployment rate since 2008, and the first statewide drop in property taxes in over a decade. The Tavern League of Wisconsin is proud to endorse Governor Walker for reelection.” "

http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=268238

Is this bad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiuU1oJYPgU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

HOLY CRAP!! IS THIS BAD??

http://www.jsonline.com/business/metro-milwaukee-lost-4400-jobs-in-march-state-reports-q855m0a-148913245.html

Governor Walker is awesome! The job losses are an important part of the forward progress Wisconsin is making. By having less jobs and lowering the wages for public employees, Wisconsin is creating an environment for lowering the wages of all employees across the state which should really help industry make greater profits. That's what we need to compete with China and other third world countries. The Governor expresses his belief that graduation from school is important. He believes in education and is putting Wisconsin on the right track. The massive home foreclosures around the state are making housing very affordable and should draw new workers to our state who have lower wage expectations. That'll be great for industry and help bring Wisconsin more in line with working wages around the world making our state a magnet for corporations looking for a willing work force that is deregulated with a cheap labor force free from the threat of the law. Wisconsin is moving in the right direction.

We all agree that we have different political philosophies, hopefully we all agree that elections matter, after this next election lets decide that we will elect people, allow them serve, judge them at the next election and rehire or replace...

@ Steve

Hard to feed your kids when dip#*it's economic policy has eliminated 23,000...again, TWENTY THREE THOUSAND PLUS JOBS!

CEDRIC- I agree to a point. But where might we be in three more years if this abuse of power and of the people is left unchecked?

BRG again that really isn't the point.. everyone's decisions
make one side happy and one side mad... every decision helps someone and hurts someone... the easiest decisions ever made are when everyone is making so much money they don't really care what the costs are.. it is easy to give everyone more money and more benefits, in fact it is quite popular, but when you have run out of budget and someone needs to make cuts, that person is going to be unpopular and that is why we have 4 year terms, so that people can make very difficult decisions, we get a little time to see how the decsions effect our daily lives and then we make informed decisions on where we need to go from there!!

I just posted this in his Reading Dick and Jane segment. It seems to fit here, also. FYI: I'm a hard working independent voter. And I know that his ALEC pals and he are the worst thing that has ever happened to democracy. Corporations have no social conscience--and neither does he. We are watching the ALEC sponsored Wisconsin bills signed into law by this loser ruin lives of endless wonderful citizens in Wisconsin. They could all use one of those good jobs he has promised--and they are all willing workers. For the less fortunate, do you want them in the street? Will you offer them bread and water if they beg? What happens if they have a life-changing illness? Hope they die soon? Where are you people who aren't hard-working independents coming from? Just don't ever say the word Christian (conservative) because we will all have to laugh at that thought.

@ CowDung- excuse me if I am mistaken, but I don't believe that a single one of my local school board members were assisted in their campaigns by our local teachers union. Non of my family members who are teachers, gave any money to any of their local school board candidates either. Public vs private they are constantly being compared and they are by nature so different they shouldn't. If my brother receives bad product, he sends it back. My sister has to teach everyone they put in her classroom. If my brother workers longer hours, works harder, he can make more money. No matter how many hours my sister works (remember she has to keep all of the raw materials that come to her) she doesn't make any more. So what is the attraction to teaching. Her response was that, there will always be students to teach so even in bad times that kind of job security is important. The health care fringe was a big draw- in lieu of making 6 figures. My brother's job is down now, his business is tied to the housing market. But there were times when he had bids that were into the next year. You can't compare Public and Private, but that is what you do. If you value education like I do, you are willing to pay a reasonable amount for it. Our local teachers were willing to pay more for their health care, pay more into their retirement, it was reasonable. Walker and his policies has gone too far, beyond reasonable- besides the fact that he lied his way into office and that is why he is being RECALLED!

People are now re-naming the Tea to "Me(a)" Party. It fits, doesn't it?

TH III - You give another good example of what TEA people stand for! And they make a lot of money being hired to blog with the TEA points always intended to persuade rather than educate (in other words, truth is not required).

Walker does not value-that is a well know fact.

Coffee Bean ‏ @CoffeeBean26
Gov Walker 2.6 billion dollar cut to education hurt kids, while he gave $2.3 billion to corporations http://politiscoop.com/us-politics/wisconsin-politics/1315-breaking-report-shows-scott-walker-education-cuts-far-worse-than-expected.html #WIunion #WIrecall

The arguement goes back and forth like it is all or nothing, perfection or hell, good vs evil... Walker made some decisions, they helped balance the budget, they cut public pay, good, bad... the recall mechanism is fine if we have to use it for legal or catostraphic reasons, I dislike your policy means in 4 years you will get voted out.. the smoking ban killed both businesses that pay my salary, but you spend less, you market different, and you realize this is not good for me, but evidentily this is what the majority wants.. in my mind it was ok Doyle in 2 years your up for re-election and you have ruined my business, I hope you don't get re-elected, happily he didn't, but that is the way politics goes... in the end you have to follow the will of the people or you lose your job... we just can't follow the will of some of the people every day, we have to have time to let legislation work and see the benefits or pitfalls of our decisions and our votes... quite honestly after 2 years I don't hate the smoking ban as much as I used to... but I still haven't made anywhere near the money I did, before the ban!!

@ Cedric

Seems pretty selfish to cry about how a law that was clearly for the better health of ALL people has taken money from your pocket. I am going to make an assumption that you are a bar owner. My brother in law owns a bar, as do other relatives. They haven't lost a dime. If you did, then you might want to rethink your business management approach or skills.

All the arguing and bickering boils down to this:

Whether intentional or not, the policies of the Walker administration and radical republican party have succeeded in dividing Wisconsin's largest and strongest assett: the working middle class. Public v. Private, Repub v. Dem, brother v. brother. The sad thing is that many of Walker's supporters don't see that and have been fooled by the false promise of balancing things out. The truth is the wealth disparity has grown, the middle class is shrinking, the numbers of those in need have grown. How is that fixing things? And then to add insult to injury, cut programs that give those in need a fighting chance. All b/c a few want to save a measley bit of money on taxes, or maybe find someone to blame b/c they took a pay cut.

Divide and conquer...that's the Walker way. How do you push an agenda through that really benefits a few at the top? Oh, I know...divide the group of people it will affect most (middle class), let them bicker amongst themselves, and continue on.

OK...I'm done now.

Read everything you can about ALEC--American Legislative Exchange Council. That's all you have to put into any browser (ALEC) and you can get educated. Walker is their errand boy and Governors in at least 20 other states lied their way into office, too, to put the ALEC agenda into place. Remember, "Corporations have no social conscience." ALEC/Walker have one goal--to serve corporations. Grandma can die in the gutter or the little child can cry from hunger--they truly will not care.

Where does voter suppression fit in the free markets, limited government, or individual liberty agenda? Suppose it is limited government! If you can limit anyone who is elderly, disabled, poor, etc., you can probably try to skew the voting to the wealthy--and take care of ALEC's agenda to serve corporations. The 800+ bills out there are all of concern. Here's a real life story from Wisconsin: Ruthelle Frank is an 84 year-old former elected official who voted in every election for the last 63 years, yet she will be unable to obtain a voter ID unless she pays a fee to obtain a birth certificate from the Wisconsin government—despite the fact that the Constitution explicitly forbids any voter from being charged a fee in order to vote. Worse, because the attending physician at her birth misspelled her name on her original birth certificate, she may need to pay hundreds of dollars in court fees to petition the state judiciary to correct her certificate before she can obtain a voter ID. And one more: Rita Platt is a Wisconsin resident who was turned away from her attempt to obtain a voter ID because she required either a birth certificate or a passport to obtain one—both of which can only be obtained if the voter pays a fee. Worse, in Wisconsin, voters must fill out a misleading form that suggests that they cannot obtain the birth certificate they need to obtain a photo ID unless they already have a photo ID. Limited government for sure--

Read this list and drill down in the Model Bills. Welcome to Walker/Harsdorf/Fitzgerald in Wisconsin.

http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

FIND the "Model Bills" HERE
Click here for a list of Worker and Consumer Rights bills (plus Trade, Pensions, Privatization, Banking, Housing, Property Insurance, Transportation, Telecomm & IT). Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Tort Reform and Injured Americans bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Privatizing Schools and Higher Education bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Health, Big Pharma, and Social Welfare bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Environment, Energy, and Agriculture bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Democracy, Voting, and Federal Relations bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Tax & Budget bills. Click here for a zip file of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

Click here for a list of Guns, Prisons, Crime and Immigration bills. Click here for a list of the bills. Click here for our analysis.

For more ALEC model legislation available at other sites and not included in these zip files, click here.

@ADAM... you disappoint me with your thinly veiled suggestion that Mr.Howell and SAM are Communists/Marxists. Quite lame.

Please explain why people should not be concerned by an organization that has been funded by the Bradley Foundation, Exxon/Mobil, Allegheny Foundation (Scaifes), Castle Rock Foundation (Coors), Lambe Foundation (Kochs), and the Charles Koch Foundation for starters.

These are the organizations (not people) who underwrote ALEC. Other corporate sponsers have paid annual membership fees to be able to participate in the development of "model law templates". Hundreds of these "model laws" have been thrown into the legislative hoppers of many state legislatures, often by legislators who have neither read nor understood the proposed laws.

A thinking person could easily come to the conclusion that this is a complete corruption of the legislative process. AlEC does not register as a lobbying organization, and it's tax exempt status is now being challenged by a lawsuit.

You saw the list of topics that ALEC works in and there is no way that many of these relate to: "free markets, limited government and individual liberty."

It's interesting that when the "light of exposure" has been trained on ALEC recently, that a significant number of corporate sponsors have chosen to cancel or not renew membersips in ALEC. That list currently includes, McDonald's, Pepsi, Coke, Procter & Gamble, and Intuit, among others. Methinks that there is some rot in ALEC?

Governor Walker, who the facts show proposed reducing state funding for both public and private early childhood education programs, speaks in this video clip about the importance of providing early childhood education programs to the state's long-term good--his actions and words seem a bit inconsistent, at best.

FYI, studies comparing the relative efficacy of Head Start and private childcare programs have found that expanding Head Start to children who are currently not eligible has beneficial effects on cognitive achievement, because even children from relatively high quality home environments spend significant amounts of time in low quality child care; but for the typical subsidy-eligible population, child care subsidies have small positive effects on cognitive skills by inducing families to move children from low quality home environments to relatively higher quality child care environments. For example, see, "Evaluating the Effects of Child Care Policies on Children's Cognitive Development and Maternal Labor Supply", November 2011, D. Griffin, Dept. of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, at http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~griffena/Griffen%20JMP.pdf.

Is this bad?

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120426/OPINION12/204260311/George-Will-Illinois-bills-come-due

Thanks for paying attention to our democracy, MrsPeel. We will fall into the scenario Adam paints of Cuba soon if we all don't open our eyes and pay attention. Voter suppression is just the beginning--an ALEC sponsored "bill" in over 20 states. Minnesota has a referendum coming now. Let's hope their good work prevails in keeping voting rights for all.

This is a very education article and hope all will read.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/where-they-stand-democratic-governor-candidate-q-a/article_66a15bb2-9143-11e1-8282-001a4bcf887a.html

Where they stand: Democratic governor candidate Q&A

Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:00 am

The State Journal asked the four Democratic candidates vying to face Gov. Scott Walker in the upcoming recall election about key issues in the race. For the candidates' full responses, go to our Recall Voter Guide page here.

BRG as I was re reading the post today you said it was selfish for me to whine about policy that is better for the greater good, even if it wasn't great for me!! I guess you could say the same thing about Walker, if balancing the budget is better for all
Of us, we have to overlook that it might not be good for some of us!!

Wisconsin used to value education-and the teachers who taught their kids. No more. Not since gov walker set up a divisive climate.

This tweet is spot on and we should all seriously think about what we are doing to education in our state--all to save a few pennies.

"How precious are our children if we rejoice at property tax savings of $11 at their expense?" http://www.lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=11&SubSectionID=11&ArticleID=15158 #wiunion #wiright

morninmist, your statement could not be further from the truth... I myself have 3 kids in the Wisconsin School System and a wife in the Minnesota School System teaching Special Ed.. I have been very appreciative of their education, the beautiful buildings they have to learn within, and the quality teachers that have looked after my children!!! But just because I love the system and all the people in the system, does not mean there should not be a budget or that we should allow unions to make decisions for us locally... Gov Walker is not purposely trying to make Wisc children dumber and it would be ingnorant to suggest he is. We may disagree with each other on how to balance the budget and how to educate our children, but we do share the same goals and the same desire to have well paid, high functioning, and caring teachers!!!

I believe the word I was shooting for was ignorant, not ingnorant, the Patch needs a spell check, or at least I do!!

America United ‏ @Progress2day

Walker’s Claim to Fame: ‘Worst job losses in the nation’ http://bit.ly/IJkv9g #wiunion #wiright #p2 #p2b #wipolitics #1u #tcot #teaparty

Barrett's record is statistically much worse!! And he had time to actually effect the situation!!

Again it is simply nuts to think someone, anyone is hoping more for a less educated society... Make a more logical argument!!