Walker Wins!

[Kathianne]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/scott-walker-fights-retain-governorship-wisconsin-recall-010044710.html

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/scott-walker-fights-retain-governorship-wisconsin-recall-010044710.html

Bravo, good wins again! -:clap: Union thugs lose..--:cheers2:---Tyr

[Missileman]

I sincerely hope that every nickel they spent to try to oust Walker is one that is desperately needed against other conservative candidates.

[Little-Acorn]

The most far-reaching result of this election, aside from the public-sector unions being told what the people in Wisconsin thnk of them, is that other governors in other states who want to similarly put the unions in their place will now know that they CAN do it; and that all the massive media coverage plastering quick and painful defeats for the conservatives all over the airwaves, is just so much hot air they won't need to worry about.

Basically, now we have seen that the public-sector unions and their friends in the media, are a minority who is on the opposite side from the normal citizens of the state, even if the media tries to tell us otherwise.

[PostmodernProphet]

did anyone notice this?.....


Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/31/wisconsin-unions-see-ranks-drop-ahead-recall-vote/#ixzz1x1dMJMRI

[fj1200]

did anyone notice this?.....

Interesting. Are they no longer closed shop?

[4horsemenrule]

What is more enjoyable?

The WI taxpayers slapping down the greedy unions or watching the liberals in the liberal media show their reaction to the results of the election?


http://www.mrctv.org/videos/schultz-lectures-union-members-who-voted-scott-walker


http://www.mrctv.org/videos/ed-schultz-walker-win-not-going-be-easy-night-many-broadcasters-who-are-liberal

[PostmodernProphet]

Interesting. Are they no longer closed shop?'

as I understand it the legislature is working on a "right to work" bill right now.....

[Kathianne]

I think this article sums it up, very well:

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/06/07/A-Watershed-Moment-for-the-Labor-Movement.aspx#page1


A Watershed Moment for the Labor Movement
By EDWARD MORRISSEY (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Authors/M/Edward-Morrissey.aspx), The Fiscal Times June 7, 2012

Have we reached a watershed moment for the labor movement? Earlier this year, Indiana became the first Rust Belt state to enact right-to-work (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/02/09/Right-to-Work-Revolution-Takes-On-Big-Labor.aspx#page1) laws. Arizona made their already-restrictive environment even tougher. And now, after targeting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other republican lawmakers for more than a year, the labor movement (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/05/30/Unions-vs-Scott-Walker-Wisconsin-Recall-Fizzles.aspx#page1)has come up empty.


In Wisconsin, Walker’s reforms of public-sector collective bargaining were at issue.
Democrats nationwide allied themselves with the unions in pushing for recall elections, and liberal pundits promised they would stop this encroachment on labor prerogatives and send a lesson to other governors around the nation. In that, at least, they succeeded, but not in the way the unions had hoped.




Despite the high-profile campaign waged by the labor movement in Wisconsin -- where unions have a long history of support – Wisconsin voters reaffirmed Walker (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/06/06/Walkers-Win-Bad-News-for-Labor-and-Obama.aspx#page1)as their governor. In fact, Walker won 125,000 more votes in the special recall election than he did in 2010, which was known as a wave election for Tea Party conservatives. He bested the same opponent, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, by an even wider margin of seven points rather than the five-point victory 19 months earlier.



The lone bright spot for the recall effort was that the Democrats did take control of the state Senate by winning one of the four recall races in the chamber. The bad news, however, is that the Senate won’t be in session for the rest of the year – and the new redistricting plan goes into effect in November’s election, when 16 of the body’s 33 seats will be up for grabs. The new plan gives Republicans a good chance to win back two Democratic seats, which means that the state Senate may never get gaveled into session by new majority leader Mark Miller...