Wisconsin leaders face recall for balancing their state budget, WHY

Discussion in 'Politics' started by cosmictraveler, Aug 9, 2011.

  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    While you have the right to believe anything you wish to believe but from what I've read what I said was what he wanted to do but how he did it was another thing altogether. Yes he has changed the way labor unions are being able to always get what they want as one of his ways of balancing the budget but the people of his state have today shown their support for his actions and those of others in their government. Todays voters have given their authorization for the way that their government has stopped to increasing debts that their state has been having so I guess they were as wrong as I was. they voted to keep the politicans that balanced their budget not kick them out. So again I'm only trying to say that the voters were fed up with the debts and wanted some way to stop the problem and they voted today showing their support for what he did.
     
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  3. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Well with this voter turnout not getting rid of those people that you say caused the problem and gave them the right to remain in power I'd say that there's now a better chance of him being reelected. If this show of support from the voters keeps the way its going there will be the same thinking that is power today still there next year. Things can and do change but the way it is now only reflects how fed up the voters are with the debts they are always paying to keep more people wealthy while they pay more taxes.
     
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  5. adoucette Caca Occurs Valued Senior Member

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    Apparently most of the voters didn't agree with you as the results of the recalls support the fact that the majority of people think that they did do what they were elected to do.

    Even on the losses the vote swings were relatively minor as Randy Hopper who lost to Jessica King in the 18th district by about 1,200 votes, and Dan Kapanke who lost to Jennifer Shilling in the 32nd district, by about 5,000 votes.

    So all it really shows is that there was no widespread dissatisfaction with these Senators and the recalls were politically motivated (what did the Dems have to lose?) and a huge waste of time and money in a state that can't afford it.

    With any luck at least one of the two Democrats will also get tossed out next week and that will help bring an end to this poorly thought out waste of taxpayers money on recalls based on nothing but sour grapes.

    Arthur
     
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  7. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah it is kind of funny how that magical mystical county keeps pulling the fat out of the fire for Walker and his merry band of Republicans - that magical county that pulled out 14k votes out of the magical PC days after the last election.

    Last night they kept the votes secret until the last minute.
     
  8. adoucette Caca Occurs Valued Senior Member

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    Which of course was shown to be the correct vote by the independently conducted RECOUNT.

    Just more Paranoid BS.
     
  9. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    No it was not shown to be correct. Funny how the Republican Party is so dependent on this one county and this one Republican Party activist county clerk to save the Republican Party bacon every election in that district.

    Last election she pulled 14k votes out of her hat after the election submitting her final votes - just enough to prevent a recount. This election, she kept all of her results secret until after all the other polling stations had submitted their vote totals.

    http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/127444493.html
     
  10. adoucette Caca Occurs Valued Senior Member

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    Lying again Joe?
    There WAS a recount.
    The independently certified recount showed that Prosser won.



    So?
    Is there anything WRONG with that Joe?

    NOPE

    As the headline from the story you posted said:

    Democrats retract accusations of tampering by Waukesha County Clerk Nickolaus.

    LOL

    Arthur
     
  11. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    This was a win for big corporate money, who put something like 40 million dollars into this election. It was a loss for democracy.

    The teachers were not striking for more money, they were willing to make every kind of concession, so the talking point that this was about the budget is a damn lie.
     

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