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Filmmaker Tells Beck a Scott Walker Recall Would Discourage Lawmakers From Standing Up to Unions

The Blaze already provided a sneak-peek at Tuesday evening’s upcoming Real News Special Report, “Showdown Wisconsin,” from filmmaker Ami Horowitz. The program will focus on the recall effort the left is currently waging against beleaguered Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and will air on GBTV at 6:00 p.m. ET. Glenn Beck took time during his Monday evening broadcast to speak with Horowitz about the film, and the challenges currently facing the Wisconsin Republican.

Horowitz noted that if the left is successful in its recall bid, the move will send “chills” across the nation and dissuade conservative lawmakers from standing up to the power and influence of labor unions. The message conservatives would take away, according to the filmmaker, is that doing the right thing is a punishable offense.

According to Horowitz, Walker has made great strides in growing jobs and turning his state’s economy around. If recalled, he fears it is a sign that America could go the way of Europe.

Watch below as Beck and Horowitz discuss Showdown in Wisconsin.

Comments (55)

  • supermailbag
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 6:59pm

    There are some signs on lawns here that say “Recall Santa, we didn’t get what we wanted.” Funny stuff, I don’t care who you are…

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  • LibsFIB
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:02am

    Libs must think there is an endless supply of taxpayer money.
    Who’s blood do they suck when the bank goes dry….?
    COMMUNISM does not work and neither do they!

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  • satotbs
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:58am

    It was mentioned on the radio show that the unions spent $100 million for this recall effort.
    When are the rank and file members going to ask, wait a minute if the unions can spend this kind money on all these political campaigns and extravagant trips and luxurious homes and lavish life styles for the union bosses, why couldn’t we use that money to fund supplemental health care premiums for the regular members to help offset having to actually help pay for the state (read taxpayer) funded health care? I’ll tell you why, the regular members are cowards who are bullied by the few thugs who are in your face. If you even ask these types of questions you and or your family are marked for harassment by the slave dog enforcers. You’ve seen them, the same ones that cuss 13 year old students, or beat down men in wheel chairs with spittle punctuated rants spewing out of their foul mouths. Just keep following the sheep you damn cowards and kiss your kids goodnight. Maybe they will have the courage and souls you lack. Prove me wrong!
    Take your lives and what you earn from YOUR labors back from the thugs and crooks, or just keep saying Baa-Baa, here’s MY money and my freedom.

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  • VanceUppercut
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:51am

    A recall of Scott Walker would be a signal to Cons that getting elected to office isn’t a blank check to do whatever crackpot thing you want without fear of consequences. Too bad, people, this is a democracy, and the people of Wisconsin are about to speak loud and clear in their rebuke of conservative b.s.

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:41am

      ummm UPPER…you DO know this is a REPUBLIC and not a democracy, right? I’m guessing that you are also ignorant of the fact that WI conservatives have already proven that the entire recall list was completely falsified and dishonestly aquired? However, lets play the game were you back up what you are saying with anything that even looks like a fact (I know, I know…you‘re liberal and facts don’t really exist in your world). What has Walker done that is crackpot? Except lower unemployment, raise revenue (all while lowering taxes), balance the budget, emprove the lives of small business owners state wide, ect?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Conservative BS? Most states are bankrupt because of public sector unions and this recall of Governor Walker will fail,you’re an idiot.Unions will either be wiped from this country or they’ll fail of their own greed
      they’re nothing but communist pigs and the sooner we eradicate them the better.

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  • G-WHIZ
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:51am

    Who is thid un-informed film maker? Doesn’t he see the big picture(punn-intended)? The loss of a single battle out of hundreds of “winns” does NOT loose a war…this is no-where the last battle! As the progs loose more, they get more and more loonie/crazy. They are eating themselves. If we keep it up, they’ll have no one left to eat and will die-off quickly at their-own end.

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  • waring850
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:30am

    Whelp, today is the big day i here in Wisconsin. I hope that walker doesn’t get recalled. If he does then by god, i am going to every sporting goods store and filling up on ammo. I know people who are saying that the only way to stop walker is a bullet between the eyes, which they are not really that wrong. Walker will keep going and i want him to. He should, he is the first gorvernor to have the balls to do what he did. Walker should be god, hell, walker for president. But if he gets recalled, then there will be a recall “war”. Because the left hates walker, the right will hate who ever takes his place.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:13am

    YOU THINK? There has been SO much intimidation and fear in this recall. Pam Galloway RESIGNED after she was harrasssed and threatened for months! Who wants THIS kind of treatment? http://mediatrackers.org/2012/03/07/wisconsin-labor-leader-calls-female-gop-sen-pig-harasses-and-intimidates/ WE have to PRAY they do not WIN THIS ONE. :(

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:05am

    Union busting should be a national sport,keep bashing the union pigs into submission until they’re destroyed completely never to be heard from again.Public sector unions are bankrupting several states and private sector unions are just as bad and should be destroyed as well.

    Union ‘leaders’ are just a bunch of fat cats exploiting their members for all they can get,greedy fat cat slobs the lot of them.

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:37am

      you are anti free enteprise anti contract anti freemarket

      republicans are not for free markets union busting just proves the point

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:50am

      Socialismsux You obviously don‘t know what you’re talking about if you think I’m ant free market or free enterprise.Unions are good for chasing businesses out of the country and the sooner we rid our country of unions the better.

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    • IAMINFIDEL
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:41am

      @socialism.rocks – Unions are the anthesis of free markets. The only leverage unions have is the strike. The strike is nothing but violence. It is the first resort of the thug and the looter. It is a trespass on the property rights of the business owner be it a sole proprietor or stockholders. In a truly free society a contract derived from such violence would be null and void.

      You are standing on your head and telling the world it is upside down. It is time to check your premise or reality will leave you behind.

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    • encinom
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:46am

      Another mindles beckerhead. The middleclass was its strongest when the Unions had the highest number of members during that leftist, Eisenhower’s presidency. The Middle Class began its collapse as Reagan fought the unions.

      Its the right of the common man to join with others that attempts to equalize the power between them and the corporations. The typicla beckerhead is cheering the destruction of rights of their fellow citizens.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Encinom you’re about as intelligent as socialismsux two union lovers watching the demise of unions.Walker isn’t going far enough,he’s allowing the union pigs to operate in his state,maybe Walker should take a page from Barry’s book and do something radical like destroying unions once and for all.

      They’re a scourge on society on the level of a pedophile and must be destroyed.

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    • encinom
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:01pm

      @progressiveslayer

      Your a good corporate serf, making sure you earn those crumbs your master throws you from his table.

      The fact is the Middle Class is strongest when Unions are strong.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:38am

    I have just realized that since time is fluid, non-absolute, it is never, ever too late. If we have to go back to 1963, whatever, it’s better than surrendering to hell.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:49am

      How about going back to the Stone Age, which is where the lib tree hugger unions would love to have us… and this is WS, almost the Green Weenie Capitol of the world.

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    • waggie
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:55am

      I live in the center of this controversey and it is ugly. Even people that I know as conservatives are being convinced by the unions and left that getting Walker out is the thing that has to be done. I fear for my state as these thugs try to muscle their way in and take over. If you are a Wisconsin citizen, please, please I beg you to get out and vote TODAY, May 8 and again on June 5. Today we have to vote for Walker to get him in the running, because there is a contender in the Republican party that wants to run instead of Walker. Then on June 5 we have to vote for Walker to beat the Dems and the union left. God help us! (and I mean that literally!)

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    • encinom
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:48am

      @waggie

      YOu should fear Walker and his Puppet Masters the Koch Brothers as they attempt to use money to destroy the rights of citizens.

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  • bertr
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 6:34am

    Thanks to Holder blocking voter ID laws, Americans nationwide can go to wisconson and vote for Walker to show there support

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:35am

      Bertr,you are a Genius. Wouldn`t that be something if millions of Americans showed up in Wisconsin to vote support for Scott Walker. Here`s how I see our cituation in this country. We are watching the greatest majic show in the world by the left wing media of this country trying to tell us that this is the best this nation can do and that the greatest nation in the history of the world has been reduced to what we have and see now! OR could it be that we are going to see the worst azz woopen of any standing President of this country from the people who have made this country great in November. Everything I have seen happening in this country in the past six months is from a desperate addministration. From OWS, Trayvon Marton, OBL . Not one positive thing for Obama to say look what I done for you. It`s all been done to us and I think people have had enough.

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  • amerbur
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 6:08am

    I am sending my money to support Scott Walker. I would say to Tea Party Membes, As a Mom members, 9-12 members, the silent majority. It is time to take action and stand with Scott Walker. The silent majority can remain silent and still be strong, Sent your pennies and dollars to support the battle. Let there be no doubt that we are present, and ready. Stand with Scott Walker. Stand with the freedom loving Governers across this Land. I am sending my dolloars to Scott Walker. He is doing the job that needs to be done He is smart, He is a free man, doing the work of a free man. He needs to be supported by individuals who believe in freedom!!!! Silent But Stong!!!!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:54am

      When the unions helped employees with wages, honest hours and fairness, it was good. In last 60+ years unions have been moochers, greedy, unfair activists earning more money off the employees while making themselves rich to give away money to the democrat party to slant our representation, and confiscate the union dues for themselves. Have you ever seen a poor union boss?

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 5:11am

    Nation of Freebies………in one generation, we went from EAGLES to PIDGEONS

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  • boris1421
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:01am

    Apparently the comment policy is “Don’t say anything against conservatives”
    Wow ! talk about freedom of speech ! That’s alright, it seems to be standard policyand no secret for conservative news web sites.

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:13am

      Ya… Because liberal news sites would never censor the speech of a conservative on their site…

      Stop crying little boy…

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  • boris1421
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:54am

    It seems that all this talk about right and wrong is misguided. In society, what the majority thinks is what is right. In the middle east it’s wrong to have premarital sex. It’s punishable by death. Whereas in the US it’s wrong to kill someone for such menial behavior. Whether Walker is wrong will decide on the voters. If they vote him out their wishes should be respected the same way that GW Bush was fairly elected into the white house before he broke the nations back. Idiots abound all around and they make stupid decisions like those who voted for and still defend GW Bush. However if we choose to be a nation of imbaciles who‘s to say it’s wrong as long as majority rules. If a majority of the people can be brainwashed by Bush or Romney or Sarah Palin, then why shouldn’t they cowtow to the unions.
    “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but a fool and his party are big money”
    I’ve never seen so many conservatives on a website before, there muist be a nest.

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    • cloudmcrain
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 6:52am

      Boris… Individuals who support smaller government and more freedom are not the ones who are being brainwashed and are definately not the ones going along with the crowd because the majority are right. Your logic shows that you are easily controlled by what’s popular, which history as shown us is not always right, correct and just.. The real truths, freedoms, rights, are self evident, unchanging and don’t bend to the whims of the majority. If you were in a room with a large group of people that believed you didn’t have the right to life, liberty and property, by your logic, that would make them in the right and you in the wrong and the forfeit of your life, liberty and property okay. But it’s not. Regardless of the majority. Please stop and think about what right and wrong really are… True rights are universal and do not change with the opinions of anyone.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:04am

      @ Boris….”It seems that all this talk about right and wrong is misguided. In society, what the majority thinks is what is right.”
      I see, Boris…Like when the racist mob of blacks attacked, robbed, then stripped the white guy in Baltimore. They were the majority. Right, Boris? Besides, wasn’t Walker elected by “the majority.”

      Boris..”In the middle east it’s wrong to have premarital sex. It’s punishable by death. Whereas in the US it’s wrong to kill someone for such menial behavior.’
      I guess we win that one, Boris?

      Boris…”Whether Walker is wrong will decide on the voters. If they vote him out their wishes should be respected the same way that GW Bush was fairly elected………”
      Walker was “fairly elected”, Boris. Are you saying that if someone who is elected does something like (in Walker’s case) make a state financially solvent and bring in jobs ,and if that bothers some, then the people’s wishes who voted for Walker do not need to be respected?

      Boris…” If a majority of the people can be brainwashed by Bush or Romney or Sarah Palin, then why shouldn’t they cowtow to the unions.”
      Boris, because the unions are paid by (visualize Sam Kinneson here) THE TAXPAYERS! We can’t afford their salaries, pensions, and paying them thousands for sick days not used when they retire. OH-OH-OH-OH!
      Boris, why don’t you go to the hang out at Democrat/socialist-communist sites?

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:17am

      @CloudMcrain

      Boris does not understand the simple concept “majority rule but not at the expense of the minority”.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 9:18am

      Uh, Boris: this is a ‘recall election’. That means the people have already spoken, but some people don’t like the result, so they’re trying to get the legal, majority elected person removed from office.

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  • bigdaddyt46
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:34am

    @marko331

    news came out awhile back that the $300mil surplus is what he saved immediatley, the total surplus created stands now at slightly more the $1 billion.

    another point that has come out is business leaders here have said that many business will pull up stakes and move to a better tax state AKA job losses in the millions

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  • roadhog
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 1:30am

    The People of Wisconsin should tell the Commuinist Union Trugs go back to Wshington Dc.

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    • Mukichan
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 2:01am

      I would love to see Mitt pick Scott as his running mate. Scott step down as Gov, Lt Gov Step in. Stops the Thugs from recall vote and allows Mitt some Tea Party Cred.. Just a Thought..

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:39am

      I love what Scott Walker has done in Wisconsin. He’s given the state back to the people instead of the unions. People, work for the goodness of your state, not for the rich pockets of the unions who sway everything their way.
      If by chance, Walker loses to a bunch of union thugs, I will never again look for Wisconsin cheese except to avoid it.

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  • Cymry
    Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:11am

    the commies (this includes but is not limited to…..liberals, democrats, progressives, socialists) can blatantly try to overturn an election solely on ideological grounds but when the issue is overturning an election because the candidate (barry obama aka soetoro) is not eligible to hold the office it’s ok. folks, the commies are controlling the dialogue. if your reason is to let barry slide on the eligibility issue because of potential social unrest or you’ve misinterpreted USC/US Constitution, your making the commies revolution plans EASY and you are a COWARD or STUPID. At least Rush is cheering from the sidelines from time to time like he did yesterday (5/7/12).

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  • dannyo
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:49pm

    union workers are beer swigging cig puffing useful idiots who vote with the likes of glad, tree huggers, welfare queens, gangbangers, illegals, occupiers, professors, peta, adam and steve wedlockers, lambda, and ultra rich white liberal guilters..enough said..(although nowadays since no labor union workers are working they are simply nervous/angry/shaking/broke useful idiots)..

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  • supermailbag
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:48pm

    There’s a sign not far from our house. It says “Scott Walker For President” I want to go up to their house and say “No Way! We’re keeping him here!” There‘s so much support for him that I can’t see this recall doing anything except wasting our tax dollars…of course the recall supporters call that a “Small price to pay” Ugh!

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 10:52am

      DARN, you are one smart person to recognize what Walker has already done for your state. You have less taxes and more of your own money. WHO couldn’t like this?

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  • WINNEBAGOMAN
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:44pm

    The entire recall is a farce!

    Here is what people, here in Wisconsin, just don’t understand: It doesn’t matter if Scottie Walker gets recalled or not. Act 10 isn’t going anywhere. The public (emphasis on public) unions HATE act 10, because it crushes them. But the Counties, municipalities, and school districts LOVE Act 10. No governor, in the foreseeable future will be able go back to labor union controlled local governments. Act 10 includes ALL state union folks (except some police and fire), and allows for Counties, municipalities, and school districts to choose for themselves to keep with unions. Even Democrat districts are pounding the unions, because it saves them money. Money they can use to pay off local debt, put towards special interest projects (which helps them get re-elected), or put into a “rainy-day” fund.

    If the recall succeeds, small business and individuals will be the tagets of retribution, by way of crazy tax-hikes!

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  • FromSeaToSea
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:40pm

    The Unions are no different than if you belong to the Bloods or MS13. You wear the symbols of the gang. You collectively extort the most You can get from the taxpayer or the business. The gang promises protection. You pay Your gang for protection. The gangs tell You who to vote in and when to strike. Those at the top skim huge salaries and control all the funds. Those at the bottom are just worker ants. Unions – Just another gang in America.

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  • IDONTTHINKSO
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:20pm

    Unions are what have destroyed America; they have broken almost every company that has union workers in it. The teachers union is the most corrupt and misleading organization of all unions. Unions, I can’t think of one good thing about them!

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  • Amy
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:57pm

    The good folks from Wisconsin cannot let this go – they gotta see the improvements Walker’s made and make their choice to stand with him.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:56pm

    “Filmmaker Tells Beck a Scott Walker Recall Would Discourage Lawmakers From Standing Up to Unions”
    I certainly hope so.

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    • hypnos
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:08pm

      So ignore the fact he is doing a great job reforming Wisconsin unemployment 6.8%. Your idiotic and childish.

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:17pm

      In just the last six months, Governor Scott Walker and the legislature:

      Passed a state budget (2011 Act 32) on time, without tax increases, that leaves Wisconsin in the black for the first time in over a decade:

      *Turned a $3 billion deficit into a $300 million surplus

      *Instituted the first permanent property tax cap in our state’s history

      *Cut bonding (state borrowing) by nearly 20 percent

      *Cut more than 1,000 government jobs, including 735 long-term vacancies

      *Paid off its $60 million debt owed to Minnesota under the former tax reciprocity agreement between the states (2011 Act 32)

      *Paid back the $200 million from Gov. Doyle’s unconstitutional raid of the Patients Compensation Fund (2011 Act 32)

      *Enacted sweeping business tax reforms that will save Wisconsin’s job creators over $130 million a year when fully implemented.

      Results:

      *In the first 6 months of 2011, Wisconsin showed job growth more than twice the national rate

      *88% of Wisconsin businesses say the state is on the right track, up from 10% a year ago

      *53% of businesses of all sizes predict they will add jobs and increase wages in the next 12 months1

      The Budget Repair Bill (2011 Act 10) gave schools and other local governments the tools to control their budgets without sacrificing services:

      *MacIver Institute: “Wisconsin Schools Already In Line to Save Hundreds of Millions of Dollars”; maciverinstitute.com; July 13, 2011

      …any questions?

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Woo Mark!

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    • WINNEBAGOMAN
      Posted on May 7, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Good post MARKO331

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    • Grannie4news
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 3:41am

      @The Third Archon: If you are voting democrat just because you are a Union member, you are naive my friend. If Obama wins and continues with his desired agenda of a Marxist ran nation, you will find that you were nothing ;but a useful idiot. You won’t be making as much as you are now and will probably wind up in a concentration camp somewhere. Would you rather vote to keep a job, demanding benefits while you lose your liberty and freedom that you have enjoyed all you life and have taken for granted. You need to talk to people who have seen and experienced commlunist takeover of countries. It isn‘t a pretty sight and the second amendment doesn’t mean a thing to them exceptf that that will have to get rid of all guns to accomplish their control of the people. Be careful what you wish for you just might get it. Now is the time to get down on you knees and pray for the Lord’s help in saving our Nation and the Constitution .

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    • Kevin The Elder
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 8:18am

      Hey Mark, great post. Yes, I have a question. How can an outsider like me help get your message to those in Wisconsin who aren’t as enlightened as you?

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 12:22pm

      THIRD doesn’t respond to facts…he doesn’t believe in them

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    • skimmer57
      Posted on May 8, 2012 at 4:14pm

      Marko— After all that Wisconsin is DEAD last in jobs under Scotty! What a joke He’s gone.

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