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Wis. Repubs Hold on to Senate Majority in Contentious Recall Election

Wisconsin Republicans Keep Senate Majority in Recall Election

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

MADISON, Wis. (The Blaze/AP) — A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.

Democrats succeeded in taking two Wisconsin state Senate seats away from Republican incumbents on Tuesday but fell one short of what they needed to seize majority control of the chamber.

Republicans saw it as a big win for Gov. Scott Walker and a confirmation of his conservative agenda, the hallmark of which was a polarizing proposal taking away most collective bargaining rights from public workers.

“Republicans are going to continue doing what we promised the people of Wisconsin – improve the economy and get Wisconsin moving back in the right direction,” Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said in a prepared statement after the victory.

Walker attempted to strike a bipartisan tone in victory, saying that he reached out to leaders in both parties.

“In the days ahead I look forward to working with legislators of all parties to grow jobs for Wisconsin and move our state forward,” Walker said in a prepared statement.

Democrats and union leaders tried to make the best of the historic GOP wins. There had been only 13 other successful recalls of state-level office holders nationwide since 1913.

“The fact of the matter remains that, fighting on Republican turf, we have begun the work of stopping the Scott Walker agenda,” said Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate.

Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, said voters sent a message that there is a growing movement to reclaim the middle class. Below, see the diverse opinions that state citizens have on the election and the issues surrounding it:

“Let’s be clear, anyway you slice it, this is an unprecedented victory,” he said.

Still, it was far less than what Democrats set out to achieve. And while they still plan to move ahead with recalling Walker, maintaining momentum for that effort which can’t start until November will be difficult.

Sen. Luther Olsen, one of the four Republicans who won, said he hoped the victories would “take the wind out of the recall for Walker, but I’m not sure.”

Two Democratic senators face recall elections next week, but even if they prevail, Republicans would still hold a narrow 17-16 majority.

Four Republican senators held on to their seats Tuesday. They were Olsen and Sens. Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls, Rob Cowles of Allouez, and Alberta Darling of River Hills. Two Republicans – Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac and Dan Kapanke of La Crosse – were defeated. Former deputy mayor of Oshkosh Jessica King beat Hopper and Democratic state Rep. Jennifer Shilling beat Kapanke.

A ninth senator, Democrat Dave Hansen of Green Bay, won his recall election last month.

Collectively, more than $31 million has been spent on the recalls, largely from outside conservative groups, unions and others.

Republican and Democratic strategists were leery of reading too much into the results heading into next year’s campaign in which Wisconsin is expected to be a key swing state.

Democratic strategist Chris Lehane said the results could provide “some early radar warnings” about the 2012 races.

“At a minimum, we already know that the conservatives are providing energy for progressive to fight back like an angry badger that otherwise may not have existed,” he said.

Lehane said Wisconsin‘s tumultuous year since November’s elections has been a microcosm of the current “rollercoaster” era of U.S. politics.

Wisconsin voters had mixed emotions about the necessity of the recalls.

Wisconsin Republicans Keep Senate Majority in Recall ElectionWayne Boland, 41, a Whitefish Bay man who works in marketing for a medical equipment maker, said he voted for the Republican Darling “not because I entirely agree with everything the Republican Party has done or the governor” but because they‘re working toward addressing the state’s problems.

Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature and the governor’s office in the 2010 election just nine months ago.

Democrats had hoped enough wins in the recalls would have allowed them to block the Republican agenda, but the GOP will hold on to their majorities that have allowed them to rapidly pass bills through the Legislature.

The elections were also closely watched in other states undergoing similar partisan battles.

A coalition of unions and labor-friendly groups fighting a Wisconsin-style collective bargaining overhaul in Ohio said the outcome of the recall elections will have little bearing on whether Ohio’s law is repealed this fall.

The effort in Wisconsin was about recalling specific Republicans who voted for the anti-union bill while the push in Ohio is about repealing the law itself. That makes it difficult to compare the two states, said We Are Ohio spokeswoman Melissa Fazekas.

Supporters of the Ohio law also are distancing their state from the fight in Wisconsin.

“We’re not focused on Wisconsin, and Ohioans aren’t looking to another state to tell them where they should stand,” said Jason Mauk, spokesman for Building a Better Ohio, a group defending the collective bargaining law.

Ohioans will vote Nov. 8 on whether to accept or reject the union-limiting law signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich in March that limits bargaining rights for more than 350,000 police, firefighters, teachers and other government employees.

Unlike Wisconsin, Ohio’s Constitution makes no provision for recalling elected officials.

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  • JohnBirch
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:21am

    Even though Ohio is a fairly heavy union state, the recall of the law is on shakey ground with most voters here. There is a strong anti-union sentiment here, even among some (forced) uniion members.

    The CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION rolls on!

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    • BlackAce41
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:41am

      I have noticed that the ones who protest are the one that don’t vote!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:21am

      Indeed the Conservative Revolution continues on and on and on; may it not stop until the nation is restored and we are once again a truly free nation.
      http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)

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    • freekazoid
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:24am

      Hold on people in Wisconsin You have 2 more re-calls coming up… Win thsoe 2 and we are back to the way the senate should be. Don’t give up. And P.S. all that money from labor Unions that were supposed to bein a account in case of a strike“which to me is a sign you should be fired”, just lost you between 15-20 million. How do you feel when you retire and that money isn’t there?? things that make you go DUH!!!!!!!!!!

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:32am

      The lefties and union thugs continue with the Saul Alinsky tactics of demonizing your opponent so that they can continue to feed at the trough with undereducated, mediocre workers who all make the same ridiculously high salary with ridiculous and unachievable benefits. Evidently, the truth is too far out of reach for these mental midgets.

      IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A GOOD LIVING, GO OUT AND GET EDUCATED, TAKE A RISK, AND PROVIDE SOMETHING OF VALUE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN! This is the American Dream, but these slackers are trying to make this into the USSA.

      Unions; taking down companies, corporations, states and our country….ALL AT ONCE!

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:39am

      Poor poor unions. Just can’t handle the fact that they are dinosaurs. I’ve never understood why in this day and age that a grown man or woman who is qualified needs another man to bargain on their behalf. Can’t stand up for yourself? Can’t negotiate on your own merits? Can’t ask the boss for your own raise? Would rather act like filthy hippies and destroy the state Capitol?

      Elections have consequences as we have seen with the election of our president. The people have called for an end to your stranglehold on their wallets. Face it. You’re unions are done in this country. We can no longer afford to carry your sorry a$$.

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    • Dale
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:40am

      A union moral victory!

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    • JMorcan
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:05am

      None of this matters. Quashing unions will no more restore the economy than will printing more money. Americans would have to work for $.050/hr to compete with third-world countries.

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    • WTH
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:17am

      Wasn’t there already a vote in Wisconsin last November? Walker and these Republicans ran on cleaning up Wisconsin’s budget, especially its shortfall. Now Democrats have spent (wasted) even more money witht the same results. Republicans keep control! Next week I hope those Dems that ran (job abandonment) away like little bitches get the boot and really put Dems in their place and hopefully shut them the hell up. The people HAVE spoken again and they don‘t want union thuggery to run Wisconsin’s state government.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:41am

      Funny hypocrites! Connecticut is in process of much harsher union reforms as we speak, but Connecticut has a democrat governor. and corrupt union officials (if you can believe that). The ct legislature is dominated by democrats with super majority radical leftists also. Governor Malloy let the union vote on his massive changes to health and pension and the membership rejected it. The corrupt union leadership then changed the rules of how votes are counted. Big ed shultzie hasn’t come to ct to protect the union membership

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:50am

      Pray for the good guys…and it ain’t unions!

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    • the hawk
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:18am

      YES WE DID IT ! WE WONT LET THE PHYCO’S hAVE THIS STATE !

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:25am

      @ one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:29am
      lmao did you get a load of frED Shultz covering the vote ?

      Looked like His Head was going to Explode, Poor Dip Shi**..
      i’m going to use HIS line. .“ Never Prouder to ba an AMERICAN”
      when he used when he was covering the “MISSING FOURTEEN”..

      YEEEEEEEEAA !!! Keep up the good work Gov. Scott Walker ..
      I would SUE the unions for the damage they caused to the Capital
      Bldgs…Kick their BUTTS out of the STATE..

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:35am

      Wisconsin is awake and they have seen the Big Union Thugs marching arm in arm with the Communists Party USA this year!
      They know what is at stake and they will do whatever is necessary to save their state from ruin

      They have seen first hand what he Big Union Thugs, Democrats, and the CPUSA have done to their state and the great state of Michigan!

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    • michael48
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:44am

      encino-skank …got out of the pen…again…lemming patrol has been notified…maybe they’ll abort this on going, insect….

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:54am

      Hey Rachel take that backlash!!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:56am

      Let’s be open and honest here.
      The two seats that the GOP did lose were expected to go. One was from the 32nd district which is a staunch democrat district. The GOP senator from that district had only won that race with 49% of the vote. The second seat was being fought for by a GOP senator accused of adultery, living with this mistresses and who’s own wife was for the recall it was a battle he was destined to lose.
      Make no mistake after tens of millions of dollars and a relentless ongoing campaign by the unions- both in Wisconsin and inter-state- the GOP won a convincing victory and retained the state senate.
      The people of Wisconsin are clearly waking up.

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    • vtxphantom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:14pm

      @lillymckim

      You are right. These elections here in Wisconsin were a statement in many ways. If the conservatives would have lost these elections we would be looking at Michigan as our future. It would have also given the left a reason to do this in other states. I have never seen so many Illinois people sticking their beaks into our politics. Make no mistake obama’s people were here in droves. They have lost and there are two democrat recall elections coming up. We plan on taking them out and putting our people in. Tea Party is alive and well here. We will not be defeated! It’s great when the people are awake.

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    • Parkeralan
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

      Little by little, we will overcome this attack on American Capitalism. I have spoken with Ohio Governor John Kasich and he said he will push to make Ohio a right to work state when the time is right.

      Patience, Persistence and Prayer!

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    • Goodforall
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Excellent post! God bless you and the state for continuing to stang up against these union thugs. I believe people are waking up and seeing the light on how these unions mis-represent them and waste millions on campaign controbutions-monet that was ment for pensions. Continue to fight the good fight-we in Texas support you!

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    • Zer0
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Yay!!! Take that ya dastardly, bloody, Unions!!! You’re finished!!!

      STRIKEBREAKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!!

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    • 101
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:49pm

      Unions have been losing power, now they just blow steam

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    • ilovethiscountry
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:10pm

      You wouldn’t believe all the demonstrations that went on here! You couldn’t go through a major intersection without seeing Dem. protestors with signs. Republicans did not demonstrate. All of that time and money wasted by the Dems.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:26pm

      Isn’t that what has happened in UK. All the troph feeders aren’t happy with their food rations, so to get what they want…they are looting? That’s what I hear. These people don’t understand that to have a socialist country, they will only get what the government is willing to dole out….it’s not going to be all that “wealth”. The government is making fools of them, because it’s only the political theives that will have the riches.They are just the tools used to get there. After it’s all said and done…what need will the government have of them? They would serve them better if they were not breathing.

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    • jtm45
      Posted on August 13, 2011 at 4:00am

      repeal executive order signed by none other than JFK,#10988,authorizing g’mint employees to unionize will end this.

      also a death tax for G’mint employees as follows: “All government employees regardless of position, upon death, all assets accrued shall be returned to the tax payers”.

      thats the way to equalize the ruinous death tax businesses face.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    this is good news but dont think its over by a long shot the unions will keep this fight going

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    • GayDem4Beck
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:56am

      Let the unions keep trying… 31-Million is allot of money spent for minimal gains. The more these unions and progressives spend in local/state elections now, the less they will have to spend in 2012 !

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:21am

      At 15 mill a seat, enough of these battles will annihilate the unions financially by pure financial attrition. It may not tbe the cleanest way to be rid of their scourge, but it works.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:36am

      Trumpka is a communist and is leading all the union members into communism. Wake up union members. Is that what you really want for America?

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:42am

      Gaydem4beck

      Your point is well made, but there will just be another birthday envelope full of taxpayer dollars handed to the unions so they can flood the coffers of dem election war chests.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 10:42am

      Unions should have No place in Government, It is
      corrupt enough as it is…. NO UNIONS !!!!!!!

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  • auntmoxie.com
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t “collective bargaining” a right only when you’re bargaining with a PRIVATE SECTOR and NOT with the government? Correct me if I’m wrong, please. Just trying to understand.

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:39am

      Should be but isn’t. The government unions are bargaining with the tax payer, the only problem with that is the tax payer has no say. Just the unions and politicians. The union scam is just as big as Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. You will soon find out!!!!

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    • glashole
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:00am

      And the results of the non collective bargaining win for WI. Over 100K jobs lost by teachers, in two counties that still allow collective bargianing. Zero jobs lost in all other school districts, just adjustments made to work load and benefit packages. ??? More schools can balance budgets, Brown Deer S.D. saved $100′s of thousands on insurance due to their new ability to shop around. Oh and the collective bargaining issue only affects benefits not wages. Everyone needs to be willing to give a little to right this ship. Fiscal responsibility starts and ends with me, or should I work my tail off so you can have more and do less? I do not thiink that works!

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    • lel2007
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:13am

      I would think anyone can bunch up and make demands, it’s their right. I also think it‘s an employer’s right to pay any wage he chooses, workers are not compelled to accept the job. The outrageous part is when government intervenes and forces a “settlement” while a union is allowed to shut out replacement workers.

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    • CameronIL
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:07pm

      You are absolutely right. All the government employees in Washington DC working for Obama that belong to a union are NOT allowed any collective bargaining and never have! The unions spend all this money strictly for a dog and pony show to show their strength. However, it failed and the unions continue to decrease in their membership. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership is at the lowest in the past 70 years. However, they will be raising Union dues so the fat cat union leaders get those high salaries and their unlimited expense accounts, They had a purpose at one time, but they don’t any longer.

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  • GulfPeg
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    Now, perhaps the Democrats in Wisconsin will re-think doing a recall for the governor in January!!

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:38am

      Two Demorats are next in line, to face the chopping block..
      Pig Ed go back to OBMSNBC, the good people in WI want
      you out of their STATE…GO HOME !!.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:42am

      I don’t get it., so if you don’t like the politician sitting in the house you have a recall vote ? How many times can you recall ? Can we have recalled obama ? So, in other words, if an election takes place and the people are sleeping and don’t show up to the polls, then don’t like what happens they can recall ? doesn’t make sense at all to me..

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    I wish all the Republicans had maintained their seats.

    Unions showed what they were about – clogging the wheels – in Wisconsin and every other state that refuses to kowtow to their sweetheart deals w union-owned Democrats as Governors.

    The Unions shot themselves in the foot – when conspiring with teachers to make use of their students as pawns to attend the union protests – transporting these children without the knowledge or consent of their parents – removing them from school – as a pre-meditated plan – w teachers conspiring w their unions to LIE and to call in sick – to abruptly cancel classes and to disrupt the children’s school days.

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  • martinrnelson
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    You mean after the Dem Senators ran away from a fight by leaving the state…we still lost seats. WIsconson…check yourselves Republicans – Fight FIght Fight!!!! I believe the Dems senators who left the state should all be replaced with respectable dems. That would be a tough order to fill.

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  • Tanner Smith
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    Sounds like Wisconsin is the land of the wishy-washy. What part of percentage ofGDP does campaign money compile?

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:13pm

      The Unions don’t guarantee good or better workers, they only guarantee the slackers will be able to share in all the corruption with the others. No wonder we have so many bad teachers, they are Union and can’t be fired regardless of how bad they are. And this is progress? No wonder so many kids can’t get good grades on the tests, bad teachers!
      I also dislike (hate) unions because they are rioting thugs. We don’t need this in America. To those who think they deserve high paying jobs, good pensions etc., work your a**es off and show you appreciate it. But most of you are slackers.

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  • Miljunk
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:17am

    All states should be a right to work state, unions should have no power granted to them by the federal government. If individual states want to have union labor laws of varying degre
    es that is there prerogative. The Federal government needs to shove off on state matters and people need to realize that unions are an affront to our republic and hurt quality as well as employment.

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:16am

    Just as important, will this vote resonate elsewhere? Maybe people on the Right will be encouraged a little more, and move to attempt recall of Dems in their home states. It seems the fight against liberalism and union thuggery is on in earnest, and I don‘t think it’ll be contained to Wisconsin now.

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:16am

    Union Thuggery
    Union=Communism
    Unions protect the weak and stupid

    Mr. Walker, thanks for the courage to stand your ground .
    Next lets get the enemy of the Sate out of the WH along with all his Socialist friends in 2012!

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    • TP Terrorist
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:17am

      Unions protect the weak and stupid

      No, unions and the dems make a lot of money on the backs of the weak and stupid. Always have, always will. They will close the company and lose jobs for the weak and stupid before they will give up any money or power. It’s about th

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    • ThomasUSA
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:27am

      It is not just protect the weak and stupid it is nurture and propagate weakness, dependence and stupidity through collective mind set, and attention to propaganda( socialistm / communism) instead of independent thinking and questioning “facts” with boldness and learning how to think for yourself.

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    • LibertyRanger
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:24am

      Unions exist to protect crap employees. Good workers don’t need them.

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  • Encinon
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:15am

    Thankfully this turned out well. While I hate the repubs, there is no reason the working class should get any more monies or rights than the unemployed like myself. These people think they are entitled to more than I have just because they work and frankly that is absurd

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    • bandi9
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:30am

      you saying you are unemployed now makes sense, as i long suspected you to be living in your parents basement, living off of them and the public teet.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:31am

      Do you have to work hard to be such an idiot or does it come naturally?

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:46am

      @BANDI9, LMFAO !!!! That’s a good one…

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:09am

      @encinon No amount of psychotropic drugs will help you.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:53am

      Tea-Baggers need to get a life. encinoN, your are a child and an idiot. If you disagree with my comments be man enough to address me directly, instead of the pony show you are putting on.

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    • Encinon
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Sorry about that little rant. I sometimes try not to use the tea bag line so that you guys will take me serious. I do get frustrated that some mock my unemployed lifestyle as well. I think if most of you tried it, with the government paying you woild appreciate it more. I get so, so mad at the baggers for delaying this for me. Obama, jones etc were so close to getting me my free stuff before you bags came along

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:24pm

      EncinoN, you are a laugh riot, this is coming from some one who grew up below the poverty line, in a working class family, where my mother made the best with what little we could afford.

      YOu tea-baggers, watch fox and listen to Beck and think poverty is the great. You think not knowing if you going to get evicted this week or next is a joke. You complain about safety nets, yet cry and whine when some one dare challenge the corporate welfare that is handed out.

      You punk, I served my country for 4 years, including time in Iraq during the first gulf war. Disagree with me fine, confront me like a man.

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    • jimtrees
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:48pm

      Where were all the black union members? Oh, i forgot, it’s only the all white republicans that are racists. Big fat Ed failed on such a level that he should fired. And if the tv series Walking Dead need any extras, just get some of the people standing behind Ed. It was very funny watching these clowns go from euphoria to almost committing suicide. All the black union members were doing the menial jobs that the union provides just to look deverse.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:52pm

      @Encinom You pathetic freakin’ liberals are so misguided. I have 60 dollars to my name. I owe about 350 dollars in bills right now. I have been one paycheck from homelessness my whole life. But I take NOTHING from the government !!!! I am a white TEA PARTY member that believes the bums should get their lazy @sses to work !!!! The people that Really need assistance should get it !!! From individuals, not the Government.
      Jerry Lewis telethon generates millions per year for MD research. That is Charity from the people, not the worthless federal government.
      We only need a federal government for ONE reason !!!! Common DEFENSE.
      not OFFENSE, to continue financing the Military Industrial Complex.
      The reason it is harder to find work, either for one’s self or as an employee, is because of the federal government’s policies.They have been purposely destroying our economy for years to implement a Global Government. Also, local, state and federal regulations are KILLING all business, from the individual mowing lawns to the bigger corporations. I Produce for my world and community. Most don’t. I make Signs and murals. the community needs signs and some art. I also drive a taxi part time. I assist the elderly often, and provide safe rides for those for have had too much to drink. And to debunk the Tea party is racist crap, the other day I took a very nice black lady to church. My next customer found her keys. I went about 5 miles out of my way to return them. She thanked me. We hugg

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    • Encinon
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:59pm

      Sorry for another rant. Not sure why Id make up a story about serving out country and being a real man, when I sit here and call you guys vulgar names over the internet day after day. That said, I am tired of you guys arguing that I shouldn’t have my mortgge paid forever by the people who work. In my mind, it is much better for you to give me a little bit of cash each month so I can continue to live in poverty than for you to encourage me to eventually sustain myself. Listen guys, I quit on myself a long time ago so I am going to continue to argue that you guys are baggers until you just give me enough money to live with no strings attached forever. Until you do, I think you are all baggers

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    • jimtrees
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:08pm

      I forgot to say in my last post. My father raised me on the belief that unions are bad. His best line was. “Union men are so lazy that they sh$t in and kick it out.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:05pm

      @ProbIemSoIver
      I know what that is like being one paycheck, on illness away from losing everything. The purpose of the Federal Government, as outlined in the preamble is to provide for the general welfare. Look, I agree, except for the most worse off among us, welfare and unemployment should not be anything more than short term assistance programs, safety nets for hard times. But short term is relative, how can you tell some one to get a job, when their are no jobs to be had? Is it better to leave the poor starving in the streets, shall with have a return to the Hoovervilles? Charity is great, but b it self it can never be enough. Its not regulations that are killing jobs, without the regualtions we will have a return to days were workers were fired for mentioning safety issues. We are losing jobs because of GOP sponsored trade programs. The American workers, union or not, can not compete against the chinese worker, working for slave wages.

      It great that you are angery, the problem with the tea party, is that you are fools and dupes, being used by Koch Borhters and others to enrich their own pockets. You are protesting against your own self interests.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:35pm

      It great that you are angery, the problem with theunions is that you are fools and dupes, being used by statist corporatists and others to enrich their own pockets. You are protesting against your own self interests.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:08pm

      at encinom the moron

      the preamble say to PROMOTE general welfare not provide

      you lefties have a real issue with adding non existent words and meanings to things

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 4:07pm

      jimtrees
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:11pm
      encinom, if the unions are so good to you, why are you unemployed?
      _________________________
      Actually, I am not unemployed, look at the end of the name, soem @$$hat thinks it is cute to impersonate me. Nor do I live off of goverment hand outs, I boot straped up with the help of the goverment, with the GI Bill to help with college, with HUD and other programs for first time home owner. I am no longer in a union, switched fields but was for several years during and after college, worked in the construction field, I see the BS that the corporations attempt to get away with, the lapses in safety, the attempts to nickle and diem you out of your pay or have create trumped up charges to get rid of “problem” workers that speak up about rights. Are unions perfect, no, but until a worker has an equal baragining position as the corporation they are needed.

      You are doing nothing but letting the Koch brothers and others use you as an attack dog against your own self interests.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:24pm

      ENCINOM…I knew you had to come from a single parent family. This is why Obama’s handout culture and moral relativsm appeal to you so much. You’re damaged goods champ.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:49pm

      AvengerK
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 5:24pm
      ENCINOM…I knew you had to come from a single parent family. This is why Obama’s handout culture and moral relativsm appeal to you so much. You’re damaged goods champ.
      __________________________________
      I had two parents, my father in the early years didn’t earn much, held a steady job, just not one that paid alot, my mother made due and stretched budget as much as she could.

      I love how you good christians write off children, I guess the children of fallen soilders will be damaged goods to you also? Was it a handout that I used the GI Bill to go to college, or found federal programs for Vets and first time hoem buyers. You tea partiers have been brainwashed by Beck and other mouth pieces to shut-up at accept the crumbs your corporate masters throw your way. God forbid something happens to you, under your logic its better to watch your children starve, than ask for government help (that had been paid for by your tax dollars).

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  • starman70
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:14am

    The voters of Wisconsin have seen the light!!! The state has made MORE economic progress in the past year than in the last 5 years. Wisconsin has shown the nation that once the UNION STRANGLEHOLD on the state and the businesses in the state is released, economic progress will be made.

    CONGRATULATIONS WISCONSIN!

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:25am

      Glad the GOP only lost two. Could’ve been worse, for sure. Here’s hoping next week will go 100% Republican.
      I can’t understand, after the ppl of WI had to endure the trashing of their State House by the creeps of the Left, why would they vote for ANY Dimrat???

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:42am

      in the last 8 months….

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:03pm

      I wonder how much more their economy would improve if they prevented all the illegals from working, and replaced them with American Citizens.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:12am

    I thought the cheese heads were history. Maybe not. There may still be hope for the state.

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  • jhrusky
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:11am

    What’s amazing is that our “educators” here can’t see the reality of the situation that their free rides aer costing everyone a lot of money, and now just months after Walker removed some of their excess privledges, school districts across the state have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and not a single teaching job has been lost.

    You’d think intelligent teachers could see the light, but apparently union love blinds their thoughts.

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    • lel2007
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:08am

      I don’t know, but I suspect the majority of protesters are not teachers.

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    • Amma K
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 4:49pm

      My daughter is a teacher in Wisconsin and she said that out of about 40 teachers only one has signed up and paid their union dues! Guess that tells us something!!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:10am

    Harry Potter looked like she was going to poop her pants.Keep the Commies out Wisconsin.You do not want to be like Illinois!!

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  • Platonician
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:10am

    Great victory for Mr. Walker!

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  • cosette
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:10am

    Awesome!!!!!!!

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  • 338lapua
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:07am

    Maybe we can pick off a couple of dems next week!

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    • Amma K
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 4:44pm

      From your lips to God’s ears!!! Now we need to show the liberals that their efforts to recall had no meaning at all – vote for Kim Simac and Jonathan Steitz in next Tuesdays and take down the two democrats who fled our state along with their responsibilities to their constituents! What a waste of money this whole recall thing was!!!!!!

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  • Daryn J. Moran
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:07am

    Praise the Lord.

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  • Phoenixsoulfire
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:06am

    YAY Wis wised up! This was a vote against the Unions and the progressives let us hope the rest of the country wises up and votes out the rest of them and get that fraud out of the white house,

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  • claymoremacm
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:06am

    All righty then take that union goons

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:29am

      Pig ED Shultz and the union ding bats can now leave WI alone..
      STOP the MADNESS !!!

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  • Proudmomof5
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:06am

    Thank You Voters. God Bless Wisconsin!

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:08am

      God Bless Wisconsin and God Bless America. Way to stand up people!

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:13am

      Look at that, there’l already 31 million dollars put into the economy. Way to go GOP! The fine voters of WI made the right choice to get their state back on track. I hope this will be a shining example of taking the state from red to black on the bottom line.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:05pm

      Agreed! God bless Wisconsin, may you be the victors over the enemy. UNIONS = ENEMY.
      Will pray for you and your wonderful Governor Walker.

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  • Phoenixsoulfire
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:03am

    YAY, people are wising up against the Unions and the progressives. Let us hope the rest of the nations wise up and votes out this fraud in the white house out.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:03am

    Not the Republicans should put for recall elections for all the state legislators that left state during budget talks.

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    • cosette
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:09am

      Huh???????????

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:12am

      Agreed totally. No ‘leader’ that cuts and runs with his/her tail between his/her legs should be allowed to remain a leader.

      WOLVERINES!

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:18am

      “Now the Republicans should seek recall elections for all the state legislators that left state during budget talks.” Is this what you were saying? Just trying to help. :)

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:49am

      I love how all the libbies assumed they won the recall….OOPS! Guess all that commie crap they digested turned out to be a big lie.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:02am

    Yes. There is a God. Keep praying and keep fighting.

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    • PATRIOTMAMA
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 7:46am

      Amen!!!!

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    • Doreen
      Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:17am

      Amen. God Bless Wisconsin. The Fight is not over, stay watchful and be ready to Stand, Fight and VOTE. The Progressives, Socialist and Radicals will try something else to get their way so be WATCHFUL. Let’s continue to take America back so our children and grandchildren will enjoy a Truely Free America.

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