Wisconsin Supreme Court Backs Controversial Union Law
- Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:38pm by
Billy Hallowell
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court handed Republican Gov. Scott Walker a major victory on Tuesday, ruling that his polarizing union rights law can go into effect.
In a 4-3 decision, the court said Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi overstepped her authority when she said Republican lawmakers violated the state’s opening meetings statutes in the run-up to passage and declared the union rights law void.
The law, which eliminates most of public employees’ collective bargaining rights and requires them to pay more for their health care and pensions, sparked weeks of protests when Walker introduced it in February. Tens of thousands of demonstrators occupied the state Capitol for weeks, thrusting Wisconsin to the forefront of a national debate over labor rights.
Walker claimed that the law was needed to help address the state’s $3.6 billion budget shortfall and give local governments enough flexibility on labor costs to deal with deep cuts to state aid.
Democrats saw it as an attack on public employee unions, which usually back their party’s candidates. Democratic state senators fled to Illinois to try to prevent a vote on the measure, but Republicans got around the maneuver by convening a special committee to remove fiscal elements from the bill and allow a Senate vote with fewer members present. Walker signed the plan into law two days later.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit the next week claiming Republicans didn’t provide the proper public notice of the meeting in violation of state law. Sumi first issued a temporary order blocking publication of the collective bargaining law while she weighed his arguments and then last month declared the law void.
Attorneys for the state Department of Justice, representing the Republicans who control the Legislature, asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, in part to speed the process. Walker counted on the law being in effect in the budget he put forward for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Ozanne had urged the court to let the case work its way through the usual appeals process.
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Comments (344)
ofallon
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:15pmGreat News! Congrats to Governor Walker!
Report Post »csinnm
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:08amyup! good job, sir!
Report Post »Nolan Ryan-s Fastball
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:10pmGod Bless Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court!
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:18pmDitto,Ditto,Ditto….!
Report Post »NoStoppingUs
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:09pmTHis is what democracy looks like!
Report Post »justice
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:09pmYes, yes,yes…..
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:08pmHow crazy is it that it even came to this. Asking people to pay a little more for their benefits is controversial? Sigh…
Report Post »123gone
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:08pmCONGRATULATIONS to the Wisconsin Officials that stuck to their guns to make this happen.
You are Giants among men and worthy of our praise. God Bless you all for a job well done.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:13pmVery well put, Walker and the other Representitives showed
Report Post »Amazing Courage to hold strong against these THUGS !!!
I understand these people went to their Homes to protest..
Send the SEIU packing !!! and don’t come Back !!
RoBoTech
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:04pmWinning!
But Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson doesn’t think so.
Report Post »She heaps scorn on just-re-elected Justice David Prosser’s concurrence.
Too bad, so sad Socialists!
UnLoon supporters are going DOWN in America!
Guaranteed. It his well along in that process and no end in sight for YEARS!
And goods luck UnLoon dolts, with those GOP recalls in WI. With Democrat candidates like Fred Clark running against the GOP Congressmen, you are going to need it!
Mr. Oshawott
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:02pmFinally! The long-awaited action of weakening the destructive power of public-sector unions has officially started!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:02pmJust what we know to expect from stupid democrats. Tell them to call 1-800-WHAA.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:02pmIf we do not hang together we shall surly hang separately !!!!!
Report Post »PineyWoods
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:59pmThat is the best thing I have heard all day!! Way to go Governor Walker!! The teachers are on summer break now at their tax-payer funded summer homes so I am sure they won’t show up to protest. I doubt the morons even know what has happened. The rest of the thugs that came to Madison are probably organizing some sort of “Flash-Mob” activities in Chicago or Detroit, gotta get their summer wardrobes together by ripping stuff off the racks at Abercrombie you know!
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:58pmSweeeet!!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:57pmGood.
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:21amyeah, that’s good. press on Gov. Walker!
Report Post »TexasStu
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:57pmSanity raigns for a change!!!! YEEEEEHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Report Post »johndylan1
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:54pmthat’s one for the “good guys”, let’s now hope that the improvement in the state budget actually happens.
Report Post »RoBoTech
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:14pmIt already did.
Report Post »It was just released that the 40 Mill savings estimated for the budget was far exceeded. 360 Mill!
Way to go Walker and friends!!
stefooch
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:53pmCongrats Gov Walker and thank you for your courage!
Report Post »Romanticpoet
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:52pmNow fire all the teachers that obtained “fake” sick slips during the brouhaha and thought they were above the law.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:50pmGood for them.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:48pmI’m sure the libloons are going through with a fine tooth comb to find a judge among the 4 of this bench who had a conflict of interest in this judgement
Report Post »Progessives=Fail
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:10pmI wouldn’t be surprised to see holder block/delay it somehow.
Report Post »4wheels
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:46pmYES!!! * ARM PUMPING !! **
Report Post »Our unions have over stretched their purpose and are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. (companies that provide jobs) Boeing- your next!!
Mil Mom
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:50pmRe: Our unions have over stretched their purpose and are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. (companies that provide jobs) Boeing- your next!!
Report Post »******************
But, they’re not worried, when the goose is gone, they’ve all got jobs in the bureaucracy, or IRS!
oriondma05
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:46pmThose court justices are very brave. I wonder how long before they’re targeted.
Report Post »Louie Louie the Progressive
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:41pmWhen the FATLADY puts down the mike.
Report Post »ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:44pmWe are not union slaves, we are not Agenda 21 slaves of the world, we are Americans!
Thank God the Supreme Court got it right!
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 4:14pmthe countrys mood is changing and we don’t like what we have been seeing in OBAMA land. he is drawing smaller crowds and is begin heckeled. i have new hope that we will get him out of office in 2012. but i know he will not go quietly. so whats the next crisis going to be? marxis never go quietly
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:42pmFirst.
And YES. About time the courts started doing to the left what the left was doing to the rigth for years.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:18pmTomorrow….mark my words, there will be a brand new lawsuit filed, or a new lefty judge whose panties are in a bunch over something or another. The Walker administrationwill be able to do NOTHING without these little temper tantrums until we exterminate the very last one of them.
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:29amprobably sooner than that
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:42pmGee, and after obama’s domestic-terrorist thugs worked so hard to destroy the Wisconsin Capitol Building – I hope they are not too disappointed.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:10pmAll this did was bring back this unpopular bill fresh in the minds of voters in WI .. it will get them motivated to get rid of all the Repubs up for Recalls …… Walker is next ……. WI will soon fix the mistake they made …
Report Post »the zipper
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:21pmIn your dreams AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:24pmSounds like AKIIMIKIE has his knickers in a twist. So sad.
Unions……..bankrupting our States and job makers for the USSA! Thugs unite!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:28pmAKMIIKEUS
Report Post »You are really obsessed with those recalls aren’t you?
Republicans erase 3.6 billion dollar mess without affecting the funcion or services the govt provides.
We have our first HONEST budget in 20 years,the people of Wisconsin LOVE Scott Walker and what he and the Republicans are doing.
However
There are 14 lunatic lefties who aren’t getting much sleep lately!
How do you beat 14 runners?
WITH ONE WALKER!!!!
AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHA!
RepubliCorp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:30pmAKMIIKEUS Oh yeah…… the tax payer of WI can’t wait to hand back control to the unions. And Obama is happy about the court ruling. I bet trees talk to you…….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:33pmLOL .. I hope they are … (wink)
TEA!
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:35pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS is probably one of those,
U.seless
N.on-producers
.I.nsisting
O.n
N.ational
S.ocialism
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biohazard23
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:50pm@NotAMushroom, it’s not just ANY pair of knickers in a twist. It’s his Kiki de Montparnasse silk cage panties that are in a twist.
And he likes it.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:12pm338LAPUA
How do you beat 14 runners?
WITH ONE WALKER!!!!
AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHA!
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Lol, that got a good laugh out of me. I am proud to say not only did I get my birthday wish on Nov 2nd (Scott Walkers birthday also) but I helped vote him in.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:31pm8 million to clean up the last ordeal from the worthless lemmings.
I worry these losers are capable of anything, really, so I’d be on the lookout in MadTown and remain vigilant. There’s nothing worse than having to baby-sit a class of people that don‘t like to work much and were taught when things don’t go your way, loot and vandalize.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:41pm@ hifi74
Report Post »338LAPUA
How do you beat 14 runners?
WITH ONE WALKER!!!!
AAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHA
Very Funny, Brought back memories of PigEd Shultz standing out in the cold,
the night the 14 were AWOL, saying “I Have Never Been Prouder to Be American
Then I Am Right Now” even teared up a little too..That was Funny !!!
Anyway, OORAH for Wisconsin and Walker !!!
Progessives=Fail
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:05pmthe troll is in denial…
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:37pmLOL! Good one 338LUPUA!
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:38pmCareful, If you keep telling your self that you might start to believe it.
Report Post »Aegis
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:39pmAKMIIKEUS, Your the very definition of “insanity!”
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:14pm@MIBUGNU2
Report Post »Ed Schultz….tearing up…..makes you wonder if(sniff, sniff) he……dropped……(sniff)
A CHILIDOG
Dripping sarcasm,in case anyone is wondering.
Mil Mom
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:55pm@hauschild
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:31pm
8 million to clean up the last ordeal from the worthless lemmings.
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Report Post »And ? Did I read correctly that even still, the new budget will be balanced? I want Walker to tutor John Boehner and the Repubs in DC !!!
HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 2:28am@AKMIIKEUS Quite the opposite is true….the longer they stay there chanting and assaulting people with their vile signs and foul language, the more they seal their fate. I’m rather enjoying even the liberal rag of a paper we have slowly come around to see what the union mentality is all about. These protesters are like Obama was in the 2010 election cycle…..the person you least want to be photographed with or endorsed by. Keep up the drum banging, penny shaking and vile images and language…the rest of Wisconsin‘s getting a good look at the democratic constituency and it ain’t pretty!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:22amSWEEEEEYT!!!! Okay it’s time to warn the liberal trolls to run back to their dank,dark basements and hide. The Right is marching on to total victory with a soon win in the White House and the Senate. EVERY DAY I think one term for the Commie Bamster is too much Now if we can impeach the imposterer in the White House and start arresting subversives and trolls who hate the Constitution.
Report Post »Ethereal
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:43pm@AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »You are a fool. Here in WI they just balanced a budget and erased a 4B deficite WITHOUT putting it on the backs of the tax payers like was done under every budget hearing with Doyle. Yeah, what an evil thing, to finally do things the way they are intended without borrowing from this fund to pay that fund then raising the tax levey EVERY DAMN YEAR to cover their irresponsibility. Just wait, you short sighted libs will see that in 5 years under the current “settings” WI will have businesses comming back to the state and creating jobs.
Sabsimm08
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:13pmThanks!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:42pmHee-Haw
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:45pmYeeeeeeee-Ha
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:51pmThe judges acted stupidly
Report Post »/O’haha
Justthefactsmam
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:52pmScore one for the good guys
Report Post »wasnt me
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:53pmThank you!!!! I am from Wisconsin and I was praying for the law to hold up. We are tired of union thugs here. Yipee
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:54pmwow….conservatism actually won one in the courts!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:59pmYES!!!
TEA!
finally some good news.
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:59pmHaha…….
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:00pm@ VegasGuy
Report Post »One down, fifty -six to go!
:D
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:00pm^____^____^
Report Post »Uhg… here we go round 3 of protests on the way. IMO its going to get nasty now. Unions will not back down, progressives will not back down, remember Van Jones made it clear its a 100 yr plan of theirs they arent going to walk away from any of this.
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:04pmNo worries people, 6 Republican’s are being recalled and 3 Dems.
All the Democrats need is 3 new seats to undo all the evil Gov Walker has done.
That part doesn’t make it on the Blaze.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:07pmBammmm
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:12pmThis is one for Walker, but more importantly, this is one for the Tea Party and the US. Congratulations
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:15pmThank you Wisconsin, the nation breaths a bit more sanely tonight.
Report Post »Wigglesworth
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:15pmBad news for the union fat cats.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:23pmI’m doing flips of joy and I live in Ca. “Suck on that!! in unison”
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:23pmCongratulations Wisconson!!!
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:26pmAmiikeus, you’re the worst troll ever. I mean, seriously, liberals have tried to use that same tired argument over and over, that the people in Wisc are somehow horribly opposed to it. Hell, it was paraded as fact back in that election up there a while back…until they realized they grossly miscounted the votes. The people are not stupid, as you would have them. The fight is won for justice to the taxpayers; time to stop pretending tyranny of unions can still win it.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:26pm(in the voice of John Wayne) Ya done good Walker. Ahright ya pilgrims, SADDLE UP – that’s just one steer. We gotta whole herd needs tendin. Move OUT!!
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:31pmYeah Baby!! Finally some good news..Unions suck and I worked in one for 10 years. Dues to the Dems and the radicals..I don’t think so!!
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:34pmThank Heavens this finally got through. It’s about time.
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:37pmWalker 1 Union 0
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:42pmOne small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.
Report Post »rpp
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:44pmCommon sense (and cents) at last!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:45pm@ AKMIIKEUS
No worries people, 6 Republican’s are being recalled and 3 Dems.
All the Democrats need is 3 new seats to undo all the evil Gov Walker has done.
I wouldn’t hold my brearh on that one. Bama and unions on way out SOOOOON !!!
Report Post »NOBAMA-2012….Illegals coming your way,Supreme Court upheld employer Law
in favor of Arizona, I feel some CHANGE in the Air..Thanks COURTS !!!!
Bama wont secure the Border, So NE better watch your JOBS….
fastfacts
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:49pmTHIS GIVES HOPES TO CONSERVATIVES THAT WE CAN FIX THE COURT SYSTEM.
Though if you look at what happened in California with gay marriage you may question any recovery in our Court System.
The court system is a failed system under the Clintonian/Obamian judges, we need to stand up against them: http://tiny.cc/dm22e.
This was bias, everyone knows it and everyone know it would not be overturned because ITS CALIFORNIA a blue liberal state. And the Union Bill judges were in WISCONSIN, a purple mixed state..
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:50pmDemocrat people acted like children, refusing to show up ’cause they couldn’t get everything THEY wanted.
So, the adults took matters into their own hands and said, ‘if you don’t want to participate, fine, we‘ll do it OUR way’
Then, the democrat people got all ‘boo hoo’ whiney, and ran to ‘tell mommy’ (the courts)
Imagine their surprise when the courts (traditionally activist puppets of the left) told the children, “NO”.
NO?!?! What do you MEAN, ‘no,’ the children cried.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:52pmSanity is returning to Wisconsin… now if we can just get rid of the student zombies and union thugs that have taken over the Capitol building in Madison.
Report Post »swampbuck
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:52pm@AKMIIKEUS
must suck being a liberal…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:56pmVery good, the courts have sided against the unions in this case. Now we see how it stands up in the federal courts, if it goes so far.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:08pmAKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:04pm
No worries people, 6 Republican’s are being recalled and 3 Dems.
All the Democrats need is 3 new seats to undo all the evil Gov Walker has done.
That part doesn’t make it on the Blaze.
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I suppose you failed your reading comprehension check that would be 4 and 4. Four Republicans that MAY be recalled and four Hypocrats that MAY be recalled so not only would that flee-baggers have to win three seats from the Republicans of MY state but that would have to hold onto their 4 seats as well. I guess you just forgot to mention that though, right? Try again chump, the Dems are outnumbered and outclassed on this one. And as you don‘t live here you wouldn’t know but already the job environment has drastically improved under gov. Walkers tenure and it is only looking better from here.
Mike, your schlub and a sychophant. Sorry try again chump.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:10pmLooks like Wisconsin wants to compete with Texas for the most awesome state in our Constitutional Republic.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:13pmboom…win !
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:16pmNo wonder Bama went to Puerto Rico today, Didn’t want to face his
Report Post »union buddies today… Harrah for Wisconsin and Walker, Think the
Courts are seeing the Light.. Helped Arizona out a couple of weeks
ago by upholding the Employer Law.. What was Bama doing today ?
Doesn’t mind spending Our Tax $$$$ Campaigning.. Racking up
those Air Miles on AirForceOne, at Cost Millions and Millions of $$$$$$
Be interesting to know how many airmiles and $$$$$$$.. POS goes
to Puerto Rico but won’t check out our Southern Border, WTF ??
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:33pmHang in there Public workers of Wisconsin, only 7 more months before Gov Walker is recalled.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:35pmThey were in closed caucus all afternoon and talk radio (local) had the inside scoop it was coming…..I was glued to the radio and at about 4:50 it was like the skies opened up here and the SUN came out! Glory be there ARE three branches of government! I know the Liberal tent dwelling drum banging chanters won‘t like it but BABY that’s what DEMOCRACY looks like! Governor Walker is so amazing…he’s the epitome of grace under fire……maybe now we can get the tents and legalized graffiti off the streets of Madison and get back to work…..OH and one big highlight…..the weeks budget that will pass will end in a state SURPLUS just two weeks after it passes! WALKER FOR PRESIDENT!
Report Post »barak hussein osama arafat brotherhood
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:45pmHip Hip Hooray for Gov. Walker.
Report Post »He’s got future President all over his resume.
Progessives=Fail
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:00pmFinally, It’s about time…We need someone like Walker in Washington.
Report Post »nomorpc4me
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:12pmYesssss!!!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:15pmGo Walker!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:26pmPraise the Lord! I always believed in a person’s right to work. Holding employees hostage having to pay enormous dues, then giving it away to political figures really pizzed me off. I‘d rather have the integrity of a good job for myself and all others rather than sew up and lock up jobs for only the ones who put up with corruption and thugs using our dues money for a party I wouldn’t shake a stick at let alone vote for. Hoping Boeing can work in South Carolina. It’s their right, not the union thugs.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:29pmGOOD, plus I think I heard a few liberal heads pop, off in the distance, similar to popcorn being made.
Report Post »mill
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 9:31pmshe’s a pig and should be kicked out of office…she knewknewknew she was wrong and was stalling for time.
Report Post »Carl1 Supports Israel
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:16pmI would love to shake Gov Walkers hand.
Report Post »jorge_washington
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:24pmEnjoy your short-lived victory. Come July and August there will 6 less republicans in WI. Then come Jan 03 2012 the signature collections start to recall the governor in WI. 2012 will the governor’s last year in politics. Take from the poor, elderly, infirmed and working class and give gladly to the rich; certainly not the work of God rather the devil.
Report Post »jorge_washington
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:27pm“I would love to shake Gov Walkers hand.”
You better hurry because in 2012 Walker will be a civilian.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:28pm@wasnt me
Report Post »Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:53pm
Thank you!!!! I am from Wisconsin and I was praying for the law to hold up. We are tired of union thugs here. Yipee
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Maybe now you can get a good landscaper, they’ve surely left enough compost at the capitol to make green things grow!
Mil Mom
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:33pm@AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:04pm
No worries people, 6 Republican’s are being recalled and 3 Dems.
All the Democrats need is 3 new seats to undo all the evil Gov Walker has done.
That part doesn’t make it on the Blaze.
Report Post »************
What are you planning to have the New Black Panthers oversee the voting, because with all the expense these Dem’s and Unions have cost the citizens of Wisconsin, that‘s probably the only way you’ll win this at the ballot box! Or, are the bused in protesters there often enough to have registered to vote?
hifi74
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:47pmjorge_washington
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:24pm
Enjoy your short-lived victory. Come July and August there will 6 less republicans in WI. Then come Jan 03 2012 the signature collections start to recall the governor in WI. 2012 will the governor’s last year in politics. Take from the poor, elderly, infirmed and working class and give gladly to the rich; certainly not the work of God rather the devil.
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Wow Mike, how insulting is your intlligence? Only a stupid liberal like you would change names and repeat the same bad information like you did, idiot boy. It is 4 Republicans and 4 Hypocrats being recalled, but leave it to an idiot like you to not even get that right.
You’re delusional, everyday things in Wisconsin re getting beteter and better under the tuteledge of Walker and his popularity gets stronger and stronger. So please, don’t try to pass this drivel that you are calling honest discourse off as anything other then the ravings af a left wing lunatic liberal troll.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 11:05pmI wouldn’t celebrate just yet they need to retry this through the courts again, who‘s to say that Wisconsin’s Supreme Court goes the other way in their decision.
Report Post »HEARDENOUGHCRAP
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 11:12pmI’m jazzed!!! Here where I live, I was forced into the union. Our “collective bargining rights” consist of liberal democrats stealing from our paychecks and telling us HOW to vote. I work for the state, but the union is just another bunch of hands in our pockets. Our pay has been cut, we have forced furlough days, our health care has trippled, and what we pay for our retirement has doubled. Taxes are higher, buying power of our dollar is schrinking, those in the unions are caught in the squeeze between managment and union bosses, neither of which actually KNOW (or have forgotten) what it is to REALLY WORK. I fully realize that I no longer do manual labor (I used to), and there are those who have worked all their lives who have no pension, so I don’t take what I have lightly. I have realized that the “promises” of 20 years ago, are no different than the “promises” FDR made with “The New Deal”. Neither are sustainable.
Report Post »MsMac
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 11:20pmWOO! HOO! There is a Santa Claus!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 11:43pmHifi74 WROTE:
” Try again chump, the Dems are outnumbered and outclassed on this one.”
@HIFI74
The dems are ALWAYS outclassed.
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pschlentz
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:01amThank God, may justice prevail!!
Report Post »captjack63
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:33amWay to go.Finally 3 judges that were not afraid to do the right thing.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 5:51ami wonder what is wrong with the three disenting judges? could be liberals i guess.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:49am@FASTFACTS wrote: “Though if you look at what happened in California with gay marriage you may question any recovery in our Court System.”
The sexual orientation if the judge making the judgement is immaterial, as Judge Napalatano said on Fox the other day – it isn’t, by itself, justification for recusal. If a homosexual judge is, by definition incapable of rendering a true verdict, why are we expected to assume that a heterosexual judge can?
As for the Wisconsin issue, I’d like to see the basis for overturning the lower courts decision before celebrating, but I think the recall effort will fail in WI – sure, you can find enough union members to sign a petition for a recall election, but the vast majority of Wisconsin voters are not state employees, and will, given the chance, vote in their collective self-interest, and letting union workers have more negotiating rights than nearly every federal worker is not in their collective self-interest.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:50amHey Blaze: what’s up with the typical liberal media headline calling the law “controversial”? It’s only “controversial” if you are a union sympathizer or a marxist/socialist – it ain’t controversial to me.
Yes, it’s a nit-pick but it’s also true. Somehow this is called “controversial”, but when Illinois passed a 67% income tax increase in the dead of night with a lame-duck session and no Republican votes, well that was NOT controversial. But this is? And to the Blaze? I thought we knew better.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:07amOkay so we have finished the political aspect of this given the makeup of the court. Now let’s see what the voters have to say in the recalls. Just hope they find some way to keep the outside big money from destroying the democratic process. There should be a ban on outside money being spent on state elections. Shouldn’t we the people be the actually people who live in the state.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:21amThe GOP COurt just made legal the assault on the rights of the citizens of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is no better than the rubber stamp court of Hitler.
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:16amYipee kai AAAAAA
Report Post »Ethereal
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 12:34pm@encinom
Report Post »Seriously? Hitler? c’mon, that’s crap and you know it. And really when did collective bargaining the way the unions currently do it become a “right?‘ It isnt a right it is a drain on Wisconsin’s economy and the tax payers which the left claims to stand up for. Do you realize that things in the state have gotten much worse through 2 terms of Lib Doyle compared to where they were before his terms? They now have a budget that erases the state $4B deficite without putting it on the backs of the tax payers and raiding other funds to try and close the holes. The probelm is you really dont understand what unions were intended for, you only see what they are now and think that is is OK. Watch how many of these so called union supporters stop paying their union dues when given the chance!
indy1
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:04amI love how AP editorializes in the first sentence. What Sore Losermans!
Report Post »mdbarnett
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 11:39amI’m originally from Wisconsin now living in Texas. Go Gov Walker!! I‘m 72 years and I can’t remember the unions ever doing anything for anybody except take your money and spend it on self satisfying things such as unauthorized trips including taking girlfriends with them ( I was with the head of a union on one of these party trips. Knew him personally) and none of it was union business. Have seen this happen in New Mexico and Texas also. Way back when unions first started they were good and gradually became more corrupt as they are now. Yes I am a Republican. Democrats need to wise up. The time has come. NO MORE UNIONS AND NO MORE OBAMA. Watch the state of Wisconsin they have been known to be the first to make government changes and then the rest of the states will follow. Too bad they aren’t on the Mexico border. We wouldn’t have the number of illegals that we have now. Give a big hand to Arizona for the job that they are doing.Many of the illegals from their are “getting out of Dodge and fleeing to Texas and New Mexico. That will end soon also with the right president in office and it sure isn’t “puppet” OBAMA!!
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