As we said out loud in November, all ye scribes...
Two things pretty relevant today as the ALEC/WMC 'right-to-work' wage-reduction bill is being muscled through the WI legislature without the basics of democratic process, and national media ought to be following Salon.com's lede to explain that the Scott Walker phenomenon did not come out of nowhere:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Walker's Waterloos
[Updated from 12:10 p.m.] Let's be clear about why Scott Walker says and does anything from now on:
His audience is national, not local. How does the curb feel, Bucky, now that Walker's not that into you?
More to the point - - Walker's audience now - - and actually since the 2007 conservative summit meeting along the shores of Lake Michigan about which the media, other than Salon.com, refuses to report - - is the hardest, rightist core of activists and voters in the Republican and Tea Parties, and their loyalties for 2016.
His audience is national, not local. How does the curb feel, Bucky, now that Walker's not that into you?
More to the point - - Walker's audience now - - and actually since the 2007 conservative summit meeting along the shores of Lake Michigan about which the media, other than Salon.com, refuses to report - - is the hardest, rightist core of activists and voters in the Republican and Tea Parties, and their loyalties for 2016.
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I saw Sen. Hansen this morning at breakfast. He is very discouraged as there is not reason to think things will improve in Wisconsin.
The gerrymandering & overwhelming outside cash that supports Walker and republicans is just too much.
He was on the road with Mary Burke right before the election and he lamented how Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "watchdog" reporter and the usual pro-walker writers published hock-financed lies about Mary Burke.
The last week of the campaign, every media outlet in Wisconsin hammered Burke with endless questions about the Koch lies -- and they did it because MJS reported a fake-news sites slander uncritically (allowing every other media outlet to source their endless loaded questions to MJS).
More divide-and-conquer is coming next week. Hansen said next week's Prevailing Wage repeal will be even more devastating.
Now contracts can be submitted as lowballs with poverty-wages to workers. Couple this with misnamed RTW and not only will Unions have to pay the costs of supporting freeloaders, but many jobs will no longer pay a wage high enough that people can even afford to pay union dues if they want to.
Walker can't see beyond the next election, a vision problem he's had since first taking office. Perhaps that's why he left Marquette; there wasn't an election available there anymore that he could contend in. One thing we can all agree on those "blank" eyes don't see the next generation, only the next election.
ONCE PREVAILING WAGE IS GONE ISN'T THAT GOING TO ALLOW ANY OUT OF STATE BUSINESS TO BID STATE JOBS AT RIDICULOUSLY LOW RATES AND USE LABOR OF INFERIOR SKILLS BEING PAID POVERTY WAGES AND ESSENTIALLY CUT WISCONSIN FIRMS WITH SKILLED LABOR OUT OF THE BIDDING PROCESS?
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