tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post2049759082898983823..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Thumbs-Up For The Chris Christie/Scott Walker Events Next WeekJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-69096089481634244522012-04-27T09:05:48.849-05:002012-04-27T09:05:48.849-05:00About jobs creation, Bruce Murphy has a great poin...About jobs creation, Bruce Murphy has a great point in his latest column at Milwaukee Magazine. He writes (and I agree) that the Democrats are crazy if they don't run on the issue of Gov. Walker taking away collective bargaining rights. <br /><br />Murphy did not say (but I will) that Democrats in Wisconsin could probably do worse than follow the example of Ohio, where voters in a referendum recently <i>rejected</i> a law supported by Gov. Kasich that would have imposed broad restrictions on public workers' bargaining rights, including of course those of teachers.enoughalreadynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-51595701310199153122012-04-27T08:18:10.233-05:002012-04-27T08:18:10.233-05:00Tony Soprano wasn't available?Tony Soprano wasn't available?Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-25928284970239136382012-04-27T06:04:04.367-05:002012-04-27T06:04:04.367-05:00Job creation is certain to be a topic of debate in...Job creation is certain to be a topic of debate in the recall election. If Tom Barrett wins the primary, his campaign promises to the citizens of Milwaukee to become elected Mayor Tom Barrett will be under intense scrutiny. <br />In my opinion, he's made an uncalculated error, politically speaking, by exposing his own failures and Scott Walker has raised enough money to keep those issues front and center. Scott Walker has only been Governor slightly more that a year, hardly enough time to judge campaign promises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-23344777390898237562012-04-27T01:52:59.790-05:002012-04-27T01:52:59.790-05:00"What I believe in is true, adversarial colle...<b>"What I believe in is true, adversarial collective bargaining. What I have said in New Jersey is, as long as it's fair and reasonable collective bargaining."</b><br /><br />-- Gov. Chris Christie on <i>Face the Nation</i>, February 27, 2011.enoughalreadynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-56188410067653909122012-04-27T01:33:07.293-05:002012-04-27T01:33:07.293-05:00I think Scott Walker is the Chuck Norris of Americ...I think Scott Walker is the Chuck Norris of American politics.<br /><br />Btw, I recall clearly a Chris Christie appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation" in which, I believe, Gov. Christie was asked if he was going to do in New Jersey what Scott Walker had done in Wisconsin. His reply? <i>No.</i> He was going to (or already did?) -- get this -- <b>negotiate</b> to achieve the needed budget cuts, as other states had done. He might have mentioned New York and California as examples.enoughalreadynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-88456941442345404442012-04-27T00:28:40.325-05:002012-04-27T00:28:40.325-05:00I find Prosser asking all the other justices to re...I find Prosser asking all the other justices to recuse themselves to be really funny. It reminds me of that gal who worked in Milwaukee County not wanting the trial there because she didn't live there like she was supposed to. They seem to be saying, "Since I am guilty, I cannot stand trial."<br />(I know they are really innocent until proven guilty, it is just the arguments they are using that seem so...unlikely)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-61401384280802652862012-04-26T19:52:20.424-05:002012-04-26T19:52:20.424-05:00certainly not back on train tracks. they're th...certainly not back on train tracks. they're the laurel and hardy of anti-rail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-77338119861185036012012-04-26T18:03:52.429-05:002012-04-26T18:03:52.429-05:00And one of the 2 states in the U.S. to lose more j...And one of the 2 states in the U.S. to lose more jobs than Wisconsin last month? New Jersey, at 8,500.<br /><br /> Birds of a failing anti-worker, bullying philosophy flock together, I guess.Jake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-67496953096527587582012-04-26T17:33:16.931-05:002012-04-26T17:33:16.931-05:00I'm loving this stuff. I'm going to think...I'm loving this stuff. I'm going to think of you as the Stand-Up (Comic) Blogger. Sort of the Jeff Foxworthy of Wisconsin bloggers, saying "You know you must work for Walker if. . . ." <br /><br />I think Stepp stepped in it the most, but the competition clearly is ramping by the day in their tragicomedy of errors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com