by Michael A Leon
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Beginning this week, Walker and the GOP will try to push through legislation, they say, will combat the massive voter fraud that resulted in their election that allegedly gives Republicans their mandate to strike at state, county and municipal workers, our neighbors, our friends, and our families.
Walker, if successful, will drive families to bankruptcy, jeopardize college plans, and inflict stress on already over-stressed, working parents.
But I do not believe for a moment that most GOP senators have any idea how badly families with state, county and municipal public workers will be hurt by what Walker is doing.
Call your state senator here.In November 2010 some 26 percent of eligible Wisconsin voters cast their lot in the gubernatorial election for Scott Walker, handing Walker a narrow 52-47 victory.
Walker claims mandate to end collective bargaining and local controlWalker now claims a mandate to dismantle public union collective bargaining, and a state-mandated end to
local control in county, school district and municipal governance.
Think it's your school district your property taxes pay for? Think again, it's Walker's or so he believes when Walker has political scores to settle and power to grab.
Local communities and families are collateral damage in Walker's war for Walker.
Putting aside aside Walker's absurd assertion that citizen demands for radical change in labor negotiations catapulted him to victory, one notes Walker assures us the 2010 legislative elections reveal a similar call for initiatives that just happen to weaken the political infrastructure of his opponents.
And no compromises, Walker says.
Walker claims mandate to end local control of health careAnd that includes no local control of
Medicare, Family Care, Senior Care and Badger Care because that's what the voters want, and this just happens to coincide exactly with what the
multi-billionaire Koch Brothers want.
Family and senior health care are collateral damage in Walker's war for Walker.
Depoliticized is dangerousThe number of Wisconsin citizens who can name their state representative and state senator, their political affiliation, and policy positions in this age of 30-second TV campaigns is low.
Most families are straining to make ends meet.
It strains credulity to contend a mandate for targeting Wisconsin families, as Walker does.
Wisconsinites like most Americans are depoliticized; though as Walker's schemes become known outrage and betrayal are the common resulting sentiments as we have seen in the streets around the state.
Walker claims mandate to end same-day registration and mandate voter qualifications Beginning this week, Walker and the GOP will try to push through legislation, they say, will combat the
massive voter fraud that presumably resulted in their elections that give Republicans their allegedly powerful mandate.
It just so happens that our fellow citizens who are most vulnerable to be being obstructed from voting from the GOP legislation—college students,
blacks, browns, and the working class—lean Democratic.
Other GOP initiatives targeting Democrats specifically and families generally will be presented in the coming months.
Elect JoAnne Kloppenburg over David Prosser Most of Walker's agenda will face vigorous legal challenge in the court system, so it is critical that we work to elect independent-minded jurists.
In the state's highest court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice David T. Prosser, rakes in money from the same
ideological special interests who fund Walker.
Walker, a petulant man, in his 18 years in the state assembly
says he soaked in plenty of GOP money, and brags about his GOP connections: "Well, let me say this. I have the most partisan background of any member of the court." (Zweifel,
Capital Times)Prosser will face
JoAnne Kloppenburg, Assistant Attorney General, dedicated to the rule of law and impartial adjudciation in the state's top appellate court.
But Prosser's campaign manager felt so comfortable in Prosser's loyalty to the GOP cause that he said a new Prosser term would protect the "conservative judicial majority and [act] as a common sense compliment [sic] to both the new [Walker] administration and Legislature." (
Lueders, Isthmus)
Now, Prosser says he really didn't mean it, all that GOP money means nothing to Prosser when votes on cases before the Court. Right.
One critical step in restoring some sense of decency in Wisconsin politics is the election of
Kloppenburg over the GOP tool, Prosser.
We have seen the results when we voters stay home.
