Speaking of denials, Keith Schmitz everyone!

@Keith Schmitz -

I hope you're getting my $50 ready, as it appears I'll be collecting shortly after June 5!

Have you thought about where you'd like to meet up for the presentation of my winnings?

You are correct Keith.

That's what got us here in the first place. Half-truths and emotional appeals designed to get the low-information segment of the populace scared out of their wits and willing to sign anything to make the scariness go away.

OVER 920,000 SIGNATURES COLLECTED. DOES THAT SOUND BETTER?

And we have the TeaGOP and folks on this board spread vile rumors--which proved to be false!!

....Dire predictions of “rampant signature fraud” and “floods” of phony signatures have been proven false. We hope that MacIver, “True the Vote,” and other groups that alleged fraud will promptly and professionally apologize to United Wisconsin, the grassroots group that gathered the signatures. But we will not hold our breath.

http://bloggingblue.com/2012/03/31/will-dooling-maciver-institute-predictions-wrong/

@morninmist -

The only "vile rumor" was the completely fabricated and fictitious 1M+ signatures collected against Governor Walker by Tate and company and perpetuated by lemmings like you!

great idea :)

A drop in the bucket compared to what walker gave away to people who already have more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes. You think walker give two rats about what an "upset father" thinks if you don't have the checking account to garner his attention?

Hambone – Can you please point us to the line item in Scott Walker’s budget for “cash giveaway to the wealthy”?

Don't be obtuse. How about the tax breaks he gave away which contributed to about half of the supposed / fabricated deficit to begin with? Stop using the "quote" marks if you're not putting my actual words in them. I never said cash, although in the end that's what it will amount to. Why don't you try to give walker a call sometime? Unless you have a 7 figure salary, I highly doubt you will even get his secretary.

Hambone - You did not answer atthec44. You went all obtuse and stuff.

So, you have issues with people who make more money, maybe ten times more than they need? Call Buffett, see if he'll answer your call.

How about we make everyone who voted for Walker pay for the recall?

@Drive to 24 -

You're a typical liberal - you want everyone else to pay for your frivolous temper tantrum. Congratulations!

WALKER WILL LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE! NOT TO WORRY HONEY.

Completely agree Mike. I work in manufacturing and everyone is busy. Jobs are coming back to the state. Walker's doing a good job, about time someone did something right in this state. The left has wasted so much tax payer money with this useless recall effort. I can't believe the 1,000,000 signatures. Corrupt left.

DREAM ON MIKE!

Must have been really bad weather for Doyle to loose 150,000 jobs then.

That happened during a NATION WIDE crash in the economy... duh. Not even your little koch puppet could have escaped that one. Little logic here please Steve. Oh that's right ... republican, sorry.

@Hambone -

That's funny, cause state's like Texas, Utah, and North Dakota, all under conservative governmental leadership, managed to escape that "NATION WIDE crash in the economy" pretty unscathed, didn't they? So why wasn't Doyle able to do the same for our state if his policies and leadership were as effective as you're claiming them to be?

Looks to me like you're the one with the lapsing logic, doesn't it?

Try again!

Ok Hoffa, well look at the differences. Texas- oil comming out of it's assets, Utah and North Dakota: geez what's really there to crash anyway. Utah has a population of 2.8 million people and 82,000 square miles. comes to around 33 people per sq. mi. And North Dakota has a whopping 683,932 people living in 69, 000 sq. miles or 9.7 people per square mile. Not a whole lot of places for an economy to go is there? When you are spread that thin, what jobs there are, are pretty much needed to keep everything going. And I said nothing about Doyles policies being effective, those are your words not mine. ND has about the same population as Milwaukee alone, and walker screwed up Milwaukee County before he left leaving Ablele 55 million in the hole. That's just a county. And you trust him to run a State? He's already mis-appropriating Federal foreclosure funds to plug holes in his budget that he "supposedly" balanced. What's next? Wake up and smell the logic!

@Hambone -

So you're claiming that low population densities make for a robust and thriving economy? Are you really advocating for the Soylent Green solution? That's about as intelligent as Greenspan saying 'there's an over supply in the housing market and if you want to get prices up again, just burn down all the vacant housing on the market.' Logical - perhaps. Rational - hardly!

Your assessment to Walker's performance in Milwaukee County really isn't fair, is it? 1) What did the county look like before Walker took over? 2) Are you factoring in your "NATION WIDE crash in the economy" when making such assessment? 3) Walker was merely the executive and still had to deal with a very liberal county board that was responsible for making policy. 4) Abele is proving to be even less successful than Walker, as according to Politifact, he's reneged on a majority of his campaign promises.

And Walker is not "mis-appropriating Federal foreclosure funds," as part of those funds belong to me and every other federal taxpaying conservative in the state and we authorized Walker to use them as he sees fit when we voted for him in 2010, not to mention that the terms of the settlement also permit such a scenario - so you can knock it off with the Daily Kos talking points already!

What's next - I'd personally like to see him throw out the current state tax code and completely restructure and simplify it to expand the base, eliminate loopholes, and lower taxes on those already paying.

The lack of knowledge of the economy of ND is telling. It has the lowest UE in the country, fasted growing sectors in Oil, tech and banking. Free market principals are paying off. They have a housing boom and the cost of living is low.

Funny you bring up Texas with oil and how that is good and relates to jobs. We have lots of taconite here but the democrats once again say no to jobs and economic growth.

I guess your solution is going back to the days of budget deficits and a public union that over charges for services and robs from the taxpayers.

How nice of you, Hoffa, to look the other way while walker takes the foreclosure money that as a public worker, AND A TAXPAYER, <--- how often you forget.. I should also have a say in where it goes. How nice of you to look the other way in regards to the HOLES he's using that money to plug up, in a budget that he SUPPOSEDLEY ALREADY BALANCED!! As for walkers performance in Milw. County, He cost us WAY more than he ever saved us by always trying to do things even if they were illegal, just to get his way. He continually got his pee pee slapped and there is the basis for his vindictiveness against the public worker and the unions. Steve... taconite, iron, doesn't matter... Thank the gods that at least ONE republican saw the damage walker was trying to do to environmental controls and limiting the voices of the residents where the mines would go. That ONE republican actually stood up for the people he represented. He had a counter proposal too, but that wasn't as wide-sweeping as walker wanted it and it was refused. Do none of you care what kind of wasteland he wants to make of our Northwoods? Do none of you care that he actually wants to take your voices away??? You may, someday, when he comes after you.

Hambone - As you do not support mining because it creates "wastelands" I expect you use no products that use resources mined out of this planet.

Steve... I did not say I was against mining. I implied I was against environmentally irresponsible mining. Oh, and did you not read the part about walker wanting to "TAKE THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE / RESIDENTS OUT OF THE EQUATION???" Would you really, REALLY, want mining to go on in your neighborhood, where your children play, without proper environmental controls and safeties in place?? And have your voice silenced to that operation beacuse he signed a piece of paper saying your opinion doesn't matter? REALLY??

This was to be a safe mine. If you herd otherwise I would check your source which was most likely motivated by politics.

I didn't hear where they were building a playground inside an active mine, but I can't see MSHA approving that.

The residents of the area overwhelming support and need the mine.

It's pretty funny if you read your last comment from bottom to top.

That liberal rag endorsed Walker and continues to justify his existence, along with not seeing the need for a recall.

Psst.
We will remember the vile company Walker keeps on recall election day.

DefeatVos ‏ @DefeatVos
Remember, Scott Walker's staffers have accumulated 15 criminal counts...so far. No April Fool's joke. #wiunion #GOP #p2

@lori -- Oh really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLwPYrCm9D0

This recall is about so much more than the compensation cuts for public workers. So much more.

'So much more'? Expand on that Randy. It's really about the left not getting the gravy train they had under Doyle. June 5th will be eye opening for those on your side.

The problem with your hateful statements lori, is that they come from ingnorance. I work for the City of Milwaukee and all of our new employees HAVE been paying into our pension since 2000. Even though it is separate from the State and does not effect you in the least. We also took a voluntary wage freeze from 2009 - 2011. We are still locked in that freeze now because of everything that has happened. The two unions that walker left alone, fire and police, account for over 70% of Milwaukees budget, my dept. accounts for 1% The police recently turned down a 5% wage increase because it wasn't enough. I have never even seen a 3% raise in 16 years. So, the unions that walker is in bed with cost people WAY more money than all the rest of DPW, yet that's ok in your mind huh? Most of us make a very modest living but with all these sweeping changes, there are many of us who are quite literaly looking at losing our homes, but that's ok for you too isn't it? Nice people, you republicans.

Gladly, Clark. Forget the gravy train, of which I never received any. It's about ramming through conservative social agenda like Voter ID, removing Planned Parenthood as a provider for the Wisconsin Well Woman program, the limitation of services that _private_ insurance paid for with our own money under the long postponed health insurance exchanges, and murmurings of a Human Life Amendment, which Scott Walker is said to favor. This had nothing to do with jobs or the economy.

The gravy train is running in the other direction now, toward people who were already doing pretty well. June 5th won't open my eyes -- that already happened a year ago.

Simple economics guys -

When the economy is in a recession, more people are either out of work or not taking in the kind of income that they used to and are therefor financially suffering. When people are financially suffering, tax revenue collection goes down and they don't buy real estate. When real estate purchasing is down, the assessed fair market value of real estate goes down. When the fair market value of real estate goes down, property tax collection goes down. When income and property tax collection is down, the government doesn't have as much money to spend for provided services. When the government has less money to spend you can either 1) raise taxes on people that are already financially suffering, 2) lay off a bunch of public sector workers and cut services, or 3) lower the public sectors compensation and reduce the amount of assistance provided.

Walker campaigned on solving our problems by 1) not raising taxes, 2) not initiating mass layoffs, but 3) lowering everyone in the public system's compensation and reducing the amount of assistance dolled out by the state.

Walker delivered on his promises and the lefty lib dems want to recall him.

Doyle expressly promised not to raise taxes during his last re-election campaign, but ended up breaking that promise by raising taxes by billions of dollars. If it's about broken promises, then why didn't any of you recallers collect signatures for Doyle?

ask your self why they want to get rid of unions. because they do not like the protective laws on the books that protect you. union or non union. and once they get rid of the unions the laws will go away as well. they do not like paying you a good wage, they do not like paying out benefits, they do not like to pay out paid vacations, or paid holidays. they want to do away with all the protective laws the unions got for the people so that they were no longer abused, and paid for what they worked for with a decent wage. people with out a union have to stab their co-worker in the back, cut thier throat climb over them any way they can to try to make them selves look better in hopes of getting a little raise. you cannot deny this as i knowe it for a fact. i have seen this inb acvtion for 37 years where i worked. i was in the union the office people were not. so you must be one of the brown nose suck asses. have a great day. don't cry when this comes about and you are at slave labor. it's coming

@JRH -- Your post is not true on one point. When real estate values fall, property taxes do not. The locality merely raises the levy per $1000. My assessment dropped by 25% two years go, but the taxes rose slightly. As opposed to the year my assessment doubled and so did my taxes.

Forcing public employees to take a cut in compensation (and thus disposable income) will save money at the outset, but there will be a resulting loss in sales tax revenue as these people are forced to adjust their spending. Some of them may be unable to pay mortgages, resulting in foreclosures and even less property tax revenue. That will have to be made up by the rest of us, and so it goes.

Is that really true though Randy? The net sum is still the same--the teachers may have less to spend, but the taxpayers each have more to spend...

Really? Conservatives don't "pout and start a recall election for someone in office we don't particularly care for." What about the recalls against Wirch and Holperin? How about the latest attempts to recall Dale Schultz?

Weren't Wirch and Holperin two of the 14 that fled to Illinois instead of doing their job and debating the budget repair bill? Not at all the same thing. Being recalled for leaving the state instead of being in the statehouse isn't the same as being recalled for voting for (or against) legislation that others find disagreeable.

Schultz is likely a valid example of recalling someone for voting the 'wrong' way. I think that his recall is as stupid as the ones against Walker et al.

@CowDung -- I don't think the taxpayers have more to spend. State income taxes remained the same. And we counted ourselves lucky that property taxes didn't go up. At least this year.

I certainly don't have an extra $250 per month in my pocket the way someone here who says she no longer does.

Very articulate, well thought out statements lori.

Lori Lori Lori-are you a daddy's Republicon girl?

WALKER: The Political Sociopath is going down!

Cow Dung: My property tax went down by $20. I'd rather see excellent teachers remain employed. Teacher, janitors, paraprofessionals will all be losing up to $500 per month or more.

Randy:

While state taxes remained the same, they likely would have gone up (as would local taxes) had the union workers not made their contributions to their pension and health benefits. The money paid for those benefits has to come from either the taxpayer or the worker. The more the worker pays, the less the taxpayer pays.

Drive to 24:

How many teachers became unemployed for your $20 tax decrease? Lots of teaching jobs were saved because of Walker's budget reforms...

"nor do I hide my actions" ummm, then why not answer upset father's question about 'paying this before collective was taken away or is it do the loss of it"? Or is this some more of that "democratic transparency" in action ???

you are so right. my son inlawe is a university police officer and he makes 40 thou a year he had to take 16 furlough days thats days with no pay, and he was paying into his healthcare and pension, pluss they took no pay rqaises for thier 4 year contract now walker says no raqise for 2 more years that 6 years with out a pay increase. but yet these idiots out there won't do any fact checking they believe all the lies walker puts out there and worship them.

The private sector has also taken pay cuts. There is no law they says a 4% pay increase each year. Reality check!!!

@Clark -- Yes, the private sector has taken pay cuts while CEO salaries and corporate profits have risen. And no one seems to see anything wrong with it. The disparity of wealth grows, and long with it grows a disparity in political power.

None of your business which it is. Unlike Walker, i'm not a liar, nor do I hide my actions behind a bullying front. Bottom line, it cost me money I don't have to spare, as did the furloughs. I am my only source of support.

Not to mention, private sector makes more in the first place. I'm not the one who is the problem here.

@Carrie- you say your salary is $29,000, what is your 'fringe' amount- most likely another $20,000.... So $49,000- that's pretty decent wouldn't you agree??
Private sector insurance has increased to extremely high copays, premiums and deductibles. It's about time the state employed catch up!!

Carrie:

Workers in the private sector do not always 'make more in the first place'. Where I live, the teachers in the Catholic school make only about 70% of what the public school teachers make, and their benefits aren't nearly as good...

Nothing is 'free', Johnny. Unless you consider the portion of your health insurance paid by your employer to be 'free'. In the case of public employees, they had negotiated for higher benefits (less personal contribution) in lieu of a higher rate of pay, which actually saved the taxpayers money. They took what amounts to a substantial pay cut and were demonized in the process, so that business could be taxed less.

just how stupid are you these state workers pay taxes to. why can't you get it in you fat stupid head. ignorance is bliss

@linda w -

You are correct - state workers do in fact pay taxes just like a private sector worker does. The only difference is that a private sector union isn't bargaining against its members' own interests as a taxpayer the way public sector unions do, correct? See the difference now?

Public sector unions are inherently conflicted in that they bargain against their own member's other pocket. Also, public sector workers already have a 'seat at the table' via their duly elected public officials that are charged with overseeing the spending of the tax revenue collected budgets, as just like private sector workers, they are also able to cast their ballots in elections.

So where's the need for public sector unions exactly, other than to merely create an unnecessary layer of additional bureaucracy that drives up costs and lowers the effectiveness and efficiency of governmental provided services?

Or is ignorance bliss?

Really Hoffa? Is that why, back in 2009, MY public union, instead of taking the arbitrators offer, pushed and encouraged us to take less than the arbitrator was going to award us for past wages, and ALSO take a voluntary wage freeze for two years? The City needed money and my union -BARGAINING IN GOOD FAITH, with the City, pushed its members to dig in and help the Citys financial woes. A lot of us weren't happy with it but it was enacted, in good faith, with the City. Really the union thugs you are looking to blame and flog, eh? Problem is, those of us who were already doing our part, became demonized along with the rest of the bigger unions. Thanks for that. We don't deserve that

@Randy1949 -

"They took what amounts to a substantial pay cut and were demonized in the process, so that business could be taxed less."

Funny, my small business is still being taxed at the same rate as before. Or are you talking about the tax credits to entice employers to either move and/or hire/expand in the state. Again, how many of those credits have been handed out thus far by Walker and co.? I think you'll find that when you look at the actual numbers, instead of the DPW talking points, that the correlation isn't as close as you have been led to believe it is. You may want to come up with some new material.

@Hambone -

Thanks for proving my point - it's our duly elected governmental leaders that should decide how our tax dollars are spent, and not public sector unions or arbitrators. If you don't like the pay, benefits, and working conditions offered by public sector employment under the tutilage of our governmental leaders, then quit and go work for someone else. The lack of unionization/CB hasn't stopped people from working for the federal government, has it?

Try again.

Johnny Blade, it is not free stuff, you don't pay for it, and I do.

Do your homework. That was so pathetic countering it took no effort on my part.

yea and thaqt is before taxes. thats what screws people out of help. they only look at your gross they don't give adam about how little your net is. BIG DIFFERENCE

I could care less, I'm tired of hearing that i'm feeding at the public trough.

Wow. Just wow. Are you made up or do you exist?

Sounds good to me, as long as that's the total tax burden and not just federal income tax. Between federal, state, and local property tax, I pay 30% of my gross income in taxes. You're also forgetting that people with earned income pay 7% of it to FICA, starting with the very first dollar earned. Paul Ryan can't seem to decide whether that's a tax or not, depending on how it bolsters his arguments.

What a flat tax will do is to give more money to those who are already making so much they can't possibly spend it all, and take more from people who are struggling to get by as it is, and the people who are for it are counting on your inability to do math. It's not 'fare' at all.

Flat tax? All the sheep love it because they don't know the difference between percentages and absolute dollars. Why do think Steve Forbes loves it, because he has fools who think that because everyone pays 15% that's fair.

We fought 250 years ago to get rid of an aristocracy. Now the Tea Party wants it back.

You people rail and cry about elitists where none exist while saying nothing about the de facto plutocracy.

It appears the only person on this board that doesn't like paying taxes is Keith Schmitz.

2003TW000441 -- Department of Revenue vs. Keith R. Schmitz

Interest on verdict $ 39.55
Penalty $ 10.00
Tax $ 2,929.83

2009TW004843 - Department of Revenue vs. KRPR, Inc.

Interest on verdict $ 195.09
Penalty $ 670.26
Tax $ 1,875.00

@upset father -- My, my, could you possibly be more condescending? Yes, I've filed a tax return every year since 1972. I do them myself, so I know very well how they work. And that includes dealing with income from regular employment, self-employment, and capital gains, each with their different challenges.

Or are you perhaps referring to a tax 'refund'? Sometimes I get those; most often I don't. Because FYI, we file tax returns (reports to the IRS of our yearly income) even if we owe no income tax at all.

No such thing as a tax refund for folks who overpay into the bloated government, its a tax overpayment. Now the slugs who get the Earned Income Credit, that is welfare, not a refund.

@Alfred Kell -- So, a rebate on the 7% a worker pays on the very first dollar earned (no standard deduction, no exemptions) is welfare, while the 15% Mitt Romney pays on his millions from capital gains simply for sitting on his behind isn't? Mitt Romney earns three times in one day what your average EIC recipient makes working 40 hours a week all year. Have you ever tried to live on $15000 a year?

You certainly are ignorant, do you pay property taxes of any kind, or do Mommy and Daddy opt you out of that adult responsibility?

There is nothing special about the 'services' the union goons/stooges and thugs give us from government folks, I have lived in other states where taxes are mucho less and the services are mucho better...by a large margin.

@Carrie -

If a person doesn't want to have or isn't able to provide for a child, then why would they conceive one in the first place? It is, after all, a completely voluntary act - except in the cases of rape or unduly influenced incest, isn't it?

@Alfred Kell -- I certainly pay property taxes, and I have noticed that every time income tax is cut at the federal or state level, we eventually see a rise in property taxes to make up. Did Scott Walker cut your state income tax one iota? No, he just cut state aid to localities and let the chips fall. I'm not sure why you guys don't get that.

Where did you get the idea that anyone expects public employees to work for free?

Why was WEAC overcharging for health care?

@Steve- WEAC is a teacher union, they don't charge for health care so they can't overcharge. The WEA Trust is an independent, not-for-profit insurance company that is regulated and overseen by the State of Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI). It’s a separate entity, that’s separately governed from the teachers’ union.
By law, school boards are responsible for contracting with health care insurers. Like other carriers, the Trust gains and looses clients based on competitive bidding. Kenosha Unified School District, which recently chose the WEA Trust as their group health insurance provider expects to save approximately $3 million by choosing the WEA Trust. Germantown went to several major carriers to receive quotes, but only two companies bid: Humana and the WEA Trust, which was the district's current carrier. The School Board voted to stay with the WEA Trust.

Funny how schools are now suddenly able to find alternate insurance providers and drop WEA Trust right after ACT 10 went into effect...

I don't need to overpay a union plow driver to hit my mailbox, I can get any idiot teenager to do it for free. $11/hr is pretty good for leaning on a broom 90% of the time, and screwing up the other 10%.

You don't tell the entire story #01 son
WEA trust now has to finally compete in the market and has to bid against real legal companies. Why are they now dropping their prices if they weren't ripping everyone off before?

Truth is most are dumping WEA scam trust and saving millions now that they have to face ACT 10.

Germantown also dumped their long term care and will probably dump WEA union trust next year all together.

@upset father -- Total tax burden: Federal income tax + state income tax + property tax = 30% of gross income.

I only get a refund if I overestimate my Estimated tax payments. We're self-employed and living off IRAs, so the yearly income can vary according to expenses. That's the hardest part, any unexpected but crucial expense -- medical, home maintenance or otherwise -- means extra taxable income from IRA distributions and extra tax.

A flat 15% federal tax on gross income looks good to people making a lot of money but it would really hurt people like me. On top of FICA and state income tax, it would hit lower income workers even harder.

Two reasons, upset father. Wealthy individuals rarely spend their private wealth on job creation. Oh yeah, they hire gardeners and maids and buy some yachts, but it's the corporations that expand and create jobs. Lowering the corporate tax rate for businesses that expand here in the US might be worthwhile.

Under our current system, someone earning a million dollars a year doesn't give half away to federal income tax. That person pays zero dollars on the first $9000, same as you and me. 10%, 15% -- up to the top marginal rate, which I think is 35% now, but I'm not sure. That person is paying 35% only on the amount exceeding $388,000 roughly. Unless he's Mitt Romney and has no earned income, only capital gains, so he pays a straight 15% of his several million. per year.

'Creative solutions'? In other words, be nice to rich folks so they'll come here and stay here. Meanwhile, make things miserable for poor folks and maybe they'll go away.

ha ha Dirk
There is nothing creative about targeting certain groups of workers and dividing the state which Walker has done. It is an abuse of his powers! And he will go down because of this abuse!

:)

@morninmist -

I'm curious seeing as how you're always claiming that it's my side (pro-Walker) that is dividing our state, if you could tell me how many GOP senators and representatives send out daily tweets trashing their partisan opponents?

I'll take your silence on this issue to indicate that you realize that in fact it's your side that is truly dividing our state!

Try again.

Afraid he'll lose in a fair election, Lexi?

He already won by a narrow margin in a low turnout year after not being entirely candid about his intentions. And then he lost a fair recall petition. It's happening. We'll see who changed their minds and who isn't complacent enough to sit home this time.

Since you Walker supporters have just revealed yourselves willing to play dirty political tricks by writing in Walker on a Democratic primary ballot, it would be tempting to insist on ID. I'm sure people who are willing to do that are willing to vote twice. But we all know that's just a thin excuse to keep the turnout low.

If I have to explain to you why it's a dirty trick to write in the name of a candidate being recalled in the primary for the candidate to oppose him, then you're the perfect Walker supporter. Weasel all the way.

Why write in Walker? Why not just vote for the most vulnerable Democratic candidate? Dems do it regularly in Republican primaries and brag about it.

Using the recall provision to attempt to remove every vulnerable Republican isn't a "dirty trick", because the provision makes it legal to do. Using other, legal methods to attempt to prevent that from happening, however, is. Nice consistent logic there, Randy.

No, thank you, Lexi, I don't frequent the sort of 'gentlemen's establishments where poles feature in the entertainment, so I won't see you 'at the poles'. However, expect to see me at the polls on all the upcoming election days.

@morninmist -

Thanks for once again proving that these recalls are all about a single issue!

I knew that you served a purpose around here ;-)

I can always count on your yipping of the broken record.

...............
James R Hoffa

9:28 pm on Friday, March 30, 2012

@morninmist -

Thanks for once again proving that these recalls are all about a single issue!

I knew that you served a purpose around here ;-)

Democrats win polls not elections

Keep dreaming Alfred.

Defend Wisconsin ‏ @DefendWisconsin
New poll: Dems lead over Walker in a very close race http://bit.ly/H3b0Wd #recallwalker #wiunion

All that is left is the recall VOTES--GOTV. It is Walker's money against the people of WI.

StandUp4People ‏ @StandUpWis
MT @jbrady77: #Wisconsin! Time to turn up the volume! Ramp up the action! Get out the vote & #ReclaimWI! #wirecall #wiunion #recallwalker!

@morninmist -

You still don't get it - Hoffa and his fellow Walker Backers are the people of Wisconsin as well!

Sure you and TeaGOP are! But you and your fiends are the ones who trample on Wisconsin's fine tradition of open government!!

Coffee Bean ‏ @CoffeeBean26

@DefeatVos Fed judges none too happy with WI GOP tactics, were they? http://thewheelerreport.com/releases/March12/0322/0322redistrictingmemoandorder.pdf SECRECY AGREEMENTS ARE BAD! #wiunion #WeAreWI

@morninmist -

You're lecturing me on open government while referencing some tweeter that has an obsession with Colombian products?

Yeah, you just keep on telling yourself that! BTW - What exactly happened when your 'heroic' 14 decided to hold an un publicly noticed caucus out of state for over three weeks? You want to talk open government, well, Hoffa doesn't find it very kosher to caucus in secret and away from your entire constituency in another sovereign jurisdiction while missing a vote on an issue that effected the entire state! For most, that would be tantamount to an act of treason.

Where's your outrage over that situation Mr. "fine tradition of open government?"

Don't worry, I won't be holding my breath for your response!

Will you goons leave us alone finally or will you union stooges always be upset about having a good job?

@upset father -- I think you mean 'Medicare' rather than Social Security. Part of the ACA involved cutting some Medicare expenses, including the very expensive Medicare Advantage programs. Compared to what Paul Ryan is suggesting for Medicare, President Obama is a piker. How can you support Ryan and not the President?

Now, the FICA has been temporarily reduced to provide a 'poor man's' tax break and keep the economy going. I question the wisdom of this, because it plays into the hands of the conservative element who want to do away with this program.

@morninmist -

If Wisconsin sucks so bad under Walker's administration for you and your fellow recallers, then why don't you all move to the south? I hear IL has a governor that you guys would absolutely love - higher taxes, mass public employee layoffs, huge deficits and debt, reduced services, ... you know, the liberal utopian paradise!

We'll be happy with Walker and you guys will be happy with Quinn - it's a win-win for everyone! Think about it.

Hoffa.

You and walker et al continue to bash IL but looky hereL

BrewCity Brawler ‏ @BrewCityBrawler

IL economic health ranks #6, WI #43 on bloomberg list http://goo.gl/EGlTS #recallwalker #notworking #wiunion

@morninmist -

LOL!!! You have got to be kidding me! You've just proven that you apparently don't bother reading the crap that you perpetuate on these boards!

One of the criteria for conducting the 'ranking survey' was the amount of tax revenue collection. Of course when you raise taxes like Quinn did in IL, the revenue collection is going to initially increase (while the population and jobs slowly starts to decrease - like Detroit) … DUH! In fact, the article mentions that the only way IL ranked as high as it did was because of Quinn's tax increases. The article also looks a little deeper:

"Illinois ranked high in terms of tax revenue (4th), but low for home prices (41st), performance of local stocks (39th) and personal income (34th). It was 19th in the nation for delinquent mortgages and 28th for its employment rate."

In every other measured category, Walker's Wisconsin topped Illinois.

But, I guess that's what liberals consider successful - high taxes and unemployment with low home prices and personal income!

Please, try again, as this one was really pathetic - even for you!!!

@morninmist -

"ChicagoDeb" - who is that, one of Obama's corrupt Cook County political machine?

@morninmist -

The GAB found a 28% invalid rate with the Wanggaard petition and now they expect us to believe that there was only a 3.2% invalid rate with the Walker petition? Does that even seem logical to you? I guess the liberals in Racine are some bad hombres compared to the rest of the state by such an estimation, wouldn't you say?

Also, didn't the Milwaukee J/S find at least a 15% invalid rate with the Walker petition?

But you're free to drink the GAB's kool-aide with that 3.2% number if you so desire - it just makes you look like the fool!

News Flash - just because the government says something doesn't make factually accurate or correct.

Lean to think for yourself for a change!

"This is no surprise to the 30,000 volunteers of the grassroots group United Wisconsin, who collected and submitted signatures and established a multi-stage review process to make sure that every signature was clear and complete, and made their best effort to eliminate duplicates....."

Same group that claimed "Over One Million" signatures.? If so, the GAB certified them as liars

@Hoffa
I would trust GAB before your pathetic TeaParty Verify the Vote group!!

Walker could not find enough volunteers to even challenge the petitions!!--and was too cheap to hire people. If you do not like the results--give your pal Walker a call and stop the crying. He is to blame for not putting in his own challenge--as the rules require him to do.

http://www.defendwisconsin.org/2012/03/02/abandoned-by-governor-walker-tea-party-groups-soldier-on-in-fight-against-recall/

.....This could not have been welcome news to Texas (where else)- based Tea Party organization True the Vote, which just the day before had published the findings of its “review” of the recall documents, which concluded, in brazen contradiction of any scientific standard, that the recall effort had failed to meet the minimum number of signatures required to trigger an election.

Nor was it encouraging news for our friends from Texas when, as reported here, McFarland-based public relations firm PF-Data immediately published a “review of the review,” finding the True the Vote study to be rife with error and deliberate misinformation.

A further report from The Center for Media and Democracy, issued today, is even more dismissive of the Texas group, its author even suggesting that Governor Walker might have decided to forgo challenging the recall in order to distance himself from True the Vote, ...

Walker just gave me a good laugh--which he seldom does.

You say Walker by double digits? Whow, Your delusion is worst than I had thought.

@Progress2day GovWalker Ha ha. Walker said the recall elec.is about his 'courage' It is April's fool tomorrow! http://elections.wispolitics.com/2012/03/walker-says-hes-learned-lesson-from.html $wiunion

Barrett up now. Talking of the need to build up our infrastructure in WI--sewers, bridges, ect. He will put WI workers back to work. Very commendable to run on this issue.

@morninmist -

Barrett has proven that he can't even fix the MMSD so that it doesn't discharge millions of gallons of untreated sewage into Lake Michigan every year, and yet you trust him to effectively implement public works projects state wide? You're kidding, right?

@Hoffa
I would not trust Walker to do ANYTHING right for Wisconsinites. Barrett has a heart (vs Walker who has no soul-he sold it to the highest bidder) and trust he will do what he can to get folks back to work if elected.