I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted, and we’ve still got a lot of work to do to get Gov. Scott Walker out of office.
We haven’t had an open thread in a while, so I thought today would be a good day to share your thoughts, whether on the results of last night’s primary elections, or something else.
Have at it!
It’s always wise to listen to the people. They have spoken and (pretty much by definition) promoted our strongest candidate to take on Walker.
Reputations have been made and broken in the last sixteen months. Advice good and bad has come from some unlikely places.
The masses themselves have held up pretty well, so has the DPW (the two forces whose alliance has brought us to this point). Our elected officials too, never forget the 14. Union leadership in Wisconsin … well, this is the time for reconciliation.
Victory is within reach, do not falter now.
How much of the job stagnation do you think can be explained by business uncertainty about who will be in charge of the government after June 5? If I ran a business, I wouldn’t add jobs until I knew whether the state government was going to be business friendly.
The chaos began when the 14 cowards fled to Illinois rather than face the responsibility to vote their conscience, and it has continued through the Supreme Court recount and the various recalls. If Walker doesn’t win by a substantial margin June 5, there’ll be lawsuits and recount demands. If he does win by a substantial margin, there’ll be other, as-yet-unforeseen efforts to monkey-wrench the state government. If Barrett wins, at least business owners will have a clear signal that Wisconsin prefers the Doyle style of open hostility to business, but that won’t help the jobs picture either.
Walker isn’t killing this state. The folks who refuse to accept the results of the November 2010 election are killing this state.
C’mon Dante, when will the conservative right stop calling my elected representative a coward? Those 14 senators did what needed to be done to cause the people to slow down and look at the legislation at hand. Had Act 10 not been tried to push through both houses in record time this whole outcome would have been very different.
The condescension from the right is wrong. It would be great to stop the name calling and focus on the facts. Either that or we can spiral down the path that the Republican Party took this past winter. With a Governor who is facing a John Doe investigation this might not be a wise choice.
Just because we do not share the same political view as you doesn’t make us cowards, evil, or stupid.
Well, Dante, the wingnut’s “coward” is the working man’s hero.
Walker’s Randian, pseudo-conservative philosopy and policies which only benefit the corporations and wealthy, the 1 percent, have devastated Wisconsin economically and socially. The damage will take years to undo.
But, we can always count on zombies like you, Dante, to carry water for those who are just using you, cant we? The sad thing is that you’re apparently just don’t realize that all you’re doing is shooting yourself in your own foot. The Republican Party, and Republican policies, protect the wealthy, Dante. They don’t protect you.
You’re being used, Dante. Don’t you care?
Dante, when are you going to start casting blame on Gov. Walker and Republicans in the legislature, who instead of focusing on job creation decided to focus on sex education in schools, the Castle Doctrine, concealed carry, and a host of other non-job creation related issues?
Dante, WI outperformed the nation on jobs during Doyle, but underperformed it under Walker. Explain that.
Sen. Vinehout displayed a serious grasp of the fiscal and policy issues that often take a back seat to partisan politics and the personalities of career politicians.
I thank her for this contribution to the dialogue, and I hope that Gov-elect Barrett finds some of her ideas and implements them.
I thank Ms. Falk for her dedication to public service, and for her leading role in getting the recall process up and running, galvanizing union support.
I do believe that Mr. La Follette would have been a good candidate for Lieut. Gov as well, but he chose a steeper path.
Of course the Walker campaign had its oppressive thumbs on the pulse of the primary election, and had a slew of attack ads against Mr. Barrett running on telelvision the night of the election returns.
Can you imagine being a Moderate voter or having a less than solid opinion on the state of the State Of Wisconsin these days? And yet, these mythical persons are the key to winning this election. How they are to be found and communicated with is a big mystery to me.
MBB
Let me be the first to say that I could be, perhaps, maybe, mightn’t even be… a little bit wrong about my excessive criticism of Tom Barrett. I have been critical of Tom Barrett (perhaps even overly critical); I’ve condemned his centrist economic agenda (and I’m not backing away from that criticism) but…. today he acted with an elegant grace few politicians (at least 20th century ones) could equal. Check out his Facebook page. He’s posted three remarkable photos of his neighbor to neighbor event in Schofield. In these photos he’s greeting and shaking hands with Scott Walker activists who are protesting him. And, they’re all beaming! It’s extraordinary. This is a man of unmitigated class.