“Wisconsin is defined by voters, not special interest groups.” So writes conservative Aaron Rodriguez, who’s apparently blindly oblivious to the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars spent by conservative special interest groups like the Jobs First Coalition, the American Federation for Children, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, and Americans for Prosperity to help Republicans win elections here in Wisconsin.
And therein lies the great hypocrisy of Republicans like Aaron Rodriguez – they believe interest groups are eeeeevvvvvviillllll when said interest groups represent folks conservatives hate (public employees, women, minorities who want to vote, etc.), but if those special interest groups happen to be advocating for issues conservatives care about (guns, big business, the rich, etc.) then special interest groups are A-Okay!
Shouldn’t Aaron disclose all that wingnut welfare he gets?
http://www.bradleyfdn.org/On-Lion-Letter/ID/1298/WILL-requests-permission-to-file-brief-in-voter-ID-case
And there was no special interest money involved from the left in this state? Give me a break. The millions of dollars poured into this state from the Unions which we all know now, didn’t work. Both sides have their special interest groups, apparently the voters of this state sided with the Republicans……again.
Quit whining about special interest group when the left spends just as much money as the right.
Actually never mind, keep doing what you guys have been doing because it appears to be working out great……for the Republicans.
#delusional
NOBODY claimed there was NOT also special interest money on the left. So who is whining about what? Yes 52% of the voters went Republican and that leaves the remainder who didn’t. Brilliant observation, but not close to a mandate for a winner-take-all on any issue nor does having a majority translate into an ability to be successful at governing or doing anything of actual value for the whole state or even for the “majority.”
For example, how many of those Sportsmen for Walker are happy about the two-tiered deer hunting rules, one for the rich and another for the little people? I guess we’ll see this season.
Thank you Reality, for the re-statement of the Rodriguez column and the complete fabrication of Zach’s point. I don’t know about you, but I think strict campaign finance reform with publicly funded elections is the path to self-rule, ending corruption, and strengthening Democracy. But perhaps a stronger Democracy and the rights of the individual are not really what Republicans stand for these days? You tell us.
And ARod isn’t a creation of the Bradley Foundation-funded voucher industry, which is narrow a special interest that there is? Heck, those people don’t even care about educational outcomes or efficient use of taxpayer dollars- they only care that they get paid.
It’s not the ideology of these right-wing dingbats that bothers me. It’s the fact that they are do dishonest but still are given column space by the paid-off lackeys in our state’s media.
Over $150 million spent by unions trying to defeat Scott Walker over the years.
Money well spent in my opinion, they less they have the better and after getting spanked here 3 times in 4 years I am sure they will take their money elsewhere, what little is left.
let the propaganda continue at blogging blue fister
Trademark,
do you have a link to your claim?
How much longer before Gov. Walker hits his 250,000 “new” jobs promise?
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/promises/walk-o-meter/promise/526/create-250000-new-jobs/
Or do I get to remind you about this for the next FOUR years?
“Pain of Austerity Brings No Future Gain”
“In a nutshell, the economy comes down to this: we have available labor time and natural resources with which we can produce some stuff and distribute it. Unemployment now means lost production now that can never be recovered in the future.
Unemployment now just means we produce less than possible now. The sacrifice does not enable us to produce more later. In fact, to the extent we invest less now, fail to create infrastructure now, omit to develop skills or educate ourselves now, we have less capacity to produce later. That leaves a real burden on future generations.
Proponents of austerity can make ideological claims all they like about the supposed superiority of private over public spending but until we are at full employment such claims are irrelevant in any case. Without sufficient spending of some kind, there will be unemployment and lost opportunity.
Austerity brings no future gain. A currency-issuing government achieves nothing by “saving” some of its currency for later. There is no meaning in government saving what it can issue at will. No matter how much government inflicts harm through cutbacks, its capacity to spend in the future remains unchanged.
It’s very simple, really. Austerity now causes pain and suffering now for no socially beneficial purpose whatsoever.
http://heteconomist.com/pain-of-austerity-brings-no-future-gain/
Could you please explain to your pals back at WIGOP that “(Federal) Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler/taxes-for-revenue-are-obs_b_542134.html
Thanks in advance
$150 million? You mean a little over one seventh the money that Scott Walker sent to Illinois and California to help them build their high speed train systems? When it comes to losing money for Wisconsin Walker is the champ! Though I would guess that if the unions spent $150 million of their members’ hard earned dues money to try to keep Walker out, his secretive big-money backers spent far more of their ill-gotten gains to keep their loser in office. $41 to $1 in the recall campaign, as I remember. What do you suppose the crooks think they are going to get for that investment? Cheese curds and some beer?
MadCity, nice catch on high speed rail.
Thanks, though that should have been “a little over one fifth” (or, really, more like 2/11, or 18.5% if I must go digital on you) — the perils of trying to write and calculate at the same time!
I’m sorry $150 million didn’t go further, but that’s a drop in the bucket compared to what Walker and his backers were spending over the same period, and to what Wisconsin and the public sector union members have lost, and will continue to lose, every year that Governor Walker and his GOP freak-show Legislature remain in office.
Trademark,
Sorry, forgot to include “United States Lost Output Clock” http://lostoutputclock.com/