Congratulations to Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, State Senator Jerry Petrowski, and State Senator Scott Fitzgerald on their victories last night.
Also, I would like to congratulate my friend and partner, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus for his leadership and commitment to the recall elections in his home state of Wisconsin.
The people of Wisconsin have spoken above the shouts of the Democrats and union activists. Their message is clear: performance counts.
Scott Walker promised he would balance the state budget and ask public employees to pay a small fraction for their generous benefits. The Governor did what he said he would do. Now, unions and Democrats have wasted millions of dollars on senseless recall elections. What do they have to show for it? Failure.
Democrats brought a real war on women into Wisconsin with their attacks on Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. What do they have to show for these attacks? Failure.
After yet after another attempt to change Wisconsin's State Senate, the result is the same. Failure.
Last night Wisconsin taxpayers told the unions and Democrats to stop the madness. In November, Republicans and Mitt Romney will succeed where Democrats have failed by winning the hearts and minds of those who think job creation and a balanced budget are good idea
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Showing posts with label Rebecca Kleefisch. Show all posts
Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Walker Vote Earthquake
◼ The beginning of the end for public employee unions at the state and local level. - Peter Hannaford/The American Spectator Online 6.7.12
"Walker Survives Wisconsin Recall Vote," read the tepid headline in Wednesday's New York Times. Governor Scott Walker, however, did much more than survive. He defeated his rival, Tom Barrett, convincingly. His lieutenant governor did the same in her recall election.
Significantly, this election marks the beginning of the end for dominance of state, county and city budgets by public employee unions.
Lost in the Wisconsin coverage is the fact that Tuesday's election brought overwhelming votes elsewhere in favor of reducing overly-generous public employee pensions. In California, voters in two large cities decided enough was enough. San Jose voters passed Measure B by 71-to-29 percent. In San Diego, they endorsed Proposition B by 67-to-33 percent. In recent years both cities had been forced to cut back on libraries, recreation centers, fire and police services in the face of galloping pension liabilities. San Diego saw its annual contribution to pensions go from $43 million in 1999 to $231 this year, soaking up 20 percent of the city's budget. In San Jose it went from $73 million in 2001 to $245 million this year -- equal to 27 percent of the budget.
These events offer the necessary will to elected officials across the nation to pass reforms that will bring public employee pensions and health care contributions into line with private ones.
The process has already begun. In California, signatures have been gathered for a voter initiative, "Stop Special Interests," on the November ballot that, if passed, would break the umbilical cord between the state treasury and union treasuries. In California, among others, the state deducts union dues from public employee paychecks and sends these directly to the unions, thus saving them the need to persuade public employees to sign up to let the union bosses use their money in elections. This is the umbilical cord and the California unions have used it to become the most powerful special interest in Sacramento, having great influence over the Democrat-controlled state legislature.
What happens when the umbilical cord is broken? It happened in Wisconsin last year as part of Governor Walker's reform legislation. Dues stopped flowing from the state treasury to the unions. They had to sell their services to the workers.
Result: dues paying is down to 28 percent of the Wisconsin public work force.
Across the country, voter discontent has been building against overly-generous public employee benefits. Declining revenues in the recession sharpened public focus, along with the realization that, in many cases, these benefits had become far greater than they are in the private sector. In short, it began to look as if the taxpayers were working for their own employees.
What will the public employee unions do? Reeling from this loss, it is unlikely they will try another vengeance move such as the Walker recall. They also face a daunting task if many legislatures, county boards, and city councils propose reform measures, especially ones on the ballot for voters who are in no mood to continue "business as usual."
Peter Hannaford was closely associated with the late President Ronald Reagan for a number of years. His latest book is Reagan's Roots: The People and Places That Shaped His Character.
"Walker Survives Wisconsin Recall Vote," read the tepid headline in Wednesday's New York Times. Governor Scott Walker, however, did much more than survive. He defeated his rival, Tom Barrett, convincingly. His lieutenant governor did the same in her recall election.
Significantly, this election marks the beginning of the end for dominance of state, county and city budgets by public employee unions.
Lost in the Wisconsin coverage is the fact that Tuesday's election brought overwhelming votes elsewhere in favor of reducing overly-generous public employee pensions. In California, voters in two large cities decided enough was enough. San Jose voters passed Measure B by 71-to-29 percent. In San Diego, they endorsed Proposition B by 67-to-33 percent. In recent years both cities had been forced to cut back on libraries, recreation centers, fire and police services in the face of galloping pension liabilities. San Diego saw its annual contribution to pensions go from $43 million in 1999 to $231 this year, soaking up 20 percent of the city's budget. In San Jose it went from $73 million in 2001 to $245 million this year -- equal to 27 percent of the budget.
These events offer the necessary will to elected officials across the nation to pass reforms that will bring public employee pensions and health care contributions into line with private ones.
The process has already begun. In California, signatures have been gathered for a voter initiative, "Stop Special Interests," on the November ballot that, if passed, would break the umbilical cord between the state treasury and union treasuries. In California, among others, the state deducts union dues from public employee paychecks and sends these directly to the unions, thus saving them the need to persuade public employees to sign up to let the union bosses use their money in elections. This is the umbilical cord and the California unions have used it to become the most powerful special interest in Sacramento, having great influence over the Democrat-controlled state legislature.
What happens when the umbilical cord is broken? It happened in Wisconsin last year as part of Governor Walker's reform legislation. Dues stopped flowing from the state treasury to the unions. They had to sell their services to the workers.
Result: dues paying is down to 28 percent of the Wisconsin public work force.
Across the country, voter discontent has been building against overly-generous public employee benefits. Declining revenues in the recession sharpened public focus, along with the realization that, in many cases, these benefits had become far greater than they are in the private sector. In short, it began to look as if the taxpayers were working for their own employees.
What will the public employee unions do? Reeling from this loss, it is unlikely they will try another vengeance move such as the Walker recall. They also face a daunting task if many legislatures, county boards, and city councils propose reform measures, especially ones on the ballot for voters who are in no mood to continue "business as usual."
Peter Hannaford was closely associated with the late President Ronald Reagan for a number of years. His latest book is Reagan's Roots: The People and Places That Shaped His Character.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Scott Walker Wins Wisconsin Recall Battle
◼ Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker beat back a recall challenge Tuesday, winning both the right to finish his term and a voter endorsement of his strategy to curb state spending, which included the explosive measure that eliminated union rights for most public workers. - Newsmax
◼ LEFT-WING RECALL EFFORT FAILS IN WISCONSIN - Breitbart News
◼ ELECTION OFFICIALS: 'VERY, VERY HIGH' - Breitbart News
◼ WALKER'S POLICIES WON THE RECALL TONIGHT - Mike Flynn/Breitbart
Scott Walker's win tonight was a resounding victory for political courage and government reform. After more than a year of vitriolic attacks and tens of millions of dollars from union member paychecks, Walker and his GOP allies survived everything unions could throw at them. It was a victory for grass roots activists, the tea party and a newly emboldened Republican party. Most importantly, it was a victory for the common sense reforms championed by Walker.
Democrats claimed that Walker had championed "divisive" polices that sparked a "political civil war" in the state. The reforms required state workers to contribute a little bit more to their benefits and gave local governments the freedom to set their own health care and pension policies. Walker's reforms put Wisconsin government workers on the exact same negotiating footage as federal government workers.
In response, the unions threw a tantrum.
◼ Recall Bid Fails in Wisconsin - Douglas Belkin/Wall Street Journal
◼ Walker, Republicans win big in Wisconsin recall races - Washington Times
In addition to Mr. Walker, Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state Senate seats held by the GOP were being challenged. Ms. Kleefisch and three of the Republican Senate candidates had won their races while the Republican was leading in the fourth race late Tuesday.
◼ Wisconsin Was All About the Economy - Amy Walter/ABC News
◼ Walker: Voters want leaders to make hard decisions - AP/SeattlePI
◼ How Scott Walker Helped Unions and Democrats Tonight = Jim Geraghty/National Review Online via Lucianne
Believe it or not, by winning his recall election - by a 57 percent to 42 percent margin at this hour – Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has done his foes – the Wisconsin Democratic Party, the public sector unions, the progressives and angry leftists – a favor. He has liberated them from the soothing illusion that they are popular, and that the public agrees with them.
◼ WI Recall a Tea Party Victory - Dana Loesch/Breitbart's Big Government
If ever there was a measure of the muscle of the tea party movement, let it be judged by this election....
◼ Why Scott Walker won the Wisconsin recall - Chris Cillizza/Washington Post
◼ Walker withstands withering attack, wins in Wisconsin - Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post
Labels:
Rebecca Kleefisch,
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At Kenosha County polling sites, "There's been steady lines and some of them are running low on ballots and we have been printing ballots for some of the wards," Deputy County Clerk Edie Lamothe said.
◼ Heavy turnout reported across Wisconsin - Journal Sentinel Online
◼ Live-blogging the Wisconsin recall election. - Althouse
◼ What Wisconsin Is Up Against - Moonbattery
◼ Madison Goon Threatens Kleefisch – Wants Her Dead (Video) - Jim Hoft/Gateway Pundit
◼ Open thread: Wisconsin - HotAir
◼ It’s Here: Recall Day In Wisconsin - NoQuarter
◼ Wisconsin Recall LIVE (Update – WALKER WINS!!!!) - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (get ready for celebratory music!)
◼ Live-blogging the Wisconsin recall election. - Althouse
◼ What Wisconsin Is Up Against - Moonbattery
◼ Madison Goon Threatens Kleefisch – Wants Her Dead (Video) - Jim Hoft/Gateway Pundit
◼ Open thread: Wisconsin - HotAir
◼ It’s Here: Recall Day In Wisconsin - NoQuarter
◼ Wisconsin Recall LIVE (Update – WALKER WINS!!!!) - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (get ready for celebratory music!)
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
WISCONSIN TEA PARTY RALLY ATTRACTS MUCH BIGGER CROWD THAN CLINTON RALLY
◼ Glossed over in this Associated Press report about Friday's Wisconsin recall rally starring former President Bill Clinton is the fact that only "hundreds" showed up. - JOHN NOLTE/BREITBART
Not only is Gov. Scott Walker's Democrat opponent, Tom Barrett, the mayor of that great city, but Milwaukee represents one of two liberal strongholds in the state -- the other being Madison. By contrast, at yesterday's pro-Walker rally in Racine, somewhere around 4,000 showed up to see, among others, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Congressman Paul Ryan, and our own Dana Loesch.
...Maybe now we know why President Obama conspicuously stayed away from this fight, though I doubt that was always the plan. On Friday, the President attended a record six fundraisers, all of them within a few hours of Wisconsin. Fundraisers are usually scheduled well in advance, which means that it's not outrageous to wonder if the original plan had been to schedule these fundraisers nearby in order to give Obama the opportunity to host a rally or two in Wisconsin. If that's the case, the polls showing Walker in the lead likely scared Obama off.
Considering the month he's had and Friday's disastrous economic and jobs' numbers, the last thing the President needs is a cycle of Wednesday morning stories documenting his loss of magic in a state he won by 14 points in 2008.
Of course, Obama might have simply decided to send Clinton to Wisconsin in order to feel like he created a job.
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◼ WALKER CHALLENGER RUNS FROM OBAMA - Breitbart News
◼ Hard To Watch: Dem Rep's Screeching Screaming Anti-Walker Song and Dance - BreitvartTV
Not only is Gov. Scott Walker's Democrat opponent, Tom Barrett, the mayor of that great city, but Milwaukee represents one of two liberal strongholds in the state -- the other being Madison. By contrast, at yesterday's pro-Walker rally in Racine, somewhere around 4,000 showed up to see, among others, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Congressman Paul Ryan, and our own Dana Loesch.
...Maybe now we know why President Obama conspicuously stayed away from this fight, though I doubt that was always the plan. On Friday, the President attended a record six fundraisers, all of them within a few hours of Wisconsin. Fundraisers are usually scheduled well in advance, which means that it's not outrageous to wonder if the original plan had been to schedule these fundraisers nearby in order to give Obama the opportunity to host a rally or two in Wisconsin. If that's the case, the polls showing Walker in the lead likely scared Obama off.
Considering the month he's had and Friday's disastrous economic and jobs' numbers, the last thing the President needs is a cycle of Wednesday morning stories documenting his loss of magic in a state he won by 14 points in 2008.
Of course, Obama might have simply decided to send Clinton to Wisconsin in order to feel like he created a job.
◼ WALKER CHALLENGER RUNS FROM OBAMA - Breitbart News
◼ Hard To Watch: Dem Rep's Screeching Screaming Anti-Walker Song and Dance - BreitvartTV
Labels:
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Recall effort,
Reform,
Scott Walker,
Tea Party,
Wisconsin
Sunday, April 1, 2012
WISCONSIN TEACHERS' UNIONS TRAINED WELL-FUNDED ALINSKY GROUP
◼ Breitbart.com has learned that teachers in Wisconsin have been attending routine training workshops with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a radical organization founded by Saul Alinsky in 1940. - Breitbart's BIG Government
In a video produced by the MacIver Institute, organizers are seen arriving at a March 17 training session with the Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin's state teachers union.
Teachers' unions led last year's protests in Wisconsin against collective bargaining reforms, and are now heavily involved in the effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. In addition to Alinskyite groups, the recall effort has attracted the support of radicals such as unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
In a little-known speech to Wisconsin teachers last September, Ayers spoke of the need for "a new kind of education for a new kind of citizens that can make a new kind of society”
In a video produced by the MacIver Institute, organizers are seen arriving at a March 17 training session with the Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin's state teachers union.
Teachers' unions led last year's protests in Wisconsin against collective bargaining reforms, and are now heavily involved in the effort to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker. In addition to Alinskyite groups, the recall effort has attracted the support of radicals such as unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
In a little-known speech to Wisconsin teachers last September, Ayers spoke of the need for "a new kind of education for a new kind of citizens that can make a new kind of society”
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
What's going on here isn’t bias, it’s a full-blown cover up.
◼ MEDIA SILENT AS LEFT ATTACKS KIDS OF WISCONSIN LT. GOVERNOR REBECCA KLEEFISCH - John Nolte/Breitbart's BIG JOURNALISM
This is what we see time and again at the hands of the same Left that manufactured a month's long non-troversy over a word Rush Limbaugh spoke. While, on one hand, the left and their media allies feign outrage over Limbaugh, on the other hand, they either willfully ignore or launch vile, sexist attacks against conservative women that go well beyond anything that can in any way be called satire or humor.
Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is a wife, mother, and a cancer survivor. She's currently being targeted for recall and by some of the ugliest personal attacks you'll hear -- at least until the left launches the next one.
◼ Listen here to John "Sly" Sylvester, a left-wing radio host who operates out of Madison, WI, at radio station WTDY. Sylvester accuses Kleefisch of performing sexual acts on numerous men, mocks her cancer, and attacks her children.
The attack on the Kleefisch's children is quite intentional. We've seen the media do the same to Sarah Palin. The idea is to gut-punch the target, to attempt to make the price of staying in the public arena awful and toxic. The left's hope, obviously, is that the target will shrivel up and go away. Well, this evil tactic didn't work on Palin and I doubt it will on Kleefisch.
But where is the media on this?
AWOL, naturally, because Rebecca Kleefisch is an apostate -- a self-made Republican woman who became the Lt. Governor of a swing state Barack Obama desperately needs to fall his way if he's to have four more years to be more, uhm, flexible.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Michelle Malkin Lead Story: The war on Wisconsin; Update: Sarah Palin’s call to arms
◼ Now is the time for all good tea partiers to come to the aid of Wisconsin. Fiscally conservative leaders in the Badger State are under coordinated siege from Big Labor, the White House, the liberal media and the judiciary. The yearlong campaign of union thuggery, family harassment and intimidation of Republican donors and businesses is about to escalate even further. This is the price the Right pays for doing the right thing. - Michelle Malkin
President Obama, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME and left-wing operatives know that Wisconsin is Ground Zero in their battle against limited-government activists. Their demagogic propaganda war against Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, who is leading entitlement reform and budget discipline efforts in Washington, is of a piece with the campaign to overturn the popular elections that put Walker, Kleefisch and the GOP majority in place. If they can chill fiscal responsibility and free market-based reforms in Wisconsin, they can chill it everywhere. Will movement conservatives let them?
◼ From John Nolte at Big Government/Breitbart.com: Kleefisch faces recall, sexist taunts.
President Obama, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME and left-wing operatives know that Wisconsin is Ground Zero in their battle against limited-government activists. Their demagogic propaganda war against Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, who is leading entitlement reform and budget discipline efforts in Washington, is of a piece with the campaign to overturn the popular elections that put Walker, Kleefisch and the GOP majority in place. If they can chill fiscal responsibility and free market-based reforms in Wisconsin, they can chill it everywhere. Will movement conservatives let them?
◼ From John Nolte at Big Government/Breitbart.com: Kleefisch faces recall, sexist taunts.
Since the beginning of the public union protests in Wisconsin, you can trace everything back to one over-arching puppet master and that's a White House that saw the crucial swing state of Wisconsin fall into Republican hands by a wide margin in 2010.◼ As Goes Wisconsin, so Goes America; Support Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch - Sarah Palin
Everything about these crybaby teacher protests, the union violence, and a merry-go-round of recall elections is designed to keep Obama's base ginned up and frothing at the mouth straight through to when it's time to vote for him in November.
But there's so much more going on just below the surface.
Wisconsin, you deserve better than this!
Michelle Malkin points out that President Obama knows Wisconsin is ground zero in the Left’s battle against limited government. And, as Michelle writes: “If they can chill fiscal responsibility and free market-based reforms in Wisconsin, they can chill it everywhere.” Concerned Americans, don’t let them snuff out this Mama Grizzly’s successful efforts to fight for what is right.
Grand Old Badger State: you are America’s blessed 30th state. Your natural and human resources abound. Even your state motto promises a vision of “Forward.” So, as the eyes of America focus on you, raise your voice in support of your state’s good destiny!
“On, Wisconsin! Champion of the right, 'Forward', our motto – God will give thee might!”
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