Two things here - was this a legitimate story, and did the Media Co-Op do enough due diligence before reporting it? As to the second, clearly not - "Lamestream" media wins again. As to the first - I think that if it had been true, it's a legit story to cover, particularly from a candidate that talks about family values and courts voters to whom such things are supposedly important. I'd put it up there with the media coverage of Obama's "Choom Gang" hot boxing a VW Bus in Hawaii - valid to cover, but something that voters may or may not give a shit about.
Allons-y!
Put me in the 'doesn't give a shit' category.
It's idiotic to judge someone today over something they did almost a quarter of a century ago.
Koch brothers probably paid for the abortion.
The Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and spreading anti-Scott Walker propaganda.
Scott Walker supporter steals cleat given by Donald Driver from small boy at charity event.
I think the technical term here is a Roorback, a defamatory (and probably false) rumor about a candidate released on the eve of an election. I first saw it in William Safire's Political dictionary, but the term has been around since the election of James Polk in 1844. The good tricks never go out of date.
CALLER MIKE is reporting Greyhound size buses, filled to capacity, with a good amount of "freebies" available:
They treated me to lunch!
It's four buses total.
We're going to Wisconsin. We're from Michigan. Right outside Detroit and... they got four buses up here, Chris. I dont know if they got other buses coming from other directions but it's four buses and we're going to Wisconsin to vote.
Most of them are Democrat..it's a Democratic union..its actually a Democratic union organized by Democrats.
I drive tractor trailer. I told you..I drive tractor trailer...
Lets just say my uncle works for a union out here, at the Chrysler plant.
They have alot freebies on this... alot of freebies with this deal. Alot of freebies.
They're just charter buses. They're big, black with gray lines on the side. Charter buses.
50% of votes reported at 90 minutes past Wisconsin poll closing, and Walker is leading by more votes than Milwaukee had voters in 2008.
It's all over but the shouting.
The unions lost on May 8th when their candidate was defeated in the primary:
"Let's face it -- I wasn't the candidate for the public unions," Barrett announced proudly last week during his second televised debate against Walker. "I wasn't their candidate in the primary."
Barrett defeated the labor movement's preferred candidate, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, in the May primary. Falk had pledged to veto the next state budget unless it restored public employees' collective-bargaining rights. Barrett refused to commit to such a maneuver, although he supports restoring collective-bargaining rights using other tactics.
There was a third candidate, Hari Trivedi (Indian Doctor), who was also running. Some are saying he took votes away from Barrett.
Walker says government workers get paid too much and we need to slap them back into line, and most people in Wisconsin seem to agree. If ordinary workers think that government workers get some super-special deal at taxpayers' expense, even they might feel enough resentment to vote for Walker. Plainly, labour unions can't even get their candidates for nomination approved by Democrats let alone Wisconsin voters overall.
But national issues and state issues push voters in very different directions. For one obvious example, Romney will try to position himself to Obama's right on national security. In that process, he will alienate lots of independents and even conservatives in Wisconsin, which state has long preferred peaceniks in Congress.
Walker may look good to Wisconsin voters when he takes on government workers, but when he says that men need money more than women to explain why he opposes legislation on "equal pay for equal work", he may start to alienate some of his current supporters. This story won't really be over until current inter-party political ugliness has resolved itself, for one reason or another, and that may not be for many years to come.
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If ordinary workers think that government workers get some super-special deal at taxpayers' expense, even they might feel enough resentment to vote for Walker.
Why aren't bankers, middle managers, IT mutants, and executives leaving their private-sector jobs in droves for the vast riches of a public teacher salary, then?
I got more styles than prison got bricks- ain't that some shit?
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"[B]ankers, middle managers, IT mutants, and executives" hardly qualify as "ordinary workers". Some people work jobs that make government work, with its vacations and benefits, look desirable.
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Why aren't bankers, middle managers, IT mutants, and executives leaving their private-sector jobs in droves for the vast riches of a public teacher salary, then?
Why aren't teachers leaving their public sector jobs in droves to become bankers, middle-managers, IT mutants or executives if they feel so oppressed?
