Can Scott Walker ‘three-peat’ in Wisconsin?

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Racially Incendiary Burke Flyer Seeks to Rally Black Vote

 

With Democrat Mary Burke increasingly desperate to the point of panic, given the recent revelations of her mendacity concerning her career at her family business, and the embarrassment of President Obama’s flop at North Division High School in Milwaukee’s inner city, both of which preceded news that the prestigious and generally very accurate Marquette University Law School poll shows her trailing Governor Scott Walker by a full seven percentage points among those voters who will walk over broken glass, if necessary, to get to the polls, a new flyer exploits the deaths of three young black men and perverts history in an attempt to shore up her numbers in Wisconsin’s African-American community.

 

The recently produced flyer, seen above, targets the black community. The flyer has gone viral since it was first seen in Wisconsin, then shot across the Internet, from Arizona-based radio host James T. Harris, to Wisconsin’s Daily Independent. The flyer shows photos of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Dontre Hamilton; under each is a caption saying, e.g., “Michael Brown can’t vote,” with the overall slogan: “Don’t let anyone silence your voice. Vote Nov. 4th.”

 

The first two young men, of course, have been in the national news and most people are sufficiently familiar with the details of their deaths that they need no reiteration here; the last man’s death is a local phenomenon with which most are probably unfamiliar.

 

http://pjmedia.com/blog/desperate-burke-campaign/

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Will Burke win mean a higher minimum wage? Don’t take it to the bank

 

MADISON, Wis. — If Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke defeats Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday, she’ll owe a tremendous amount of thanks to a union group fighting for an increase in the state minimum wage.

 

But some political and legal experts say there’s no guarantee Wisconsin will see a higher minimum wage if Burke is elected.

 

Although Burke has said she supports raising the hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 in three steps, Wisconsin’s governor generally can only authorize a pay hike if the Legislature first signs off by passing a bill, according to Marquette University political science professor John McAdams.

 

But the Legislature, under a Republican majority for the past several years, hasn’t been receptive to overtures about increasing the minimum wage. The GOP is expected to keep control of the Assembly and Senate after Tuesday’s election.

 

“Unless the Democrats take the Assembly and the Senate and Burke wins the governorship … the state is not going to have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage,” McAdams told Wisconsin Reporter.

 

http://watchdog.org/180518/burke-minimum-wage/

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“Unless the Democrats take the Assembly and the Senate and Burke wins the governorship … the state is not going to have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage,” McAdams told Wisconsin Reporter.

 

http://watchdog.org/180518/burke-minimum-wage/

 

 

And the downside to this is.......?

 

 

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Tonight’s Big 2016 Winner: Scott Walker?

 

We’ve had the back and forth below about John Kasich, who trounced an incredibly weak opponent — but I’m going to go out on a limb and agree with Ed Schultz (nobody else reads the blue-collar Midwest from a private jet as well as he does, if you ask me): Scott Walker has way outperformed expectations tonight.

 

Now, so did a lot of other GOP gubernatorial candidates (and Senate candidates), but just a couple months ago, Walker’s national promise looked inevitably set to take a big hit even if he won reelection.

 

When the race looked to be almost neck-and-neck this summer, it seemed unlikely that Walker was going to win by more than a few points, which would have marred his case that he won the political case for his public-sector reforms.

 

Well, Walker did a lot better than people expected him to back then. Even if this was because of a general GOP wave tonight, it’s hard to see that dulling the shine of winning reelection by 7 points for the second time in two and a half years in a state that Obama won by 14 points and then 8 points. Democrats can say what they want about Wisconsin’s polarized politics, but that’s a pretty nice political record to go alongside his signal policy accomplishment.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/392051/tonights-big-2016-winner-scott-walker-patrick-brennan