Can Scott Walker ‘three-peat’ in Wisconsin?

[Geee]

 

Reading a Wisconsin article about this a couple of hours ago. They also mentioned that the behavior of the polls is very similar to the polls before the recall. Don't know what that means but I hope it means that the outcome will be the same.

 

And wouldn't that just drive The Left right around the bend?

 

Oh Please God Please

[Valin]

Supreme Court asked to block Wisconsin voter law

SCOTT BAUER

Oct. 2 2014

 

 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Opponents of Wisconsin's voter photo identification law asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take emergency action and block the requirement ahead of the Nov. 4 election, arguing there isn't enough time to implement the new rules.

 

The request to put the law on hold comes less than five weeks before the election, including the closely watched race between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke. State elections officials have been scrambling to prepare for the photo ID requirement since the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Sept. 12 to allow the law to be in effect while it considers a legal challenge.

 

The groups behind the lawsuit, The American Civil Liberties Union and the Advancement Project, argue that the law is unconstitutional, in part because it unfairly burdens poor and minority voters who may not have valid IDs. Opponents also argue that implementing the requirement with such short notice will create chaos at the polls and disenfranchise an estimated 300,000 voters.

 

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[Geee]

Walker could be strolling to massive win in Wisconsin

 

VAN DYNE, Wis. — Republican Gov. Scott Walker is under investigation, and he is reviled by the largest political force in his state. But you’d never guess that by watching him amble through the stalls at a central Wisconsin dairy farm.

 

Walker converses with a casual ease rare among politicians. He strolls with a light step through a massive cow barn at Ruedinger Farms on Wednesday. The only thing hanging over his head is the mechanical hawk that chases away the pigeons.

 

You wouldn’t guess from his demeanor how hated he is. County prosecutors are still investigating him. And the government employee unions — which failed to block his legislation, failed to recall him, and failed to take back the state legislature — still have it in for him.

 

“Walker speaks with a forked tongue,” Fernando Stokes tells me. Stokes was a state prison guard for 32 years and is now retired. Waiting for his takeout order at Milwaukee’s Water Street Brewery, Stokes couldn’t even name Walker’s opponent. That she was running against Walker was enough for him.

 

Ron, a bartender at Buck Bradley’s in Milwaukee for more than 20 years, is backing Walker again. He understands the unions’ anger: “If someone yanked away your gravy train, would you be happy?” Ron asks with a laugh.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2554630

[Geee]

First debate tonight. Unfortunately, we both called it a draw I didn't like that he let her get away with untrue accusations that he did not answer.

 

Edit: one more debate in a week

[Geee]

Well, last debate tonight. I thought Walker did much better than the first debate, but neither hit a home run. I guess I can kind of make a GW comparison with Walker. He is best interacting with people, but not debating so much. I have read that three national unions and couple of the liberal pacs are throwing millions in to her campaign these last two weeks.

[Geee]

Walker’s Opponents Get Personal

 

In Poor Richard’s Almanack, Benjamin Franklin offers sage advice for handling political opponents: “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

 

It is advice unheeded by Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. When asked to name one good thing about Walker in a recent debate, it was as if Burke had been asked about the health benefits of Ebola. She fumbled around before finally mentioning he had done good work on domestic-violence issues. Asked in a later interview if she had thought of any more positive Walker qualities, Burke ascribed him the ultimate calumny by calling him a “great politician.”

 

It is Walker, however, who should question Franklin’s sage aphorism, for far from illuminating Walker’s faults, Burke is inventing new ones, facts be damned.

For instance, Burke has been traversing the state telling voters that Walker’s policies have led to a $1.8 billion deficit. This is demonstrably false; Democrats essentially took a brief one-time revenue downtick and extrapolated it over the course of four years, saying the hiccup would extend to 2017.

 

But that number assumes state revenues wouldn’t grow a dime in the next four years. Heck, why not stretch it out over eight years and call it a $4 billion deficit? Or Burke could warn voters of the impending $1 trillion deficit due around the corner in 4236.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390780/walkers-opponents-get-personal-christian-schneider

[Valin]

Trek sources: Mary Burke’s family fired her for incompetence

M.D. Kittle Wisconsin Reporter

October 28, 2014

 

MADISON, Wis. — In attempting to explain her two-year work hiatus in the early to mid-1990s, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has said she was just burned out after an intense period of leading European operations for Trek Bicycle Corp., her family’s Waterloo-based global manufacturer.

 

In fact, Burke apparently was fired by her own family following steep overseas financial losses and plummeting morale among Burke’s European sales staff, multiple former Trek executives and employees told Wisconsin Reporter.

 

The sales team threatened to quit if Burke was not removed from her position as director of European Operations, according to Gary Ellerman, who served as Trek’s human resources director for more than 21 years. His account was confirmed by three other former employees.

 

“She was not performing. She was (in) so far over her head. She didn’t understand the bike business,” said Ellerman, who started with Trek in 1992, at the tail end of Burke’s first stint as a manager at Trek.

 

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[Geee]

Trek sources: Mary Burke’s family fired her for incompetence

M.D. Kittle Wisconsin Reporter

October 28, 2014

 

MADISON, Wis. — In attempting to explain her two-year work hiatus in the early to mid-1990s, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has said she was just burned out after an intense period of leading European operations for Trek Bicycle Corp., her family’s Waterloo-based global manufacturer.

 

In fact, Burke apparently was fired by her own family following steep overseas financial losses and plummeting morale among Burke’s European sales staff, multiple former Trek executives and employees told Wisconsin Reporter.

 

The sales team threatened to quit if Burke was not removed from her position as director of European Operations, according to Gary Ellerman, who served as Trek’s human resources director for more than 21 years. His account was confirmed by three other former employees.

 

“She was not performing. She was (in) so far over her head. She didn’t understand the bike business,” said Ellerman, who started with Trek in 1992, at the tail end of Burke’s first stint as a manager at Trek.

 

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Word has it that her brother fired her. Of course this is getting NO press here.

[Valin]

 

Word has it that her brother fired her. Of course this is getting NO press here.

 

 

 

How Bad do you have to be so your brother tells you "You've got 10 minutes to clean out your desk"!

 

Must real fun at Thanksgiving!

[Geee]

 

 

Word has it that her brother fired her. Of course this is getting NO press here.

 

 

 

How Bad do you have to be so your brother tells you "You've got 10 minutes to clean out your desk"!

 

Must real fun at Thanksgiving!

 

Maybe employees are speaking up because if they didn't like her as a boos, they certainly won't like her as governor.

[Valin]

 

 

 

Word has it that her brother fired her. Of course this is getting NO press here.

 

 

 

How Bad do you have to be so your brother tells you "You've got 10 minutes to clean out your desk"!

 

Must real fun at Thanksgiving!

 

Maybe employees are speaking up because if they didn't like her as a boos, they certainly won't like her as governor.

 

 

 

You may be on to something. I've worked for bosses that were...well incompetent jerks...minimal fun factor.....that's how you get fired. Then you're told he got fired because of you. And that feels as good as you imagine it does.

[Valin]

For What Its Worth...

 

Scott Walker Takes 7-Point Lead in New Poll
Ryan Lovelace
October 29, 2014 4:49 PM

 

Republican governor Scott Walker leads Democratic challenger Mary Burke 50–43 among likely voters in Marquette University Law School’s final poll before Tuesday’s election. Walker’s seven-percentage-point lead among likely voters represents a dramatic shift in his direction. The Wisconsin governor’s race was thought to be tied, as a Marquette poll showed earlier this month, and three recent polls showed the two candidates separated by just one point. The Marquette poll shows Walker’s lead among registered voters surveyed to be just one percentage point.

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[Geee]

Scott Walker’s Fate and 2016

 

When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker emerged triumphant from a recall election in 2012, he immediately moved to the front ranks of those Republicans considering a 2016 presidential run. But before he could think about the White House, he needed to win reelection in 2014. Many would-be presidential candidates have used such state races as vehicles to further the argument that they are political dynamos deserving of national attention. But as Politico notes today, Walker’s struggles in his fight to hold onto his job may impact his hopes for the White House even if he manages to beat Democrat Mary Burke.

 

Walker has had a bull’s eye on his back ever since he decided to take his 2010 campaign promises seriously and to take action to save his state from rapacious public employee unions. Walker stood up to the union thugs and obstructionist Democrats who sought to prevent the legislature from enacting legislation that would end the vicious cycle by which state employees sank Wisconsin further into debt. He then ably fended off the recall effort and assumed the status of conservative folk hero as the foremost among a class of GOP governors intent on reforming a corrupt system.

But three all-out liberal assaults on Walker in five years have taken their toll. Instead of waltzing to reelection as Chris Christie did in New Jersey, Walker has faced the fight of his political life against Burke, a wealthy businesswoman who has been able to pour her considerable personal resources into attacks on the governor in a state that remains fairly evenly divided between the two parties. Showing signs of strain at times, Walker has appeared to falter occasionally and it can be argued that his blunt style has gotten a little stale in his third go-round with the voters.

 

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/10/29/scott-walkers-fate-and-2016-chris-christie-wisconsin-governor/

[righteousmomma]

i am sure you saw Fox's video of the people walking out on the 0 in Wisconsin? Then heard Rush today touting Walker once again as the BEST REPUBLICAN success story that should be shouted by the GOP?

 

I think Scott Walker is the poster boy for the Republican Party. Here is a guy who has reformed a deep blue state in every which way he set out to, despite some of the most vile, cutthroat efforts to destroy him that modern politics has witnessed. He's persevered and he's triumphed over it.

 

[Geee]

@Valin @righteousmomma - I disagree with some of the wording in the Commentary article about Walker. They talk about his 'blunt' style. I do not consider him blunt. He is soft and plain spoken and is sometimes not a smooth talker like some politicians - similar to GW. The media were all over him for carrying out exactly what he said he would do in his first campaign. The fact that he won must have meant that the people wanted him to do what he said and that's the exact way he felt about it. Guess the press is not used to that.

[Valin]

 

i am sure you saw Fox's video of the people walking out on the 0 in Wisconsin? Then heard Rush today touting Walker once again as the BEST REPUBLICAN success story that should be shouted by the GOP?

 

I think Scott Walker is the poster boy for the Republican Party. Here is a guy who has reformed a deep blue state in every which way he set out to, despite some of the most vile, cutthroat efforts to destroy him that modern politics has witnessed. He's persevered and he's triumphed over it.

 

 

 

 

[Geee]

Unions Go All Out To Defeat Wisconsin's Maverick Governor Walker

 

Politics: The most important election in the nation on Tuesday may be the governor's race in Wisconsin, where labor unions are trying once again to oust an incumbent whom they've made public enemy No. 1.

 

Scott Walker dared to take on state pensions and collective bargaining agreements that brought the Badger state to the brink of bankruptcy.

 

The movement against him is orchestrated by the same union thugs, leftist college professors and other "progressive" protesters who occupied the capitol four years ago to protest the governor's policies to straighten out the state's finances.

 

To his credit, Walker showed a backbone of steel — and never backed away from his principles. That's all too rare in modern-day go-along-to-get-along politics. In the end he prevailed in passing his agenda.

 

But that was just the beginning. Big Labor then organized a recall campaign. Money flowed in from every conceivable "progressive" fund-raising operation. But Walker won that challenge, too, by 7 percentage points, and the unions were humiliated — again.

 

Now they aim to beat him again, and again rivers of union money are flowing in to Madison. The campaign is one of lies: Walker's against middle-class workers, he is against women, he is for tax cuts for the rich, he's cut school funding, he's funded by the Koch brothers.

 

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/102914-724074-unions-seek-to-oust-wisconsins-walker-for-daring-to-stand-up-to-them.htm

[Valin]

Mary Burke in 47 seconds flat

 

[Valin]

OMG! What a terrible person Scott Walker is.

 

http://youtu.be/tyUUjVc7Kac

[Geee]

@Valin

 

Somebody forked over a lot of money for that ad, it runs back to back a zillion times a day, along with another one about that hints about the John Doe investigation by calling it the 'appearance' of corruption. Those of us that don't watch for Bill Clinton speak, would not catch the 'appearance' word.

OMG! What a terrible person Scott Walker is.

 

http://youtu.be/tyUUjVc7Kac

[Valin]

@Geee

 

But...But That was Good Money coming from truly wonderful enlightened people who only want to implement the millennial kingdom, unlike the dark evil Koch 1%er money that Scott Walker gets.

 

this reply is brought you by SIP...the Society of Ignorant People

[Geee]

One of the things that will delight me if there is a Republican sweep of the majority of these races is the thought that all of these organizations have flushed a whole lot of money down the drain and still didn't win.

[Valin]

Burke busted, goes ballistic

Scott Johnson

November 1, 2014

 

Mary Burke has staked her campaign for governor of Wisconsin on her experience as an executive of Trek. The experience provided good cover for the Democrats’ drive to unseat incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker as a result of what he has accomplished in office. Walker has an outstanding record on which to run and Burke has not asserted that she would undo the reforms that give rise to the impetus and the muscle and the money for her campaign even if opposition to Walker’s reforms provides its rationale.

 

This week it was revealed that Burke had left Trek involuntarily in 1993 after a few years with the company. Executives including the company’s president said she had been fired. Burke begged to disagree slightly. Although she had previously asserted that she left the company burned out by her responsibilities, she told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week that her position had been eliminated as a result of corporate restructuring. Given that Trek is a family business, Burke’s own story wasn’t much of a response. I wrote about the emergence of the story this week in “Burke busted.”

 

The story of Burke’s departure from Trek must have hurt. Burke has now hit bottom as she seeks to associate Scott Walker with Nazism and swastikas in connection with the story (video of ad below). Ann Althouse explores the rationale behind the ad “Mary Burke’s use of the swastika in her ad does the very thing defenders of the ad will say she accuses her antagonist of doing.” Like an art critic with a taste for history, Althouse demonstrates that the ad’s motif fits into the tradition of unhinged anti-Walker iconography. Burke brings the motif to the surface and uses it for her own purposes. Althouse’s critique of the ad is a tour de force.

 

 

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[Geee]

@Valin - been running a zillion times all day. Watching DVDs so I don't have to keep hitting the mute button.

[Valin]

@Valin - been running a zillion times all day. Watching DVDs so I don't have to keep hitting the mute button.

 

 

This is just about the dumbest ad I've seen in quite some time!

I find her in violation of Godwins Law.....25 yard penalty...and loss of election!