Re: The one piece on what's happening in WI you must read
"nicholas a. evans" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Johne Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > From where I sit, it looks like the unions are far more concerned about > keeping their own power than they are about protecting their weakest or > newest members. That's far more troubling to me than the bandied Walker > 'croneyism'. If you are accusing unions of corruption, especially power-mongering and failure to protect the very one's they've been charged with protecting, then I agree. And it's disgusting. And concerning the Democratic party of being financially beholden to corrupt unions in suspect ways, you will get only agreement from me. > Scott Walker is a preacher's kid, an Eagle scout. He's a straight arrow. > He's not flashy or even terribly partisan. He simply doesn't want to raise > taxes to balance the budget and he'd rather not lay people off if he can Okay, I'm willing to downgrade my accusation of "croneyism" to "usefully naive". I'll chalk the no-bid contracts up to a lobbyist who slipped it past him and his staff, masquerading as a wholly reasonable sale of state property which would be put to better use in the private sector. I mean, it is a 144 page bill; I can't expect him to have personally vetted every paragraph. > I just hope this doesn't turn violent. Madison is a tinder keg right now. :-( -- Nick -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot