Unions and the Wisconsin Governor

[Townsend]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/son-of-wisc-donor-gets-plum-job/nepotism/#

Son of Wisc. Donor Gets Plum Job

There are two ways to get a job in government: hard work, and the old-fashioned way—nepotism. A report from Wisconsin suggests that the son of a major donor to GOP Gov. Scott Walker may have benefited from the latter. Despite being a college dropout with two DUIs and little or no relevant experience, twentysomething Brian Deschane scored a $81,500 gig overseeing environmental and regulatory matters and dozens of employees. He's even received a 26 percent raise during his two-month tenure. "It doesn't look like he's ever had a real job," sniped Democratic Rep. Brett Hulsey, one of the critics who points out that Deschane's father Jerry gave almost $122,000 to Walker's campaign. The elder Deschane says his son got the job on his own. Walker has waged war against public-employee unions, saying that their compensation is bleeding the Badger State dry.

Read it at Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Reads a little like Fox but I thought I'd throw it out there

[nathanm]

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Walker apparently can't decide whether the state is broke or not.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the point is to get the most incompetent people he can find so he can later point out how crappy a job the government agencies are doing.

[Teatownclown]

Looks like pay back started. Prosser would have won in a landslide like he always DID.
Walker a gift to the dims in the Midwest especially. Kasich won't hurt....

Kloppenburg declares victory

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119347799.html
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/04/06/kloppenburg_declares_victory_in_wisconsin/index.html Sconsin voters turn left!

It's not a done deal. It is nonetheless a stunning result, in all its implications.

[guido911]

Looks like pay back started. Prosser would have won in a landslide like he always DID.
Walker a gift to the dims in the Midwest especially. Kasich won't hurt....

Kloppenburg declares victory

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119347799.html
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/04/06/kloppenburg_declares_victory_in_wisconsin/index.html Sconsin voters turn left!

It's not a done deal. It is nonetheless a stunning result, in all its implications.

Whoa there aox, this just in:

Madison - In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold is set to release new vote totals giving 8,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race back toward Justice David Prosser, swinging the race significantly in his favor.

The Waukesha County clerk's office has told state elections officials that they will be adjusting the vote totals to give incumbent David Prosser more than 7,000 new votes, said Mike Haas, staff attorney for the state Government Accountability Board.

"Waukesha will be adjusting their vote totals by 14,000," Haas said the Accountability Board was told.

The numbers will add some 11,000 votes for Prosser and some 3,000 for Kloppenburg, he said. Haas said the Accountability Board was not giving a reason for the change, but more details are expected soon from Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus.

The new numbers may provide some clarity to a race that had appeared to be headed toward the first statewide recount in two decades and as well spring a new surprise on a state that had already faced two months of chaotic politics. But the numbers also seemed almost certain to inject new controversy into an already heated race.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html



This election is far from over I'm afraid. But it did show how the dems/union folks can mobilize.

[Teatownclown]

I never said it was over. Last election she had %23 of the vote. Big changes in the making for Teabaggers/GOP.
FYI, the vote totals in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race swung back and forth today, first with incumbent Justice David Prosser taking the lead, then with challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg taking it back by 125 votes.

Read up: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/04/wisconsin-recall-campaigns-bag-record-number-signatures

[guido911]

I never said it was over. Last election she had %23 of the vote

You quoted an article wherein Kloppenburg declared victory, though. Incidentally, heads be exploding over at DU. (language warning, although its a given):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4805394

[guido911]

Just listen to, whatever this is:

[heironymouspasparagus]

Son of Wisc donor - no surprise there.  Same thing happened with George Bush, only on a much bigger scale.  Daddy got him a baseball team with a $600,000 loan he never had to repay.

[guido911]

Son of Wisc donor - no surprise there.  Same thing happened with George Bush, only on a much bigger scale.  Daddy got him a baseball team with a $600,000 loan he never had to repay.

[Conan71]

Now why I've never thought of that is beyond me. 

Hillarious.  Why waste the key strokes of a reply when a Googled image works 20 times better?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Ahhhhh...how cute!!  Self portraits of twins!!
That is just too cool!!

Did you all draw them yourselves?

[Red Arrow]

Son of Wisc donor - no surprise there.  Same thing happened with George Bush, only on a much bigger scale.  Daddy got him a baseball team with a $600,000 loan he never had to repay.

Your parents never gave you anything?  How much is always relative to how deep the pockets are.

[Townsend]

Whoa there aox, this just in:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html



This election is far from over I'm afraid. But it did show how the dems/union folks can mobilize.

That sure sounds like a bad movie.  "oh wait, we forgot these ballots over here."

[Teatownclown]

BREAKING: Prosser Up by 7000+ in WI Supreme Court Race After 'Bookkeeping Error' Discovered by Controversial Clerk in Republican Waukesha County Another Republican Theft of An Election? It's Deja Vu All Over Again.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8456

"It's not a done deal. It is nonetheless a stunning result, in all its implications. " fotd?

[Red Arrow]

BREAKING: Prosser Up by 7000+ in WI Supreme Court Race After 'Bookkeeping Error' Discovered by Controversial Clerk in Republican Waukesha County Another Republican Theft of An Election? It's Deja Vu All Over Again.

The Republicans have finally learned from the Democrats how elections are won.