Discussion for article #224675
just another Repuk Jerk
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Wait… what? How will he help his chances for re-election by getting laughed out of court?
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If Johnson has noticed a lessening of cost for run-of-the-mill family prescriptions he’s already received il bacio della morte.
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Johnson won’t lose his election because Obamacare helps him.
He’ll lose because he seems to believe that forcing his staffers and colleagues to pay more for their health insurance is somehow a priority for his constituents.
The people of Wisconsin are not stupid. We all understand how employee provided insurance works, whether you call it a subsidy, or part of a standard compensation package, or just commonsense.
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How about the possibility that he’ll also lose his re-election bid due to running in Wisconsin as a wingnut during a Presidential election year.
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There are a lot of reasons that Johnson could be seen as getting an unfair advantage over his constituents: taking out interest free loans from his company to finance his campaign, getting tax breaks to support his company, using taxpayer dollars to build private roads to his factory, using his taxpayer funded job as a Senate to promote his own narrow interests on Fox News and through frivolous lawsuits over the actual needs of his constituents, using his private wealth and influence to protect child molesters…
In light of all of the privilege and favored status that Johnson has enjoyed throughout his entire professional and political life, I somehow don’t think anyone is going to care that he gets employer sponsored health insurance.
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In a recent interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, Ron Johnson said the following:
“Come November, whatever day it is in 2016, I will guarantee you I will be the calmest on election night. I win either way. I either get back my life that I miss…”
In Johnson’s own words even if he loses his election in 2016, he still benefits. I wonder if the judge will take this into consideration when trying to decide if a perceived threat to Johnson’s political standing in 2016 is actually a “harm” that gives him standing to file this lawsuit. I mean, either way he wins, so what’s the harm?
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As usual, Ron first, party second, constituents, dead last.
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He can win if he gets the support of AM talk radio and the WOW counties (Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha), epicenters of white privilege and bigotry, the reddest of the red in Wisconsin. It’s how Walker wins.
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He didn’t become a Senator to do the work of governing. He went to Washington to dismantle the government.
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The biggest privilege being marrying the daughter of the owner of the plastics company that he now owns.
He didn’t even build that.
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They elected him once. So much for your WI isn’t that stupid theory.
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Since when did getting re-elected become a “right?” It aint.
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The “WOW” county talk radio advantage only works when there is low voter turnout throughout the rest of the state. When the Presidency is on the ballot, Democrats get the advantage. Remember, Scott Walker and Ron Johnson were elected in 2010 when a lot of people sat home. Tammy Baldwin was elected in 2012 when people turned out to vote for Obama. Johnson knows he’s going into 2016 with a huge disadvantage, and he knows it. This is may be why he’s already making excuses to explain his loss two-years out.
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Well, according to his 2010 campaign he went to Washington to be “more independent than Russ Feingold” and also because he thinks of himself as a good father. Seriously, that was pretty much his entire platform.
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Aw, hey now. Fool us once, shame on Johnson. Fool us twice, shame on Wisconsin. Two years later, Wisconsin elected Tammy Baldwin to the Senate, so hopefully we’ve redeemed ourselves. Come 2016, Ron Kind or Russ Feingold will be heading to the Senate.
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“By thrusting a favored status upon Senator Johnson”
The so-called favored status is to have employee-subsidized health insurance.
And the simple remedy is for Johnson to write a check to the US Treasury in an amount equal to what the government was paying toward his health insurance.
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By thrusting the favored status, incumbent U.S. Senator, upon Johnson at a time when the U.S. Congress is at record low popularity, the State of Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has a driven a wedge between him and his constituents that causes him cognizable reputational and electoral injury.
The Senator accordingly demands that the State remedy this harm by rescinding certification of the election results that purportedly forced Johnson into the harmful favored status.
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Crybaby poser files frivolous lawsuit. “Any law that I fatuously perceive to be the cause of my possible electoral loss must be illegal. To hell with doing my job honestly. I’m going to sue!”
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