Discussion: Scott Walker Signs State Budget Axing Tenure For College Professors

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He wiped out $1 million in grants for nonprofit conservation organizations, saying he objects to handing out the money without accountability.

So Scotty, how does this square with your grants to businesses that gave you campaign donations, supposedly because they would expand and/or create new jobs and did neither. How much accountability was there in that case?

BROKEN RECORD ALERT: THIS is the most dangerous candidate in the GOP field. Ignore him at your risk. He will do ANYTHING to get elected and he will lie to the voters repeatedly as part of the anything.

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If tenure goes away, academia will turn into a MLB/NBA-like free-agent star system, and in the end, no money will be saved. Watch.

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There is no measure to the amount of slime oozing from this Koch puppet.

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Walker was already the most odious (well, maybe he’s tied with Santorum) of the Republican candidates.

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This article barely grazes the surface regarding the budget’s damage to Wisconsin.

–Walker laid to rest any pretense that the GOP wants to push accountability and governance to be closest to the people by removing a town’s or county’s ability to determine whether a company transporting hazardous liquid through its area is adequately insured.
–Walker effectively froze local public school K-12 budgets at their reduced levels as well by banning local property tax hikes.
–A ‘business entity’ now has the right to condemn someone’s property for running a pipeline through it, subject pretty much only to an OK from a three-member commission made up of ex-extraction industry people handpicked by Walker.
–Retail and mfg industry employees may now ‘volunteer’ to work seven days a week.
–The number of scientists doing environmental research at the Dep’t of Natural Resources has been cut.
–About $400 mil in much needed road repair is delayed or scrapped due to inadequate WI-DoT funding.
–There will be drug testing for SNAP and unemployment insurance applicants.

TPM, please, why is your coverage on this so limited?

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It depends on just how the no-more-tenure rule is implemented. It’s quite possible no faculty members will want to stay on a longterm basis, and everyone who can will eventually leave for somewhere that has tenure. I pity the students.

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I can’t help but wonder how the people of Wisconsin feel now that they know, without question, that Walker’s intent was never to help WI; it was to lay the foundation for his presidential aspirations. He used them, plain and simple. For a state that has given us Russ Feingold and Tammy Brown, this is a sad legacy.

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Throwing us under the campaign bus is exactly what’s been happening. The nonresident billionaires and shareholders who benefit from Walker’s tax cuts and other special giveaways would never let their kids “settle” for the University of Wisconsin anyway. But for those of us who live here, it’s really not even the best school we can afford any more.

I just pray those fucking tea baggers don’t invade Minnesota deep enough to cancel reciprocity.

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Yeah. Why would a teacher want to come to Wisconsin if there’s no tenure, if they could go to, say, Illinois* and eventually get some job security? Loss of tenure’s a prescription to create a second class university system.

*Of course, Rauner’s gonna try that here as well.

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Prostitution.

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Say ‘bye, bye’ to the University of Wisconsin system. One of the world’s great public university systems will die because all of the faculty that can leave will and only the dullards will remain. It won’t happen today, but I suspect that you will see a considerable brain drain from the UofW system over the coming decade.

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Minnesota economy beats Wisconsin: 7 charts, 1 table

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Granny and Gramps on the Dairy Farm ALWAYS VOTE.

The culprits, for me, are the groups of (a) smug, perfect-the-enemy-of-the-good no-shows-at-the-polls and (b) don’t give a ***t Distracteds, neither of whom have a tenth of the political discipline of Granny and Gramps

Rather than people mobilizing to reverse this, I see the idea spreading in other states and in other forms, as we Distract Ourselves to Death.

Millennials’ “liberalism” spreads to personal-choice issues, not this stuff. The Old Folks (excepting people such as those who post here) are already with Scott Walker and his ilk.

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The tenure issue is lethal for Wisconsin. But, as I understand it, the Regents must approve this in order for it to take effect. Walker had to do this now to establish his credibility with the lunatic fringe. My guess is the Regents won’t strip tenure from UW-Madison, but the all the other public schools are in real danger (i.e., the ones that educate the majority of Wisconsin’s young people). Who will fight for Milwaukee Area Technical College?

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It’ll start happening immediately, this year, when possible outstanding candidates for formerly tenure-track positions decide to look elsewhere.

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Hopefully all the other faculty in higher education in Wisconsin, because they’ll hopefully recognize they’re all, more or less, in the same boat.

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They had three chances. They get no sympathy from me.

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Can WI’s people please wake the fuck up? PLEASE?

I really gotta wonder if they could force him into another recall election between now and Nov 2016, just to shit on his parade of horror.

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Fun fact - MATC’s parking lot is located on the spot of the Abrosia chocolate factory, where Jeffrey Dahmer worked.

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