Discussion for article #233587
Is this article about Wisconsin or Michigan? Walker or Synder?
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As Republicans are the party of “me first”, in-fighting seems to be the norm, not the exception. That being said, is being more conservative really going to hurt Walker in the primaries? I suspect by the time of the general election, assuming he gets the GOP nod, voters will have forgotten Walker’s record of anti-worker, anti-minimum wage, anti-education, anti-gay, legislation. A billion dollars from the Koch brothers will help them forget.
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G.O.P. voters don’t know the difference between public sector and private sector unions, or don’t care - they hate them all, even the ones they belong to, and which have secured better wages and working conditions for them. It’s the hallmark of the non-stinking-rich Republican voter - he doesn’t recognize his self interest even when it bites him on the ass.
This can’t hurt Walker in the primaries - what, he’s counting on the AFL-CIO vote? And if he got the nomination, it wouldn’t matter in the general election, either. Walker isn’t going to get any cross-over voters from the Democratic side, and the Republicans would vote for Joseph Goebbels rather than Hillary Clinton, or any Democrat to the left of Attila the Hun, for that matter.
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so, walker is going to skate on his bribery and corruption scandals?
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I’m not at all seeing how this will adversely effect him in the GOP primary.
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“…which bars unions from making non-members pay unions dues…”
Republicans don’t have any problem with the principle. They’re just upset that these types of vehicles tend to support Democrats.
In the Republican conservative world today, it’s perfectly fine for a business to jack up the prices of their merchandise, in order to funnel profits to the Republican Party.
Unlike unions, however, Republican Party “dues” are hidden, secret, and are required of people who do not support the Republican Party at all. Too bad, say conservatives. Pay up anyway.
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Swing voters will not like this. That’s the real problem. The primaries will be unaffected, imho.
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Apparently, Walker thinks the whole country is as stupid as Wisconsin and Iowa.
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I’m still trying to figure out how Scott Walker is even in the 2016 conversation. He doesn’t seem a likely candidate to me, but then again I’m a liberal.
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Since his big money backers have bought out the State Supreme Court, yes.
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Oh, there’ll be reminders.
WTF is wrong with Wisconsin Democrats? Why does this tool and his Republican whack jobs have all the power there?
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Absolute truth, Lew. He’s the Koch’s Billion Dollar Whore.
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The sad thing is that this is just a sign of how conservatives will win out on some of these things eventually. They are very good at impossing their wills on whatever state they are in. I doubt, if this bill is passed, that a dem controlled set up will do anything to remove the law.
I mean “Right to Work” does help at companies but at the expense of workers.
Yesterday, I heard a report about the Wisconsin AFL-CIO launching a big noisy protest at the capitol like the public unions did, and all I could do was wonder how hard all those people doing the protesting were working last summer and fall to keep this day from arriving and how many of them turned out in 2010. Their big protest is going to have exactly zero impact.
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Pardon my ignorance, but how does “Right to Work” help someone who has lost their job?
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The horse is so far out of the barn it’s in another country.
No kidding. Writing from Wisconsin, I think Walker wants RTW. His big money donors want it. It’s naive to take him at his word.
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I live here in Wisconsin and I think Walker wants RTW. He’s playing a game and the professors strike me as fairly naive to take him at his word. Maybe that’s the game they need to play. But Walker lies about his intentions all the time.
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the calculated war for the right to work for less since Taft-Hartley is winning by appealing to the belief our union neighbor is overpaid when the fact is you are being underpaid. Repeal Taft-Hartley 2016.
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