June 5, 2012

Godspeed Governor Walker

The people have spoken. There was a nasty recall election in Wisconsin as current Governor Walker balanced the budget, eliminated the state's deficit, cut property taxes, made Wisconsin more business-friendly (16% to 94% on surveys) -- but -- passed a law allowing individual employees to opt out of union representation. Progressives have touted this as "destroying collective bargaining". He also required public union members (teachers, fire and police, etc...) to ante up a few percent of their paycheck to cover a part of the cost of their health care and benefits. He won again with some strong poll numbers (still too early for final results). There have been apocryphal reports of busses full of union employees coming in from other states to register and vote, also of the Madison, Wisconsin precinct having 119% voter turnout. It will be interesting to see how this is covered... Posted by DaveH at June 5, 2012 10:00 PM
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