Recall candidates raise more than $6 million
August 3, 2011 at 10:01 am in Hudson Star-Observer
Last fall, the 41 candidates vying for 17 Wisconsin state Senate seats spent just over $4 million, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
That seemed like a lot of money at the time, but it’s already been surpassed in the much smaller number of state Senate recall elections now under way.
Through Aug. 2, the 12 candidates in six recall elections on the Aug. 9 ballot have reported raising a total of $5.32 million.
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Very interesting…Democrat Shelly Moore, a school teacher and union member, had 30.71 percent of her total funding came from out of state. On the other hand, Sheila Harsdorf had 8.99%, OR 3 times LESS out side backers.
No, why would I support a candidate for my district when most of her backers are not from WI? The answer is simple. I DON”T and I WON’T.
Vote is once again for Sheila Harsdorf!
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Oh pasque….you are sorely misled. Millions and Millions really. I wish I could take the time to reply to what you wrote. But I will simply say this. Senator Harsdorf’s campaign has proven to have more in State donors. This is true about most the republican Senators being recalled. Imagine all this money being spent to recall Senators could have been donated to the schools through private funding and helped pay for some teachers or anything else those schools may need. But instead it is being spent on misleading TV ads and commercials. Most union employees have no idea why they pay their dues. It has been exposed repeatedly that their dues go towards democratic candidates. It is a good thing that Governor Walker’s budget repair bill will now give people an option as to whether or not they want to pay in to the union. A better question would be will that persons employer accept that they chose not to pay or will they be black balled through out their school.
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Considering your biased news source pasque, one has to take your claims with a grain of salt.
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Something to read and think about when voting:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district
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The MacIver Institute estimates that schools may save $450 million if every school district adopts the health and retirement benefit changes. In a recent report, the Institute noted that 12 of the state’s 15 biggest districts are in the process of negotiating such contracts, or already have.
This is a separate issue from increased hours. They are saving millions by forcing the unions to negotiate health insurance with vendors other than the union preferred vendor. So you don’t have a problem with the union handing over contracts to their buddies and paying them above market rates? Another example of the rich getting richer and using MY money to do it.
All the union supporters complain the rich should pay more taxes, but this is the same thing and you don’t see a problem with it.
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Matt,
I agree with you: there is no real fundamental problem with employers bidding out health insurance.
My problem is ginning up a non-existent financial crisis, then forcing employees to take a pay cut to fix the problem.
My problem is removing the controls which protect workers from management more interested in the financial bottom line than they are with the employees’ working conditions and the quality of the “product” (in this case, educated students).
My problem is with an approach to funding employee retirement which does not allow for individual choice. If funding 100% of retirement benefits is too costly, why not pass a law stating the benefits will be lowered to sustainable levels? Or, how about giving public employees the funds currently being invested on their behalf and let the individual manage the money (as the Republicans in Congress wanted to do a few years back)?
My problem is the politicos wrangling the public debate so that we all point at each other as the people at the top still act naughty and leave us little guys to foot the bill.
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Oneguy says there was no financial crisis…apparently a $3.2 billion structural deficit qualifies as a ‘ginned up financial crisis’. Good grief! What would a real one look like in your world?? That explains why a $14 trillion debt at the federal level poses ‘no problem’ to folks like you, Geitner and Obama. You guys are incredible. According to your last post you have a lot of problems…..but our miserable failing economy and out of control government spending is not one of them!
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Your analysis sounds petty oneguy. You aren’t a ‘little guy’ but yes, you have some bills to pay. You seem to have no appreciation for the cuts in pay and longer hours and job cuts experienced by the private sector. Do college professors calculate their ‘time per student’ when lecturing to 300 at a time and do students learn less in those settings? Also, if teachers are so concerned about ‘time per student’, how come so many are against homeschooling where time per student skyrockets? Just curious.
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You need not ‘distrust’ homeschooling. They are not teaching your children. I’ve got a great idea….public schools should worry about how their own students are doing since they are getting $11,000/year/student to teach. Many colleges and universities are clamoring for homeschooled students because most of them stand head and shoulders above their peers entering college.
Collective bargaining has absolute, real cost implications at the local level. When you can’t bid out health insurance because of collective bargaining, your school district taxpayers pay more. When you can’t use volunteers to perform some needed work within a local municipality because you have to hire a union employee (like the retired gentleman who wanted to be a volunteer crossing guard but was told he would be replaced by a union employee), that has a real cost implication. When unions tie the hands of municipalities regarding sick pay, vacations days and work hours, the taxpayers foot the bill. So many teachers, including you and Shelly Moore seem to have a major chip on your shoulder and a ‘whoa is me’ attitude. Not what I am looking for in a teacher or a state senator. Vote Sheila Harsdorf this Tuesday.
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caroline, do you share those same comments you made toward John Smith towards Alice & Shirtless as well? You won’t find any more lack of respect given to others than by those two posters.
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Original. I saw this same link to this same article in a comment on a different story 2 weeks ago. (Probably posted by the same person, too). Since we’re just repeating ourselves, I will once again say that 1 district with a surplus out of 400+ with a substantial loss is nothing to brag about.
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Oneguy,
You are obviously not aware of the plethora of curricula, teaching co-ops, video lectures and on-line academic programs (not the public school on-line version) that exist. I don’t expect that you would be, but you do present the typical uninformed view of home education that I have grown to expect from a public school teacher. As Al Gore once said, perhaps ‘you should inform yourself’ before presenting your myopic view of what has demonstrated successful reults for the last 30 plus years.
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whoa- that a lot of money that could have been spent on good causes, retirements, helping the needy, etc …Eh Dems?????
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Wasn’t it the protesting teachers that promised hellfire and damnation come recall time? it seems it didn’t exactly work out as they would have hoped. The majority of people must have felt that electing Walker was a good idea and what he was doing.
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