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May 25, 2012 at 4:23 am in RiverTowns.net
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John Doe probes are supposed to be SECRETIVE. So ‘splain HOW and WHY there is CURRENT news regarding the partisian-driven secretive John Doe probe? Is it possible one of the 43 recall peition signers in the DA’s office is intentionally breaking the law and releasing info to librul newsources?
While browsing your favorite lib news source, I came across this article which includes this statement:
“…Chisholm, a Democrat, has set the probe up as a so-called John Doe proceeding, meaning his prosecutors can subpoena witnesses and compel them to testify while barring them from speaking publicly about the case…”
I love the use of the qualifier “so-called John Doe proceeding” in the article…why not just call it what it is? A witch hunt.
Barrett HAS TO go after Walker on this, but IF Walker comments, he’s breaking the law, ” barring them from speaking publicly about the case.”
Very, very slimey tactic employed by Barrett which keeps him talking without mentioning how he would pay for “spend, spend, spend” programs he discussed in the debate, and explaining his jobs program that would create jobs, not the unemployment problem he’s responsible for in Milwaukee.
huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/scott-walker-investigation_n_1523766.html
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What current info?? Seriously, if you have something on it, you better get it out there. After 2 years, you have NADA! Is this the new reason for the recall? You and your liberal lemmings change you song weekly.
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I’m confused why you try to link tea partiers to Walker. Is that just another lib talking point? Why don’t you comment about what Barrett would DO? He still hasn’t explained how he plans to pay for the spend, spend, spend programs he talks about, do you know? Oh, what did you say? He’s going to raise taxes….how does that help women, the poor, elderly and middle class?
Tell me AA, is the Democrat Milwaukee Co DA going to launch a Jane Doe investigation on Mrs. Barrett’s illegal use of government time and computers for political use? The emails have been made public, and I’m sure the DA will be happy to go after Mayor Barrett as one of her associates.
Walker’s office contacted the DA to report possible criminal activity, which launched the John Doe investigation. Mrs Barrett thought she could get away will illegal activity, and it was only through a FOI request the emails were discovered. Mayor Barrett doesn’t appear to be a good judge of character.
Had to go to a conservative website, no lib site I could find included copies of the evidence:
mediatrackers.org/2012/05/14/exclusive-tom-barretts-wife-used-mps-email-to-lobby-enlist-campaign-help/
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Thats more reliable than FOX? Hahahahaha…
So glad this will be over in a week. Can’t wait to see your next complaint Alice. Maybe you should recall the recall..
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Actually Alice, Walker signed the bill on April 5, 2012 and SB202 (now Act 219) is the bill that repealed the faux-named, “equal pay” act that was pushed through by the Dems under Doyle that changed a 60-year-old law that didn’t need changing.
I’m thinking as soon as Politifact WI rules on your claim that’s come from Dem headquarters, it wil be ruled “false”, the same fate as the other 3 Dem claims. Ya got another source beside a partisian, pull-out-all-the-stops to sling mud and see what sticks source?
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You realize Alice there are FEDERAL programs to protect/assist veterans. Any state aid is put on top of that and is really unnecessary. As a vet, I DO KNOW this.
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Let me fix your first sentance for you:
You DO realize that Walker is facing a recall because he had the courage to stand up to public employee unions, asking them to pay their FAIR share of health insurance and pension contributions, so teachers didn’t have to be laid off or class sizes increased or property taxes raised (which would have hurt the middle class, fixed income elderly and disabled, and poor.)
Did I hear right this morning? Barrett has finally spoken the truth: IF elected governor, he will immediately call a special session to repeal Act 10. The union bosses must have taken him out back of the woodshed and explained the union view point: Union out-of-state money and people don’t help him without assurances he will repeal Act 10. Now watch the out-of-state union money flow…. Barrett IS Falk.
Barrett = increased taxes
Walker = jobs.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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I didn’t vote for Reagan, AA…I’ve told you, I’ve voted Dem in each and every election (except for the hopey/changy/no plans guy) I’ve voted in until Fall, 2010, after the lying, deceitful Dems pushed through Obamacare with the explanation, “We have to pass it for you to know what’s in it.” Most federal Dem legislators are lawyers, and they vote for a bill no one has read…good/bad thing they’re elected officials ’cause they suck as lawyers.
You may (but probably won’t) want to educate yourself on the stats behind job numbers, it’s quite interesting. This quote from the Milwaukee JS article:
“One possible factor in the recent dramatic deviation of the monthly jobs survey from the quarterly census: The federal bureau took over the responsibility from the states of putting out the monthly numbers, beginning with the March 2011 figures.
“That was the last of our opportunity to have any real say in these estimates,” said Steve Hine, Minnesota’s director of the Labor Market Information.
Like officials in Wisconsin and some other states, Hine questions whether the loss of local responsibility for the jobs figures has harmed their accuracy. The monthly employment numbers, he said, show Minnesota roughly 40,000 jobs behind where he knows the state actually is because of the more accurate unemployment-insurance counts.”
jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/employment-debate-requires-closer-look-kc5i8b3-154560275.html
And from another Politifact WI article:
“As we stated in those items, a chief executive such as a governor has influence over jobs, but so do a host of other factors, such as national trends, that are beyond a governor’s control. The national recession has certainly had a wide impact. Indeed, in 2008 and 2009, amid and immediately after the recession – while Democrat Jim Doyle was Wisconsin’s governor – the state lost 164,000 jobs, although it added 12,000 in 2010.” (What isn’t mentioned, in this article, is the effect of recall activities which has prevented companies from moving to WI…the John Deere expansion is one example…)
And also: “Indeed, in a May 2012 news article that Walzak [Barrett campaign spokesman] himself sent us, Barrett said he agreed that presidents and governors get too much credit and blame for job creation, saying, “obviously, there are many, many factors.”"
politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/may/06/tom-barrett/dem-recall-candidate-tom-barrett-says-gop-wisconsi/
And explain how Dem Lt Governor candidate, Mahlon Mitchell, is going to encourage jobs, when he signed letters encouraging the boycott of businesses for not being “politically correct”. Why should any business move to a state where politicians (or aspiring politicians) may attack them for not toeing the Dem party line?
politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/may/20/rebecca-kleefisch/wisconsin-recall-lt-gov-rebecca-kleefisch-says-cha/
Barrett = higher taxes
Walker = jobs and holding the line on taxes
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IF Barrett is elected governor, and he has promised to repeal Act 10, can this happen in Wisconsin? Just came across this report about Detroit and the blog author writes:
“At the core of Detroit’s problems is public unions, private unions, a manufacturing exodus, graft, and political pandering to unions. If you get the idea unions and politicians are a big part of Detroit’s problems, then you certainly get the idea.”
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/05/detroit-goes-dark-half-of-detroits.html
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As I have articulated all along…NO PLAN. My apologies to Alice, obviously, if Barrett can’t say what he is going to, there is no way his “fans” are going to either.
http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/jeffwagner/155370725.html
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For Scott Walker!
Thank you…glad you are seeing the light!
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Blah, blah, blah…same crap, different shovel.
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“Now reports have confirmed”
When is the Milwaukee Co DA going to investigate the people who are leaking info about a SECRETIVE John Doe investigation? There should either be NO reports, or charges if this were really a non-partisian investigation.
Pitiful Barrett ads…nothing about jobs or how he would have handled the 3.2 Billion dollar deficit Walker tackled…just trying to get people to believe hiring lawyers to defend against the witch hunt is horrible.
Harvard economist, Edward Glaeser, agrees Walker’s job numbers are more accurate than Barretts:
“Wisconsin is doing far better than the awful BLS figures suggest”, and “The BLS itself provides an alternative estimate of job growth from its household survey, which is generally less accurate than the employer survey and suggests strong job growth between 2011 and 2012. According to the household survey, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate has dropped significantly over the last year, and employment has increased by 22,000 between March 2011 and 2012, again not seasonally adjusted, which is closer to the figure Walker is promoting than the BLS’s own establishment survey.”
Walker = JOBS!
Barrett = higher taxes
bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-29/in-wisconsin-s-jobs-debate-walker-has-the-stronger-case.html
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They have nothing or it would have been out. Its the liberals changing their story..AGAIN…again…and again…on what the recall is about.
Is your life really that miserable that you cannot be happy with what you have? I will tell you right now, if Walker did lose, my life would change not one iota.
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Last comment waiting…..whatever.
Not as unhinged as I expect you’ll be a week from today.
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Unhinged? That’s hilarious Alice…like I said, my life will go on either way. I’m guessing you will be starting a new recall next week or spontaneously combust.
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Alice will do whatever her union boss tells her to do.
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This is so predictable. The Unions and Barrett have nothing to run on so just before election time they drop a bombshell that can’t be proven or disproven before the election and they’ll whip up any allegation to sway the voters. Then once the election is over and it’s too late they can say…oops, guess it wasn’t true.
This is what you do when you’ve duped people into wanting a recall election but you can’t run on the real reason for the recall because what the Governor put in place is working and he’s balanced the budget. You can’t run on we’ll revert back to the days of Doyle where Unions controlled everything and we had a huge deficit.
Barrett still hasn’t said what he would have done differently to balance the budget and he used the reason for the recall (Scott Walker’s budget fixes) to save money for the city of Milwaukee. All the guy wants is his train to Chicago but no one in Wisconsin wants that either so he can’t even run on that. All he can do is make up unsubstantiated allegations and hope enough people are uninformed and believe them.
I wonder how many dead people the Unions have submitted absentee ballots for already?
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If they drop anything this late, all the fence riders will turn Republican. People aren’t dumb, all they will do is energize an already energized lot and Walker will win by 10+
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Before you hail Barrett as the savior of Wisconsin, take a look at Illinois to see what unchecked spending (as Barrett has done in Milwaukee—and continue to raise taxes) will do to a state. Of course, people like Alice will always tell us its for the “middle class”…B as in B, S as in S.
http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/jeffwagner/155356965.html#.T8YeUlNxz4I.facebook
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Alice and the other lefty union members are in favor of raising taxes as long as it doesn’t cost them anything and it benefits them.
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Oh you’re funny, Alice…your claim of paid bloggers, when my informal tally shows you’ve commented 10x, Walter-11x to this point. Seems like you need to include yourself in your alleged paid blogger charge.
I don’t remember, have you called anyone a “chump” yet in this Topic, in reference to your “demonizing” allegation towards anyone supporting Walker? You get treated with more respect than you give others.
When is Mr Barrett going to address his wife’s illegal email use? Shouldn’t he acknowledge that, and withdraw from the race before the election? Using your guilt-by-association meme, Barrett obviously KNEW his wife was sending illegal emails. (Remember, Ms. Barrett didn’t voluntarily expose her use of school time and computers.)
The UW Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association refuses to endorse Barrett because Barrett used the tools available in Act 10 to deal with budget shortfalls and avoid laying off workers. Not only is Barrett a hypocrite for his use of Act 10 while stating his FIRST action if elected gov will be to repeal Act 10, these highly educated (/sarc) TAs need to get off their high horses.
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=36862&sid=675f1be9c0abee6b252a5a34c841147a
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Until he is directly implicated, he should talk to NO ONE. ANY lawyer would tell you that.
Give it up Alice…you and your oh so progressive liberals have NOTHING ON WALKER.
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Before the reforms, Wisconsin state workers received health benefits about 2.3 times as valuable and pension benefits about 5.7 times as valuable as what workers in large private firms receive. After the reforms, Wisconsin state workers still receive health benefits nearly twice as valuable and pension benefits more than 4.5 times as valuable.
Before the reforms, Wisconsin state employees received total compensation (salary and benefits) about 29 percent higher than comparable private-sector workers. After the reforms, the compensation premium is about 22 percent.
In dollar terms, the average Wisconsin state worker after the reforms receives total compensation including benefits equal to $81,637, versus $67,068 for a similarly skilled private worker.
In short, even after being asked to contribute a modest 5.8 percent of their salaries to their pensions and at least 12.6 percent of their health-care premiums, things are still really good for government workers in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin faced serious problems before these reforms were enacted. The state was saddled with a $3 billion structural deficit, massive overspending, and the fourth highest tax burden in the country. Like so many other states in the union, Wisconsin’s government workers were enjoying excellent pay and benefits, funded by taxpayers, and disconnected from the realities of the state’s economic woes.
Those workers paid only 6 percent of their health care premiums and next to nothing for generous pensions. Meanwhile, union-negotiated contracts require layoffs to occur on the basis of seniority, meaning that long-time government employees have iron-clad job security.
None of those benefits are free, and they come at a high price to a state’s taxpayers. After modest reforms to help bring the state’s budget back into line were introduced, thousands of protesters stormed the capitol, state senators fled to Illinois in hopes of forcing a legislative stalemate, lawsuits were filed to block the reforms, and liberal organizations and unions from across the country descended on the state.
None of this opposition should be surprising given what’s at stake for public sector unions. They benefit from a veritable monopoly on labor services provided to government, allowing them to secure unmatched benefits. But even with the reforms, those workers still enjoy excellent pay when compared to their private sector counterparts.
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Really sad what the union and a million dollars can make a rube/lemming believe…
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chumps…
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Why do you always resort to name calling?
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Barrett said Walker was cooking the books with the new jobs numbers but the fed gov’t backed up those numbers. That must mean Barrett’s a liar. Based on your reasoning Alice, if Barrett wins the election you must recall him because “he’s a liar”!
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The best cure for your supposed low paying job with horrible benefits would be to quit and get a private sector job, don’t you think Alice? Funny that thought has never ocurred to you. Or are you stretching the truth about your employment compensation to fit your narrative?
Why do you bring the Koch’s into a conversation? It’s a silly attack for gullible people to absorb, until the facts come out: Koch’s are #77 on the list of Top Donors, 1989-2012, with about $11.5 million going to Rs. Your likely union as a UW employee, AFSCME, is #3 on the list with about $45 million going to Ds in the same time period. In the top 20 donors, 12 are unions. Tell me, who’s brainwashing the ignorant?
opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
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Excellent pension, provided 100% by the taxpayers until recently and even now your contribution is minimal. Medical benefits way above market average. Add to that a 3 month annual vacation, along with spring break, Christmas break, etc. If you want a higher salary, you should work 12 months a year like the private sector. You are NOT going to find benefit coverage ANYWHERE like you get as a taxpayer’s employee.
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I do work 12 months a year dear. I work through spring break. I don’t get any more time off for Christmas than you. Get yer facts straight.
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Sorry sweetie, but you didn’t specify your job specifics, so it’s hard to address. I can’t get facts straight unless you are more exact. And YOU brought it up initially not me, so don’t tell me it’s none of my business. If YOU don’t want to talk about it, don’t bring it up in the first place.
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soooo sad…poor alice gets so little time off, yet whines about not being rich…
I know people who are working 4 part time jobs because they can’t get one full-time job…no days off, that includes working holidays….
I finally got a “day off” last weekend, the first in the last 4 years (although I still had to do an hour of work before I could leave), otherwise…365 days a year of work…I try to take Sun afternoons off for rest….quit your whining and be thankful to the people who pay your salary/compensation….
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Hahahahaha! I also didn’t say it’s none of your business…
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Hehehehehe, you would have if I didn’t beat you to it.
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