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Scott Walker: Economic genius!

Politicians are so easily followed.
Ones without a college degree, even more so!
 
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...millions-of-tax-dollars-on-a-private-stadium/


I've posted an article about this previously, but now Walker's benefactors are calling him out for this.

“Government shouldn’t be in the business of financing private sports stadiums,” said the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity Wisconsin. “The current deal is based on fuzzy math, complicated accounting and millions of taxpayer dollars. Whether it comes from the state, the county, the city or other authority, these are taxpayer dollars.” The Libertarian CATO Institute added: “Any presidential candidate who believes that taxpayer-subsidized stadiums are ‘a good deal’ shouldn’t be anywhere near the federal Treasury.”
The fact that the current Bucks arena is still $20 million in debt only bolsters their arguments.
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Though the state bill will become law this week, the economically depressed city of Milwaukee has yet to vote on its own portion of the financing. Workers in the city, who were unable to secure provisions in the state bill guaranteeing living wages and local hiring policies at the new arena, will now turn the pressure on both the City Council and the Bucks owners.
“There’s a real chance to make a breakthrough,” Peter Rickman with Milwaukee’s Good Jobs Alliance told ThinkProgress. “No one trusted the state government to take on this critical issue, since we’ve seen an unbroken string of five years of attacks on working class and poor people, unions, and wages. But there are still a wealth of decisions to be made the local level regarding investment in parking and infrastructure, land permits, and the surrounding commercial properties. And when public money is going to be invested in things like these large-scale projects, we need to ask, ‘Is it going to make the good jobs crisis worse, or is it going to make it better? Is it going to only create poverty-wage service sector jobs?'”
Rickman’s coalition is not only calling for an agreement that gives workers at the new stadium a living wage and the right to unionize, they’re pushing for a promise that the jobs will go to the people who live in the impoverished neighborhoods surrounding Milwaukee’s downtown.
“This used to be one of the best places in the country for African Americans families, because of the good union jobs in factors and foundries,” he explained. “Those jobs weren’t always good; workers fought to make them good. But when those jobs disappeared they were largely replaced with low-wage service sector jobs. Our fight right now is to continue the history of turning bad jobs into good jobs.”
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https://www.minnpost.com/politics-p...onsin-it-turns-out-would-save-taxes-moving-mi


Often mentioned, but still......


Tax and spin: Most families in Wisconsin, it turns out, would save on taxes by moving to Minnesota

Just as predictably, Walker is likely to be asked more than a few questions about the state where he’ll be holding forth, a place where his counterpart, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, has pursued the sort of agenda that might cause Walker to break out in hives: expanding union membership, increasing school funding and — most notably — implementing a tax hike on the wealthiest Minnesotans.

Comparing the two states under the two men over the last few years has become something of a national sport, after all, a favorite pastime among journalists, academics and politicians alike. Even President Barack Obama has gotten in on the act. Before an audience in La Crosse last month, he paraphrased the local paper by saying that Minnesota was “winning this border battle” when it came to the states’ respective economic fortunes.

The primacy of property taxes

How can that be the case?

In 2013, Walker delivered on one of his big campaign promises when the Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill that compressed five income tax brackets into four and lowered all rates, reducing the average rate from 6.4 percent to 5.9 percent.

That same year, Minnesota went in the opposite direction, with the Legislature passing a Dayton-led initiative to add a fourth state income bracket for individuals earning over $150,000 or couples earning over $250,000. The rate, of 9.85 percent, was among the highest in the country, and it meant the state’s average income tax rate would go from 6.8 percent to 7.5 percent.

But those high-profile changes only affected the income tax, not sales tax or, importantly, property tax — the key factor in comparing the overall tax burden between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Walker is now polling 10 points lower than Hillary Clinton, in his home state.

It's been a bad couple of weeks for old Scotty since the "debates". :rolleyes:
 
Yep. People don't know who he is yet. Unfortunately for him he can't hide behind the lies regarding the state of WI that got him reelected.
 
When emails are actually illegal and lead to actual convictions.


http://www.newsweek.com/email-trail-proves-scott-walkers-collusion-365176


Under Wisconsin election law, it is illegal for candidates or members of campaign staffs to coordinate their work with groups whose IRS nonprofit status prohibits direct support of political candidates.

Investigators turned up hundreds of emails describing precisely the coordination proscribed by Wisconsin state law. Examples (with emphasis added) follow:

An August 18, 2011, email from Keith Gilkes to Scott Walker with “suggested remarks by RJ” for a “Donor Call”: “Our efforts were run by Wisconsin Club for Growth and operatives R.J. Johnson and Deb Jordahl, who coordinated spending through 12 different groups. Most spending by other groups was directly funded by grants from the club.” The email also reflects that “Wisconsin Club for Growth raised 12 million dollars and ran a soup to nuts campaign.”
An April 28, 2011, email from Kate Doner to R.J. Johnson that states: The Governor is encouraging all to invest in the Wisconsin Club for Growth. Wisconsin Club for Growth can accept Corporate and Personal donations without limitations and no donor disclosure.”
A September 7, 2011, email from Kate Doner to Scott Walker, R.J. Johnson, Keith Gilkes and Kelly Rindfleisch, containing “quick thoughts on raising money for Walker’s possible recall efforts.” In regard to “CFG” (Club for Growth), these thoughts were suggested: “Take Koch’s money”; “Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now”; “Corporations. Go heavy after them to give”; “Create a new c4.”
Keith Gilkes, Walker’s former chief of staff in the governor’s office, is currently a senior advisor to his presidential campaign; R.J. Johnson was director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth and a Walker political advisor; Kate Doner is a Walker fundraiser; Deborah Jordahl was a consultant for Friends of Scott Walker; Rindfleisch, who found work with a political consultant retained by Walker while her sentence was on appeal, concludes her six months of supervised house arrest this month.

Compromised Justices Gut Finance Law

Although confronted by abundant proof of coordination among Walker, his campaign and nonprofit political organizations paying for “independent” issue advocacy ad campaigns attacking Walker’s opponents, the Republican justices on the state Supreme Court shut down the John Doe investigation.

They also rewrote Wisconsin’s campaign-finance law, ruling that state legislators’ definition of “political purposes” regarding advocacy campaigns run by 501(c)(4) nonprofits is so broad that it violates First Amendment speech rights of donors (whose identities are not subject to disclosure).

The ruling also makes it almost impossible to prosecute an elected official engaged in a quid pro quo transaction, as long as a third party serves as a bag man.

“The compelling governmental interest that justifies the regulation of express advocacy (the prevention of quid pro quo corruption) ‘might not apply to’ the regulation of issue advocacy,” the opinion reads.

Thus, there could have been no alleged quid pro quo conflict when Governor Walker advanced legislation specifically benefiting the Geobic Tactonite mining company—one year after its executives contributed $700,000 to a nonprofit running an “independent” issue advocacy campaign supporting Walker.

Equally important, in declaring unconstitutional the restrictions on tax-exempt, non-profit groups running advocacy campaigns, the justices vindicated themselves. Wisconsin Manufacturing & Commerce, which had spent millions electing Walker, had also spent $6.75 million on “independent” issue ads attacking opponents of the four Republican justices.

The four conservative justices were carried into office on a tide of WMC money that paid for advocacy ads attacking their opponents. Part of the same vast pool of corporate cash that initially elected, then kept Scott Walker in office.

Yet there were no recusals. No reservations. The court was put in place to serve the interests of the governor. In July, it delivered.

Following the decision, Governor Walker urged legislators to do away with the Government Accountability Board, which oversees Wisconsin’s elections.in
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Ha! I can play this game all day long. Not a terribly challenging game. Just go directly to the bottom of most lists.

http://www.wisconsingazette.com/wis...-dead-last-in-business-start-up-activity.html

Wisconsin ranks last of all the states for new business start-up activity, according to a major survey released June 5.

Milwaukee fared little better, coming in 39th among the nation’s 40 largest metropolitan areas.

The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship is the first and largest study tracking entrepreneurship across city, state and national levels for the United States. Produced by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the index is one of the world’s most respected and cited entrepreneurship indicators in the nation.

This year’s new, expanded index measures such entrepreneurial activity as new companies and company growth rates.

In last year’s index, Wisconsin ranked 45 — five states higher than in 2015.

Opponents of Gov. Scott Walker blame the state’s lagging economy largely on his blunders, such as turning away federal money for Medicare expansion and returning federal support for building a high-speed rail system, which not only cost jobs but prompted a multinational manufacturing company to leave the state and file a costly lawsuit against the state for breach of contract.

Walker’s scandal-plagued Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which has given away millions in uncollectable loans as well as tax breaks — without even requiring them to create jobs in Wisconsin — is another widely cited factor.

Republicans have removed Walker as the agency’s chair and are in the process of scuttling what was one of his most touted programs for building the economy when he ran for governor in 2010.

While Wisconsin is suffering in 2015, the U.S. economy as a whole reversed a 5-year downward trend in start-up activity with the nation recording the largest year-over-year growth in two decades according to the 2015 Kauffman Index report.
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http://m.host.madison.com/news/loca...11e2-9b37-0019bb2963f4.html?mobile_touch=true

Woot! Top 10 in people fleeing the state.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/05/390723644/why-is-milwaukee-so-bad-for-black-people

Morry Gash/AP
A new report from UCLA finds that K-12 schools in Wisconsin suspend black high school students at a higher rate than anywhere else in the country and has the second-highest disparity in suspension rates between white and black students. Milwaukee, the state's biggest city, suspends black high school students at a rate nearly double the national average.
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My favorite Koch Walker bit

SCOTT K0CHsucker WALKER Punked
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/i-punkd-scott-walker-100033.html#.VMmTNn5VjmY

Audio: http://scottwalkerwatch.com/koch-brothers/walkers-punked-phone-call/

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2011/02/wiskochsin-is-open-for-buine.html

Scott K0CHSucker Walker
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011
WisKochsin Is Open For Bu$ine$$

By now, I'm pretty sure almost everyone in the free world has already heard the news of the day, which is that some guy pretending to be David Koch, half of the infamous Koch Brothers, the real life version ofPinky and the Brain, called up Scott Walker, a guy who is pretending to be the governor of Wisconsin.

And hilarity followed.

In case you did miss it, the recording is 20 minutes long, and is broken in two parts. Some good soul converted them to YouTube (please excuse the title of the videos):

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBnSv3a6Nh4
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3a2pYGr7-k




The good folks at One Wisconsin Now was also kind enough to transcribe the entire conversation. Their transcription is here. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/files/Scott Walker David Koch Transcript.pdf


Many things can be gleaned from this, most of which has been picked up by various bloggers and media sources.

The most obvious, which the unions are rightfully pouncing on, is that Walker is a liar. For the entire duration since he introduced his reprehensible and destructive bill, he's been claiming it's not union-busting, but it's strictly to fix the budget. He betrays himself with his braggadocio, comparing himself to Reagan firing the air traffic controllers and taking credit for starting a new world order.

But everyone already knew that this was all about union-busting, so this is just more confirmation of old news.

There is also the fact that Walker revealed himself to be utterly untrustworthy, by describing how he would set a trap for the Fab 14, the Democratic Senators that took on the harsh burden of leaving their friends, families and loved ones behind and hightailing it out of the state to slow this monster down, giving the people of the state to see what a big steaming pile of you-know-what this really is.

Walker further shows his depravity by admitting he considered sending in plants among the peaceful demonstrators to behave badly and try to give these teachers, nurses, firefighters and cops a bad name. Obviously, even Walker realizes that his overreaching power grab is becoming increasingly unpopular and is willing to do anything to sabotage the people of Wisconsin, just to appease his benefactors, like the Koch Brothers.

But, as I've been pointing out for years now, Walker is a weasel, and most of the state has come to the same realization. Again, this is just more confirmation of something we already knew.

But there are two examples that I've seen only touched on briefly, which I believe to be more important than the union bashing or the weasel-like qualities which Walker displays.

One comes at the end of the conversation, when the pseudo-Koch tells Walker that he would reward him for being a good little lackey and Walker readily agrees:

KOCH: Ha, ha, ha. Well, I'll tell you what Scott once you crush these bastards, I'll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.

WALKER: All right that would be outstanding. Thanks for all the support in helping us to move
the cause forward. And we appreciate it and we're uh, doing it, the just and right thing for the
right reason and it's all about getting our freedoms back.
That reminds me of the time during the campaign where Walker let a land developer fly him to Florida (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/84743347.html ) so he could collect donations from the road builders.

The other, bigger concern lies when Walker was politicking and collaborating with someone he thought was a very generous campaign donor:

KOCH: Yeah. Now what else can we do for you down there?

WALKER: Well, the biggest thing would be and your guy on the ground probably seeing this is
the well, two things. One, our members originally got freaked out by all the bodies here, I told them an interesting story, when I was first elected County Executive, in Milwaukee of all Places,
the first budget I put through was pretty bold, aggressive, the union went nuts on my and got all
sorts of grief, but a couple of weeks later I'm at a Veteran's Day parade and I'm going down the line and usually unless you're a veteran, or, ya know, when you're marching with a veteran's
group politicians all get (tape skip) applause but nobody get's up. I come down the lie 40, 50
people in a row hands up, thumbs up, you know, cheering, screaming, yelling, way to go, hang in
there Walker and then after about 40-50 people like that there's a guy flipping me off.

KOCH: (inaudible)
Walker: This goes on, you know, 40-50, ***(tape skip), the people who know it's right will cheer you, applaud you, they'll run through a wall for you, and the people that don't like ya, they're going to flip you off. But stop worrying about, ya know, them because the other day there were 70,000 probably about 2/3rds were against the bill, 1/3 were for. 70,000 people at the Capitol all week there's been, ya know 15-30,000 a day but I remind all our lawmakers that there's 5 and a half million people in this state and just because a bunch of guys who can jump off of work because their union rules doesn't mean that the rest of the people in your district are with them. So one thing for your question is the more groups that are encouraging people not just to show up but call lawmakers and tell them to hang firm with the governor the better, because the more they get that reassurance, the easier it is for them to vote yes.

KOCH: Right, right.

WALKER: The other thing is more long term and that is after this, um, you know, the coming
days and weeks and months ahead, particularly in some of these more swing areas, a lot of these
guys are gonna need, they don't necessarily need ads for them but they 're going to need a
message out reinforcing why this was a good thing to do for the economy a good thing to do for
the state so the extent that message is out over and over again, that's obviously, that's obviously
a good thing.

KOCH: Right, right. We'll back you anyway we can. But uh, what we're thinking about the crowds was, a, was planting some troublemakers.


This exchange could fall under a number of violations. He was politicking and soliciting help in the governor's office using government equipment, which is a major no-no. Mother Jones also points out that there could be a problem with him collaborating with a campaign donor (http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/wisconsin-scott-walker-koch-prank ) , which could end up with possible legal troubles for Walker.


Like the other points, this again, is just another reaffirmation of a problem we've been aware off. There is the ongoing John Doe investigation into Walker's county staffers and his campaign for illegal campaign practices.
Walker has also been the recipient of one of the largest fines handed down in Wisconsin history.

Walker's popularity was already dropping like a rock before this story hit the news or the Internet. This is only guaranteed to knock it down farther. Many people who voted for him are expressing voter's remorse. It is understandable that they would do that. It's has to be hard to support someone who is turning out to be a egomaniacal , maleficent and corrupt person.

At the very least, this incident should be investigated by an independent source. At this level, I can only imagine that would mean the federal government would need to do the investigation.

It is time that Walker gets realistic and loses the fantasy that he's some sort of presidential possibility. The truth is Walker has to choose whether he is going to do things the easy way or the hard way. He can keep fighting to suppress our rights, violate our natural areas and autonomy, and face a likely recall early next year. Or he could group up and actually start working with people, instead of trying to intimidate them.

The choice is up to him.
 
Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium.

1 Trillion FOR Illegal Alien Mexicans.

Who the FUCK Cares!
 
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Scott Walker Doesn’t Think So Good, Hypothetically


A never ending Derp machine, he is.

Ladies and gentlemen, we would just like to apologize for all the times we’ve suggested that Scott Walker isn’t very bright, because we finally understand where he’s coming from. It’s not that he’s too stupid to answer questions like whether evolution is real science, or where gays come from. It’s that he simply does not choose to answer questions that have no bearing on his immediate reality, because really, what’s the point? It’s a crazy ol’ world out there, and if you go saying that you believe a thing is “true” or “untrue,” or that we should do a thing, or not do it, then you are moving away from reality as it stands right now, and that is a metaphysical ball of wax that Scott Walker is simply not going to get his fingers all waxy with.
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ABC News asked Walker how he would respond to the massive influx of refugees from Syria if he were president today. He explained that the query was flawed. As he is obviously not president, Walker argued, there is no way that he would be able to answer that question. “I’m not president today and I can’t be president today,” he said. “Everybody wants to talk about hypotheticals; there is no such thing as a hypothetical” — a sentence that probably would have moved Socrates to set Walker’s pants on fire himself.
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Listening to (or reading) his words makes my head hurt! Oh, the inhumanity of the LSM!
 
This is why he's at 2% in the latest polls, and even Republicans in WI are embarrassed by him......now.
 
‘He’s effectively done': Scott Walker 2016 presidential campaign in crisis after plunge in polls

The sputtering presidential campaign of Scott Walker, who just weeks ago was hailed as a heavyweight contender for the White House, was plunged deeper into crisis on Sunday as a new national poll placed the Wisconsin governor’s support at less than half a percentage point.
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Walker now enjoys just 1.8% of support among Republicans, according to a polling average by RealClearPolitics . A separate NBC survey on Sunday found his support had dropped from 7% to 3% since last month and that only 1% now believed he would ultimately be the Republican nominee.
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Bye Bye Scotty!
 
JackLuis said:
‘He’s effectively done': Scott Walker 2016 presidential campaign in crisis after plunge in polls





Bye Bye Scotty!
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Yep. He'll hold a press conference at 6PM today.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...r-said-to-be-quitting-presidential-race/?_r=0

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has concluded he no longer has a path to the Republican presidential nomination and plans to drop out of the 2016 campaign, according to three Republicans familiar with his decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Mr. Walker called a news conference in Madison at 6 p.m. Eastern time.

“The short answer is money,” said a supporter of Mr. Walker’s who was briefed on the decision. “He’s made a decision not to limp into Iowa.”

Mr. Walker’s intended withdrawal is a humiliating climb down for a Republican governor once seen as all but politically invincible. He started the year at the top of the polls but has seen his position gradually deteriorate, amid the rise of Donald J. Trump’s populist campaign and repeated missteps by Mr. Walker himself.

In the most recent CNN survey, Mr. Walker drew support nationally from less than one-half of one percent of Republican primary voters. He faced growing pressure to shake up his campaign staff, a step he was loath to take, according to Republicans briefed on his deliberations.
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Breaking

Scott Walker outlaws investigations into... Scott Walker.

Former Presidential candidate Scott Walker and his merry bunch of outlaws in the Wisconsin state legislature have figured out how to deal with those bothersome recurring investigations into political corruption.

Make it all but impossible for prosecutors to launch John Doe investigations, but only when aimed against politicians and their appointees. They are still very much legal to be used against violent criminals or drug dealers. This new law is aimed directly at protecting themselves from investigation on allegations of bribery, corruption, and campaign finance violations.

If there were any question about the motivation of this new law it should be put to rest by the attempts by the Governor and his cohorts to abolish the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board. They are charged with responding to allegations of Wisconsin's election, lobbying, and government ethics laws.

Given the number of criminal convictions the Board has secured it should be expanded, not abolished.
 
look at how obama has depend American's debt


look at the great state of Ill, and how the democraps have fucked it up. look at NJ, NY ... when a democrap gets into power, destruction follows
 
see, if your kind had skin in the game and learned about cash flow ... what it takes to 'create' a dollar

but you obama slaves are too lazy and or mentally defective




Ulaven_Demorte said:
Breaking

Scott Walker outlaws investigations into... Scott Walker.

Former Presidential candidate Scott Walker and his merry bunch of outlaws in the Wisconsin state legislature have figured out how to deal with those bothersome recurring investigations into political corruption.

Make it all but impossible for prosecutors to launch John Doe investigations, but only when aimed against politicians and their appointees. They are still very much legal to be used against violent criminals or drug dealers. This new law is aimed directly at protecting themselves from investigation on allegations of bribery, corruption, and campaign finance violations.

If there were any question about the motivation of this new law it should be put to rest by the attempts by the Governor and his cohorts to abolish the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board. They are charged with responding to allegations of Wisconsin's election, lobbying, and government ethics laws.

Given the number of criminal convictions the Board has secured it should be expanded, not abolished.
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Walker wants $250,000 to duplicate wind energy study because he didn't like the findings

There’s a proposed item in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget that would waste $250,000 to have the Public Service Commission study the health effects of wind turbines. His transparent intention is to continue stalling on Wisconsin’s development of this renewable energy source, which is opposed by the real-estate sector and producers of dirty energy, including Koch Industries and Exon Mobil. Those industries have bestowed Walker with beaucoup bucks, and, as he’s proven time and again, he’s not about to let the state do anything counter to their interests on his watch — not even for the best interests of Wisconsinites.

If wind energy did indeed present a health hazard for humans, the world would be well aware of it by now. Wind energy is the second fastest-growing source of renewable energy in the world — behind only solar, Wind has contributed to increasing energy independence and job growth throughout Europe and Asia over the past decade. It’s also led to falling energy costs in nations such as Germany, where 31 percent of energy during the first half of last year came from wind, solar and hydro.


*Click the headline above for full story.*
 
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