My heart sank. Will liberals ever stop shooting themselves in the foot. Sly has been the voice of labor in the region since long before the protests. His activism and radio show have been the only counter balance to the radical conservative lunacy that has vilified labor, teachers, firefighters, police officers, the middle class and trashed the First Amendment.
I think Russ Feingold summed up the reasons best in his weekly email:
Since taking office last January, he has attacked the rights of Wisconsin workers, passed an undemocratic voter ID bill, and done the bidding of the Koch brothers and his deep-pocketed corporate backers at every turn. All across the country, people are starting to stand up to the corporate special interests that want to buy our democracy.
Take notice Sly, it’s not all about collective bargaining, as Feingold clearly stated above. It’s one of maybe 3 or 4 main reasons why Walker has got to go. But it’s not ALL about collective bargaining.
For me, I might add to the above, the uncompromising way the Republicans passed their agenda.
Keeping the message short and easy to understand is pivotal to winning the recall election. Any candidate running against Walker would be wise to be point blank clear why Walker needs to be replaced.
Let me repeat that:
A Democratic candidate must always give the reasons mentioned above FIRST in their media response, not hidden somewhere in their typically long winded rambling answers. All we can ask our Democratic candidate for governor, and our long winded legislators, is to stop it, stop it now. Get to the point and stay on point.
"For me, I might add to the above, the uncompromising way the Republicans passed their agenda."
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of crap. Diamond Jim Doyle passed a tax increase in the middle of the night on only 24 hours notice.
Who are you trying to fool? Doyle led us into a fiscal sinkhole. Walker had to dig us out of the largest disaster in state history.
I don't recall the "tax increase," fill me in...
ReplyDeleteOf course that would be equivalent to throwing everything under the bus for a completely Republican system of government. I don't think my own concerns were addressed...?
Doyle, and almost every other governor, had deficits because the economy did not bring in enough revenue, that's why we had a state deficit.
Did you notice, Bush and his band of Republicans gave us the Great Recession. Oh, you forgot?
With all the tax cuts and budgeting tricks by Walker and the Fitzgerald's, the state is going to be $3 billion in the hole in another two years...schools will close, more teachers will be let go, tuition will increase and jobs won't be created. Oh yeah, Republicans will make more cuts.
Sounds great!!