Knowing that Governor Walker’s budget repair bill was a virtual lock to be passed by the legislature and signed into law, an ugly conspiracy to push new union contracts in Madison was set in motion by the mayor and a senate ally. WITI-TV reports that Mayor Dave Ciesliewicz was pulling out all the stops in a frantic attempt to beat the clock and deliver one last trip to the public trough for his union benefactors. E-mails obtained by the FOX6 Investigators show that the mayor enlisted the help of State Senator Mark Miller. They both tried to convince the Secretary of State to hold up the bill by taking the maximum 10 days allowed by law before publishing the bill. They were trying to buy some time so they could ratify new contracts to protect workers from benefit cuts. Citizens for Responsible Government Rep. Chris Kliesmet says, “This suggests, and this is a harsh word, collusion. There is collusion between some politicians and public sector employee unions.
Although Mayor Ciesliewicz admits that the new union contracts were rushed, he claims that the city did negotiate in good faith. The Democrat mayor said “We ARE on the same side. That’s the way collective bargaining works. It ought to be a negotiation, but at the end of the day we want to have good working relationships between labor and management here in Madison.” There can be no doubt that there is an excellent relationship between Madison’s union workers and management, since their goal of fleecing the taxpayers to serve their own interests is the tie that binds. According to the E-mails, Secretary of State Doug LaFollette declined to delay publication of the law, but it all became a moot point when Senate Democrats fled the state to block the bill. Chris Kleismet from CRG said it appears the 14 Senators orchestrated their trip to Illinois to buy time for unions all over the state to work out new deals.
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Labor and management relations, pfft! I wonder where the little people fit in?
Oh but the unions are the path to revolution dear mayor. We see you have no clothes. http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1932/towar…
These 14 Democratic Senators should be held responsible for what ever their actions may have cost the Tax Payers of Wisconsin due to their dereliction of duty of which they swore to uphold.
They are all guilty and should be fired. These union workers are so misled by their union stewards and leaders. Are they that stupid? And they think they're worth more than you and me? Really?
I worked under a union for 25 years and they didn't do poop for me. blah, blah, blah
I agree with you Babs on unions doing nothing for you. They got plenty of raises to help fill the officers pockets and only stood up for the losers.
I read yesterday that an order was put out to ARREST every one of those 14 State Senators.
I would love to see the footage! Could I be on a jury of some type?
I also understood ..one Senator was going to come back on Wednesday..I see the others got to him! Too bad.
They only need ONE Senator to come back to fulfill their needs.
Unions have used up their usefullness. They are now run by CROOKS !!
"Governor Walker’s budget repair bill was a virtual lock to be passed by the legislature and signed into law"
Despite the fact that most Wisconsin residents favor Democrats over Walker on the budget, and most disagree with eliminating collective bargaining for public workers–according to Rasmussen, a pollster so CONSERVATIVE that many mainstream pollsters discount Rasmussen results as consistently biased. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/po…
Presumably those residents will exercise their dissatisfaction with the GOP in 2012.
Hay Hay ACLU Teachers-Azz James Bond Keep Dreaming Commie Teacher, Yippee, Lie Detector For The Union Goons Than Pull Up Johnny Carson U-Tube Lie Detector Of Stinky Frosthimer Obama. God Bless America And The Patriotic Tea Party.
Wisconsin Union Obama-Goons Wake-Up Were Broke, Stop Drinking Obama Kool-Aid, We Have The Best Governor Walker, Yippee, However All The Intelligence In The World Will Not Help If Your Strategic Mind Is Still Locked Into An Economic Model That Is No Longer Operative, Obama Union Goons. God Bless America And Sarah Palin POTUS.
By hook or by crook; They just don't get it. Removal or revenue from one part of the public to support another is just going to reduce the amount of employment in the private sector and become a cycle that will lead to tax rates having to go up to pay for more government. The government needs to go back to what it was intended to do at the beginning of this country. They have lost control of spending and usually spend 10 times or more what it would normally cost to do something. It simple Yes teachers deserve everything they make, but the union that runs them is taking that money and spending it on one political party. DUH. then they wonder why the right would do anything for them. Stop all contributions to political parties by everyone except the individual tax payer on both sides. Also it should not cost A billion dollar to be President. One Billion Dollars is just nuts and will only lead to taking care of the ones that give you the money. The President is the President of all LEGAL CITIZENS of the United States of America. Unless they are just pretending to be legal by not showing original documentation. Had to add that last line. Because the argument that no other President had to do what is being ask of this President is not a valid argument, none of the others had such a clouded history as this one. The more you study this President and watch his Attorney General it seems the mistreated now have the power and are showing the same behavior as the ones they marched against for decades. They are guilty of the same mis-justice as their families were decades ago. The shoe is on the other foot and now they are not judging all equally as they expected others to do. Interesting.
"the union that runs them is taking that money and spending it on one political party. DUH. then they wonder why the right would do anything for them"
It may be a chicken-and-egg thing. After all, why would unions support the party that keeps trying to kill them off? Remember that the Air Traffic Controllers supported Reagan (a former union president himself) over Carter, and then he stabbed them in the back. Since then, unions have been particularly skittish about supporting the GOP (though Clinton was no friend to labor, either).
"Stop all contributions to political parties by everyone except the individual tax payer on both sides"
I could go along with that, but the conservatives on the Supreme Court recently made the situation much worse, of course, with the "Citizens United" decision.