America’s most powerful labor official released a six-word statement ripping Scott Walker

[kath]

Source: Business Insider

America's most powerful union doesn't really feel the need to elaborate on its disgust with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).

Ahead of Walker's presidential announcement on Monday, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations released a brutal one-line statement concerning its feelings about the governor.

"Scott Walker is a national disgrace," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in the entirety of his statement on Walker's entry into the race.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-trumka-statement-on-scott-walker-2015-7

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From the AFL- CIO's site http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/AFL-CIO-Statement-on-Scott-Walker-Announcement

[niyad]

1. pretty much covers it.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. Eloquent, minimal wording and spot-on!

n/t

[meow2u3]

3. K & R for honesty

Trumka is straight to the point and doesn't mince words regarding Scott "Koch Puppet" Walker.

[shenmue]

4. Yes!

[timdog44]

5. Good for them

Wisconsin used to be the place that my wife and I vacationed every year and sometimes twice. I used to vacation there with my parents prior to my getting married. That was to the tune of almost 50 years. We no longer go, because of the national disgrace and his ilk.I wrote to every place we used to frequent and people we used to visit, as we had become friends with a number of people. I guess it may not be fair to the Ds who live there, but I am not going to support a state that harbors a criminal and his cohorts. I told them to campaign against him and if they ere able to defeat "him', we would start to come back to Wisconsin. We are not big spenders. We probably are not even missed. My protest against not only a national disgrace, but a state disgrace and a city disgrace. What a waste of an egg and sperm.

[SusanaMontana41]

25. But he'd make a good compost. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

33. He'd probably suck at that, too. nt

[SusanaMontana41]

35. Well, it's good for growing bushes.

Go ahead, throw your tomatoes.

[maddiemom]

37. And Good for You! Think if the rest of us ninety-nine percenters did the same when we disagreed.

[jtuck004]

6. As are all the people who voted him in twice. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

8. three times

[Sunlei]

7. Gov. Scott Walker and his rich Koch probably have a big laugh over 'words' like that.

[Angry Dragon]

9. just a Kock whore

[jtuck004]

14. A winning Koch whore, and the damage from his success will likely never be restored.

Thanks to the people who voted him in. Three times.

[the_sly_pig]

10. Mud ducks v. cheese heads

The rivalry used to be fun because both states were pretty much even-up. It's no longer fun because Wisconsin now North Louisiana.

[Plucketeer]

11. Scott Walker

Dreaming of being an integral cog in the Koch Machine!

[oldandhappy]

12. Amen

[SoapBox]

13. I can just use one word...

Scum.

Guess they needed to be more polite.

[rladdi]

15. Scott Walker is NOTHING without the Koch brothers. He is there puppet.

The Koch brothers runs WISC. Not Walker the puppet.

[riversedge]

20. spot on!

[AzDar]

16. K & R

[Gumboot]

17. And so say all of us.

K&R a thousand times.

[EEO]

18. The logical end to the path Walker has taken in Wisconsin...

Wisconsin Governor Walker Signs Budget Establishing Feudalism

"This is a proud day for Wisconsin, because everyone will have a job and be able to pass that job to their children and their children's children," stated Walker, who is expected to announce he will run for the Republican nomination for president on July 13th.

More at link...

[valerief]

19. Righto! nt

[Cosmic Dancer]

21. I couldn't agree more!

[ibewlu606]

22. eh

This coming from the man who endorsed Obama 6 months early in 2012 and then has the nerve to issue an edict forbidding any AFL affiliates to endorse early now........except for the AFT who endorsed HRC. I guess he's ok with that but not for those organizations who have endorsed Bernie.

[nxylas]

23. That will probably do Walker some good

His constituency seems to be essentially the same as Mitt Romney's - the rich; and Randroids, who think that working people are parasites off the backs of "entrepreneurs". Those people will lap up a condemnation from a "union thug" as proof that Walker is the hero we need to destroy the threat of the lower orders living in reasonable comfort.

[calimary]

27. Randroids!!!

LOVE IT!!!

[66 dmhlt]

24. Pithy, Pertinent & Spot On!!!

[calimary]

26. Tell it, Mr. Trumka!

scott walker is - in his OWN words - a "job crater"! I heard it with my own ears on national television just a few minutes ago.

[Paladin]

28. Bravo and encore! (nt)

[flamingdem]

29. Excellently enunciated

[fredamae]

30. Nothing else can be said

nothing else needs to be said. Trumka encapsulated the entirety of Walker's career, mission, goals and values, imo.

[turbinetree]

31. Did he have to pay SCABS to come to....................

this event?

Apparently Non Union Scabs put up the stage...................


Honk ----------------- for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[joshdawg]

32. I'm thinking this statement of Trumka's

could be applied to all the republican "candidates."
They are all a national disgrace.

[catbyte]

34. Yep. That does it for me.

[HoosierCowboy]

36. Should have been

...what George Carlin said about Mickey Mouse.