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Omaha Steve

(99,072 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:50 AM Mar 2015

Obama blasts Walker over union law

Source: USA Today

David Jackson,

President Obama seems to be inserting himself into the Republican presidential race, blasting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over a new state law that prohibits requiring workers to pay union dues.

"I'm deeply disappointed that a new anti-worker law in Wisconsin will weaken, rather than strengthen workers in the new economy," Obama said in a statement issued late Monday by the White House.

It's relatively unusual for the administration to weigh in on a state law with a formal statement.

Walker, who is expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination next year and is doing well in early polls, says the new "right to work" law will help attract new businesses to the state.

FULL story at link.



Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
(Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/03/10/obama-scott-walker-union-dues-wisconsin-2016-republican-race/24689359/

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Obama blasts Walker over union law (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP
there's walker looking stoned again.. Cha Mar 2015 #1
Buh buh buh...DU said Obama was anti-Union BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #2
I'll tell you what titaniumsalute Mar 2015 #3
k riversedge Mar 2015 #4
Any businesses that are attracted by "right to work", I don't want here. Elmer S. E. Dump Mar 2015 #5
A union is just small scale democracy' and Walker a Koch owned and operated puppet has contempt and geretogo Mar 2015 #6

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
3. I'll tell you what
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 08:38 AM
Mar 2015

The one thing Walker will be is comedic gold for the shows like SNL, Daily Show, Late Night, etc. He looks like a complete moron.

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
6. A union is just small scale democracy' and Walker a Koch owned and operated puppet has contempt and
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:54 PM
Mar 2015

hatred for democratic government as does all the haters of democracy in the Satanic Cult called the GOP .

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