Dear friends in Wisconsin... How are things?

[noel711]

Dear Ones,

Haven't been back in a few years...
Love your state, have spent many beloved years there.
Things have been terrible I hear;
Just how are Scottie's ratings, and how do things look for the future?

Here in Pennsylvania, a republican governor was also elected in the massacre of teabaggers.
Our state is also run into the ground, many issues parallel those in Wisconsin.
But Corbett's ratings are abysmal, and any democratic candidate paired against him
comes out way on top. We have hope.

Is there any light in Wisconsin?

[Pharaoh]

1. Walkers record on Job creating

We rank 49th, he campaigned on creating 250,000 new jobs.

He busted state and teachers unions.

Currently he is wrecking the public school system by giving well off people vouchers to help pay

for the private school they go to, sucking our tax dollars an further eroding the public school system.

He is allowing the Koch brothers to mine fracking sand and other things up north,with no bid contracts

that have little or no environmental over site.

He is requiring people to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion and pay for it themselves.

He is proposing that The UW investigative journalism department be defunded.

He is trying to sell off our power plants to private for profit corporations.

I imagine they will also be sucking the great lakes dry and bottle the water to sell to the highest bidder. Water per liter is now

more expensive than gasoline.

He turned down Billions in federal aid to build high speed rail from Madison to Chicago, and eventually connect with Minneapolis.

He turned down 12 billion dollars from the federal government for healthcare for the poor and prop up

our low income medical services (Badgercare).

I could go on, but you get the idea.

And believe it or not, this is who the republicans want to run for president in 2014..........amazing huh?

[AllyCat]

2. Our state sucks.

It is not the place I moved to many years ago. Horrible.

I'm not sure we have any real challengers for this jerk either. There are many I like, but would never play out in the rest of the state. He's setting up the machine so that no one can beat him no matter how badly he sucks us dry. He's got Waukesha in his back pocket for any nail-biter.

He has basically silenced dissent at our Capitol.

They are working on crushing our private sector unions too.

Thanks for checking in with us noel. Sorry we are such downers. It's hard to watch and live through.

[Scuba]

3. Pharoah and Alley Cat are both on the money. Bleak and looking to get bleaker.

[noel711]

4. I still don't get it..

Wisconsin Badgers are proud progressives; how did this happen?

And how does he maintain any sense of respect with all the crap he pull?
Totally delusional; But, LOL, I'm preaching to the choir.
The one big thing against Corbett in PA is that he was Attorney General
when the evidence against Sandusky at Penn State rose to attention.
Corbett sat on it...
and most of PA is very pro Joe Paterno.
When he was sullied by his implications in the cover up,
most folks blame Corbett.

Is there anything comparable in Scottie's past?

[HereSince1628]

6. WI, like many places, has strong "anti-urban" sentiment.

The disgruntled oppositional defiant are jealous and oppose every penny spent on minority dense urban areas.

It's hard to say which component of the disgruntled is most important...being oppositional or being jealous or being racists.

Not that it really matters.

The tactical approach seems to be the same on any count--destroy home rule (cities governing themselves) and hand the governance of urban cities and urban counties with large democratic populations to the republican majority of the state legislature (who don't live in the urban centers) until such time that what makes the cities functional cities can be sold to some neofeudal overlord who will return them to profitability.

[noel711]

7. I agree:

Neofeudal overlords appeal to the current conservative crop.
The master/slave point of view.

And the anti-urban attitude is pure racism.
Sadly, the master/slave relationship isn't possible without an underclass,
so their racist, anti-immigrant attitude is, in the long run, self-defeating.

[midnight]

5. Wisconsin has worst unemployment, because Walker kicks those who signed his recall out of their jobs

Desperation: “We Are Firing Employees Who Signed Wisconsin Recall Petitions”
February 10, 2012
By Anomaly
With enthusiastic recall efforts for Governor Scott Walker (Koch-R) persevering, the desperation to keep the besieged union basher in office is increasing.

‘Floyd’ writes, “Stan, Thank you for writing and printing the manual on the legal way to fire someone who signed the recall petition. I had one employee who always showed up to work on-time, did his job well, passed his drug test, and worked well in a team environment. If knot for Section 3, paragraph A on page 5 of your manual; he would still be employed. Thanks Stan, I can now hire a conservative to replace him.”

Another Facebook page has been formed to undercut the recall effort. If you recall (see what I did there?), there was a previous Facebook page outed by the recall effort. An anonymous group called Operation Burn Notice – which is no longer in existence — coordinated an effort designed to destroy petitions signed to recall Governor Walker.

And now we have this one titled, ‘We are firing employees who signed Wisconsin recall petition’ linking back to ‘Never hire Democrats.’
http://freakoutnation.com/2012/02/10/desperation-we-are-firing-employees-who-signed-wisconsin-recall-petitions/

[yourout]

8. Sadly many parts of my state are the Rednecks of the North.

We are littered with both Rich snobs and backwoods dumb as a stump cretins.