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I Stand With Walker

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 21st, 2011 at 12:33 PM  | 

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There is going to be a vigil in support of Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans on Wednesday. If you go to I Stand With Walker you can get the details on it.

Likewise, Democrats and Unions are flooding Wisconsin with hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the Democrat Party there.

We need to respond accordingly and give the Wisconsin GOP the funds with which they can fight back.

Be prepared to stand up Wednesday and support Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans in their fight.

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  • johnson11

    Please do come, but be prepared for a 100% peaceful counter demonstration. There has been zero violence. One reporter interviewing people Saturday said that heated conversations ended in hand shakes.

    We know people on both sides of the issue are angry, and everyone has the right to be heard, and be prepared to express yourself.

    Please rest assured you do not have to come loaded for bear, and that people here have been very respectful of each other.

    I don’t know what you have heard, but the crowd of counter-protesters was at best about 2,000 people on Saturday, with a crowd of protesters numbering about 70,0000. If you are under the impression that supporters of the bill are making a huge dent in the message, it is not true.

    To be honest, a rather large chunk of supporters were from out of state. Not being constituents, it makes less of an impact on the state government.

  • lepelerin

    in the private sector, I got a call today to rally at the State house, tomorrow, here in Columbus. Hellow, I’m not part of a state union.

  • jtlfromfredmd

    I was away from my computer over the weekend and do not watch news on television anyway so I could not keep up with this story. Are the counter-protestors in support of Governor Walker or not in support? 70,000 to 2,000 is pretty lopsided.

  • kowalski

    I don’t have anything against teachers and I don’t want them to be poor. My aunt is a teacher, has been for more than 40 years and her husband (now deceased) was a teacher also, and they educated some of the students who now live in the hoity-toity areas just outside our nation’s capitol.

    But the collective bargaining rights at the state level amount to the unstoppable flow of new money whenever they dig their heels in, and anyone who is a teacher and an honest one knows it. I’ve lived in New Jersey also; I’ve seen it in action. It’s a cudgel.

    I’ve never understood why the teacher’s collective bargaining rights were necessary! Nobody who lives in America is going to accept (for very long) their teachers being underpaid and undervalued. The unions have this double booster rocket strapped to their salaries and benefits and it’s about time they didn’t. Scott Walker and the rest of the Republicans in Wisconsin had better not blink.

    DON’T BLINK.

  • kowalski

    What the protestors in Wisconsin call their “beef” are tax breaks to businesses.

    They really need to wake up. Wisconsin (and the rest of the United States) isn’t producing enough manufacturing or any other kind of job to employ all those students they want to educate so generously (as long as they’re the ones receiving all the forced generosity.)

    I’ve never been prouder of a governor than I have been of Scott Walker and Chris Christie in New Jersey. They’re taking on the really entrenched, deeply fortified and absoultely implacable “third rail” of state politics and they deserve everything we can do to support them.

    The teachers aren’t going to suffer. They’re going to pay something like 6% toward their own pensions and 12% toward their own health care, for a change. They should get back to work and start teaching their students a little something about paying a part of their own way to retirement, and the value of doing so. All of them have gotten used to the free ride, backed up by union muscle. It has to stop, and it has to stop everywhere in this country.

  • sharonmcp

    Although a minuscule number compared to the number of people that were there, as of Feb. 17, there had been at least 9 people arrested.

    Arrests on Day 3 of Wisconsin Protests

    I’ve also read, though I can’t find the links now, reports of congressional staff members being harassed and shoved in the hallways. As well as a young girl from one of the local high schools slapped and the sign she was holding in support of Walker snatched away from her.

    As for the claim that only 2000 showed up in support of Governor Walker, these pictures show that to be false.

    Your comment, “If you are under the impression that supporters of the bill are making a huge dent in the message, it is not true”, is also incorrect, given that almost every poll I’ve seen on Wisconsin news websites show a majority supporting the Governor’s bill, as well as this newly released poll by Rasmussen.

    48% Back GOP Governor in Wisconsin Spat, 38% Side With Unions

    Given that this appears to be your first comment here at RS, I’ll withhold any comment on what I feel are your true intentions, but your comment certainly appears to be contrary to Erick’s request for RedStaters to “support Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans in their fight.”.

  • sharonmcp

    perpetrated by lefties like Rachel Maddow.

    This from Wisconsin’s state budget — frequently asked questions

    …Walker has said the state faces a $137 million budget shortfall for this fiscal year ending on June 30 and a $3.6 billion shortfall for the next two years.

    Opponents are pointing to a Jan. 31 memo by the Legislature?s nonpartisan budget shop that says that the state will finish this fiscal year with $121.4 million in its main account.

    But there?s more to the memo. The budget surplus will only happen if the state keeps its spending in line with what has been budgeted…

    …The tax cuts have no effect on this fiscal year — the time period the current proposal focuses on — because they don?t take effect until later…

  • kowalski

    I watch Rachel Maddow also, particularly when I need my daily dose of counterfactual jibber-jabber.

    The quiet majority in Wisconsin agrees with me. They’re not the ones putting the protestors out there, it’s Trumka and his cohorts, and Jesse Jackson with his enormous Rolodex of Hope. Walker needs our support. and the people in his own state are a little anxious but they elected him to do something that’s been needed for a long time – all across the state, the entire population, not 50,000 or so people who the President decided to whip into action.

    The most important thing about that article is this:

    Unions say other provisions in his bill to cut union bargaining rights — their biggest complaint — wouldn?t produce any immediate savings at all. Walker says he wants those to give the state and local governments more flexibility to deal with their employees and run their operations efficiently.

    And they will be able to. The only other options are the ones just below that, which are:

    1) Raise taxes
    2) Borrow and spend

    Well, we know where both of those lead in terms of job creation and putting future generations in hock.

  • kowalski

    What are they really complaining about? If you really look at what they’re massing in the Square to protest, it’s about losing the ability to get everything they have for free, on the backs of the taxpayers of Wisconsin.

    They’re sitting there screaming and yelling about how they want to have absoutely nothing but guaranteed pay raises and guaranteed health care and guaranteed rising benefits on everyone else’s dime, forever. For what? Teaching K-12?

    They’re incredibly selfish, spoiled people. Obama should be talking about “shared sacrifice” not “assaults”.

  • kowalski

    She really should listen to Bill Gates, who has done the math and analyzed why American schools are not terrific.

    Go out to 15:59 and listen. Rachel should also. Gates doesn’t say so explicitly in this video, but even Bill G. knows that teacher’s unions aren’t helping very much.

    “There’s a whole thing of trying to block the data…..”

  • kowalski

    You can listen to Bill Gates talk about what’s wrong with American public education right here in his speech to the Illuminati at TED.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

    He is, of course, leaving it up to Scott Walker to do the heavy lifting. That’s OK. Scott Walker needs our help to do it though.