ONly far left liberals watch that propaganda unless they want a good laugh. Humm, hard to guess on that one. Wait, I got it! His campaign funds with are around $12 million paid for the postage and printing. Super expensive, not many in the free world can afford stamps and paper with Obama in the white house.

Steve, folks who want to hear all sides of the argument watch MSNBC, Fox, etc., plus read multiple newspapers/magazines (like me). Not sure what you mean, "His campaign funds with are around $12 million paid..." but if you trying to convey that the mailing cost $12 million, my intended point was the mailing was paid for with Super PAC money--thanks Citizens United.
And Walker has raised a lot of out of state money.

I still don't see the point, sounds like wasted air time to talk about someone mailing brochures. Must be why that show gets only 230K views per night. Funny you only talk about seeing things on the Ed show or MSNBC or the daily Kos.

Steve, I provide sources from nationally and internationally recognized newspapers--official sources. I watch Fox and Sunday morning political shows. I find with Fox that assertions are made but there is little source data provided and that is usually from a partisan source such as the Heritage Foundation (which can't add by the way).

Fox is helpful in introducing viewpoints (factoids) but overall MSNBC does a better job of sourcing their assertions. Regardless, the source data has to be checked/verified to eliminate spin or significant omissions.

Daily Kos is an online community with a small team of "house" writers and about 300,000 community members who can write articles and comment on others'. Like MSNBC the "house" writers especially source their work, which the independent researcher must check/verify.

Of course they do WEACHATER. Some people appreciate hearing about an issue from a variety of standpoints.

You get one view point on that show.

Steve, a balanced diet is healthy. My data is derived from multiple sources.

enicar, public employees receive compensation packages, just like in the private sector. Why does this misinformation about public employees persist?

And I'm not a public employee, but I understand that they are given the option to provide support for political candidates--that this does not come out of their dues. Perhaps someone else has definitive information about this.

No misinformation here. The public sector votes in those with an implicit promise to raise their salaries/benefits for doing so. The private sector does not have that capability.

Attempting to deny reality - because it makes you uncomfortable, or doesn't suit your agenda, doesn't change the reality. Lies are not the truth - you need to stop spreading them.

enicar, doesn't everyone vote for the candidate that they believe will best represent their interests? You can't isolate one group and accuse them of this. Public employees receive salary and benefits. Some of them are Republicans.

I don't spread lies.

Clearly you mean to obfuscate and create confusion.

IN an election for public officials - WHO HAVE TAXING AUTHORITY - the situation is markedly different. Your failure to recognize/grasp that is either by design, or indicative of "OTHER", which would then result in me being accussed of being insensitive. Your posts clearly stand as an argument for tests being administered prior to voting - or at least minimum standards being applied -

Bren is a paid shill of the Democrat/Marxist party. Bren get a real job.

Bren: I appreciated your attempt to inject reason and intelligence into this converation, but I feel your attempt is falling on deaf ears. It seems that democracy & fair representation by some is only allowed if you share their narrow views/beliefs. It is becoming more apparent these days that the freedoms & fair play is no longer applied towards Educators, women or those who happen to fall on the "supposed Leftist, educated & elitist" label of the political scale. I am not sure if it is fear on their part towards intelligent and fair negotiations/compromise or if they just simply want to dictate to the rest of us.It almost seems like they would want to turn public service workers into nothing more than slave labor with not voice or rights. I do however, find the hypocrisy in the "Union dues fund & elect candidates" statement when I am sure if any of these blowholes looked into their companies donation cauphers they would probably find a lot of corporate money goes towards overpaid execs and campaign funding rather than better wages and benefits for their employees. What I find missing in this whole debate is the fact that despite all of Walker's touted benefits to these "reforms", WISCONSIN still HAD the WORST JOB GROWTH in the WHOLE COUNTRY, and the state sales tax has dropped due to the starving of the needed expendable income towards the local economies. Brilliant, just brilliant by those who claim to want what is best for this state.

Enicar-how many republican governors have we had since the union was formed?
Are you telling me they were on the take with the unions?
Bren was right,the union people have an optout put there by Regan. A little research would have told you that! Now who is spreading missinformation?

George-i guess when you have no arguement left all you can do is call someone silly names! Sad-very sad

Clearly Kathleen Falk and Tom Barrett don't want to address their WAR ON PROPERTY OWNERS of Wisconsin! They make no distinction between the public employees, who are tax beneficiaries, and the private sector, who are the tax providers. These distinctions are fine, but need to be recognized - and quite frankly, we have large numbers of people who cannot mentally grasp the distinction - so we head for disaster with the intelligent people being voted down and the LOOT and SCOOT continuing!

We need to completely overhaul the tax system and find different ways to finance government - it's NOT working - BUT, we'll ignore things like that and allow Civilization to collapse.

shawn, I agree the "war on women" is manufactured, by the ideologically-radical Tea/GOP. They don't realize or care to ignore that making contraceptives more expensive, focusing on ineffective abstinance-only education, and making it more difficult for women to seek redress for pay discrimination affects males and females, especially as there are more female financial heads of household than males right now.

I'll also correct you on your insulting misrepresentation of the Occupy Movement. This movement started in New York City and has spread across the United States.

And I'll correct you on your mistake about (I assume) complaint about public employees--they already did contribute to their pensions and health care as part of their compensation package. This should be an understandable concept to anyone who has employer-provided health coverage--your portion impacts your net pay. Blaming public employees for the expense of the pension fund is ridiculous as it had/has "0" liability. Asking them to pay "more" toward their pensions and health care is effectively doubling their contribution (on top of 16 furlough days under Gov. Doyle).

►they already did contribute to their pensions and health care◄

What percent of their salary did they contribute?

I'm curious about the "Asking them to pay "more" toward their pensions and health care is effectively doubling their contribution (on top of 16 furlough days under Gov. Doyle)."

Are they still being forced to take 16 furlough days? If they are not, then any increase in contribution cannot be 'on top of 16 furlough days', can it?

The issue I take with the claim that they 'already contribute' is that in many cases, the total compensation of public sector workers is significantly greater than a comparable private sector worker. For example, it's rather uncommon for private school teachers to be compensated better than public school teachers.

There are Republican women speaking out about this issue.

Name one because every republican woman that I have heard speak on the issue said it is complete idiocraty and shows how far the left will stretch to try to keep having their way.

@Brett -- No, because women like Kleefisch and McKenna don't think their kind of woman will be adversely affected by any of these measures, having their good Conservative men to take care of them, as is meet. They're still wearing those blinders that tell them that economic success is a reflection of their moral superiority.

The recall candidates no longer have to emphasize the collective bargaining issue (although it's still important) because Walker and the GOP legislature have gone on to push through a conservative social agenda that has nothing to do with jobs or the economy.

This is VERY GOOD.

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