Wow, that's beautiful, Bren. I could weep...

Seriously, how many apple-tinis have you had this afternoon?

@Bren-But its no longer democrocy wn u try and take that right away with your bogus recall. Your side has set the stage to recall any and all legislators who make tough decisions. Again 900 folks for Barretts gathering or 4000 fokes supporting Gov Walker, Rebbeca Kleefisch and Van Wanguard

We aren't a democracy. We're a Representative Republic. Democracy is about mobs and slight majorities controlling the minorities. Your vision of America will lead us the route of Greece. Learn your history.

These recalls are ridiculous and prove my point. Wanna live in a true democracy? Then you'll live in this environment every day for every year of your life.

Edward, too late. He's face down in his plate of artisan goat cheese and mini greens.

lol

@Patriot what a bogus name!! Collective bargaining is a fundamental freedom! The recall is justified and he will fall! Conservatives are scared and desperate. I thank your party for waking me up. I thank you for all the wonderful friends, union career opportunities, awakening my political awareness and voting importance! I thank you for waking up the labor movement!

No you don't get 930,000 signatures for kicks. The Republican recalls all failed! They even wanted to recall dale Schultz their own the moderate who actually listens to his constituents instead of being an ALEC corporate puppet. Recalls were established for a reason. Barrett = good statesmanship, healing working together for everyone
Walker = Divide and Conquer, ALEC corporate order taker, Billionaire puppet, the end of middle class fairness and strength..

@Gerry-Bogus name? Well more of a patriot then you could ever hope to be. Collective bargaining is a privilige not a fundamental right. Shows how much you know!! Please show me where in the Constitution where it shows collective bargaining is a guaranteed right!!! It was a privilege awarded to the public sector unions that has over reached their bounds. It has become a matter of more more more regardless!!!
You are so misinformed its truely sad!!! Again collective bargaining is a privilege NOT A RIGHT!!

As for your nearly 1 million signatures you only had 600,000 votes during the primary clearly showing there were over 300,000 FAKE signatures.
It was fairly apparent yesterday with the nearly 4000 people who showed up to support the actions of our Gov and other elected officials, compared to the not quite 400 people who attended your Ed Shultz comedy event and the 900 for Clinton. That says to me that once again the majority of Wisconsin stands with Gov Walker

Borrow??? Doyle collected their tax dollars and spent it with no means of paying it back.

@RP -

You and your fellow progressives are the ones dividing this state! Do you think we on the right liked Doyle's midnight budget that raided segregated funds, opened a tab with the state of Minnesota, and issued hundreds of millions in original new debt offerings, not to mention his no bid contracts with a foreign train manufacturer?

But did we occupy the Capitol? Did our state senators run away to IL? Did we stage a fake sick out in the public schools? Etc?

Answer - NO.

We calmly waited for the next election and voted our guy in. Then you guys went and created this civil war. Get your facts straight. Then again, liberals are good at revisionist history, aren't they?

Heal our state by voting WALKER, KLEEFISCH, and WANGGAARD!!!

Tom Barrett wont win and thats a good thing. If he did we have more recalls in one year. He wont heal anything. Walker wins and he cant be recalled again and than he gets a full term to add to the great progress of Wisconsin. To be recalled for Balancing the budget ,Not raising taxes, conceal carry and voter Id is the REAL joke. Wisconsinites overwhelmingly approve of those things. Unfortunately, the unions had a tantrum cause they got a reality check that was well overdue.

I lost count how many lies were in that statement?
But you were correct on one Mr. Rodgers does love everyone in his neighborhood as long as they play with his choo choo

Nothing was "taken from the education system" It was simply moved so it wasn't laundered through Madison and the unions anymore.

If money was taken, why did tax levies go DOWN?! Can't answer that. Lost. Next?

As to this "secret email system"..... can you prove it? No. Next?

@Hoffa we didn't attack peoples rights Your party didand by doing what you did you did us a favor in the long run!!
VOTE BARRET/MITCHELL LEHMEN

Goodstatesmanship and real leaders would have taken the cuts and left collective bargaining alone! Walker admitted under oaath collective bargainng costs nothing. Oh the budget is not balanced Walker used a credit card financial plan! We actually will still have a 3.3 billion deficit http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/may/31/tom-barrett/barrett-says-walker-used-credit-card-approach-bala/

@Gerry-Right so then we could mirror our neighbors to the south? I believe they were just offered a 2% raise and voted it down. Now they are talking strikes!! That is why Gov Walker made the tough choices knowing that the Unions would just hold the State hostage!!!

Sounds like all of Barrett's talking points... "secret". John doe? How does an entire party base a recall off of a "secret" investigation thats been going on for 2 years now? Do you think the media will update us every day after the election on this "secret" investigation? No!

@Gerry-Once again collective bargaining is NOT A RIGHT BUT RATHER A PRIVILEGE that has been absued and abused and abused. THANK GOD WE FINALLY VOTED IN AN OFFICIAL WHO ACTUALLY DID WHAT HE SAID!!!

Wow .....James R Hoffa that certainly shows The energy on the right. Walker will surpass his 1st election Win vote total . Cant wait for Tuesday to put these recalls away.

Hey at least Doyle did not need a criminal defense fund. Property taxes go down..yeah because we are losing 30% of our house values. That is a no brainer, taxes would go down.

Deb... the MILL RATES went down. Shows your intelligence of the issues.

The RATE CHARGED went down. Not the receipts.

Do you really not understand polling? They pick a target of "x" number of respondents per party and keep calling till they reach their target. Landlines, cell phones mean nothing. Unless your implying that Dems with landlines are not as smart as Dems with cell phones.

We're nervous?! LOL!

Rub your eyes, bubble-eyes..... we're excited. There's nothing nervous about the above statements, dude. WEIRD comment.

Your entire comment was based on some weird science around cell-phone ownership. HAHA!

@Dirk -

Yeah, amazing how those collecting government assistance "have only cell phones [and] things to do in the evening," isn't it?

Our tax dollars going to good use!

TGFSW!!!

@Dirk-Perfect example...My buddy was at a convienent store yesterday off of KK. Two women purchasing ice cream, candy bars, soda, chips ect. Both women sporting coach purses, texting on I phones and when it came time to check out they pulled out their guess what? Their little green cards using tax payer money to purchase all their junk food. So if they are recieving Government assitance how were they able to purchase coach hand bags and how are they able to afford I phones and the data packages that are required with those phones?

@Deb -

We don't hate unions - apparently, you just don't seem to get that.

What we hate are abuses of the public trust, and the fleecing of the taxpayer's dollars!

Guess what - public employees are already represented at the table, and always have been, through their duly elected government officials that they get to vote for, same as everyone else! Federal government - no unions outside the post office. I guess federal employees don't have weekends, holidays, overtime, decent pay, etc - right?

So, who exactly is the IDIOT here?

Deb, Why resort to name calling? Unions got workers all of that... IN THE 30's! Why don't private sector workers have collective bargaining? How come federal employees don't have collective bargaining? Why should taxpayers pick up the bill for everything you people don't want to pay for like awesome health insurance and an amazing pension plan that lets you retire ten to fifteen years earlier than the average employee? When public employees complain about everything that's happened to them, I say just this: Quit and find a better, more secure job in the real world!

Deb- History lesson #1: 40 hour Work Week.

The 40 hour work week was first instituted by the Ford Motor Company in 1926 voluntarily. It was placed into law in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This has been in place ever since.

So you see, it was a rich, greedy, corporate man who first put in place the 40 hour work week, not the unions. It was done without union influence and because of the FSLA, the employee, union or non-union, is protected by federal law.

Deb- History lesson #2: Overtime Pay

In 1936, the Walsh-Healy Act mandated overtime pay for government contractors of time and one half pay for anything over eight hours per day. Adopted in 1938 and extending it to all non-salaried employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act now covers overtime pay so employees overtime is protected by law, not unions.

To be fair, the FLSB does not specify hours worked over eight but covers hours worked over 40. Some unions have negotiated that overtime covers any hours after eight.

Deb- History lesson #3: Weekends off

Many employers in and around the Civil War period, adopted weekends off to accomodate Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath; and Sunday's because of the Christian traditions. It was formally adopted, again, voluntarily by Henry Ford and adopted as law in 1938 in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Prior to the FLSA, unions did negotiate the weekend with employers that didn't offer it.

Deb- History lesson #4: Minimum wage

36 states adopted minimum wages between 1912-1918 in an effort to attract employee's to to their states.

Again, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 adopted a federal minimum wage in an effort to level the playing field for all states. Unions started to negotiate wages in earnest in the late 30's and 40's.

Deb- History Lesson #5: Workers Compensation

Workers Compensation, or the protection of wages for work related injuries, was also adopted by 36 states between 1912-1918 in order to attract workers to their states. Now all 50 states have adopted WC laws, and the federal government adopted further protection in the 1991 American with Disabilities Act.

Deb's reasons are not why I hate unions. The most recent reason that I hate unions is WEA Trust overcharging taxpayers for health insurance and when they are called on it they hide behind the "kids".

Deb- What unions did achieve were the introduction of the grievance procedure to protect its members, safety conditions and working conditions. Once the FLSB was in place, the focus became wages and benefits.

Almost every union function is covered by some sort of federal or state law, regulations and agency. For example, OSHA and the EPA cover all safety and work enviroment issues. The Dept. of Labor covers all federal laws adopted and ammended since th late 30's.

Brian, great history lesson.

Were you aware that the Kellogg company implemented a 30 hour work week that they kept until the mid 80's? The reason was the same as Ford's, the longer you work in a day, the less productive, and more error prone, you become.

What the unionistas fail to mention is that Ford, Kellogg, and other companies paid the same total wages. So when Kellogg went from a 40 hour week to 30, the workers take home was 25% less. Kellog simply hired more workers to make up the difference. And for the most part the workers were happy.

What Deb, Bren and the other unionistas don't understand is that as you add benefits (say holiday pay), the money comes from somewhere. And that somewhere is from wages.

Brian Dey is on FIRE!!!

Very nice :-)

Wow, creative Deb.

Anymore weird, desperately-assembled insults?

WOW - What a completely unintelligent hate-filled comment.

Thanks for adding something of substance to the conversation!

Deb, pls stop. You're seriously embarrassing yourself.

What's funniest about Deb's "dumb" dig at Kleefisch, isn't just her misspelling of Becky's name, or lack of punctuation, but that hilarious quote.....

Sarah never said that. She lives in Alaska, Deb. The quip was about Russia. Get your freakin quotes right if you're gonna play with da big guns! ;)

@Edward -

I was going to mention that, but decided to be general in leaving it at unintelligent and hate-filled!

Thanks for pointing that out though.

Further proof that Barrett and the Dems are targeting the low information, non-thinking voter!

And republicans are waging a war on women... Thanks for clearing that up deb.

@Deb-Hmmmmmm lets see if I am not mistaking it was yourr great leader Barry Sotero I mean Barrack Obama who is actually war on women. He just announced that he is NOT AGAINST GENDER SPECIFIC ABORTION. Im guess you have not seen the hidden videos involving Planned Parent Hood clearly showing that they are more than willing to perform a Gender Specific Abortion if the young womens ultrasound reveals she is having a girl. Clearly an attack on women!!!

http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/06/01/trent-franks-bill-to-ban-abortions-based-on-race-gender-defeated-in-house/

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/29/new-live-action-video-shows-planned-parenthood-encouraging-gender-selective-abortion-medicaid-fraud/

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/05/29/video-planned-parenthood-encourages-woman-to-get-sex-selection-abortion/

Really hard to spin those videos!! But Im sure those of you on the left can spin it as your exports at spin!!! Should have been DJ's

Mau, I hung out till after 1pm talking with everyone. There wasn't so much as a NAPKIN on the grounds, and not a single disruption. NOTHING. And tons of families with kids.

@mau -

That's awesome that you attended the rally today! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Wish I could have been there to meet you in persona.

Yep, it's amazing how the left claims to be the environmentalists, yet appear to have no problems with leaving their litter where-ever they go for others to pickup.

The hypocrisy is absolutely staggering when you stop and think about it and weigh their words against their actual actions!

Oh Boy.........
The present-day concept of the weekend first arose from the Dies Solis (Day of the Sun) decreed by Constantine and from Biblical Sabbath. The weekend in Western countries comprises Saturday and Sunday, when most employees do not have to work. The Christian Sabbath itself was just one day each week, but the preceding day (the Jewish Sabbath) also came to be taken as a holiday in the twentieth century.

Spoken like a true low information, non-thinking lemming!

What the unionistas also fail to tell you is that just because u contribute union dues does not gurantee top wages or benefits. My good buddy who is also in the airline business doing the same job as myself works for a union shop making quite a bit less than me who works for a non union corporation who also has great benefits, a 401 and a pension. Yes you heard right NON UNION!!! Yet my buddy with union representation less wages, benefits not as good and they put up with a lot of BS from the company because we all know how the management/employee cooperation works when unions are involved.

"We have the people and we will Recall Walker!"

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You already did that. Whether or not you're able to vote him out of office when more than one side of the equation gets a say in matters remains to be seen.

Those Special Olympics kids were just collateral damage, I guess.

Enjoy your union tantrum, we will happily put you babies to bed on the 5th.

There was a rally in Madison today? And 100k showed up? If so, you guys didn't make any news outlets that I'm aware of.

Living in the past again RP?

To the contrary, the Tea Party Rally today drew 4,000+, while Ed Schultz, John Nichols, Tammy Baldwin, etc only managed to draw 350.

A sign of desperation that the recallers have run out of gas going into the home stretch! So much for your so-called ground game advantage, hey?

WALKER, KLEEFISCH, and WANGGAARD to VICTORY!!!

Thank you, Spoken like a true progressive. Keep up the FIGHT!

Hold it now, not just any union can turn out the light... That's got to be done by a member of the IBEW. And it's overtime, but they can't get to it until after their break.

@Greg -

LOL!!!

You sure have a lot of bed Fella`s in your patch.

So very well said !

I just don't think that most people care about a secret e-mail system. Unless they are a hard core lefty grasping for any issue, they just don't care.

Where are you and your girls going to have the next "Tea and Crumpets" next ?

@scot-In your back yard!!! When we celebrate Gov Walkers victory

But Brendan can't find parking.
I don't know how the trolley will improve that, unless you were to live on the trolley route. Actually the trolley is going to mess-up parking in the area.

@Greg -

You obviously don't understand liberal logic. Here, let me help you out:

First, you'll drive your car to the nearest park and ride, where you'll then take a bus into the City. Once in the City, you'll either have to walk or grab a cab to the trolley route. Only then will you take advantage of the incredible opportunity that the trolley will provide the good hard working people of Milwaukee.

See, it all makes perfect sense, and at the low cost of $100M+, let's face it, that's a bargain that we'd be foolish to pass up! Yes indeed, with a fully operational trolley in the City, we'll finally be on our way to claiming the title 'The San Francisco of the Mid West' - oh it's such an exciting time to be alive! Personally, I'm giddy with excitement and have had dreams of the trolley every night for that last two weeks!

Thank you Mayor Barrett for giving us this incredible trolley!

Damn, we forgot to burn a cross.

heulee, must have had an overdose of Jesse Jackson.

More like critical exposure!

Way to perpetuate the racial hate heule - your side must be proud of you!

@Greg -

Again, I'm really sorry, but like I told you at the rally, the cross just wouldn't fit in the trunk of my car. I was already chewed out by David Duke at the rally, so please go easy on me here.

The Low Emission Crosses are so much harder to transport than the old ones. I guess it's a world of give & take.

Heule is praising war mongering Democratic College drop out Truman who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese with the only nuclear war on record?

These are the people that represent the progressive low informed liberal/democrat voters!!! OMG!!! There is someone I want legislating for me and the future of my kids and grandkids.

They wonder why we laugh at them.

Well, I'm glad to see that her public paycheck is being well earned!

Not important that she was absent from nearly every single major vote in the House last year. Not to mention that during her time in Washington, she managed to accomplish doing even less than Sen. Herb Kohl! The only time she ever appears is for campaign publicity.

And yet, Milwaukee will probably re-elect her again!

When I see her, I regret the original Civil War.

@Alfred-Ditto brother!! They can move to IL where the Gov raised ta xes 65% and they are still broke. The teacher unions were offered a 2% pay increase and they turned it down, now they are talking strike!!

Really? When did America start paying Wisconsin property taxes?

We LOVE our GUV here in Wisconsin, thank you very much!

You obviously aren't well informed as to the situation here.

Try some media outlets other than the Daily Kos for a change, as doing so will open up the rest of the world for you!