Wisconsin closely divided, but against Walker

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Several university faculties in Wisconsin have voted overwhelmingly to join the American Federation of Teachers, a move the union says amounts to a backlash against Gov. Scott Walker's bid to strip their collective bargaining powers.

Faculty members at five University of Wisconsin campuses have voted to join the union since they were granted collective bargaining rights in 2009. Three of those votes have come since Walker introduced a landmark budget bill that eroded the unions' bargaining powers and benefits. Though those votes were scheduled before the budget bill was introduced -- and later signed -- AFT representatives said the wide margins of victory show professors are galvanizing in opposition to it. The most recent vote last week at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus was 148-16.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politic...alker/#ixzz1IDrC8epy

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Originally posted by b50m:
He hasn't imploded. Since you hate governors who trash unions, how do you feel about Washington governor Christine Gregoire who broke the unions? No comment because she's a democrat?

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many Repubs have jumped ship and wont back him again

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Sez juan: Even now, the law that passed is illegal, yet it should be a simple matter to just vote again and produce a valid law, but he wont do it, because many Repubs have jumped ship and wont back him again.

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In issuing a temporary injunction, Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi says District Attorney Ismael Ozanne's suit challenging the way the law was passed is likely to succeed, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports..

"It seems to me the public policy behind effective enforcement of the open meeting law is so strong that it does outweigh the interest, at least at this time, which may exist in favor of sustaining the validity of the (law)," she says.

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On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls to elect a supreme court justice. The choice in the "nonpartisan" contest is between incumbent David Prosser, a conservative who has served on the court for 13 years, and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, a liberal who has made clear that if elected she will vote to strike down the new budget law. If Kloppenburg wins, the pro-union faction will have a 4-to-3 majority on the court. In other words, the outcome of this single judicial election could well determine the fate of the budget law.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/...consin#ixzz1IEPksLK7

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In issuing a temporary injunction, Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi says District Attorney Ismael Ozanne's suit challenging the way the law was passed is likely to succeed, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports..

"It seems to me the public policy behind effective enforcement of the open meeting law is so strong that it does outweigh the interest, at least at this time, which may exist in favor of sustaining the validity of the (law)," she says.


The appeals court refused to consider the case without comment.

Walker is waiting until after the Supreme Court election (next week?) to decide on whether to appeal to them.
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On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls to elect a supreme court justice. The choice in the "nonpartisan" contest is between incumbent David Prosser, a conservative who has served on the court for 13 years, and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, a liberal who has made clear that if elected she will vote to strike down the new budget law. If Kloppenburg wins, the pro-union faction will have a 4-to-3 majority on the court. In other words, the outcome of this single judicial election could well determine the fate of the budget law.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/...consin#ixzz1IEPksLK7

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Originally posted by Mr.Dittohead:

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There are two conclusions we can make from our poll on the Wisconsin conflict: the state is very closely divided, but it leans slightly to the union side of things rather than Scott Walker's on pretty much every question we asked.

On the biggest picture question: do you side with Governor Walker or do you side with the public employee unions 51% of voters in the state go with the unions to 47% who stand with the Governor. On another broad question: do you side more with Governor Walker or with the Democrats in the state Senate, 52% of voters go with the Senate Democrats to 47% who go for Walker. And perhaps the clearest indication that Walker has lost a majority of the voters in the state in this conflict, if only a narrow majority, is that 52% of voters now disapprove of him to only 46% who like the job he's doing. Those numbers are basically the inverse of last fall's election results.

http://publicpolicypolling.blo...ded-but-against.html

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Originally posted by Fighting Illini:

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Originally posted by Mr.Dittohead:

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There are two conclusions we can make from our poll on the Wisconsin conflict: the state is very closely divided, but it leans slightly to the union side of things rather than Scott Walker's on pretty much every question we asked.

On the biggest picture question: do you side with Governor Walker or do you side with the public employee unions 51% of voters in the state go with the unions to 47% who stand with the Governor. On another broad question: do you side more with Governor Walker or with the Democrats in the state Senate, 52% of voters go with the Senate Democrats to 47% who go for Walker. And perhaps the clearest indication that Walker has lost a majority of the voters in the state in this conflict, if only a narrow majority, is that 52% of voters now disapprove of him to only 46% who like the job he's doing. Those numbers are basically the inverse of last fall's election results.

http://publicpolicypolling.blo...ded-but-against.html

It's hard for anyone to take you seriously when you say the state is evenly divided based on a "public policy" poll. Was that poll taken at the courthouse protests?

Let's try to be rational, here. 10% of Wisconsin citizens are public sector workers and that might be high. The state just voted Republicans in as the majority, who have been for this since day one. If the state was really split down the middle, do you believe there was such a landslide of Republican seats won.

A moral victory doesn't constitute a real victory. I know that is hard to comprehend in a mindset where there are no winners and losers.