Looking good for Wisconsin Gov. Walker

That's a low ball estimate... high end estimate shows he may have saved over 1 billion dollars...

Executive Summary
In February 2011, the Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, introduced the Budget
Repair Act, which aimed to close a $3.6 billion deficit in the state budget by curtailing
the benefits and collective bargaining rights of state workers. In taking this action, the
Governor succeeded in bringing about a reduction of $309 million in state spending
and, according to our estimate, between $464 million and $886 million in local
spending.

By reducing the budget gap, the Act has saved between 15,400 and 20,500 public and
private jobs that would otherwise have been lost, along with between $185 million and
$350 million annually in private investment and between $760 and $1.030 billion in real
disposable income.

THE BEACON HILL INSTITUTE AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
http://www.beaconhill.org/BHIStudies/Wi ... 2-0522.pdf

And on other news fronts... Milwaukee's crime reduction stats are very suspect. It seems like Tom Barrett's, Walker's challenger in the recall election, in his campaigning to get the chance to replace Walker, had been bragging about the reduced crime rate in Milwaukee.

Hundreds of assault cases misreported by Milwaukee Police Department

When Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn touted the city's fourth-straight year of falling crime in February, hundreds of beatings, stabbings and child abuse cases were missing from the count, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.

More than 500 incidents since 2009 were misreported to the FBI as minor assaults and not included in the city's violent crime rate, the investigation found. That tally is based on a review of cases that resulted in charges - only about one-fifth of all reported crimes.

Yet the misreported cases found in 2011 alone are enough that Flynn would have been announcing a 1.1% increase in violent crime in February, instead of a 2.3% decline from the reported 2010 numbers, which also include errors.

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchd ... 62135.html

And this little gem from St. Norbert College and Wisconsin Public Radio... Walker 50, Barrett 45...

A new poll from St. Norbert College and Wisconsin Public Radio has Scott Walker up on Tom Barrett.

The survey found 50 percent of respondents backed the guv, while 45 percent favored Barrett.

The landline and cell telephone survey of 406 likely voters was conducted May 17-22 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Walker’s job approval rating was 52 percent with 48 percent disapproving. President Obama’s job approval rating split was 54-45

http://elections.wispolitics.com/2012/0 ... tt-45.html

Looking really good for Walker.

And even better for the GOP in general. Herb Kohl is retiring from the Senate which means there is no incumbent seeking reelection for that seat this November. Times, they are indeed a changing. Lots of Government Motors union employees still without jobs in Janesville, WI due to the plant that was located there still being shuttered. I wonder if Obama has any plans to trot out some of those union workers to comment upon the unfeeling federal government that bought out the company and then tossed them out of work - nah, probably not.

PrintSmith wrote: I wonder if Obama has any plans to trot out some of those union workers to comment upon the unfeeling federal government that bought out the company and then tossed them out of work - nah, probably not.

Bain, government style?

LadyJazzer wrote: That's why the Teabag Party's numbers are in the toilet.

That's why Walker is about to be recalled in Wisconsin; that's why more recalls of state legislators are about to occur.

Jus' keep doin' what yer doin'...

We'll see how well LJ's predictions turn out.

Liberals + topic = crickets

(Gee Lady Jazzer, nothing new to say about your favorite "whipping boy"?)

Has recall election turned Scott Walker into GOP hero?

Democrats leapt at the chance to use Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to send a message to all the budget-cutting, union-busting conservatives across the land: If you mess with Big Labor, there’s a heavy price to pay.

But if you shoot at the king, you’d better not miss.

And with Walker suddenly looking as if he might survive the recall, it appears he’s only been grazed.

Now, instead of tacking Walker’s pelt to their door as a warning to any who would follow him, there’s a prospect the whole thing might backfire by elevating Walker into a tested-by-fire, conservative cult-hero and exposing the limits of the Democrats’ ability to exact revenge in the next statehouse where they’re wronged.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/05 ... z1vmIyG06S

Go Walker.

Not looking good be BIG LABOUR...

“The Left, labor, Democrats, which planned to embarrass him, instead have made him a national figure with a very bright future,” Allen continues. “It was money poured down the drain by Democrats and the Left in a presidential election year.”

John Heilemann chimes in, “You notice the White House, the reelection committee in Chicago, they’ve stayed away from Wisconsin. They’ve done these big ad buys, they picked their nine states, Wisconsin not on that list. The reason is they wanted to see how this turned out. They have kept their distance from it.”

(see MSNBC video at...)
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign- ... g-win-big#

I love when the lefts ideology becomes a big sh*t pile which they always step in.

Yes, and it's so easy to see why... given the millions spent by the Koch Brothers, et al..

And now the GOP has brought out the "A-Team" of political dirty tricks:

GOP Group Releases Vicious Mailer In Wisconsin Recall

"Can't Win If You Don't Cheat"....

I'm SO impressed...

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, and it's so easy to see why... given the millions spent by the Koch Brothers, et al..

And now the GOP has brought out the "A-Team" of political dirty tricks:

GOP Group Releases Vicious Mailer In Wisconsin Recall

"Can't Win If You Don't Cheat"....

I'm SO impressed...

You're so loosing.

LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, and it's so easy to see why... given the millions spent by the Koch Brothers, et al..

And now the GOP has brought out the "A-Team" of political dirty tricks:

GOP Group Releases Vicious Mailer In Wisconsin Recall

"Can't Win If You Don't Cheat"....

I'm SO impressed...

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the FACT that walkers policies are working and the people are sick of the whining unions that suck the tax payers dry at every opportunity.