To say he has broke NO LAWS lol he is still the One that heads the corruption of his staff in John Walker/Doe I only hope he is held accountable as would any other citizen of this State. Yes he won the recall. Yet this does not override his PART in the investigation. No one is above the law not even your little boy Scooter. So on with the investigation and bring all to justice, not just the puppets. Obama 2012

Gary, that's all he's got.

Hey Maine, still waiting for your response on the "Playing with Dynamite" thread.

Hey, Maine2010,
http://www.westernjournalism.com/walker-...
What is up with all the cut and paste?

Riffraff, anyone who would vote against his own self interest
does not need any criticism from me.

Part II o II continued: Walker Cost Unions a Fortune:
The public sector also backed Wisconsin Democrat state senators’ flight to Illinois in order to avoid voting on a budget bill that required government employees to pay a portion of their own employee benefits. As the bill also gutted public union bargaining rights, the public sector was intent upon delaying the vote until Senate Republicans could be intimidated into seeing things their way. In the end, public sector losses succeeded only in spending a fortune and making Democrat Senators look ridiculous. The largest unions in Wisconsin are teacher’s unions, and the largest of these, the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) has spent decades running a highly profitable “non-profit” health insurance scheme. According to state law, collective bargaining rather than price and quality of coverage determined the company that would provide health insurance for union teachers and covered employees. And coincidentally, the WEA invariably chose WEA Trust, an insurance provider that just happened to be “established by and closely associated with the union.”
But upon passage of the Walker-supported law cinching the loss of collective bargaining rights by public sector unions, school districts are now permitted to shop among numerous quality providers. In one example of switching from WEA Trust to another carrier with comparable coverages, the Heartland-Lakeside School District “expects to save $690,000 in the (next) fiscal year.” Scott Walker not only exposed organized (public sector) labor as a money-fixated organ of the Democrat Party; he showed quite clearly what can be accomplished by a courageous, conservative politician who will NOT be bullied into compromise with the insatiable forces of the power-hungry left. The question is if Republicans will learn from his example.

Walker Cost Unions A Fortune, June 7, 2012 by D. Book (Part I of II):
Recalled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won the special election against Tom Barrett on Tuesday, his 7 point win an improvement over the 6-point 2010 margin of victory. And as for the $21 million FOX News reported organized labor to have poured into the recall sweepstakes? Call it a crap shoot designed in the hope of recouping some portion of the stunning losses unions have suffered over the past 24 months. Two Walker-sponsored laws have decimated both the power and bank accounts of government sector unions, the first making Wisconsin a right-to-work state and the next doing away with the dues check-off so prized by organized labor. The check-off privilege means “…government seizes union dues straight from workers’ paychecks. The union hierarchy spends that cash on politicking to elect favored candidates. And then the politicians do the union bosses’ bidding.”
Adding insult to injury, along with the check-off generated, automatic payroll deduction, a “service fee” is charged equal to the amount of an employee’s union dues! All of this money which used to go directly into union coffers is now lost. And thanks to the right to opt out of union membership, AFSCME (2nd largest union in Wisconsin) has seen its membership rolls dwindle from 62,818 in March of 2011 to 28,745 in February of 2012, nearly a 60% decline. Wisconsin’s public unions have paid dearly in their losing battle against freedom for state workers. In 2011, they spent millions trying to put leftist judge Anne Kloppenburg on the State Supreme Court. Vowing to act as “…a check and balance against overreaching by the executive and legislative branches,” it was obvious Kloppenburg would be the vital liberal vote necessary to swing decisions of the Court to the benefit of the public sector. She was defeated by incumbent conservative, David Prosser.

Riffraff, I am sorry if I offended you...
oh, wait, I am not!
Have a nice day if that is even possible for you.
;-)

I hope the democrats get rid of their hatred and at least try to be civil.

"I’ll be watching, will YOU?"
No you won't Eyster, it's a closed event.

Today would be a good time to reflect on the historic event that occurred 25 years ago.

"Berlin Wall" Speech - President Reagan's Address at the Brandenburg Gate - 6/12/87

http://youtu.be/5MDFX-dNtsM

You should be more respectful towards your betters.
You bring great shame upon yourself and upon your family.

How bout you Eyster, following the state motto that is? Time for you, Dave and Kenny to get off your high lefty horses and be a little concilatory. You know, like a good little loser. Like your President says, "you lost", so just listen for a while.

This is just the calm before the storm. Time for both sides to resupply before the final push. November is closer than you think.

I hope this includes you MR Eyster.

Words written in ALL CAPS is SHOUTING. It's proven that text in upper case is significantly more difficult to read than lower case text. Also, people of all ages shout to compensate for lack of sense.

Because they let their greed become so out of control and their demands so completely out of touch with reality = out of line with the taxpayer's ability to pay, the public sector is now despised across the entire nation and seen as the arch enemy of the taxpayer, and that includes teachers, who once upon a time, were highly respected. This is the 21st Century; no special interest groups should be permitted to extort from taxpayers via unions.

Was it only a week ago, John, that you were churning out multiple blogs per day, banging the war drums, vilifying Walker, and praising the recall? Ah, what a difference a week makes. At least you stopped short of demanding his head on a sharpened stake in front of the Governor’s mansion, but not far short. I suspect Ken Mayer had your writing in mind when he pleaded for “some relief from the vitriol”, it certainly is your specialty.

And here you are today, looking for “healing”. What could have brought about such a sea change? Did you meditate long and hard, achieve an epiphany, and realize the error of your ways? Since you haven’t admitted error, and haven’t apologized, I think we can scratch that theory. I think you’ve belatedly realized the public unions screwed the pooch, overreached badly, and will now have to pay the price. Your idea of “healing” is that nothing further is done, we all just remain in legislative stasis until the voters regain their senses and allow the Dems to retake both houses and the governorship. Sadly for you, that isn’t going to happen any time soon. Come November, expect to see the Republicans back in single party control.

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t call an election as close as this one a “mandate”, but this isn’t an ordinary election. It’s one of the very few recall elections for governor in the history of our nation, and the incumbent not only won, but he won by a larger margin than he won in the first place. Undeniably, the voters *understand* what he’s doing, and the approve! Does that mean he should have carte blanche to do anything he pleases? No, of course not. But it means that there’s more business to be done, and we the voters want him to finish cleaning house.

So where are we headed? Almost certainly, the police and fireman unions are next up for attention. And I’d be amazed if we don’t see some right to work legislation rolling before 2013. What should the Dems do? They have a choice. They can stonewall and run away, though that didn’t work out too well last time and will only subject them to further ridicule and loss of support. Or they get their heads together, figure out some realistic compromise goals, and decide exactly where they should draw a line in the sand.

Change is a constant. The pendulum is swinging to the right now, but eventually, it will swing back to the center and for a while, continue on to the left. Until then, if the Dems want more healing then a burger and brat can bring, it will be up to then to accomplish.

A time for healing? The battle hasn't even begun yet!

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/purple-wis...

Does anyone believe that if the Democrats had won, that they would be calling for "the healing to begin"?

Run Tim, run !

Remember in November... OMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5p5nufi7...

Good article, John. Only one thing, it's "Hungary" not "Hungry".

"If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, then trophies are meaninglessness"

I can see that some are not quite there yet.
You suffer fools gladly, seeing you, yourselves, are wise.

+1 justmy414.......After all of the abuses the democrats have committed during the past 2 years, I agree with you completely. Luckily though, Republicans have been rational and somewhat forgiving. It's going to be a long, hard road........at the same time it's a road we must go down. Not a half bad post John........

Thank you, John.

Broke down and read your post ... not too many capital words this time. Thanks. Good post ... Now if you continue to walk the talk as well as Walker and Barrett, that will be a start. If the usual posters on the Xtra do the same as well as supporters of both sides ... we will be headed back to the Wisconsin I knew in my youth. Always hopeful. Time for crowing about the victory or complaining about the loss is over. It is truly time to move forward. I wish they would call a special session to work on jobs and the overall economy instead of taking off until next January. However, postings have shown that it may be too early when the conservatives brag that the potential Democratic senate majority means nothing and liberals brag that the potential Democratic senate majority means they can stop Walker and the Republicans from getting anything done. But, always hopeful.

Finally Forward good post John.

John, good to see you are taking a new stance on things verse your article a couple of days ago. This is what we need to get things back on track.