Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
Looks like the Democrats in Wisconsin are even more desperate - and disingenuous - than usual.
Apparently somebody asked newly-elected Wisconsin governor Walker what he would do if state government employees walked off the job in protest of his attempts to get them to pay 12% of their own insurance premiums. In particular, the subject of prison staffing came up. What if union government employees guarding the prisons, left? Might the prisoners get out, or riot, or etc.?
Apparently the Governor said that in that case, he would ask the Wisconsin National Guard help fill in and staff the prison posts, until the regular employees came back.
From that, now it seems that Democrat fanatics have twisted his words into saying he would use the National Guard to crush protestors, fight demonstrators, and generally treat the Wisconsin citizens as criminals.
Has anyone heard such accusations? That the Governor would call out the National Guard against protestors in general... and that he promised to do that before any protests even started? Did the reports you heard, ever quote his actual words?
Got a link to those reports?
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http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_03b2b8f2-38a2-11e0-913e-001cc4c002e0.html
Misconceptions spread over National Guard's role in Walker budget proposal
Posted: Monday, February 14, 2011 7:17 pm
Gov. Scott Walker has been in communication with the Wisconsin National Guard to help run the state's prisons should correction officers stay home in protest over proposed changes to collective bargaining rules for public employees.
But since the governor announced the news last week, his political opponents — and some media outlets — have raised the alarm over the prospect that the Guard would be used to keep protestors in line.
"No Wisconsin Governor has deployed the military against public employees as far back as the 1930s, showing just how radical the steps are that Gov. Walker is taking to consolidate his power," said Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
On Monday, Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie reiterated that the governor has asked the guard to be prepared only to help out with running the prison system.
There is precedent for such a move. In 2003, after hundreds of prison guards called in sick to protest stalled contracts, then-Employment Relations Secretary Karen Timberlake said Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle might have to activate the Guard to staff the prisons. The measure was ultimately not taken.
Apparently somebody asked newly-elected Wisconsin governor Walker what he would do if state government employees walked off the job in protest of his attempts to get them to pay 12% of their own insurance premiums. In particular, the subject of prison staffing came up. What if union government employees guarding the prisons, left? Might the prisoners get out, or riot, or etc.?
Apparently the Governor said that in that case, he would ask the Wisconsin National Guard help fill in and staff the prison posts, until the regular employees came back.
From that, now it seems that Democrat fanatics have twisted his words into saying he would use the National Guard to crush protestors, fight demonstrators, and generally treat the Wisconsin citizens as criminals.
Has anyone heard such accusations? That the Governor would call out the National Guard against protestors in general... and that he promised to do that before any protests even started? Did the reports you heard, ever quote his actual words?
Got a link to those reports?
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http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_03b2b8f2-38a2-11e0-913e-001cc4c002e0.html
Misconceptions spread over National Guard's role in Walker budget proposal
Posted: Monday, February 14, 2011 7:17 pm
Gov. Scott Walker has been in communication with the Wisconsin National Guard to help run the state's prisons should correction officers stay home in protest over proposed changes to collective bargaining rules for public employees.
But since the governor announced the news last week, his political opponents — and some media outlets — have raised the alarm over the prospect that the Guard would be used to keep protestors in line.
"No Wisconsin Governor has deployed the military against public employees as far back as the 1930s, showing just how radical the steps are that Gov. Walker is taking to consolidate his power," said Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
On Monday, Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie reiterated that the governor has asked the guard to be prepared only to help out with running the prison system.
There is precedent for such a move. In 2003, after hundreds of prison guards called in sick to protest stalled contracts, then-Employment Relations Secretary Karen Timberlake said Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle might have to activate the Guard to staff the prisons. The measure was ultimately not taken.
