With Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker teaming up with Tea Party Clown David Koch to cripple Democratic Party power by passing an anti-union bill that strips away collective bargaining power for working class employees, it is clear that they have bitten off more than they can chew as the closely knit rally together to protest and rebuke the Republican party’s reprehensible power seeking agenda that is attempting to undermine the Democratic party by tearing away the fabric of union workers.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign war chest received a $43,000 campaign contribution last year from a political action committee controlled by brothers David and Charles Koch, several news outlets reported, citing Wisconsin campaign finance filings.
David Koch, who lives in New York City, supplanted Mayor Bloomberg as the city’s richest man on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans.
The Koch brothers, whose oil and gas empire is based in Wichita, Ks, were unmasked in a New Yorker piece last year as Tea Party bankrollers. They deny being in the movement.
“This is about protecting the middle class and doing it in a way that avoids massive tax increases and massive lay-offs,” Governor Walker said on Thursday, when in reality this bill is designed to remove collective bargaining by State employee unions, which would further allow the Governor and Wisconsin law makers to take control of State union employee wage negotiations by stripping way the ability of collective bargaining.
Mr. Walker won his Governors seat on the wave of Republican generated anti-Obama hysteria. Promising he will create 250,000 new jobs, he now hopes his suckers will believe he could be doing that if he could remove Democrat aligned unions out of his path. With political experts pointing fingers across party lines, the obvious truth is that Union workers are nothing more than enemies of a Republican ran power scheme that needs to remove the voice of working class
The Wisconsin governor’s plan to restrict collective-bargaining rights for government employees, which unexpectedly passed Wednesday night in the state Senate, has energized the labor movement in a way not seen in a generation, President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka said.
“We probably should have invited him today to receive the Mobilizer of the Year award,” Trumka added when asked about his feeling on the motives of Gov. Walker.
Speaking at a conference hosted by the progressive group Campaign for America’s Future hours after Walker’s Republican allies in the Wisconsin state Senate ended a weeks-long standoff with a sneak parliamentary maneuver to pass the proposed labor restrictions, the AFL-CIO labor chief was more defiant than crestfallen.
“In your lifetime, have you ever seen this much solidarity?” Trumka said to the crowd. “Have you ever seen this much excitement?”
Walker’s legislation has become a national flash point, with thousands of Democrats and union workers flooding the state capitol in Madison to protest what they see as an overreach by the new GOP governor. Republicans have argued that the legislation is necessary to balance the state’s budget and symbolic of the fact that voters are more fed up with public-sector unions than ever before.
Police have been ejecting demonstrators from the state capitol building after weeks of mass demonstrations in support of public workers.
There is also a loud roar in protest of the sneak tactics that Wisconsin Republicans used to pass the state anti-union bill by Wisconsin State employees and their supporters with a recall petition in full swing for Gov. Walker!
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As long as we let the republicans undermine and take away our rights as workers, this country will continue to sink further into financial ruin!