Heard on Thom Hartmann about Ayatollah Walker’s pernicious scheme to sell off publicly-owned nuke plants, as well as water rights, et al, and that he would have the power, under this bill, to appoint his cabinet, meaning his toadies would be able to act without legislative or popular interference. Unfortunately, the Big Media is playing this story as ‘The Governor vs. the Unions’ without the background context you’ve covered, or the revelation that Walker had pulled this kind of stunt before when he was a Milwaukee County board supervisor. He fired all the janitors and security guards and hired none other than Wackenhut to replace them, supposedly to save money. He was sued for overstepping his authority and, while the case worked its way through the courts, Wackenhut did a sub-standard job, even hiring an ex-con to run the court guards. Ultimately, a judge ruled Walker did overstep his authority, and ordered that the union janitors and guards be rehired and recompensed for the time they were out of work. It ended up costing the county more money, but Walker didn’t care about that — he just wanted to bust the union.

I figured if the GOP did so well in the Great Lakes states, there had to be electoral fraud. I won’t hold my breath, but it would be nice if some MSM outlet did an investgative report on why voters would cast their ballots for trogs like Scott Walker, John Kasich and that Republican idiot in Michigan whose name I can’t recall at the moment. They all have solid records of siding against prosperity for the people and for the wealthy elite. Its’ incredible, but I hope the folks in Madison and elsewhere — there will be marches in Ohio and Michigan — stay strong, as well as the Dems. I heard on Democracy Now this morning that Walker’s approval rating in WI has taken a nosedive in a week — 49 percent are now against him — and the statehouse GOP are looking for a way to quietly back away from the bill. Like Hosni, Walker talks tough but, at the end of the day, I think he’ll cave.

Good to be back! This is exactly the type of event I needed to inspire writing.

As for your question, in a nutshell, yes. The GOP used every method in their dirty playbook to steal the elections in WI. The Koch brothers invested thousands of $’s, perhaps even millions through front groups, to get their puppets elected in WI. The payback? Part of Walker’s budget proposal is the selling off of Wisconsin’s publicly-owned power plants, both coal and nuclear, to the private entity of his choice in no-bid contracts. One guess which private company will probably end up owning them. Walker is nothing but a tinpot puppet dictactor doing the bidding of Koch Industries. I don’t even think he cares if he’ll get elected again, because he will surely get rich working in the private sector after he sells out the people of Wisconsin.

BTW, I read a brief item that Russ Feingold was beaten through some typical GOP chicanery in Milwaukee and elsewhere that ‘caged’ black and young voters. Is this how Walker got in, as well?