Wisconsin Anti-Union Ads Hit The Airwaves…

   … and some of those ads are being financed by those billionaire Koch brothers. This begs the question, who is Governor Walker really looking out for? The state of Wisconsin, or big business?

    Greg Sargent has a take on the ads.

Here's something else that will ratchet up the stakes in the Wisconsin standoff and fuel suspicions about the real goal behind the push to roll back public employee rights: The well-funded conservative group Americans for Prosperity is set to start running ads in Wisconsin, I'm told.

"We're planning to run TV and radio ads in Wisconsin starting tomorrow, as well as host a few events across the state later this week," Americans for Prosperity spokesperson Mary Ellen Burke emails. "Things are happening quickly as the news story in Wisconsin progresses."(…)

Americans for Prosperity, of course, was partly created and bankrolled by the secretive billionaire Koch brothers, who are also major financial backers of Governor Scott Walker.

    This looks more like Governor Walker is less concerned about balancing the Wisconsin state budget, and more concerned with making it even harder for employees to earn decent wages and benefits in not only his state, but in others which will follow along if Koch Walker gets his way. Only those states with Republican governors will try this shit.

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House Democrats In Indiana Take Illinois Vacation…

    …and this looks as if this could be the beginning of a new trend for Democrats as a way to stop those union busting Republican governors from giving the axe to teachers unions all over America. I am glad that this is one time where government not doing anything is a good thing.

    The Indianapolis Star

House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote on anti-union legislation, The Indianapolis Star has learned.

A source said Democrats are headed to Illinois, though it was possible some also might go to Kentucky. They need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into police custody and returned to Indiana.

The House was came into session this morning, with only two of the 40 Democrats present. Those two were needed to make a motion, and a seconding motion, for any procedural steps Democrats would want to take to ensure Republicans don’t do anything official without quorum.
With only 58 legislators present, there was no quorum present to do business. The House needs 67 of its members to be present."

   You can expect this kind of action from most every state that has a Republican governor.

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