Gov Snyder was against removing union rights in that state. The Republicans lost seats in the legislature and are a lame duck crew until January. Snyder just made it clear that he is a pawn. Someone yanked that bitches choke chain and he reversed himself and this was rammed through so fast no one was allowed to debate it. There's some hidden figures taking action in Michigan and this lame duck legislature and pawn of a governor are their tools. This organized and was rammed through far too quick to be otherwise.
I'm always game for a good conspiracy theory (and no I'm not being sarcastic). Let me know if you find any leads as to the identities of the hidden figures.
Michigan, considered a cradle of unionization, has struggled economically in epic, humiliating ways for decades now. Not to say I'm implying direct cause and effect, but the correlation is somewhat undeniable. So, "pay the price?" What has the state got to lose anymore, for chrisake?
I will say this about this move... Republicans will pay a price in Michigan for this.
Alot of Republicans in elected office is what they will be giving up. This is not going to stand for long. It will go the way of DOMA, Don't ask , don't tell, laws restricting womens rights and any other teaparty B.S. we got because the young people didn't vote in 2010. Never again.
"Socialist and commie ideology." Political ignorance yet again driving another thread into oblivion.
Americans for Prosperity
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CATO Institute
The Heritage Foundation
As of February 2011, Heritage reported 710,000 supporters.[44] Heritage Foundation is also a part of the Koch Foundation Associate Program.
FreedomWorks
FreedomWorks originated from a campaign called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which split in two in 2004. CSE was set up by businessman David Koch (Koch Industries).
ALEC
Tea Party
"The Washington Examiner describes Koch as the “financial engine of the Tea Party”
Koch strategy retreat
See Koch Event 2010-06 Attendees for the names and affiliations of roughly 200 participants from the June 2010 meeting in Aspen Colorado, including hedge fund executives, Republican donors, and free-market evangelists[55] - and for the actions some have taken.
Earlier guests included politicians and Supreme Court justices (Scalia & Thomas).
The politicians included Governors Haley Barbour and Bobby Jindal; Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn and Representatives Mike Pence, Tom Price and Paul Ryan.
The Center to Protect Patients Rights
Americans for Tax Reform
The GOP has evolved into merely being a Koch Brother's front. Charles and David Koch pwn the GOP... heart and soul. And the parts that aren't owned by the brothers are being bitchslapped into step by these organizations listed above like Grover Norquist's American's for Tax Reform who threatens GOP members with being primaried if they don't do the lock-step as they are told.
If you want to see yet another angle on the Koch brother's conspiracy behind the GOP...
That is the Koch brothers' daddy. A conspiracy minded view of this would be to see that the GOP is now being morphed by the Koch brothers into the John Birch society.
I will say this about this move... Republicans will pay a price in Michigan for this.
OHMERGERD! You mean rich conservatives give to conservative groups!?!?!!! SOMEONE GET THE PRESIDENT ON THE PHONE RIGHT AWAY.
:roll: really. you remind me of Glenn Beck and his George-Soros-Is-Behind-Everything special. :roll:
The desperation and quivering in your post is legion. I'll bet your palms are sweating as you type.
:lamo
Liberals go crazy when they can't STEAL MONEY FROM PEOPLE.
I will say this about this move... Republicans will pay a price in Michigan for this.
I am sorry but Gov. Walker was removed from office for opposing the unions when exactly? Unions are all bark.
They aren't all bark. They are just weak anymore. And any blame put on unions for fault of anything is just ridiculous. They are but a speck from their hayday in the 40's and 50's when about 1/3 of the U.S. working population was unionized and not so coincidentally the US economy was rolling right along in great fashion with a huge and strong middle class.
If making me the topic of the thead is what gets your rocks off. Go for it. All I'm just saying is that this move is an obvious foreshadowing of a reaction to come.
What are you implying?
That was before they realized they had already accomplished everything useful, and began to be parasites on their members and host companies, no?
Electoral repurcussions. Don't get too excited.
No. It's when the Republicans decided to go against unions after the 50's (Check out the "Labor" section of the 1956 Republican platform)... So they assaulted unions every since and the union membership dropped and the economy followed it down. No?
Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.
Furthermore, the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this Administration that labor and management settle their differences at the bargaining table without the intervention of the Government. This policy has brought to our country an unprecedented period of labor-management peace and understanding.
We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike,
Did the Wisconsin legislature flip this past electoral cycle?
This part:
Confused...sounds supportive to me?
That was my point. That was the 1956 GOP policies.
Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary
1) Wisconsin isn't Michigan
2) Gerrymandering in Wisconsin made sure it didn't.
3) Evidence that Wisconsin Republicans are living on gerrymandered districts... Democrats outpolled Republicans in Wisconsin this last election by 200,000. Yet they are on the minority.
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