Six Wisconsin recall elections tonight

[Trajan]

Has "DaGoose" checked into to.....have a meal?

 

[McDowell's]

Robert Creamer: Wisconsin Democrats Don't Take Back Senate -- But Do Take Considerable Political Ground

As in any form of combat, politics is all about momentum -- about who is on the offensive. For the last five months the recall campaign has put Republicans on the defensive. Long-time Republicans were forced to defend their seats -- and their positions. Democrats have inspired their base and have mobilized to take Republican territory.

Tuesday, Republicans lost ground on their own turf. Next year the battlefield will shift to much more favorable territory and will be played out statewide. Between now and then, it is critical to keep the Republicans on defense. The first step, of course, is to make certain that the Democrats who were subject to Republican recall successfully retain their seats in the final series of recall elections next week.

And across the country, the forces that took ground in Wisconsin can't let up. In Ohio, the entire state is the battlefield in November when the vote will be held on the citizen veto referendum that would nullify Ohio's version of union-stripping legislation.

The truth of the matter is that WI is heavily red and should have remained completely so.

It didn't.

Yah...

Political party strength in Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the last thrity-five years the State Senate has been predominantly controlled by the Democrats. Do you live in the real world?

 

[Big Fitz]

For any liberals who wish to help in District 22, here is an application. If you get it in by the end of the week, you should be allowed to live up there and vote for your favorite democrat candidate.

Application to Live in Northern Wisconsin

 

[KissMy]

Will Wisconsin send a message to Republicans or remain loyal to the Tea Party?

Scott Walker is getting a referendum

Recall elections to determine Wisconsin Senate control - USATODAY.com

 

[Big Fitz]

Has "DaGoose" checked into to.....have a meal?

That pussy doesn't check in after pwnage ever.

 

[Big Fitz]

Will Wisconsin send a message to Republicans or remain loyal to the Tea Party?

Scott Walker is getting a referendum

Recall elections to determine Wisconsin Senate control - USATODAY.com

The sad part is I'd be turned down to live in Northern WI, but would be fine in Central WI. Southern WI... as long as it was not on the lakeshore or within 30 miles of Madison.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Repubs don't get the concept of pyrrhic victory, when you win but at a huge cost, they lost two seats, one of them an incumbent who was just elected, that says a lot.

Yes it says that the Unions spent more..........

 

[SFC Ollie]

Robert Creamer: Wisconsin Democrats Don't Take Back Senate -- But Do Take Considerable Political Ground

As in any form of combat, politics is all about momentum -- about who is on the offensive. For the last five months the recall campaign has put Republicans on the defensive. Long-time Republicans were forced to defend their seats -- and their positions. Democrats have inspired their base and have mobilized to take Republican territory.

Tuesday, Republicans lost ground on their own turf. Next year the battlefield will shift to much more favorable territory and will be played out statewide. Between now and then, it is critical to keep the Republicans on defense. The first step, of course, is to make certain that the Democrats who were subject to Republican recall successfully retain their seats in the final series of recall elections next week.

And across the country, the forces that took ground in Wisconsin can't let up. In Ohio, the entire state is the battlefield in November when the vote will be held on the citizen veto referendum that would nullify Ohio's version of union-stripping legislation.

The truth of the matter is that WI is heavily red and should have remained completely so.

It didn't.

Sure about that?

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Taking a moment to gloat over the left's demise in Wisconsin.



On, Wisconsin! GOP Holds State Senate, Left Devastated
by Guy Benson
08/10/2011
Townhall.com


The math was pretty basic: Wisconsin Democrats needed to net three seats to win back the Senate. Tonight was their chance, with all six Republicans on the chopping block. The failed. [*snort*] Republicans held the line in 4 of the 6 races tonight, guaranteeing that they'll maintain control of the upper chamber. Republicans won races in districts 2, 10, 14, and -- dramatically -- 8. Democrats picked off the two most vulnerable Republicans: Dan Kapanke in district 32, and Randy Hopper in district 18, who was dogged by a marital scandal. Republicans will have a chance to cut into, or even erase, their net losses next Tuesday, when two fleebagger Democrats face voters. Wisconsin conservatives believe at least one of these races -- featuring Democrat Jim Holperin -- is winnable.


LINK



Fleebaggers!

 

[thereisnospoon]

I wonder how much Tax Payer Dollars were wasted on this Temper Tantrum that it looks like is going to have almost no effect on the actually make up of the Legislator.

Gotta love those Unions. If they can't waste our money with Huge Sweet Heart Contracts, they will just make a fuse in the Courts or call for some Re-Call Elections to make sure they take from the 80% that are not in unions some more.

the unions aren't the problem... you can't ask people to sit by while others try to destroy their bargaining power. what did you think would happen when the wingnuts overreached?

Thing is no one was asking. They were TELLING. Telling the state government to rein in the public worker unions, squash their unlimited power to coerce sweetheart deals for their members and then watch as the legislature rubber stamps one insane tax increase after another.
If the union bosses were not so bleeding greedy and the union membership had not believed they were entitled to such goodies, none of this would have occurred.

 

[Dr.House]

Has "DaGoose" checked into to.....have a meal?

EricTheRedCommie is conspicuously absent as well...

 

[oreo]

Repubs don't get the concept of pyrrhic victory, when you win but at a huge cost, they lost two seats, one of them an incumbent who was just elected, that says a lot.

Yes it says that the Unions spent more..........

Wisconsin taxpayers WIN--Public Unions LOSE:

Voters in Wisconsin recalled two of the six Republican State Senators in Tuesday’s recall elections, which left the Democrats one seat short of a majority in the Senate. As Rachel Weiner reported:

The massive protests in Wisconsin's capital prompted by Gov. Scott Walker's bill to cut state employees' benefits and diminish union bargaining rights have sparked smaller demonstrations across the country.

Democrats fell one seat short of a chance at taking back the Wisconsin state senate Tuesday, a result that will disappoint organized labor nationally.

According to the Associated Press, State Sens. Dan Kapanke andRandy Hopper were recalled, while Sens. Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling, Sheila Harsdorf and Luther Olsen held onto their seats.

Before Tuesday’s elections Republicans controlled the state senate 19 to 14; they now have a 17 to 16 edge. Two Democrats face recall elections next Tuesday. The party needed to net three wins to regain the upper chamber, which they lost in 2010. That is now impossible.

The recalls were sparked by Republican legislation to end collective bargaining for public employees in the state, a move that inspired major protests in February and March. Democratic lawmakers fled Wisconsin to avoid voting on the bill; Republicans passed it without them. The recall campaigns on both sides began soon after.Outside groups — led by national unions on the Democratic side and limited government groups such as the Wisconsin Club for Growth on the Republican side — have shoveled more than $25 million into the recall effort, with both sides spending about the same amount. The candidates, meanwhile, have raised more than $5 million.

What an expensive effort in futility. The two seat gain that the Unions made--may be wiped out next week when two democrats are up for recall.

Oh Criss--where are you----you stated that this recall election would be a mandate on Republicans-looking toward 2012--

 

[Missourian]

For any liberals who wish to help in District 22, here is an application. If you get it in by the end of the week, you should be allowed to live up there and vote for your favorite democrat candidate.

Application to Live in Northern Wisconsin

That earned a bookmark...don't be surprised to see it resurface as "Application for residence, Southwest Missouri".


You must spread some reputation around...

 

[JakeStarkey]

The elections, considering those six districts last night, reveal that Walker cannot expect to walk out slam dunk in his own recall election next year. These were strong GOP districts yet they lost two seats and almost a third.

Let's see how far toward the center the governor moves over the next year.

 

[Neotrotsky]

In Spite of All That Cash, Unions Came Up Short

For months, unions have told us that after their state-senate recall efforts in Wisconsin, lawmakers would learn not to scale back their collective-bargaining “rights.” The recalls would warn any state thinking about passing a law like Governor Walker’s to think again. Yet after Tuesday night’s recall elections, only one lesson is perfectly clear: It’s probably not a good idea to cheat on your wife.

In what might have been the most costly abstinence program in history, national unions dumped tens of millions of dollars in Wisconsin — yet their only notable accomplishment was to recall Republican state senator Randy Hopper, whose priapic misadventures sunk his campaign from the start. Polling leading up to the recall election showed voters were just fine with Hopper’s vote to scale back public-sector collective bargaining; they just weren’t so fine with his alleged affair with a then-25-year-old capitol staffer.

It wasn’t surprising that Democrats won two of the six elections. What is surprising is the way Republicans won their four. Recent polls had many of the races within the margin of error — yet in the seats they retained, Republicans won comfortably. Rob Cowles in the Green Bay area destroyed his opponent, Democrat Nancy Nusbaum, by 20 points. Republican Sheila Harsdorf, once thought to be in danger, beat a teachers’ union official by a 58–42 margin. Luther Olsen and Alberta Darling, pinpointed as possible Dem pickups, won with 52 and 54 percent of the vote. Darling did so in a district that saw the greatest number of total votes cast, at nearly 74,000.

In fact, almost 350,000 people voted in Tuesday’s recall elections — and Republicans won 53 percent of the total vote. After blowtorching the state with negative ads and benefiting from a favorable timetable, the unions could still only get 47 percent of Wisconsinites to support their effort.

This should make the unions think long and hard about whether they want to embark on a mission to recall Gov. Scott Walker next year. Doing so successfully would easily cost them five times as much as they just spent — and even with their recent deluge of cash, most of the public still didn’t support them at the polls. Additionally, the extra time will also give Walker’s reforms more time to work — and once the public sees that schools can manage their affairs effectively without being hamstrung by union regulations, organized labor’s argument gets even weaker.​

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[BDBoop]

The elections, considering those six districts last night, reveal that Walker cannot expect to walk out slam dunk in his own recall election next year. These were strong GOP districts yet they lost two seats and almost a third.

Let's see how far toward the center the governor moves over the next year.

It really depends on how much political manipulation and flat-out illegalities the Americans for Prosperity ::cough:: theirs ::/cough::® the Kochroach brothers are willing to pull.

 

[Neotrotsky]

Yes the radical Left pulled out all the big guns
and they lost big

Even their frineds in the MSM could not help them

Example: This editorial appeared less than two hours ago on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s website. They held it for … the day after the election:

how convenient


So it turns out that the sky isn’t going to fall on all local governments in Wisconsin. The numbers now starting to come in show that Gov. Scott Walker’s “tools” for local governments apparently will help at least some of them deal with cuts in state aid imposed by the state budget.

That’s contrary to the expectation and the rhetoric of critics in the spring, and it’s to Walker’s credit. It bears out the governor’s assessment of his budget-repair bill, although we still maintain he could have reached his goals without dealing a body blow to public employee unions…

But the news is good for many. The latest example is Milwaukee, where the most recent estimates show the city with a net gain of at least $11 million for its 2012 budget. That will take a slice out of the city’s structural deficit, which is created by costs rising faster than revenue, and will reduce cuts that Mayor Tom Barrett and the Common Council must impose.​

 

[del]

Repubs don't get the concept of pyrrhic victory, when you win but at a huge cost, they lost two seats, one of them an incumbent who was just elected, that says a lot.

could you be more stupid?

 

[Neotrotsky]

Do you really need an answer to that question ?

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Just curious - when did the right wing change its mind about the problem with public education? You guys used to blame the parents. Now you blame the teachers. Make up your fucking minds.