WTF Wisconsin? (Formerly Walker convo thread)

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ElJuski

ElJuski

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actually, since I don't even live there anymore, the whole state can just get sucked into a crater. Except for the cool parts of the city itself. That can stay.
 
Krisken

Krisken

ElJuski said:
actually, since I don't even live there anymore, the whole state can just get sucked into a crater. Except for the cool parts of the city itself. That can stay.
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I should have stuck with just Illinois in general. They have a worse record of corruption than the city of Chicago. Hell, being governor of Illinois means you have a 50% rate of going to jail.

And yes, Chicago is fantastic. I hope I can go to Roditys again and get a gyro. Opa!
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Watch out Krisken - the robo-calls have begun. I just got one less than an hour ago, listed as "PRIVATE CALLER".
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Krisken said:
Jesus fucking christ, this guy just doesn't get it.
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In case those of you not living in the PRoSW don't understand why "taking the money and running with it" is so bad in this case:
In the past, Walker has been sharply critical of using so-called "one-time" money from legal settlements to balance the state budget. He defended his own use of this settlement money Thursday by saying this time it was different since the foreclosure crisis had a "direct impact on the economy."
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Krisken

Krisken

Ooohh, do they say how wonderful Walker is and how he's doing great things for the state? Like losing millions of much needed train money, or having a shortfall despite fucking over unions supposedly in the interest of 'saving money'?

Seriously, though, I'd love to know what they're saying just so I can find all the information that calls it out as BS before my Walker loving friend pulls it out of his ass.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Before I hit "message deleted", it was the usual "creating jobs and lowering taxes".

I do have to admit something, though - I got WAY more back in terms of refund from the state than I did the Feds.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Krisken said:
Heh, well there is that then.
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Yeah, I live on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin, which no longer has reciprocity , so I have to pay taxes for 2 states. Seeing as we have no jobs available on this side of the bridge, I don't have much of a choice.

I also can't wait for my state grants to be cut next year for financial aid. you know that's coming.

Fuck Walker, fuck him right up his self-riteous anus.
 
Krisken

Krisken

Hey, you're taking our jerbs!!!

Geez, that sucks, though. Paying taxes twice seems crazy to me. I'm blown away that there could be a situation like that in any nation where you would have to pay separate taxes on the same earnings to multiple municipalities. Crazy.
 
ncts_dodge_man

ncts_dodge_man

That's stupid that they stopped the reciprocity for you Bowie - completely stupid.

I am formerly from corrupt-town USA (IL) now live just outside of Mad-town (near Sun Prairie but still in Dane county) - it was interesting driving through downtown last year and seeing all of the protesters - lots of them going up and down State Street (for those of you who don't know, State St in Madison is pedestrian or buses only traffic).

Then the recall people seemed to spring up almost everywhere I drove around in Madison or Sun Prairie.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

They're going to stretch out the recall signature counts as far as they can, until a court says "enough".

Any reasonable person in this land would look at the sheer numbers of those scanned-in signature sheets and would say, "yeah, I think they got more than enough signatures."

Unfortunately, we haven't had reasonable people in Madison since Kennedy was president. (And even then, it was debatable.)
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

They want the recall election to be held in conjunction with the Presidential election in November. IOW, the great anti-Obama referendum.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

No, to make sure they're "diligent" in reviewing ALL of the signatures.

So they know who to robo-call every eight hours as soon as the election proceeds.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

And they're not busy trying to strangle each other.

EDIT: And as soon as I hit "POST", I realized, "Oh my God, we really do live in Illinois now."
 
Krisken

Krisken

Oh, and they of course couldn't agree on what happened. I swear, that whole thing made me sadder for our state than just about anything else so far.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

You know, I had to drive past the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha on election night - where Walker was holding his victory party.

I had this deep sense of foreboding as I did so.

I hope to never get that feeling ever again.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I really do NOT like what I saw there at the end of the Shepherd Express article.

You don't think that, maybe the day before the election, he resigns as governor - making Rebecca Palin... er, I mean, Kleefisch, our new governor?

And then the lawsuits promptly begin?
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Krisken said:
With this administration? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

Oh, and don't know if you saw this, but it will make you sick to your stomach about democracy in WI.
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I already saw that. BTW, since the JSonline went to a pay-for-play site after X number of articles, I've stopped reading their stuff. Besides, I obviously don't live in the SEW anymore. (Sadly. That's one thing no one replacing Scottie Boy would change.)

And yes, DA, I do realize that we're dealing with second generation Nixonites.
 
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