Wisky recall: 119% voter turnout in Madison (and other fun)

[falafel]

Some union lackey actually slapped her candidate last night because he conceded the election a few minutes earlier than she would have preferred. Awesome.

http://www.wisn.com/politics/wiscons...0/-/index.html

Here's a better angle for the Dr. Zaius to Barrett slap.

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YOUCH! hahahaha. What a nut job! (she's probably a meth addict as well).

That is ridiculous.

[Omaha 680]

Here's a better angle for the Dr. Zaius to Barrett slap.

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She didn't follow through hard, but man that is out of line and disgusting. The hard core OWS types are nuts.

[Goatnapper'96]

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Would that be nearly as funny if he didn't have that northern midwest accent?

[oxcoug]

Hitler finds out Walker won - one of the best of a tired franchise

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_ult6-Tb4&feature=player_embedded#"]Hitler finds out that Scott Walker won the Wisconsin recall election - YouTube[/nomedia]!

[Donuthole]

Hitler finds out Walker won - one of the best of a tired franchise

Hitler finds out that Scott Walker won the Wisconsin recall election - YouTube!

Nope. The best of those clips are distinguished by the woman's comments. They fell flat this time.

[pellegrino]

Where do you get the notion unions oppress their members? How many are or have been union members?

Come on frank, even my most communist friends agree with me that the potential for unions to exploit their members is high, especially with the large ones.

For the record, I have been a part of a union as a graduate student, and all in all it was a decent experience, but it didn't leave me feeling like it was an institution I couldn't live without.

[RobinFinderson]

Come on frank, even my most communist friends agree with me that the potential for unions to exploit their members is high, especially with the large ones.

For the record, I have been a part of a union as a graduate student, and all in all it was a decent experience, but it didn't leave me feeling like it was an institution I couldn't live without.

What do you mean by 'exploit?'

[frank ryan]

Come on frank, even my most communist friends agree with me that the potential for unions to exploit their members is high, especially with the large ones.

For the record, I have been a part of a union as a graduate student, and all in all it was a decent experience, but it didn't leave me feeling like it was an institution I couldn't live without.

Pellegrino, I didn't feel exploited as a union member. I felt exploited by the bosses.

[frank ryan]

Come on frank, even my most communist friends agree with me that the potential for unions to exploit their members is high, especially with the large ones.

For the record, I have been a part of a union as a graduate student, and all in all it was a decent experience, but it didn't leave me feeling like it was an institution I couldn't live without.

This thread is quickly turning into a bash frank ryan thread, but I'll add this about communists and unions. communists were notoriously hard to organize into unions because the wanted the whole damn revolution. Places like Boulder and Berkeley had their own set of problems because the commies were so damned idealistic.

[Danimal]

I work for the Feds and we have several unions that represent the employees. I can't join the union because I'm a supervisor so I don't have a dog in the fight. I've found the unions to be very reasonable and fair. Without them a large number of employees would be illegally denied built-in pay raises and promotions. Our hospital would be worse off without them.

[Maximus]

Pellegrino, I didn't feel exploited as a union member. I felt exploited by the bosses.

why should anyone be forced to pay union dues if they dont want to? why should anyone be forced to be part of a union?

[frank ryan]

why should anyone be forced to pay union dues if they dont want to? why should anyone be forced to be part of a union?

what does that question have to do with my response?

[Maximus]

what does that question have to do with my response?

it has the do with the issue in general. do you think people should be forced to be in unions?

[frank ryan]

it has the do with the issue in general. do you think people should be forced to be in unions?

no i do not

[CardiacCoug]

I don't know much about or care about the union issue but the issues of cushy public sector jobs and out of control government spending are huge and I'm glad the voters came down on the right side of these debates.

A huge part of what bankrupted Greece was government jobs that paid in many cases twice what equivalent private sector jobs paid and almost twice as much as what Germany paid equivalent workers. Now Germany is supposed to bail the Greeks out?