The most pivotal election in America this year won’t take place in November. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney will appear on its ballot. The most important election of 2012 — certainly the most interesting one — is Tuesday’s gubernatorial recall vote in Wisconsin. The eyes of the nation should be riveted. There, in the Badger State, the armies […]
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It looks like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) is gaining strength in the union-led recall effort. The latest polling numbers show that, if the election were held today, Governor Walker would win fairly handily. That’s a substantial improvement over polling from a couple of weeks ago. Jonathan Tobin of Commentary has an interesting piece out today arguing […]
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Great op-ed out this morning in the Orange County Register about the stakes of what’s going on Wisconsin. The public employee unions are trying to recall Governor Scott Walker (R) after losing a pitched battle with him last year over pension and other work-rule reforms. If you’ll recall, public employee unions across the country, aided […]
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Public employee unions in America met their Waterloo in Wisconsin last night. After spending millions of dollars and thousands of man hours trying to topple six Republican state senators and regain the Senate majority in the Madison statehouse, the union recall effort fell dramatically short. Republicans held four of six seats, and with them, a majority in […]
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Remember all those teachers protesting inside and outside Wisconsin’s state capital in February and March? The ones who painted Governor Scott Walker as a knuckle-dragging, teacher-hating neanderthal? Well, it seems Walker’s Article 10 budget plan is now in effect, and it is saving teachers their jobs — just as he said it would. By making small concessions like a $10 […]
Read the rest of this entry »New York as a Role Model?
Indiana, Wisconsin, and — yes, even New York — are cited as national bi-partisan roll models in this Chicago Tribune editorial today about Illinois’ reluctance to enact needed fiscal reforms. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels — who a lot of people, including me, were hoping would run for president — gets glowing reviews for his work. He has actually engineered a surplus in the […]
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