@the lazy man.... i took a long bike ride today through oak creek, franklin, greenfield, and the far southside of milwaukee and saw zero barrett signs nor recall walker signs, but i saw a ton of stand with walker signs.

Didn't realize she was his paid employee.

She was a paid public employee that used government resources for campaigning purposes. The same thing Scott Jensen, Chuck Chvala and others were convicted of.

And lets not forget that the libs are unsuccessfully trying to tie that same type of activity to Governor Walker because two of his people, Kelly Rindfleisch and Darlene Wink, also used government resources.

That is what's know as hypocrisy!

The National Democratic party has pulled the plug on its financial support. They see the polling getting stronger for Walker and Weaker for Barrett . Walker's successes are growing with his support. :)

Irony. Barrett's campaign is begging for out-of-state money.

I think conservatives know the bottom line is they have to continue to vote vote vote to change things. I am confident we will continue to do so given this climate and the stakes.

Absolutely, the Liberals will try to pull every trick in the book, including getting the dead out to vote.

http://nikosmoraitakis.com/2012/04/24/are-the-greeks-correct-in-their-complaints-about-their-nation-and-their-economy-being-exploited-by-the-eurozone/

Richard, this certainly does not explain Spain, Ireland, and the many other European states that find themselves in crisis due to the ludicrous idea of austerity as a tool to combat a recession. (THAT, by the way, perfectly describes the policies Walker implemented here, and the resultant last-in-the-nation jobs performance). Spain was running budget surpluses before the financial sector meltdown. The austerity regime there and in at least seven other European nations has not only failed to lift the economy, it's driven those nations into a double-dip recession. The UK, which right wing idiots in the US hailed for it's "responsibility" in making huge budget cuts, has now officially re-entered recession with it's second quarter of GDP contraction. We have the opportunity in three weeks to staunch the damage done by Walker's euro-style, brain-dead austerity policies and turn the state around; or opt for three more years of below-average performance.

Richard: Great points.
The dopes who point to Spain and other Europe failures forget that the economic meltdown was too far gone before the austerity implementation could do any good. Those same dopes think we can borrow our way out of a depression, when in reality we are under water already. The dufus who thinks that topic applies to Wisconsin budget issues really has to get his head out of Earnie's backside, and start to point the finger at Obama.

Are you better off in the USA than you were 5 TRILLION ago?
I rest my CASE!

@Bert-Then please explain the current crisis that our US Postal System faces? If I am not mistaking it is due to the lavish pensions they must pay along with the cadillac health care plans that are no longer sustainable? Gov Walker is cutting it off before it becomes so infected!!! Greece, Spain, California, Illinois it did not happen overnight. Wisconsin does not want to become another California

@Patriot... the problems that the USPS is having are easily explained.

At the end of the Congressional session of 2006 (Controlled by the TEAPublicans) a bill was passed that mandated that the USPS had to fund its retirement accounts for the next 75 years within the next 10 years.

Thus, each year the USPS was mandated to pay $5.5 BILLION into it's retirement fund. This is to cover benefits for people are yet to be born.

It this increduously STUPID mandate is removed, the USPS would be operating in the black.

Patriot, you and the other Wingnuts who post here are simply too stupid to understand the facts.

What a tool.

@Mrs Peel-Amazing how your side has to attack and name call to feel superior. Is that what your 25 year college degreee got you? See thats the difference between you and I. I have common sense and you on the other hand have NO sense!!! You think education is the answer!! Some of the greatest people had little to no education. COMMON SENSE THEIR PEEL

MrsPeel:

If the "TEAPublicans" imposed the law in 2006, why haven't any of the democrat controlled congresses since then changed/removed/rescinded the law?

I thought they needed to run down to Rockford, IL to vote June 5th?

Walker will Lose . There is no doubt. Just like in Ohio and missouri where the vote on abortion and in ohio, the polls favored the union busting and the anti abortion, but when the people showed up to vote, it was a land slide loss for the union busting and no abortion laws. See Ya at the Polls !!!

The sky is falling

I guess money directly correlates to increased test scores? Wait, that has been debunked with decades of increased spending and no correlating increase in test scores. As to your arguement on austerity please read up a little because you really don't have any idea what you are talking about.

As opposed to all the "smarter" people now that know how economies work? Last I checked even the "smartest guy in the room" seems to be having some difficulty with that one....

Steve: You just got tag teamed by Ernie and Bert for not using spell check. I doubt either of those two morons got past 6th grade, but Bertrude seems to stick anyone he can.
Bert: While you are looking for spelling errors, Steve is running a business. I am certain someone with your intellect would not understand what that entails. Making payroll, paying taxes to support your freeloading ass, and keeping day to day business issues at bay. We will try to use easier words for you to understand in the future, but forgive us if we make an error spelling- sometimes we are doing more than one thing at a time. As opposed to you doing nothing at all.

Bert, You are right-on, we really need to send tens of millions of our tax dollars to WEA Trust.
Oh, we did that and our students are still stoopid.

Craig: Where was this at? I'm not into the tag team butt love thing but Obama says that's ok now.
Past midnight and still working... God I hate when I miss spell things it really hurts the economy. ha

I agree. Too bad more people didn't spend more time reading the actual budget bill to see that public schools are being raided to send their kids out to the suburbs on our dime in the voucher program (yes - our kids' private school considered going voucher for the $3200 per city of Milwaukee child last year, but too many parents - laughably Walker supporters - said no, even though he proposed it). Oh, and there is the little caveat that voucher teachers do not need a degree like the rest of our teachers - they only need to pass the state license. But hey, when you have a college dropout who looks high half the time as a governor, there isn't that much lower you can go. People should target ongoing corporate greed more than public benefits, but the sheep are blind. Baaa.

I guess you don't read so well, Momof2. Your claims that "public schools are being raided to send their kids out to the suburbs on our dime in the voucher program" are false...

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/jul/13/peter-barca/wisconsin-state-rep-peter-barca-says-assembly-vote/

What's so important about having a degree? If one can pass the state license without having a degree, it seems that they meet the standard set by the state. Remember, Abe Lincoln didn't have a college degree, but he was licensed to practice law. I have personally worked with several non-degreed engineers that were every bit as competent (and in some cases, moreso) than the degreed engineers I have worked with.

Who wants a badge of shame in their yard?

Same here. A few recall walker signs but no Barrett signs. Too bad for the libs "not waker" or "recall walker" isn't on the ballot.

I have seen two Barrett signs in the People's Republic of Shorewood.

Lyle and Keith's house
representin'

Actually, I think one of them might have been taken down. I saw only one Barret sign on my way home from work yesterday...

It was probably burned by a Walker supporter, those guys are evil and stuff

Does Tom Barrett even have a Barrett sign on his lawn? Naw probably not he needs to keep one handy in case he meets someone who will actually put it up!

I have a Recall Walker sign. And I'm a one percenter. Think about that, rubes.

I would think that Barrett signs would be everywhere. How many times has he tried to get the Governor's seat? 3?
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the barrett sign?

If the democrats want to see services cut they only have to look as far as Cali. WoW, what a mess.
But since this recall is really about union power, services are really not at issue.

First off, the combing of the recalls by MediaTrakkkers is brownshirted intimidation.

Second, the state is owed $900 million in unpaid taxes, so the people who didn't sign own $883 million in unpaid taxes.

When are you going to start howling about that?

We have 30,000 Keith's in this state?!

Pardon me Steve, but 30,000 what?

@ skinny dude, not that facts will matter but historic income tax rates for the last 100 years average about 60% for the Fed. Is it a coincidence that public workers have become a target in every down turn in the economy since we cut tax rates at the top, reduced the taxes for investors with a 15% rate on capitol gains, and let industrialists offshore jobs with no consequences? Why do you support policies that cut everything this society has built over 200 years? Are you afraid that you will be included in the top rates? I doubt most of us would make that category. But you do have the right to self mutilate.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213

@Keith Schmitz-Have you paid the village of Shorewood back from all the money you swindled from them for your failed book coop?

Head on, apply directly to the head
Head on, apply directly to the head

Jobs up under Walker
Jobs up under Walker

Grow a Brain
Grow a Brain

@Thurston-We all know why the job creators have held back on jobs. Its because of all you progressives and the chaos you have brought to this State period!! Once Walker retains his position on June 5th look out, the jobs will roll in. Considering Wisconsin moved from 40th to 20th as business friendly!!

You have to be pretty stupid to believe WI lost jobs last year BUT unemployment went down, revenue went up and we are now looking at a surplus.

Let's see, a poll of 3.5% of business or an accurate survey of 95%. Hummm which will I take as accurate......

@Michael Schwister, how did Gov. Walker "send tax money to corporations". as you state. That is a lie, and you know it. At some point I see Walker inhabiting the Whitehouse, walking its halls.

Oh, Walker will be in a Big House.

sending tax money to corporations,and being a sock puppet for industrialists

how I read it

sending tax money to corporations dude,and being a sock puppet for industrialists man

<takes hit off thinly rolled joint>

Yard signs are free, jt.

Actually the President needs to be an exterminator to get rid of all the varmint in the beltway! But no such luck at present. Instead he continues feeding them.

@michael schwister, look up keith best on facebook, it will all become very clear to you why he spews all this crap on patch.

Perhaps the breakdown of party identifications are just shifting toward the conservative and away from the moderate...

With the big turnout for Walker by conservatives, in an uncontested primary, the polling model may have been adjusted for 'likely voter'.

@mornimist-You're just unable to believe that the power has shifted and the conservative people of this Great State have had enough. Again you or any of Barretts supporters have been able to list ONE accomplishment Barrett has acheived in his 8 years in office. Other than Milwaukee unemployment at 10.1%, the largest amount of unemployed minoritys in any city, property values down again!! Oh but wait he was meeting with Talgo today to discuss trains. That is his answer to jobs. Not even a company from the US

Most people, the "Silent Majority," like to live in the middle, nestled in the embrace of logic, reason, and common sense. I do. I was jolted from complacency in a county budget hearing. I've always believed in electing "best and brightest" for government office. I didn't vote for Walker originally because a personal friend and colleague of his opponent convinced me otherwise (I was going to vote for Walker). I was soon glad I didn't, based on Walker's first expensive mistake in cancelling the Blue Shirt contract. It indicated that Walker didn't understand the concept of what a contract was, how a request for renegotiation could be tendered, the repercussions for cancelling or not meeting contractual obligations. Later, sitting in that hearing, listening to the sheer random nonsense that Walker had submitted as a budget (details of which I have shared elsewhere), I realized the extent of his lack of acumen and also his inability or unwillingness to learn. Add to that his lack of foresight in not promoting mass transit or working well with the state in terms of county/city funding, etc., and there was no way I could vote for him for the position of governor, finding him unqualified for the job.

I will welcome the return to balance, either through the successful recall of Scott Walker or partial control of legislature to stop the rubber-stamping of radical ideology.

@Bren-You are the only radical here. 30,000 jobs since Jan 2011 even with the 6,200 lost in April!! Your ideology is what put California, Greece, Spain and Illinois in their current state of going broke

Morninmist- The Daily Kos poll found Walker ahead by 9 points. No one will argue that the Daily Kos is skewed conservative. Every poll has had Walker ahead 5 points or better.

Cancelling the Blue Shirt Contract made sense. I would be interested to find out why you thought it wasn't. In the long run, it was far cheaper to cancel a contract for a piece of crap piece of art that no one wanted, then it was to follow through with it. Same with the light rail money he cancelled. The funding did not include operations which were proven to far exceed revenues, and that promised little chance it could not survive without heavy state capital anuual outlay.

Electing the brightest doesn't mean a thing. Our best leaders were not the best and brightest, they were the ones with the most common sense. And Walker proved that, by creating jobs in the midst of a national recession, balancing the budget, lowering taxes all without putting it on the backs of the middle class.

We need leaders with a proven track record of success. Barrett has neither common sense, nor a proven track record of success. He is a political opportunist and that is all. He is the equivalent of the empty blue shirt.

There is no reason that anyone should believe the polls coming out of the Marquette Law School.

The polls are conducted by Charles Frankliln who used to do polls for the combination of UW and Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI). Now..., hold on to your seats friends, WPRI's main funder is (snare drums, pls) the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation. Shocker that.

Also WPRI has received funding from the Kohler Foundation.

This corrupt poll has been give air cover by Marquette University and the bogus "poll results" are being repeated in the corrupt nation media.

@Mrs Peel- Its just hard for you to believe that the people of Wisconsin are sick and tired of the left wing progressive liberal ways!!!! The people spoke in 2010 and they will once again speak in 2012!!

►The only way we're going to know for certain is on election day◄

This is true. But this poll goes does back up 2 other recent ones that were done. The candidates do take these rather seriously meaning they do hold water.

Hmmmm... The "hide my head in the sand" approach. Maybe if I ignore ALL the polls, they will go away. And let's slam MU along the way. Hey Vicki, I too ignore calls ( thank goodness for caller ID), but if you had any knowledge of polling, you would know the pollsters just move on to the next call, and continue till they reach a significant sampling size. Your (and my) not answering the phone has NO affect on polling results. But keep on trying to justify why the polls are wrong (including the latest Dem poll that has Walker up by 5%).

@Vicki-Why is it so hard for you and your side to believe that the people of Wisconsin are for Gov Walker? Your side had its chance for the last previous 8 years with your boy Doyle and obviously failed. Thus the changing of the house in 2010!!

"Where's Marquette getting all the money to create these polls? My bet is on some of the nefarious funds raised by the Walker organization from out of state. Hmmmmm?"

Probably the same place they got the money to hire Russ Fiengold. Another dubious Walker plan.

@Mornimist-Well since your side really has nothing to stand on!! Since the jobs numbers that your side has been campaigning on have been shown to be false you have to come up with something!!! Its funny how the re-call was all about act 10, but after learning many communities have actually done very well since the passage of act 10 you had to come up with something new!! Bottom line your candidate has nothing to run on other than all the BS you progressives can dream up. To bad the people of this State really know the truth and will show up in force June 5th to keep Scott Walker moving Wisconsin forward

I thought you Libs hated those cruel nasty hunters. Why are you suddenly standing up for them now.

Oh yea, you think some of them might turn away and vote for Mayor Do-Nothing. good luck with that one.

Doyle doubled the taxes on hunters, were you posting hate about it then?

The rest is just the usually jibberish.

morninmist, thanks for the info! i will be posting that on the bulletin board at every bait shop i visit so that all my hunting buddies who think walker is for the hunters can see it!

@jt-well the true conservative which most are hunters already know the truth. So good luck with that one:)) You people are funny. Like I said went from Act 10, to jobs, to John Doe and now Hunters!! Gotta keep trying to come up with something. Hey I give your side credit for trying to be creative. To bad its wasted creativity

your assuming again patriot! lots of hunters are also union memebers. many of which are public employees who got the shaft from walker! omg! democrats wirh guns!

@jt-It has nothing to do with that buddy!! There have been many a dem politicians in office that those on the right did not agree. But we never pushed recall to such a level as this past election. But rather we allow democrocy to play out and wait until the next election!! That is really the issue here!! Because there were a select few who opposed Gov Walkers actions they had to turn this State upside down and have attacked, condemned, made threats to get their point across.

Again all we have said is let him serve his term. If after 4 years the people are not happy he will be voted out!! Period!!

@jt-I think you were the one who attacked me calling me names just because I do not follow your ideology!! You have given the message to the youth of this Country that if you do not agree run, whine, stomp your feet, file law suits, protest, threaten, destroy property, whine some more, stomp your feet some, post BS, whine and stomp your feet some!!!

jt:

I'll see your patriot, craig, and steve and I'll raise you a Keith Schmitz, Jason Patzfahl, Vicki Bennet, Morninmist, Mike and a Taoist Crocodile...

cowdung, i'll call your bluff !

My lawyer will be in contact with you soon for posting my copyrighted material.

just keep pounding those chipmunks patriot! maybe you'll win enough tickets to keep your governor in office.

Corporate and upper income tax rates were higher under Clinton--that's why the economy was better. With more revenue, deficits get smaller.

@Bren-Really? There was way less spending under Clinton as well!!!! The lefts answer MORE TAXES!!

Spending is the highest it's been as a share of GDP in 60 years and revenue is the lowest it's been as a share of GDP in 60 years so we will have to do both in the infinite spirit of compromise and moderation. How much of each? Consider FY 2000 the last budget of the Clinton/Gingrich years. Taxes were 20 percent of GDP and spending was 18 percent. In 2010 outlays were 24 percent and receipts 15 percent.

Much of the spending increase every year is structural or non-discretionary, in other words entitlements like social security and medicare. If you increase revenue by eliminating the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy you gain 0.5 percent in revenue, if you eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the middle class add another 1.5 percent. That means 7 percent of GDP has to come from spending cuts and big ticket items like entitlements and national defense.

That's a lot of granny's to push off the cliff.

The statistics are from a statement by Leonard E. Burman, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs Maxwell School at Syracuse University to a House Ways and Means Committee. It's not about knee-jerk preferences for right or left wing solutions (and we hate that don't we?)

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/901330_burman_testimony.pdf

F.A. Hayek won a nobel prize for his work showing how the central bank intervenes in the economy to give rise to a boom-bust cycle. Most Americans know nothing about Hayek's theory (the Austrian theory of the business cycle) making it difficult for them to connect the dots between the easy money policies of government sponsored enterprises like Freddie and Fannie that created the housing bubble and the inevitable crash.

The song remains the same; the free market has failed (actually government intervention) therefore we need more government regulation, more spending and more debt. Rinse and repeat until economic collapse.

@Thursty, Red Ted has some real howlers in his pep talk for class warriors starting with his statement that the rich are not taxed because of our misperception they are job creators. In fact, the now near criminal top 5 percent of income earners pay 60 percent of the income taxes in this country. Lefties never seem to comprehend that nobody actually paid those pre-Reagan top rates of 70 to 94 percent due to tax shelters and deductions for often unproductive economic activity.

"We've had it backwards for the last 30 years rich people like me don't create jobs. Jobs are a consequence of an eco-systemic feedback loop between customers and businesses." Really, there was demand for the iPhone before it was invented? Without Steve Jobs somebody else would have invented it because the middle class had disposable income? So who created jobs 40 and 50 years ago; surely Ted doesn't think the extraordinary economic boom after WWII could last forever?

Thursty, if you read the Bloomberg article you link you'll notice it talks about BLS "estimates" for job creation. That would be the "household survey" of 3 to 5 percent of employers. The hard data is reported after those businesses actually pay the state for Unemployment Insurance based on the number of employee's they have and that census shows Wisconsin at about 24th in the country for job creation the last 12 months.

Arrogance and ignorance are never an attractive combination. Stop tweeting and read a book.

Yeah Patriot, you semm to be pounding sand most of the time.

MrsPeel-Yes I am making diamonds.

@MrsPeel-OMG!!! You have to constantly spin everything!!!! When Walker retains his seat can you and will you finally be able to say The people of Wisconsin have spoken!!

This is true. I am trying to look up more information about this poll. Was it a telephone survey? If so, was it by landline? What are the demographics of people who still use landlines? Interesting.

So MrsP, do you also discount the left's own in-house poll, the Daily Kos, that hs Walker +9% ?

Which reforms did he use?