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iwishiwas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-11 07:01 PM
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Reject cronyism — keep powers with elected secretary of state (WI)
Edited on Thu May-19-11 07:01 PM by iwishiwas
The Secretary of State --La Follette---in WI is the one who would not publish Walkers union busting bill so now Walker is going after his job.


http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_42aff83a-0597-543e-b747-47d231a0139a.html





Reject cronyism — keep powers with elected secretary of state



Cap Times editorial | (10) Comments | Posted: Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:30 am



Gov. Scott Walker presented himself during the 2010 campaign as a relatively mainstream Republican who hoped to encourage job creation while reducing the worst excesses of big government.

Since his election, however, Walker has revealed an entirely different agenda: an agenda that undermines economic development while grabbing responsibilities from elected representatives of the people — such as the secretary of state — and consolidating power in the hands of unaccountable political appointees.

“It’s a power grab,” Secretary of State Doug La Follette says of Walker’s actual agenda. “He wants to control everything.”

Instead of working to maintain Wisconsin’s image as a good state in which to do business — an image that helped Wisconsin maintain far higher employment levels than other states during the recent recession — Walker has stirred controversy and division..............
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Bubba Kush Donating Member (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-11 07:19 PM
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1. Someone needs to place a citizen's arrest on Walker
for TREASON.

It does not matter if he's the top chief of the state, it still doesn't give him the right to fuck up the people's way of life as they know it.

If he wants to do that, I can recommend Fukushima, Japan where he can govern all of himself there.

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