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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Largest Newspaper In Wisconsin Endorses Scott Walker

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is your typical big city newspaper, it leans left. It’s not nearly as extreme as say the New York Times, Washington Post or the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but, it’s still left leaning. All in all, for a big city newspaper, I like the Journal Sentinel, it’s a damned good paper.

The paper endorsed Scott Walker on Saturday in the Recall. You can tell they put thought, effort and most importantly, common sense in their endorsement.

No governor in recent memory has been so controversial. No governor in America is so polarizing. Everyone has an opinion about Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.

Here’s ours: We see no reason to remove Walker from office. We recommend him in the June 5 recall election.

Walker’s rematch with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was prompted by one issue: Walker’s tough stance with the state’s public-employee unions. It’s inconceivable that the recall election would be occurring absent that. And a disagreement over a single policy is simply not enough to justify a vote against the governor….

…. To his credit, Walker has helped to right the state’s finances with a minimum of gimmicks – the governor reported recently that the state may be able to book a $154 million surplus next year. This good news has been lost in the clutter surrounding an unnecessary recall election that will cost as much as $18 million just to stage, according to the Government Accountability Board.

The governor also has made a good-faith attempt to shore up the state’s economic development efforts through the creation of a public-private entity to head up those efforts, through reform of the state’s tort laws, through a series of business tax breaks and by improving Wisconsin’s image with business leaders outside the state.

And while we think Act 10 – the law that clipped the wings of most public-employee unions in the state – was an overreach of political power, we understand and supported the need to rein in the state’s labor costs. Municipalities and school districts as well as the state needed more control over their budgets, which Act 10 provided….

…. Even if you disagree with Walker’s policies, does that justify cutting short his term as governor? And if so, where does such logic lead? To more recall elections? More turmoil?

It’s time to end the bickering and get back to the business of the state. We’ve had our differences with the governor, but he deserves a chance to complete his term. We recommended him in 2010. We see no reason to change that recommendation. We urge voters to support Walker in the June 5 recall election.

Read the entire endorsement at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

WISCONSIN: Gov. Scott Walker Leads Democrat Tom Barrett By 9 In Recall Poll

Good news for the great Scott Walker, governor of the fine state of Wisconsin!

Walker has been doing a fabulous job, doing what needs to be done without playing politics and/or worrying about his political future.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), whose controversial legislation restricting state workers’ ability to unionize prompted mass protests, is leading his likely Democratic challenger in a recall election by nine points according to a new poll.

Walker has garnered 52 percent of likely voters, according to the We Ask America poll. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the top Democratic challenger, came in with 43 percent, with some 5 percent of Wisconsin voters undecided.

The recall will be a rematch for the pair; in 2010, Walker won the general election 52 to 46 percent.

Republicans win in Wisconsin Recall, hold on to State Senate

In spite of millions and millions of union dollars and millions, tens of millions of dollars from the Obama machine, the DNC and other progressive groups, the Republicans have won and held on to the State Senate in Wisconsin and the people have rejected the failed policies of the past, the complete failure of Obama and the Democrat Party of today which includes the politics of thuggery.

Obama’s Organizing for America, Soros’ MoveOn and the rest of the radical kook fringe were sent home with their tails between their legs. Freedom prevailed. And now I will quote Barack Obama. “You lost, get over it.” But the thing is, you lost twice, you got your “do over” as a result of your infantile temper tantrum that you threw, now sit down and shut up.

So far more than $35 million has been spent on the recall races, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks political money. The spending on the nine races dwarfs the $19.3 million spent in last year’s 115 legislative races, and approaches the $37.4 million spent in the race for governor.

The flow of money came as unions saw the recall elections as the best way to halt Walker’s agenda and to send a message to other states considering changing their collective bargaining laws. Political observers are watching Wisconsin to see what the results say about the mood of the electorate leading up to next year’s elections for president and Congress.

Unions played a huge role for Democrats by spending vast sums of money on advertising, and supplying manpower in all the Senate districts.

Hey wait a minute. What if you’re a union member and not a Democrat? Wouldn’t you be pissed that they are using your money to support Democrats and to hell with your objections? And they talk about “democracy?” They’ve got a funny way of showing it, don’t they?