To the editor:
When Gov. Walker said he was going to take the income and sales taxes off the table, he started a virtual class war in Wisconsin. He knew that the burden of taxes would eventually be put on the property tax and that you could only put off spending so long before they came to the point of being dangerous, such as roads and bridges for the public.
Consequently, the Republicans went after the unions and the Democrats who fought to represent them and the working people. That's why, when the Republicans pulled all kinds of tactics in the rules of how the Capitol was run, mainly just outright breaking the rules that were written up for both parties to follow, all things exploded. This is what the Democrats meant when they said Walker dropped the bomb.
Walker was more interested in his rich friends who gave him campaign contributions then he was in running the state, such as the Koch Brothers (Americans For Prosperity), Karl Rove (Club For Growth), Bradley Foundation, MacIver Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). So, it's a battle between the richest 1 percent with many of them being billionaires and the 99 percent.
This is exactly the way it was explained in the book, "More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin" by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley. To stall for time, the Democrats, because of the way Walker was trying to shove this bill through and was breaking laws written into the state constitution, felt they had to leave the state, which was one of the two-prong attack the Democrats used.
The senators leaving the state really upset Walker's timetable so much that when Walker and the Republicans got careless and tried to run something by the Assembly Democrats before they were even supposed to be in session and called it legal. Then Peter Barca vigorously protested the fact that it was an illegal vote taken before the session was even supposed to start.
Eventually, the Republicans did admit they broke the rules and would rescind the vote they had just taken and take it up the following week. Many of the over 20,000 demonstrators in the Capitol started to celebrate those Democrats wearing orange T-shirts that said "Assembly Democrats For Working Families." Breaking the law and buying off politicians the Republican way.
When Gov. Walker said he was going to take the income and sales taxes off the table, he started a virtual class war in Wisconsin. He knew that the burden of taxes would eventually be put on the property tax and that you could only put off spending so long before they came to the point of being dangerous, such as roads and bridges for the public.
Consequently, the Republicans went after the unions and the Democrats who fought to represent them and the working people. That's why, when the Republicans pulled all kinds of tactics in the rules of how the Capitol was run, mainly just outright breaking the rules that were written up for both parties to follow, all things exploded. This is what the Democrats meant when they said Walker dropped the bomb.
Walker was more interested in his rich friends who gave him campaign contributions then he was in running the state, such as the Koch Brothers (Americans For Prosperity), Karl Rove (Club For Growth), Bradley Foundation, MacIver Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). So, it's a battle between the richest 1 percent with many of them being billionaires and the 99 percent.
This is exactly the way it was explained in the book, "More Than They Bargained For: Scott Walker, Unions and the Fight for Wisconsin" by Jason Stein and Patrick Marley. To stall for time, the Democrats, because of the way Walker was trying to shove this bill through and was breaking laws written into the state constitution, felt they had to leave the state, which was one of the two-prong attack the Democrats used.
The senators leaving the state really upset Walker's timetable so much that when Walker and the Republicans got careless and tried to run something by the Assembly Democrats before they were even supposed to be in session and called it legal. Then Peter Barca vigorously protested the fact that it was an illegal vote taken before the session was even supposed to start.
Eventually, the Republicans did admit they broke the rules and would rescind the vote they had just taken and take it up the following week. Many of the over 20,000 demonstrators in the Capitol started to celebrate those Democrats wearing orange T-shirts that said "Assembly Democrats For Working Families." Breaking the law and buying off politicians the Republican way.
