Dems Fail to Take Wisconsin Senate

Four of the six Republican State Senators up for recall elections in Wisconsin won on Tuesday, thwarting Democratic efforts to gain control of the State Senate.

MacIver News' Bill Osmulski reports from Milwaukee

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[mardi06]

Way to go Wisconsin, I'm so glad you didn't fall for the lies and propaganda being spewed by the unions. Perhaps the millions of dollars spent by the unions on this recall election could have been better used elsewhere like to shore up their pension plan which is about 1 trillion in the hole across the country. That's what this whole thing was about.

[MrConservative608]

Democrats seemed to have a lot of energy going into this recall election. I guess all that energy from the Democrats is just the minority of people in Wisconsin, while the Republicans, who are politically burnt out and drained of energy after 8 hours of hard work, seem to be the majority.

[Unklebillybob]

Just for Ss & Gs, Let's take a look at a ball park figure of what the Recalls are costing Wisconsin:

First Recall Election Cost to Tax Payers Of Wisconsin = > 3 Million Dollars

First Recall Election Cost to Union Workers Dues Fund = ~ 15 Million Dollars

Second Recall Election Cost to Tax Payers of Wisconsin = > 10 Million Dollars

Second Recall Election Cost to Union Worker's Dues Fund = > 15 Million Dollars

This is money being Pissed Away because of a group of Cry Baby Losers.

[glezzery62]

15 million dollars!!!! They probably could fund health care with all the money they steal from workers and give to politics!

[glezzery62]

Unions waste millions of their workers dues and folks are complaining about the Gubbmint stealing from the Workers! LMAO. Hilarious.

Lenin would proud of all the Bolshevik thugs we have here.

[hookalakah]

"Democrats furiously oppose Walker because public employees unions are transmission belts, conveying money to the Democratic Party. Last year, $11.2 million in union dues was withheld from paychecks of Wisconsin’s executive branch employees and $2.6 million from paychecks at the university across the lake. Having spent improvidently on the recall elections, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the teachers union, is firing 40 percent of its staff." --George Will, Aug. 24, 2011

[wakeup4321]

@zaurakdigis steeling from the workers and giving to the lazy is the same what ever name you want to hide behind! always the middle class get eaten, and no mater who is in charge there greed gets in the way, only freedom works, and that means freedom to fail, because you only learn when you don't want to ever go back there.

[wakeup4321]

@zaurakdigis comparing the Nazi right to US, Seriously, how many drugs do, there were no conservatives in Hitlers government and no teabagers for sure, the Nazi SS took over the unions and the government ran them,GEE that seams like what we got. All your names for the same snake, Wakeup

[zaurakdigis]

@wakeup4321 , dude Germany fascists are totally different from Marxists and Communists. The type of socialism under Hitler was Corporate Socialism, workers lost all rights and unions were outlawed. The Hitler "Blood Purge" was against the leftists in the Nazi Party. SO to sum up it up, getting rid of collective bargaining is Fascists.

Fascists were anti-union not pro-union. Corporatism is Fascism, Obama has leaned toward Corporatism and that is what the left and the Libertarians have issue with.

[zaurakdigis]

@towerclimber37 , every German has their complicity in the holocaust to hide. They were all willing to look the other way as long as they were not the target of the holocaust. Every reasonable person understands Nazis where about ethnic purity and Germans proudly stood with Hitler, until the allies rallied and trounced them. The only thing history can teach us here is to beware of countries building powerful militaries.

[zaurakdigis]

@towerclimber37 , Registration has rarely led to confiscation, they could have disarmed the Jews without registration. The 2nd Amendment does allow regulation and this has been upheld by numerous supreme court rulings. Their are a couple of tricky points in the 2nd Amendment. The meaning of well regulated and a persons right vs a "peoples" right. Again you are giving a specious argument, Hitler did not need gun control he came into power with roaring approval.