Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin

[Pharaoh]

Source: Forbes

Reports are surfacing that Scott Walker is now preparing his next assault on the democratic political process in the State of Wisconsin.

Following the lead of Michigan GOP Governor Rick Snyder, Walker is said to be preparing a plan that would allow him to force local governments to submit to a financial stress test with an eye towards permitting the governor to take over municipalities that fail to meet with Walker’s approval.

According to the reports, should a locality’s financial position come up short, the Walker legislation would empower the governor to insert a financial manager of his choosing into local government with the ability to cancel union contracts, push aside duly elected local government officials and school board members and take control of Wisconsin cities and towns whenever he sees fit to do so.

Such a law would additionally give Walker unchallenged power to end municipal services of which he disapproves, including safety net assistance to those in need.


Read more: http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/04/16/gov-scott-walker-reportedly-planning-financial-martial-law-in-wisconsin/

[HereSince1628]

1. Exactly what was done in Michigan...creating the fiefdoms

that the appointed kulaks will run for the big contributor boyars.

[valerief]

2. Yep. They're Third Worlding the country state by state. nt

[indimuse]

15. yes. they are!

It almost seem like there is a desperate attempt to push through this evil agenda.(what else would you call it?) And it is NOT for the people These people are ruthless dangerous beings.I have Scott in Fl. ;(

[roguevalley]

29. the legislature has to pass it, right? what is that likelihood after

all the outrage over this? I would not want to be them living in their neighborhoods. People must be shunning them like crazy.

[iwishiwas]

82. In WI, both houses are run and controlled by Walkers Repug Poodles-the Fritgerald

Brothers!!

[madokie]

37. and we got mary 'with her panties down around her ankles' fallin here in ok

As lt gov a few years back she was caught in a compromising situation with her highway patrol escort while on one of her 'business meetings.' both her and her escort were divorced over the ordeal yet the stupid here still elected her as governor. Oh we use black box vote counting machines and our quality of represention has gone down hill ever since. I guess to her there's nothing wrong with getting some on the side, :puke: values and all.

[defendandprotect]

42. The voting computers have been coming in since the late 1960's ...

was there ever a "Southern Strategy" or was there ever only these hackable

computer voting machines?



The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414

If you knew this, why didn't you tell us?

If you didn't know -- pass it along -- !!

:)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. I know Mary's gyno!!!

He says they don't discuss politics at all.

He's a liberal.

:rofl:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. slow putsch

So at what point are we going to realize that what is unfolding is a slow and deliberate takeover by the far right of our government, retaining the shell, the facade of normalcy, but supplanting the internal structures with something not at all the republic we were born in?

[Trajan]

4. Wow ... so much for local control ....

We needed a few more princes around here ... The countryside is RIPE for the raping ! ...

[midnight]

5. K&R.

[angstlessk]

6. While the republicans complain of Czars..who have NO actual POWER

they love these new 'CEO Officers' UNLIMITED POWER AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY...

Am I missing something here?

[indy legend]

7. I don't often quote Alex Jones but.....................

"welcome to the new freedom. You're gonna love it" or else.

[femrap]

74. Alex and others of of his ilk

may be the 'prophets' of our times.

[ladywnch]

8. boy are we lucky to have the tea party around to protect our way

of life, democracy and our liberties and rights guarenteed by the Constitution they swore to protect with their lives! I feel better already.

[Drale]

45. But thats the problem isn't it?

They have not had to give up their lives. These people are like school bullies, they only respond to violence and that is what it is going to take to show them we are not fooling around. Unfortunately this is going to end with bloodshed.

[A wise Man]

76. You didn't get a response because...

most here know that you are correct. They are affraid to respond to reality. The way this country is turning into a 3rd world country proves that its obvious that its going to lead to bloodshed all over. We have no government anymore...apathy and empty talk is all that is left. Rethugs feel that they can do anything they please..."WITHOUT RULES OR REGULATIONS". No help will come from anyone but "US". We better wake up soon before it becomes tooooo LATE.

[reggie the dog]

92. i left the usa in 2003 and will never live there again

no way, no how, I live in a civilized country where having a roof, food, and healthcare are RIGHTS! the country??? FRANCE! does my daughter born here even have US nationality?? NO!

[lilbethm]

100. Funny you should mention France

I am so working my way to check it out!

[Doctor_J]

101. Trying to rally some people in my neck of the woods

We hope it's going to end with bloodshed. But my reading of DU and attendance at meetings tells me that we're just going to go without a fight. Look how far we've let them get without any pushback. I don't really see us starting now.

[MadMaddie]

114. If we pay attention to history then yes you are correct!

The Republicans have been allowed for 40 years to lie, cheat and kill in the name of Corporations and Robberbarrons and they feel that no one can stop them now because they are almost there, almost back to the 1920's.

Here is my prediction it won't be liberals, moderates, old school Republicans that will take them down. It will be there TeaPartiers because when these people start losing every safety net that they have.

[ladywnch]

9. 7 more months till he can be recalled. can someone create a countdown clock

here on DU for our WI familes? It only seems fair to give them some hope....something to look forward to.

[Pharaoh]

10. Here

http://recallwalkercountdown.appspot.com/

Boy you can google anything and poof! There it is!

[ladywnch]

34. I thought I read that the recall date was the election date not the

inaugural date..... is that not the real case?....if not, Damn!

[Jackpine Radical]

35. I believe that he is eligible after serving 12 months.

That may mean (I think it DOES mean) that one can file the recall notice 2 months in advance of that date, which is of course close to the election date. You then have the 2 months to collect signatures.

[Art_from_Ark]

54. If I were a Wisconsin voter, I'd certainly sign a recall petition

My home state, Arkansas, seems to be one of the few states with a decent governor these days-- Mike Beebe (D). He has actually reduced tax burdens on the poor and elderly, and the state is in decent financial shape.

[The Wielding Truth]

39. Did you see this comment on that page?

"Why is a 3% tax increase on the richest considered "socialism" but a 14% pay cut on the middle class is doing your part" #wiunion

[Doctor_J]

97. In 7 months the game will be long over

He will do so much damage by then that

1. There won't be anything to salvage, and
2. Recalling him will probably be illegal

He'll be the de facto dictator by the end of the summer.

[lilbethm]

110. My thoughts exactly..nt

[madrchsod]

11. maybe someone should ask mr kimm about this story....

[boomerbust]

12. This scumbag

Must be stopped.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I don't understand how this can be legal

How can duly elected officials simply be relived of their political authority outside of resignation, impeachment/recall, or removal due to criminal conviction (if jail time is ordered as a result of a trial)? Is somebody gearing up to challenge this in Court???
:wtf:

[plumbob]

16. I'm with you. I do not see how this can be done without an amendment

to the state constitution.

Surely somebody is getting ready for court. If not, old Judge Lynch may begin stirring a bit...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. If ever there was a time for the ACLU to intervene

now's the time!

It's scary how Republicans seem to find ways to get stuff like this signed into law and/or make whatever nefarious things they want passed "legal" (though WHEN did this get signed into law in Wisconsin?) I heard about a law like this getting passed in Michigan but I didn't know it passed in Wisconsin. For the record, a law like this was talked about here in Indiana and, if I'm not mistaken, Republicans such as Newt Gingrich were talking about some kind of national version of this. Very scary indeed. Boy, and they talk about "Obamacare" infringing upon people's rights?

:wtf:

:scared:

[plumbob]

20. There was some loose talk here in Texas a few months ago, by some

rep from the Waco area. His boat burned in his driveway on Valentine's Day. Don't think I heard anything else like that after that.

This just seems like a scene from Kafka.

[glinda]

22. "Have to show harm". This is what is needed in a lawsuit asap. Citizens could

possibly do a lawsuit stating that their rights to having their elected officials be there and operating is violated. I mean, they are taking away their voting "ends". The Gov cannot step in it must be the people.

[highplainsdem]

27. See the topic I linked to in reply 19 here. They're calling counties "an arm of state government."

It looks like they're planning to start with Milwaukee County, judging by the website they set up.

Here's the link to that GD topic again:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x900810

See the replies there. I was analyzing their promotional website a little at a time, last night. As I mentioned in replies there, this is basically applying ALEC's "State Budget Reform Toolkit" at the local level. Slash benefits for public workers, privatize some services, sell off lots of local government assets (presumably to cronies or campaign donors, at bargain prices).

[TxVietVet]

49. Walker hates Milwaukee County, it 's board of supervisors and

last but not least, the UNIONS. The conservanazis hate Milwaukee because it is full of minorities, their most despised enemies.

I know quiet a few UNION MEMBERS who voted for Walker and will probably support him as much as the gullable Germans supported Hitler.

[Hissyspit]

63. Shock Doctrine nt

[DBoon]

109. Like how Margaret Thatcher dissolved the Greater London Council

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Council

Livingstone's high-spend socialist policies put the GLC into direct conflict with Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. Livingstone soon became a thorn in the side of the sitting Conservative government. He deliberately antagonised Thatcher through a series of actions (including posting a billboard of London's rising unemployment figures on the side of County Hall, directly opposite Parliament); a Fares Fair policy of reducing Tube and bus fares using government subsidies; entering into dialogue with Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams at a time when Adams was banned from entering Britain due to his links with the Provisional IRA; and endorsing a statue of Nelson Mandela while Thatcher regarded the future South African president as a terrorist. After what was regarded as a punitive funding cut by the Thatcher government, which had the effect of cutting school lunch subsidies for London schoolchildren, the GLC hung a banner with the words "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" from the County Hall.

By 1983, the government argued for the abolition of the GLC, claiming that it was inefficient and unnecessary, and that its functions could be carried out more efficiently by the boroughs. The arguments for this case which were detailed in the White Paper Streamlining the cities. Critics of this position argued that the GLC's abolition (as with that of the Metropolitan County Councils) was politically motivated, claiming that it had become a powerful vehicle for opposition to Margaret Thatcher's government. Ken Livingstone and 3 other Labour councilors resigned in protest, and won back their seats easily in the September 1984 by-elections because the Conservatives refused to stand.<2>

The Local Government Act 1985, which abolished the GLC, faced considerable opposition from many quarters but was narrowly passed in Parliament, setting the end of the council for 31 March 1986. It also cancelled the scheduled May 1985 elections. GLC assets were assigned to the quango London Residuary Body for disposal, including County Hall, which was sold to a Japanese entertainment company and now houses the London Aquarium and the London Film Museum, amongst other things.

[lazarus]

14. let's see how he likes this proposal

While he gets to do that to localities, Obama gets to do it to states. So Obama could take over Wisconsin, since they're "broke".

[madamesilverspurs]

18. Republican governors

are staging a coup. Or maybe they're completing the one from 2000. No way in hell all this is mere teaparty coincidence.


-

[femrap]

77. This has been planned

for a while now....just waiting for repugnant govs to be elected so to start the enactment of the 'plan.'

Serfing, USA.

[highplainsdem]

19. Much, much more about this plan here, in the topic I started yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x900810

See all the replies there, too, not just the OP. The topic links to the blog that first reported this and the astroturf site promoting it, and it explains how this fits in with the "toolkit" pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The state senator leading this is an ALEC member (and she's one of the senators who could be facing recall).

[1monster]

21. How can this possibly be legal?

[houstonintc]

23. Emergency Powers Act...

That shock doctrine... it's pretty serious. And they are intent to use it to the max.

[Citizen Worker]

24. Obviously the massive demonstrations against the Walker plan of creeping Fascism hasn't slowed the

juggernaut. So, when will Labor call a general strike and demand an end to this totalitarian takeover of government?

[tcaudilllg]

59. Yeah that's what's needed. Obama will only do what we force him to do.

[Name removed]

96. Deleted message

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[Doremus]

25. Too bad sitting here and tsk-tsking won't shut these fascists down.

Unfortunately, we have to get up off our comfortable chairs and storm into the streets en masse.

Until then they will continue to push the envelope just as far as they can.

Basically we are getting the government we have allowed to exist.

[onehandle]

26. And the countdown to recall continues. nt

[primavera]

28. Can you hear the tramp of jackboots?

I can see the brownshirts already. :-(

[oldbanjo]

30. It's the peoples fault

if they allow this to happen.

[Swampguana]

31. Walker isn't human

He is a robot created by corporations.

[Scottybeamer70]

32. ...and Bush, Jr.......

prayed for that kind of power.......guess he didn't pray hard enough.
Wow....this has to stop...........and soon!

[keroro gunsou]

33. three words:

fuck that shit!

[alfredo]

36. This is civil war. They are seizing control over states one at a time.

[desertrat777]

38. What is a Corporate Fascist Takeover?

Corporate fascist takeovers seem to follow a pattern historically. In Germany, the Nazis played on nationalism (read: the tea party) and a faltering economy (hello America!), where divide and conquer created an us-versus-them division, with Aryan supremacy the justification and the fears of the people deftly turned into outward anger. In Brazil, the fascist takeover was called something like the New Order ( I have been reading a novel by Jorge Amado on this topic, called Pen, Sword, Camisole). In America. . . well, you know. The Republican party seems to have been walking in lockstep for some time now, and maybe it is now compulsory for them. One step at a time, they have made inroads, like Supreme Court justices and Republican governors playing out the same template simultaneously. Yes, of course our nation is in danger. We need to remember the 180 degree rule, where the neocons twist something that they are doing around 180 degrees, or take something that they are doing and accuse the progressives of doing it. For example, just yesterday I heard on progressive talk radio an audio clip of a conservative accusing Obama of presenting an economic policy that would not care for the health care needs of the disadvantaged and elderly. And they say this kind of stuff with a straight face, with a 'be afraid, be very afraid' tenor.

The question we need to answer is this: how do we stop this insidious process that seems to be set on autopilot 24/7? Yes, we need to organize and we need to achieve solidarity. Yes,we are a large country with many factions that have been set against one another, and yet our quarrels have been contrived for us. People have to be tricked into going to war or into allowing a fascist regime to take over - so admitted Joseph Goebbels - which is exactly what is happening in Wisconsin and in many other states right now. One scary black jack boot step at a time. So how do we stop this process?

[freshwest]

40. Becoming more independent and using non-compliance.

[neoralme]

71. We fight. Not with words via emails, or passionate requests to

Bernie Sanders to help us. We actually fight. If we do not do that right now, as your various histories will show you, we will be overtaken and every move will be monitored. Next comes the secret societies reporting people, and some form of secret police. Then, finally, the sudden disappearance of Joe, Sally or Bill. But first we have to get serious. Our posts must be more planning orientated rather than reporting orientated. What can we do, and when? Who will be involved? And let our posts reflect our seriousness. No more serious posts depicting politicos beating up gays or taking people's homes, and at the bottom of that same post a picture of a cat playing happily with a tinkling ball, resulting in part of the thread canceling out the other part. We must transform ourselves into something to be reckoned with rather than blithely dismissed. This would be a good start. Things are just not funny anymore. We may a few years away from Republinazis marching Grandma to actual death camps, or virtual enslavement by the working age part of our population. I have read about this many times and actually seen it in a few countries I visited when I was younger. Well, I've said my piece. I hope I don't get deleted but, then, I'll wager some other people on this board are thinking the same thing as I.

[rasputin1952]

41. Christ...this guy is a Nazi.

n/t

[Drale]

43. You think the people of Wisconsin where mad about the Union thing?

You haven't seen anything yet Mr. Walker.

[Doctor_J]

75. Yes, but the people of Wisconsin were able to do nothing about that

and won't do anything about this either.

[ixion]

44. Welcome to the New Dark Ages

brought to you by the Koch Bros and Whacko Fundie Teabaggers.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

46. WTF..is Wisconsin the new Libya and does he think he is Qadaffi?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

47. Is this still The United States of America?

[jimlup]

48. Honestly, I think we may be approaching a period of major confrontation

They are going to try and take everything. It won't work in the end but they apparently will keep pushing until the masses awaken. I guess they really aren't wise enough to know better.

Over the years I have to keep reminding myself of the following: Never underestimate the ability of the Republicans screw themselves up.

[neoralme]

57. Time for so much more than pitchforks.........

[bucolic_frolic]

50. Brave Democrats All ===> Seek an Injunction

Citizens should examine the state for financial solvency and financial martial law, elected officials should not have their jobs and territory seized. This is a power grab, there must be some basis for court injunctions ... elected officials and unions can prove they would be harmed by this action, which is the criteria for an injunction ....

[tcaudilllg]

53. Forget that... I'm pretty there is some kinda federal statute against this.

[dotymed]

68. Federal Statutes do not matter when

the U.S. Attorney General will not ever "rock the boat."
It is unfathomable that our courts and prisons are not full of financial thieves, but none have been legally accused. Well, Bernie Madoff got his family to turn him in to protect their money....
Of course, we have not "looked back" at the war crimes committed by Bush.
Amazingly, Last week, in a third world country (where we will soon be), President Obama warned them that if they did not look back at the crimes of their past leader, then they could never move forward.... How insane this country has become.
Alice in Wonderland...

[femrap]

78. the only reason Madoff is in jail is

because he stole from RICH people. Wall Street stole from working people trying to save money for retirement via a Pension Fund....

Wow...Obama told a country to look back at the crimes of their leader???? I missed that one. I probably would have had a stroke if I had heard it.

It's worse than Alice in Wonderland....much, much worse. More like Alice in the cold chains of servitude to heartless and soulless wastes of human flesh.

[dotymed]

117. Agreed

[reggie the dog]

94. our jails are full of pot growers and sellers

many of whom had permission from their states to do so. and you know what? i can find weed in any state within a day of arriving there no problem.

[dotymed]

116. Of course.

It is just like during Prohibition.
By legalizing alcohol, they took it "off the streets", made the product safe and taxed it. Unfortunately they did not release the people already incarcerated for "moonshining" or "bootlegging", but even during Prohibition, the politicians all had their own stock of liquor. Just like today, I suspect that many of them have their own stash at hand. Of course, we are the proles and with our two-tiered "legal system", we are the ones liable for prosecution over a (much safer than alcohol) "drug."
When I was younger, my "drug of choice" was alcohol. Alcohol is a much more harmful substance. It makes you lose inhibitions and do very dangerous things. Not to mention the people who die from alcohol poisoning. Neither of these things happen with Marijuana, in fact, it tends to make you more docile and you can not "O.D." on marijuana.
IMO, they keep it illegal so they can profit from it. The prison industrial complex, the court systems (they will seize your property) and, I am sure that many of them have organized crime connections that pay them to keep pot illegal.
We need, now more than any time in history, a revolution.
We can not fight the worlds largest military with force but if we all went on strike until our government were handed back to the people, we could win.
If we don't, marijuana legalization will be one of the smaller problems. People can no longer afford to exist or get medical help.....

[LiberalFighter]

80. Only state law or state constitution would apply here.

[Prof Lester]

51. The root of all evil?

Maybe it's true that money is the root of all evil. I never thought about it till recently. But it seems like allowing the .1% to grab up 12% of the nation's wealth is a Not Good T'ing insofar as it has given them damn billionaires a HUGE disposable discretionary fund with which to bribe and threaten politicians and bureaucrats. They now possess the wealth of pharoahs and like them they weigh heavily on the backs of the people. This is what the puppeteers behind Reagan and Thatcher of course had in mind when they began this no-tax and deregulate orgy that has brought about the end of civilized life as we knew it. Our grandchildren have naught to look forward to but slavery, poverty, sickness, and miserable death. How you like your 'wingers now, Amerikee?:scared:

[Jimbo S]

52. And nothing on the Milwaukee TV news tonight

Just coverage of Sarah Palin's appearance in Madison.

[Sabriel]

55. Wow, I get to see the end of democracy

I would not have thought it possible.

My dad didn't go to Korea so some dipshit could take away the rights of U.S. citizens.

When does the National Guard deem this an emergency and shut down Walker? Sooner, rather than later, I hope.

[No Elephants]

65. The U.S.. has been a plutocracy for some time.

[lilbethm]

105. Who Controls the National Guard?

They will not be comming to our aid Im afraid...This is going to take some brain power ..planning..not physical harm do it the way they did.

[alp227]

56. Scott MubarWalker now.

Exactly like what the Michigan governor tried to do. So I wonder where the limited-government TEA PARTY is regarding this? Oh wait, they need Scott Walker to keep those scummy leech public workers in check!

[applegrove]

58. It Ayn Rand incarnate. Just run over everyone.

[AllyCat]

61. How many ways can I hate this man and his ilk?

[Kablooie]

62. So this is what the tea party is fighting for. For God's sake WHY?

[No Elephants]

66. "Taxed Enough Already"= TEA. Willing to home school their kids, have bridges collapse

under folks, and so on, as long as taxes never go up again.

[myrna minx]

64. Way to go tea party! Thanks for marching up towards fascism.

:puke: This is surreal.

[Faryn Balyncd]

67. ALEC's true colors are showing.

[JJW]

69. Democracy is dead

The US is run by and for global corporations. And the Democrats are just as big sell-outs as the Republicans. Note Obama & Hillary are pushing for more free trade deals that only benefits big corporations, that never pay taxes.

[deutsey]

70. O, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free?

I think the answer, Mr. Key, would be a definite "No."

[Javaman]

72. I'm glad the tea party assholes want less government in their lives...

:eyes:

[Doctor_J]

73. Don't worry. I am sure we'll peacefully protest, sign some petitions,

and post some rants here.

[lonestarnot]

79. True dat.

[lilbethm]

81. As I sit here

Reading the threads, Ive been reading this Forum since 2004. I knew then that all of the stories about our Country as we knew it being gone were true. Ive been watching and waiting to see what will be the final straw? What will make people stand up and take back our Country for our children and their children to know the life we have known? The Freedoms we have known.

I see it all unfolding, In 2004 there were talks of Concentration camps being built to get rid of the sick, disabled and elderly. But with the health care being already unattainable, and food and even heat just basic human necessities being withheld do they really need concentration camps to get rid of people?

They have taken funding from Special education in NJ..My daughter lost the program shed been in her entire life and dropped out in 11th grade because she couldn't be mainstreamed.

When there are no more municipal Police who is going to "police us?"

How in this once great Country of ours can a woman get divorced from a 23yr marriage (he was cheating) and have no healthcare when she has Lupus? Ive gone from 23 meds to 0 cant afford them, or even a Drs visit..Was denied State Ins. And I do work Im not a "ward of the state".
But you know this is NJ the Northern Good Old boys State I didnt fair well in my divorce, but thats OK IM a strong woman and have been thru worse. But I wonder about the women who arent as strong.

THATS ONLY three examples you all know there are planty more. Im sure its touched all of our lives deeply.

This has been a slow systematic takeover and its pretty much done.. I'm afraid now that all of the arguing is just more of a smoke screen. They are just putting the finishing touches on it all, and quickly because people are waking up.



So your asking how do we stop them??? The question has to be how do we undo whats been done already?

[classof56]

98. Welcome to DU.

You are indeed a strong, aware woman and we need you and every voice out there to stand up against the machine that would bulldoze us into oblivion. Nice to have you on the board!

Peace and blessings.

[Doctor_J]

99. Sorry to hear about your situation.

It is revolting that you are unable to get medicine. BUt as you've probably seen, in AZ people can't even get critical organ transplants because the teabaggers who run that state don't want to pay for them.

I am heartbroken that not a single step has been taken in opposition to the new nazis. Personally I have been trying to recruit some like-minded folk here in MI to try to do something useful against Snyder, but there just isn't enough support - people are afraid or apathetic or it's not bad enough yet. Remarkable, but true.

As for what can be done, IMO it's pretty simple. A wholesale purge of hate radio and Big Media. Messy? Yes. But not as messy as what's happening now. A few hundred casualties among the purveyors of AM hate would get things back on track. But as I already said, there is not yet the will.

[lilbethm]

102. I'm working on my degree

In my spare time, and I work for the Call center at the NY Ballet, in spare time they spend lots of time on the phone for the DNC..so I am exactly where I want to be in life..others though are not as strong and I pray for them I really do because I was put through hell for having the NERVE to kick him to the curb..lol Don't let anyone steal your MO-JO!!!

[felix_numinous]

83. Him and what army?

Didn't Mr. Walker alienate the police union already? Without them he has no 'force' and his delusions of grandeur would fizzle out until he is recalled.

These laws being created are actually illegal, unethical and random, if there is any time for law enforcement to stand in solidarity with the people and democracy, this is it!

[Pharaoh]

90. He has pissed off the national guard also

I guess Sarah and the mama grizzly's will protect him from the hideous liberals.........

[EC]

84. One thing I haven't seen mentioned in all this.

Once they take over a town or city and fire all officials - does that suspend future elections too? Or do they just fire the newly elected officials too?


This is a take-over ...I'll just bet all the towns and cities taken over will be Democratically held seats and it will be all Dems that are thrown out of their dully elected seats.

[slater71]

85. They want to reduce government....

Yet they want to get involved with local government. Time for a revolution. When will we have had enough?

[Faygo Kid]

86. Totalitarian. Walker is a clear and present danger to democracy.

There is little doubt that he is owned; he has a very small brain.

[lilbethm]

87. Again The Question is

NOT how do we stop it...Its how do Undo it? It is already done IMO

[Zambero]

88. I dare say there are plans for Walker & his henchmen as well

The ballot box giveth and the ballot box taketh away. Soon.

[tularetom]

89. Pres. Obama Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law in America

Wonder what they'd say if the article read like this-

"...should a state's financial position come up short, the Obama legislation would empower the president to insert a financial manager of his choosing into state government with the ability to cancel union contracts, push aside duly elected state government officials and school board members and take control of American states whenever he sees fit to do so...."

[Pharaoh]

91. The irony is

when we are a full fledged banana republic

The tea baggers will blame us for letting it happen :freak:

[reggie the dog]

93. we need to do this in democratically controlled states

take over towns and make a shitload of things public owned, rezone and make mcmansions into townhouses and if the owners dont like it eminant domain their asses out. why arent the democrats doing this in the states they control?

[reggie the dog]

95. the counties with large black, native american, and latino

populations will be taken over first, the white ones later on

[lilbethm]

103. Sorry I dont see it

Im from an Upper Middle Class Integrated neighborhood, full of repoed homes, Im White and going thru it already..Its a class war not a race war.

[reggie the dog]

104. it is about class

but in michigan they went after benton harbor first, a town with 92% black population

in wisconsin they seem to be going after milwaukee county first, i would not be shocked to see them go after menominee county next, both counties have large minority populations and both vote largely democrat.

[louis-t]

106. All part of the 'Plan', my friends.

Sell off everything to the already wealthy. The Great Lakes will be next. They tried to do it once before, but that was before the governors gave themselves dictatorial powers.

[suffragette]

107. So, a private law firm is drafting the legislation?

From the article:
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/04/16/gov-scott-walker-reportedly-planning-financial-martial-law-in-wisconsin/

According to my sources, the plan is being written by the legal offices of Foley & Lardner, the largest law firm in the state, and is scheduled to be introduced to the legislature in May of this year.


Talk about your corporate takeover.

That means a private law firm is drafting legislation to enable a Governor to strip duly elected officials of the duties of their offices.


I still don't see how this is legal.
It is, however, terrifying.

[ddeclue]

108. Scott Walker = Hugo Chavez..

Chavez abolished local gov't in Venezuela to consolidate power.

Scott Walker and the Gov of Michigan are both Hugo Chavez... tell your Republican friends and make their tiny little brains explode.

[Doctor_J]

111. Hugo is a socialist

you are in desperate need of your screen name

[ddeclue]

113. Mmmm.... nope... they are both power hungry dictators..

[jpak]

112. If Wisconsin is a fiscal basket case, maybe Obama should take it over and fix it

Fire all the GOP assholes responsible

Goose meet Gander

take em over

yup

[AndyTiedye]

115. It Would Also Allow Him to Control the ELECTIONS in Those Communities!

If Walker takes over the local governments, that would include the running of the elections.

We Know What That Means! :grr: