Wisconsin: Scott Walker continues to deny he's trying to kill unions

[ProSense]

Wisconsin: Scott Walker continues to deny he's trying to kill unions

by Barbara Morrill

On Thursday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker publicly claimed that his so-called budget repair bill wasn't designed to be a union-busting measure:

"I really didn't factor that in one way or another."

But remember, that's not what Walker said when he thought he was having a private phone conversation with his billionaire benefactor from Kansas, David Koch, as he described his plan to drop "the bomb":

And i stood up and pulled out a picture of Ronald Reagan and said this may seem a little melodramatic, but 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan ... had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just his presidency, when he fired the air traffic controllers. And I said, to me that moment was more important than for just labor relations or even the federal budget, that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism ... in Wisconsin's history, this is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history ... for those who thought I was being melodramatic you now know it was purely putting it in the right context.

Which is it, Scotty? Your public claim that it wasn't a factor or your private slobbering about changing the course of history?

[Drale]

1. I continue to deny that I am not a social person

but that doesn't mean its true. The difference is I'm working on my problems.

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah, and Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't really trying to kill all those people

It just sort of . . . happened. You know?

[Viking12]

3. DUzzy!

[Brigid]

4. Shut up, Walker.

Nobody's listening.

[Newest Reality]

5. Plus, I've got some palm trees I own

in Wisconsin that I will give him such a deal on!

[Blue Owl]

6. Scott Walker = Bullshit Artist

n/t

[damntexdem]

7. Well, he doesn't think that he's trying to kill unions.

He thinks that he IS killing unions.

[rumtumtugger]

8. Spillover?

What are the chances of this anti-union stuff in WI spilling over to its neighbors, like Iowa and Minnesota? Why do most of the measures seem concentrated in the Midwest?