AFL on Snotty Walker's loss

[deminks]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/scott-walker-afl-cio/

What to say about the man who systematically destroyed organized labor in Wisconsin, who as the state’s Republican governor created a mass shortage of public school teachers, and supported voting restrictions that likely helped elect Donald Trump to office?

Apparently, one succinct yet brutal statement is all that’s required. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s most powerful federation of unions, released the following statement Tuesday night as Republican Gov. Scott Walker was projected to lose his reelection bid.

Link to tweet

Trumka used the exact same statement back in 2015 when Walker announced his campaign for president. This year, his unsparing words appear more timely than ever.

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Yeah, and KKKris KKKobach was right there behind him in national dsigracedom. Both gone today.

[gratuitous]

1. Come on, Richard

Scott Walker still IS a national disgrace. Now it's true that Governor Scott Walker WAS a national disgrace.

[oasis]

2. Dustbin of history for the slimy rat. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

3. They raise a good point...teachers and other public service workers in ALL locations ...

across the country, especially in repug controlled states all have been suffering, and these professions have all been taking hits in their states, especially in filling empty jobs. And it's still happening.

You can only cut services so much. You can only cut pay so much. You can only restrict so much, before you run into constitutional limitations and/or other limits in doing so.

These are just two of the issues still facing us, teachers/public workers and the need for more of them, as well as ensuring adequate pay. This will continue to be an area that repubs will constantly harp on and cut, thus ensuring that their losses will continue in these jurisdictions as more and more of their students fail to pass muster, fail to land good jobs, factories don't locate to their states, etc. (look at the issues facing Foxconn in WI, can't even find the workers they need, may bring in workers). This doesn't seem to be smart, especially after paying all of the money and tax revenues they are giving up to attract this business here.

[JHan]

4. K&R