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randys1

(16,286 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:37 PM Oct 2015

Walker and the Kochs Make Wisconsin Corruption-Friendly

Last week, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Assembly passed three bills that together would completely gut existing campaign-finance laws, blunt prosecutors’ ability to investigate political corruption, and turn the state’s elections and ethics board into a partisan-controlled paper tiger. Two of the bills are now before the Republican-controlled Senate, while the third has already been signed by Walke



http://prospect.org/article/how-scott-walker-and-kochs-are-making-wisconsin-corruption-friendly


Do laws matter anymore if the rich can control absolutely everything? You tell me.

What concerns me is the further these criminals go, the more unruly life will get.
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Walker and the Kochs Make Wisconsin Corruption-Friendly (Original Post) randys1 Oct 2015 OP
oh not only that,,, John_Doe80004 Oct 2015 #1
Of course. Didnt know that, but if you work for a living, you need to understand Walker, GOP, Koch randys1 Oct 2015 #2

John_Doe80004

(156 posts)
1. oh not only that,,,
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:40 PM
Oct 2015

they are working on (or passed already, not sure which) legislation that effectively guts the Workers compensation law and still forbids you from suing your employer!!!!

randys1

(16,286 posts)
2. Of course. Didnt know that, but if you work for a living, you need to understand Walker, GOP, Koch
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:47 PM
Oct 2015

hate you, and I mean that sincerely.

They think working people have too much, too many rights.

You all remember the Koch bros who said that since most American poor have microwaves and refrigerators, they are actually not poor at all.

If you are not rich, they want to harm you.

Now, if you go willingly and quietly, they will let you live, but only if you do it their way.

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