Walker is trying to pretend the reports he's planning financial martial law are "absolutely false"

[highplainsdem]

But he's lying.

Two news stories on this denial by Walker. I just posted about the first one in LBN:

http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2011/apr/18/gov-walker-plans-financial-martial-law-absolutely-/

(DU breaks the link above, which ends in a hyphen and a slash. Here's the ow.ly shortened URL: http://ow.ly/4CPxP )

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/120058874.html


As I posted last Friday

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

they set up a promotional site trying to sell people on this idea back in February. The project seems to be spearheaded by Joint Finance Committee Chairwoman Alberta Darling, and there's no way Darling would be involved in setting up a website that talks about a "statewide fiscal stress test" for local governments without Walker and the Fitzgeralds and other influential Republicans aware of this, too.

They were apparently hoping, when they launched the website and a Facebook page back in mid-February, to create an astroturf campaign and try to get citizens to say this would be a good thing for local governments in Wisconsin, starting with Milwaukee.

Then they ran into all the protests over the union-busting and apparently decided to keep fairly quiet about these plans for financial martial law (the promo site even links to a CBS story on financial martial law in Michigan, so they know exactly what it's called), though the site was still there, with forms asking people to sign a petition or submit personal stories (complaints about the way things are done currently in Milwaukee), and a note advising them that their names would be used later on the website or other advertising.

Fortunately Ed Garvey learned of what was going on and first broke the story on his FightingBob.com blog and in a radio interview later that day, and then Rick Ungar at Forbes picked it up (the story posted in LBN, a day after the news broke here in GD).

Now Walker is trying to distance himself from this plan.

[aquart]

1. The Solomon Islands would be a nice distance.

Or perhaps Tokyo.

[highplainsdem]

5. Or a bit north of Tokyo...

[notadmblnd]

2. I imagine he's waiting to see if Michigan's governor- the Dick snyder

gets away with it first.

[Blue Owl]

3. In Feb., he said that ending collective bargaining would solve the budget crisis

Now last week he says it won't solve the budget crisis that turns out to be fabricated itself.

So on what grounds should we believe Emperor Focker?

[gratuitous]

4. Walker's website was not intended to be a factual statement

At least not until you meddling kids noticed it and started yammering about the implications.

There, we all done with this non-issue now? Geez, David Koch said it was going to be real easy. Cross off another day until my sinecure begins and I can put all this stuff in the rear-view mirror.

[LisaM]

6. Governor Snyder said he would never use it

Now he already has.

[Scuba]

7. Here's something I never thought I'd say....

...I wish summer would get here, get over and January would come.

[Lifelong Protester]

8. I have already written my state senator, assemblyman, and Congressman

Snotty better be a long distance runner if he thinks he's getting this one by without folks already figuring it out.

Although, the fact that 2 MORE recall groups are filing petitions (that brings the number up to 4) AND the fact that Prosser almost bought the farm (meaning we went from "Joanne who?" to nearly, or probably beating his a** in about seven weeks) MIGHT be making little Snotty nervous.

That, and the spankings he took before Congress last week...

He may be having second thoughts.

[999998th word]

10. No not with his arrogant delusional sorry ass.

[highplainsdem]

9. kick