Forum Post: Every Wisconsinite Must Vote
Posted 12 years ago on May 30, 2012, 3:29 a.m. EST by PR1
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Everyone in Wisconsin who believes in American democracy and a future for average Amercans must vote in the recall election! The re-election of Walker would be a heavy blow to the social justice movement and a huge propaganda victory for the 1%!
The fact that the DNC chose not to back Barrett also says everything positive about Barrett and the real threat he represents to the establishment. So this is also a good time to send a message to the sold-out arm of the Democratic Party. Absolutely nobody in Wisconsin has an excuse to sit this one out!
If you are an Independent Wisconsinite this would be a great time to deal a blow to both the 1% and to the pro-establishment, sold-out element of the Democratic Party!
Thank you, DKAtoday and JIFFYSQUID!
Daily Kos - Keep fighting.
Dan, our best bet to beat Scott Walker next week is high voter turnout, and in cities like Madison, LaCrosse and Milwaukee, turnout is indeed huge.
http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=B7kCEJDeJ9iastwMrm0jeKw6KjJoSt2J
Supporters of Scott Walker are responding with tactics that are clogging up phone lines at Tom Barrett's campaign headquarters:
http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nte1fU5%2Bj0DmjwtRBhweJaw6KjJoSt2J
The campaign headquarters of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was inundated Tuesday with outraged callers who received an anonymous text message accusing Barrett of being a "union puppet."
The message, which came from WI@obamasaliar.com, said this:
"Tom Barrett is a Union Puppet who will give Union Thugs everything they want. Call & ask why 414.271.8050."
That is the phone number for the main campaign office for Barrett, a Democrat running against Gov. Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election. For a short period Tuesday afternoon, the Barrett campaign number appeared to be out of service from the flood of calls.
It's sadly typical that Republicans are trying to mess with Democratic efforts to get out the vote, but it also shows they know high turnout means trouble for Scott Walker.
Keep fighting, Chris Bowers Campaign Director, Daily Kos
We've got your back!!!
OWS should not be offering particular solutions to the problems it is protesting. Else, the protest fragments and solidarity is lost. It's easy to gather socialists, capitalists, communists, anarchists, etc... together to fight against the current problems in US, but it is impossible for them to agree on a solution because they all have different ideologies.
Protest, but don't provide solutions. Use other groups than OWS to do that.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/on-ows-advantages-dis-advantages-misconceptions-an/
It makes little sense to provide free adverts for the current government (Obama), when OWS protesters fight against this current government (Obama) on the field every day!
OWS is not offering-up support for any party or politician. It is pointing out issues to the people and the people are making their own plans.
I am a person = one of the people.
I am not telling anyone that OWS or Occupy or 99% support these things.
I am pointing out what I support.
Support for the people not for profit.
Common cause issues for unity against the status-quo greedy corrupt criminals.
Vote out the anti-people politicians as fast as we are able. Keep up the pressure for change. unite in common cause. Don't opt-out but get organized to retake our Democracy.
Here are good pressure points.
PETITION: Congress must put Wall Street reform back on the agenda: http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/sign_glasssteagall/?source=bp
Also,
PETITION: Jail the Bankers: http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/sign_wallstreet_bankerjail/?source=bp
The middle class must save the middle class - and put this country on a healthy path forward.
The working poor must save the working poor - and put this country on a healthy path forward.
The Poor must save the Poor - and put this country on a healthy path forward.
The Homeless people must save the homeless people - and put this country on a healthy path forward.
The Middle class & the working poor & The Poor & The Homeless - working together - can save this country.
Unite in common cause.
Scott Walker is scum, just scum. I rarely say that about any human being, but the guy's just scum. Eternal shame and damnation on ANYBODY who votes for this shiftless piece of human effluent!!!
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Thanks DKA - you're GREAT!!!
Thank you for forwarding the issue of needed support for the people of Wisconsin. This is very much a common cause issue.
Wisconsin - show the rest of us how to deal with corrupted politicians.
Throw the bums out.
Unite in common cause and we WIN.
To identify a troll - look at issues that benefit all of society - and see them standing in the way.
To identify a troll look at issues that benefit special interest groups - quite often to the detriment of society/humanity/world - and see them cheering on the issue for the special interest.
I just look for people who call others trolls when they have a different opinion. That stifles speech. For this reason, I consider you one of the biggest trolls on this forum. Every time someone has an opinion other than yours, you consider him a troll. Not very inclusive.
Endlessly switching usernames to hide the incredible unpopularity of your comments is an effort to pervert free-speech, and anyone who does it and still whines all the time about their incredible purity and moral stance is just full of shit. Let your arguments stand or fall like everyone else's, and then maybe you could spout this blather and we won't just laugh at you. But I doubt it.
Who's switching usernames young man? Seems to me PR1 is quite new. Diid you get banned perhaps?
I was banned in about two weeks from the "A way with Words Forum"
Wow, there's a mystery for ya!
You would know more about that than I do - in fact you're the expert - so I differ to your "judgement."
I banned you for a good reason. You broke the forum rules.
La De Da.
You've got yourself convinced that you have a lot of power, but you're a nobody.
A federal court overturned critical parts of the Wisconsin law, but anyway, it's gonna be a tight race (Walker has a slight lead, but it's nearly a dead heat).
We have to bury this guy!!!
Good post!
Walker wins by 5. Great post? Great future for Wisconsin too now that control of government has been wrestled from the union and given back to the people that pay for it.
On Wisconsin!
Walker wins by 5? What, has it already been decided? We'll see about that. Revolution is evolution long delayed.
move on
I'm not in Wisconsin but I've heard no reason to vote for walker
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/934467/dnc_finally_helps_scott_walker_opponent_raise_money_for_recall_election/
http://obrag.org/?p=61219
http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/13285/wi_rise_up_why_next_weeks_recall_matters_for_national_politics/
Contact the DNC and tell them to quit proving Will Rogers right: http://my.democrats.org/page/s/contact-the-democrats
We're gonna clean up the sold-out Democrats, destroy the Republicans and take our democracy back from vested interest - and God help those who stand in our way.
Long Live Thomas Jefferson!!!
Awesome! Keep up the good work and spread the word.
Honored JS.
See what U think of my rebuttal to that post against me.
Will do, I'll get back to you!
Just replied to the tupac guy, pure tool.
There's growing scientific evidence that processed sugar has a detrimental effect on brain function. In short, sugar makes you stupid.
You mean "Tupac..."? He's not damaged, he just has a really shitty job!! It's an employers market, and we are all virtually slaves. I'll bet he has kids, that'll do it.
Well, it was a reference to him, but it's actually true. About sugar being detrimental to mental health, that is.
Oh.
Get out the VOTE in Wisconsin, Tuesday!!
Ah, we're back on track. Good ;-)
Agreed. Wisconsin on Tuesday. It's vitally important.
Spread da word!
Just had a totally meaningless exchange with "hchc." He approached me with what seemed like a spark to learn something, but after a couple simplistic exchanges, he went totally flaccid with cluelessness and had to flee. I find a lot of that. Rose colored bubblehead rebels without a fucking clue! Is this the product of "No Child Left Behind"?? Or just RW bible camp troll graduates? Say that a couple times, kinda has a nice feel. He he..,
(No reply button, below) He's here because he believes in OWS. There's other non-political issues at stake. You gotta remember, this forum wasn't supposed to turn into partisan politics. In fact, technically, it wasn't supposed to talk about politics at all. It was originally conceived as a place to coordinate protests and actions, and a place for Occupiers to connect. In jart's words, from her "Watch me test this thing" post a few months ago, responding to a poster:
[-] 1 by jart (808) from Brooklyn, NY 4 months ago
"If you didn't create for debate and discussion, was it your intention (if you don't mind me asking) that the site be used more for action / planning of actions / spreading real news etc.?"
Bingo! We also had the same intention when we started /r/occupywallstreet but watched it quickly turn into a place where people talk about politics rather than actually working to make the event happen. That's just how reddit is, people like to debate. So I figured rather than fighting that tendency, letting reddit be the D&D board and whipping up a quick and dirty forum (based on the article commenting system I'd already written) that would be specifically for organizers and to build upon the map system which was already helping radicals get in touch with others in their local area.
Nah, he just gets emotional when people talk about playing the political 'game.'
Then what is he doing here!!!????!!!
The Wisconsin "Partisan Political" imbroglio was the inspiration for OWS!!!
1% VS 99% Class War is a "Partisan Political" battle!!!???!!!
What is the disconnect???
Disgusting, pathetic . . . a low down, rejected, mama's boy, hiding his head under the covers trying to get some approval from a false sugar daddy, chump-change simp.
He's a Bircher Zombie Troll!
I want to know how much they pay him.
So do I. Then we'll know the price of a human soul.
See my rebuttal.
:)!
"An my wife and I fixed up tater stew---We poured the kids full of it, Mighty thin stew, though, You could read a magazine right through it. Always have figured, that if it had been just a little bit thinner, some of these here politicians could have seen through it." Woodie Guthrie
Guthrie was a powerful force for what he believed to be right and just, and he paid a price for it. He said, "I too [often] choose between what I thought was the truth, and a good paycheck, and that's why I go around so truthfully broke, I reckon."
I've got one for you, Odin . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk
Woody was the man!!!
You have to respect anyone who stands up for what he believes is morally right especially when they suffer the consequences for having done so. Thanks for the song.
Yes we need more Woodie Guthries in the world. I remember seeing Tommie Guthrie in Mammouth Mtn, CA close to 40 years ago with a group of people who picked me up hitch-hiking on my way to SF, and then Australia.
Unfortunately our obvious shared respect for Guthrie may be the last thing that we agree on, as I do not believe our energies in this movement should be diverted to partisan politics. But I can put that battle off with you until another day, and enjoy what we do agree on today.
Nice. I love WG. When I lived in Aspen in the '70s, I used to see his son, Arlo, play at local bars.
To show how things have turned around on us, "This Land is Your Land" is a punch line.
"Idiocracy" is more than a movie.
Truthfully Broke
THINK! Governor Walker has taken a courageous stand against the SPECIAL INTERESTS and in support of the people of Wisconsin, the 99%. The 99% should support Walker 100%.
Walker will win the recall election. Wisconsin is ripe with conservative voter fraud. So much so the current crop of right wing terrorists wouldn't even be in office if Wisconsin ever addressed the rampant voter fraud.
Google Kathy Nicholas Wisconsin... She is just the most known because she was already caught committing voter fraud.
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Go Gov Walker. hahahhahhaha this is too funny and only proves that unions do stink and are becoming instinct
WalkerRules . . . subtle, I like that. It's good to know the intellectual caliber of one's opponents.
Sure puts a big hole in Obummers and the OWS goons socialist Nation plans
WalkerRules may have made a spelling error but nothing can compare to the complete ideological and judgement failure you've committed by voting for Obama and choosing to do so again.
And Wow, you don't even get the joke. Man you guys are clever:)
No,I guess we really aren't that smart why don't you explain it?
I couldn't agree more however,what you meant to say I believe is;
"unions do stink and are becoming extinct"
WalkerRules you are a great American,rock on.
Thanks for the comment
Trolls are people like you who call others trolls when they have another opinion then their own.
Troll!
You are the oldest fork-tounged ilar on this forum, and anybody who thinks otherwise either just got here today, or is an imbicile.
All Wisconsin taxpayers get out the vote,Walker needs your vote. Do not be intimidated by Union Thugs and Democrats vote for the future of Wisconsin,vote for Walker!!!
Fuck all RNC dildos! That means you, you lame ass racist phoney black guy, RNC shit-plant, bullshit wanabeee!!!
You're gonna eat shit one piece at a time.
You are a racist apparently,a very vulgar and disgusting one at that. Last time I looked in the mirror and tried,I couldn't seem to rub the black face off of me. Why do you hate black people so much? What have we done to you to earn such a foul reply?
Just because we are opposing political views doesn't mean you have to bring my race into it and spew your racist haterade all over the forum.
No, a white RNC plant calling himself tupacsugar is a racist, and God knows what you see in the mirror, I don't want to contemplate it.
Fine,believe what you want,I am an American of African descent so that makes you an unabashed racist and a real lousy person. I'm not surprised though,you've demonstrated no redeeming qualities but you've behaved as most any progtard would who is facing a big defeat come next week. Booyah!!!!
What a see through liar you are.
I am saying a prayer for your soul right now, I truly am. Do you really think this life is the end of the journey of the soul? Oh no, contrair my friend, this life is just the begining of your journey.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
You must go on until you face that thing in the mirror and it is black, but that has nothing to do with the color of your skin, Mr. Smith. So go on your twisted way. You will, perhaps someday find the light, but I wouldn't want to walk that journey with you.
Sounds like a racist that is trying to prove he has found religion. I've dealt with shallow haters and race baiters like you many times.
Hating someone because of the color of their skin is so 1950's and I can't believe how many of you progressives are really just racist's and hater's at heart. All your rhetoric is just ear candy for your Drones but the truth is you're racist's deep down. Keep praying,ask forgiveness for yourself and ask God to grant you the strength to become a better person. All things are possible in God.
Don't worry, the fair and honest King-Cons are busing in Teabaggers and pulling in Citizens United buck$ by the million$ so the COVERT class war will soon be put back to bed!
Thanks JIFFY,sometimes you do have good news to share.
Bircher Zombie Troll!
What do they pay U?? Just in case I get tempted to go to the Dark Side.
"Just replied to the tupac guy, pure tool."
"to go to the Dark Side"
What now,you're a sexist,bigoted....let me guess...homophobe too?
That racist pretense "tupuc" is wearing thin tupac. You're outed, and too stupid or too exhausted with your own lies to even know it. Pathetic.
Do U even know what UR yapp'n 'bout?
http://scottwalkerwatch.com/
May 30-Tom Barrett Rally with Russ Feingold and Chris Taylor at Majestic Theater, Madison (video) Posted on May 31, 2012 by J barrett-feingold-taylor
There was a very well-attended and unifying Tom Barrett For Governor Rally with Russ Feingold and Chris Taylor at the Majestic Theater, Madison on May 30, 2012. Chris Taylor spoke first with a great speech illustrating Walker’s War on Women followed by Russ Feingold, who illustrated exactly why Walker needs
Handy Guide to Walker Lies and Distortions in recent Recall Election Ads Posted on May 29, 2012 by J lies
Granted, this could take all day since it’s almost impossible to keep up with the Walker Lying Machine. The lies and distortions are not only coming from the Walker campaign, but from outside-Wisconsin right-wing SuperPACs generated by the Koch Brothers, the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association, Karl Rove… Read the full story » Posted in 2012 Recall, Elections, Fitzwalkerstan, Wisconsin | Leave a comment Walker trying to hide away from public in remaining days before June 5 Recall election. Final push is on. Posted on May 29, 2012 by J walker scared 3
Apparently when Scott Walker is actually in Wisconsin and not at Koch Brothers fundraisers, he usually makes himself pretty inaccessible to the people of Wisconsin. Now, with the remaining days before the Recall election closing in, Walker is now hiding from the people of Wisconsin. Perhaps this is a coward’s
http://scottwalkerwatch.com/
Walker now has a "war on women"? LMAO
Everyone has a war on women to you Leftists,but you won't stop for a second and consider just how warrior like the Democrat party can be towards women.
You stinkle!
We're get'n back behind the wheel and driving this democracy right over your bloated, fat cat, King-Cons, heading forward to progress!!
"We're get'n back behind the wheel and driving"
You mean like that murdering drunk Ted Kennedy? Now that's one Democrat who really declared a "war on women",I'm guessing you want to continue his legacy correct?
Wow, that was a reach!
No, like Bubba did with Monica's big white ass!! And he's gonna do with Snotty boy and his Lt. Gov. You don't seem brain dead like the typical Zombie, you must really have to hold your nose for this turd, hah? They could not pay me enough!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/30/1095935/-Breaking-Bill-Clinton-is-finding-his-comfortable-shoes-to-come-to-Wisconsin
If you're suggesting Slick Willy is going to have a homosexual relation with Walker?.......I wouldn't be surprised by Bubba's behavior but Walker is a not in the same low life league as most Democrats lead by BJ Clinton are.
Scott Walker is a man of character and apparently is going to continue being the Wisconsin Governor as well.
Just give me a hint, c'mon!! How much are they pay'n you? It must be good!! "...a man of character..." OMG it must be good!!
I only wish I could make money telling the truth.
You're not fooling me. You don't make money telling the truth, but you'd like to, instead of shilling for that turd. Kids? They will make you sell your soul, I know.
You have your opinion,I have mine. That's where it starts and where it ends.
They will vote and Walker will win... with ease.
Middle class people with entrenched government jobs living off of middle class people that don't happen to work for government is hardly sticking up for the middle class. Smarten up and find a better fight. You've already lost this one.
Wisconsin is on a path to restore a simple principle: Government should work for the people, not just the help.
The union stooge got buried even in the Democrat primary. Now it's Barrett's turn. Happy voting. LOL
"Revolution is evolution long delayed."
Why is that in quotes? Do you always think in bumper stickers?
It's because the thought didn't originate with me. Only those who have never had an original thought would wonder.
Does this pass for a thought of yours now?
I know you must be going through a hard time right now with entrenched on-the-tit government employees finally getting challenged. I'd encourage you not to watch too much TV next week when Barrett gets buried come election night. LOL
Get ready for your "heavy blow" to those living in government-job fantasyland. LOL Reality cometh soon. It's been too long coming and much deserved. I went to school in Madison and know full-well what a bunch of detached leftwing nut-bags live there.
Please, "I won't engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man." Crawl back to your hole.
You know what, watch TV next week. You deserve it. On Wisconsin! Greece doesn't suit you.
Crawl back to your government job. Hide until the taxpayers catch up to your scam next.
I'm afraid Walker's voter purge will be challenged in court, so even if he wins he still won't have won.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
And don't think you can stir the envy of those who were disenfranchised decades ago by the assault on unions to hate the few that still have protections. It won't work.
Now goodbye, suckhead.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!
Great, spend more money and lose again.
Please, watch TV next week and learn something. The people are back and they demand that government work for them, not just the pencil pusher government employees.
This one thinks the Koch Brother Birchers are the People! And Citizen$ United $ecret fund$ are democracy!
And we all heard how Scotty boy heels to his Koch Brother masters. So fucking sick!
Just think of Unions as Corporations and Chambers of Commerce, except Unions are organizations that protect the interests of hard working Americans against greed-addled employers who really just want a return to slavery ~ a newer, cheaper version, slavewages! No overhead and all "freedom."
People, see Shock Doctrine (Netflix & Vimeo). Wisconsin is Shock Doctrine on American soil.
Dirty money by the ton, election fraud, Voter suppression, public usurpation may trump Wisconsin Voters, but it will Piss-Off Americans. That's why the King-Cons are applying massive overkill!! They do not want America to see their dirty deeds at work!! They don't want Americans to realize the Class War is on, and they are already losing.
Don't waste time arguing with this Bircher Zombie, his brain is so washed it squeaks as he types what he's told.
How, how, how, could any American who makes less than $500,000.00 a year buy ANY of this Walker crap?!!! Have we all become retarded?!!!
RepubliCons don't think, they believe. It's not politics to them, it's religion.
Their party has devolved into a cult, and Big Money is their Charlie Manson. They would support Walker, Romney or W even if they were freezing under a bridge. Pure delusion.
Tell me this, why would anyone want to be rich in a poor city, state or country? And how can they justify the unprecedented concentration of wealth to so few, while the rest of the country goes broke, loses jobs and homes, families are ruined, homeless and poverty only seen in third wold countries? Greed and indifference only seen in Hollywood movies. Their time will come, like a ton of bricks.
Because they don't have one of the entrenched, unmovable government jobs with retirement packages that are crowding out the good services liberals used to care about. That's how.
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no, only the democrats.
Okay, Adolf.