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In reply to the discussion: Walker up by 9-points in new WI Recall poll, WI Dems upset with DNC [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Your recall and our recall are mirror images. Get out and vote for the Democrat no matter where he is from. The future of your state depends on it.
We had a Democratic governor -- first time in many years.
Issa initiated a recall campaign based on very unfair accusations about the Democratic governor's relationship with the prison guards' union. Never mind that all governors tend to have a cozy relationship with that union.
Issa did not run. Schwarzenegger did. Schwarzenegger won -- Horrors!
With the exception of environmental issues, Schwarzenegger pretty much did our state in.
He promised he would clean out the waste in our government. Of course, when he could a task force to find the waste, they came up nearly emptyhanded.
So to support his "investment" and wild spending spree without asking for tax hikes, he borrowed. He floated bonds which the public gleefully and ignorantly voted for.
I voted against the bonds -- because I know what they are and what they mean.
State and municipal bonds are the means through which politicians who in their private lives are cronies of the wealthy pass tax revenues to their super-wealthy friends in the form of INTEREST. And, by the way, the interest on the bonds is earned by the super-wealthy TAX-FREE. So you and your middle class taxpayer friends end up not only passing your hard-earned money to your governor's rich friends in the form of interest on the bonds and debt, but you get to pay EXTRA TAXES (WHOOPEE!) to make up for the taxes that the rich don't pay on their tax-exempt bond interest revenue.
Now, at last, here in California, we have a Democratic governor -- and he is having to pick up the pieces. Finally, we are having a sensible conversation in our state about raising taxes on the rich.
Oh, and I almost forgot, in the last weeks of Schwarzenegger's government, we learned of course that he was the father of an illegitimate, over ten years old boy born to his housekeeper. Very human. Not unusual at all, but of course, his lovely wife is broken-hearted and we all care a lot about her. Just shows you, you don't necessarily get marital fidelity just because you have a Republican governor.
Your situation in Wisconsin is the reverse of our situation. You have the Republican -- the equivalent of Schwarzenegger in office. He will bankrupt your state and hand the money from your taxes to his rich buddies. Just like Schwarzenegger.
Vote for the Democrat.