What the GOP plans to do in Wisconsin

[jfoust]

There's no sticky link to this, so I'll copy-paste. From the JayWeberShow.com, a conservative talk radio guy:

Helping build the agenda for Governor Scott Walker and the newly-elected Republican legislature
Friday 11-05-2010 7:04am CT

I asked my mostly conservative listeners to help build the agenda for Governor Scott Walker and the newly elected Republican legislature. Here is the amazingly long wish list. I do not agree with and/or endorse all of these, but here is the list. It’s a Jim Doyle/Wisconsin Democrat left wing nightmare:

1. Pass voter ID.
2. Eliminate same day voter registration.
3. Pass conceal carry.
4. Join the national lawsuit to repeal Obamacare.
5. Repeal combined reporting and pass a package of pro-business legislation.
6. Kill off the high speed rail project and all wasteful commuter train projects.
7. Kill off the Regional Transit Authority Board. Don’t create any boards that have taxing authority.
8. Bring back TABOR or some taxpayer bill of rights.
9. End the minimum markup law.
10. End all state mandates and subsidies for Ethanol.
11. Get rid of the mandatory emissions test for Wisconsin autos.
12. End the state tax on Health Savings Accounts.
13. Repeal the Planned Parenthood sponsored Sex Education bill.
14. Allow school districts to negotiate for health insurance on the free market.
15. Create a rainy day fund from excess or unexpected revenues that pour into the state coffers during boom times.
16. Eliminate the state income tax on retiree pensions to help keep them in Wisconsin.
17. Freeze the property taxes of retirees to keep retirees in Wisconsin.
18. Move on reasonable Tort reform.
19. Undo the mandatory car insurance law that Doyle and the democrats passed as a gift to the trial lawyers.
20. Ten percent across the board pay cuts for all state employees.
21. Repeal the law that allows the state to kill off Indian team nicknames.
22. Investigate and reform the state’s child welfare system.
23. Go after the fraud in the Food Shares program.
24. End early retirement for public employees, so they can no longer live off of a state pension longer than they ever worked at the job.
25. Change the state law to make MATC and other tech school boards elected positions and accountable to the taxpayers.
26. Reinstitute the QEO for teacher pay.
27. Eliminate the rule that has Wisconsin taxpayers paying for 2/3 of the cost for all school building projects.
28. Drop the residency requirements for Milwaukee school teachers and city workers.
29. Negotiate new or different compacts with the Wisconsin Indian tribes.
30. Require Wisconsin cities to enforce immigration laws. No Sanctuary cities.
31. End any state funding of National Public Radio.
32. Stop the excessive building of roundabouts.
33. Reform the DNR. End gimmicks like. Earn-a-buck and the wholesale slaughter of herds as a ‘management tool’ for CWD.
34. Change the law to require DNR wardens to get search warrants before they can search cabins and property.
35. Repeal the statewide smoking ban.
36. End the ridiculous rule that says every state building project needs to set aside one percent of the total cost of the project for artwork.
37. Expand and/or allow for statewide School Choice.
38. Expand and/or allow for more Virtual Schools.
39. Increase the reimbursement rate for doctors who see patients on welfare.
40. Review, reform and reduce the number of people on Badgercare.
41. Review and repeal the so-called ‘smart growth’ environmental requirements and restrictions, which have hit the point of absurdity.

[PeaceNikki]

1. Hey, are you the "jfoust" I think you are?

iPhone owner, foodophile, kid wore a boa in 6th grade?

:D

Never mind, I looked at your profile and confirmed. :hi:

[jfoust]

6. Hmm.

Who knows, could be more of us.

[elocs]

2. "In" Wisconsin or "to" Wisconsin? n/t

[PeaceNikki]

3. Jesus fuck.

Roundabouts are evil now :eyes:

We're fucked.

[AleksS]

4. Yup.

More than it even looks like. Consider:

1) Walker & co. are already talking about how quickly they're going to move to take advantage of " time."
2) With the WMC buy-up of the state supreme court, there are no checks left. Whatever the exec. and leg. branches want to do, they know they're not in any danger of facing judicial review, at least at the state level.

Ouch.

[PeaceNikki]

5. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Wisconsin®™ - a a wholly owned subsidiary of Walker & Co.

:(

[AleksS]

7. Thanks! One more thing you reminded me of:

The "wholly owned" bit reminded me:

As far as I can tell, every race in WI went to the highest spender. Now this isn't true nationwide, so it's not a universal truth, (see Meg Whitman in CA) but it is scary. I don't have millions of dollars, but the WI government just learned Nov. 2 that the only people they have to care about to get reelected are the folks with millions to spend on elections. So, no we have corp. owned Leg. Governor, and Supreme court. I've been priced out of the market.

So, the leg doesn't have to worry about a veto, the gov. doesn't have to worry about the leg. not passing his agenda, neither has to worry about state judicial overturns, and corps. don't have to worry about anybody out-bidding them when these folks go back on sale a couple years from now.

Crud. I have got to get in a better mood somehow. But how?

[savalez]

12. WisCo?

That does not have a nice ring to it.

[dragonlady]

8. And who can forget redistricting?

:cry:

[Sabien]

9. This list may well reflect what comes next

Take a look at how many of these things have come to pass in just over 4 months - astonishing really.

[PeaceNikki]

10. Even these people in this long list didn't anticipate union busting.

And this issue alone has caused many Walker voters that I've spoken to at the protests to jump ship.

[hayrow]

11. No "Institue the death penalty in Wisconsin"

Poor State Senator Lessee will be frothing at the mouth at this disappointing turn of events.

[ewagner]

13. Frank Lessee?

He was bugshit crazy BEFORE it was fashionable...:evilgrin: