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Walker Has Upheld His Duties

Most, if not all of us, have never witnessed or experienced a recall election, certainly not on the gubernatorial level. In 11 days Wisconsin citizens will participate, be subjected to or be forced into, depending on your particular point of view, the first recall in our state’s history.

This triumph, as seen by labor unions, or tragedy, looked upon by many conservative thinkers, will be held on June 5, 2012, but it was a plot hatched by angry men and women on the first Tuesday in November 2010 when unions and their democrat allies learned that, for the first time in 50 years, they had lost their control of Wisconsin government and that someone had put a lock on the cash box.

That someone was Scott Walker! Mr. Walker instantly ascended to number one on the union hate list and found himself and his political party to be the focus of a nationwide effort by both labor and public sector unions to be rendered powerless. The best way to do that would be to get him out of office and the best way to do that would be to get a recall movement started.

Wisconsin was a perfect set-up for this preposterous scheme. Unlike most states, our recall restrictions did not include the words “for Malfeasance in Office” leaving a loophole for a dissentious bunch like the unions or an opportunistic group like the democrats to shove this scheme into play. Never mind that the framers of our constitution and the architects of our laws and our governments never intended a recall to be a maneuver. It was not a mechanism for a special interest group to use to get what they want, to “get even” or to disenfranchise the legitimate votes of the majority. It was intended to remove persons who did illegal or dishonest acts or did not uphold their sworn duties.

Everyone knows this. Everyone! It is disturbing to think that anyone would resort to a scheme such as this and worse because Scott Walker has upheld his duties, broken no laws nor stolen any money and every one of those union bosses and petition signers knows that as well.

On the first Tuesday in November 2010, Scott Walker was elected to a four-year term as Governor of the State of Wisconsin by a majority vote from 1.1 mil1ion eligible electors. His term will expire in November 2014 and, at that time, he will be subject to a new vote if he chooses to continue, or decline and go into the history books as a Governor who paid off the state debts, balanced the books and gave new opportunities to local school districts while being cursed every day he was in office.

If Governor Walker has been found lacking anything in his first year in Madison, even some conservatives might suggest a softer approach in contentious dealings with unions and the far left democrats. But others would say you won’t get anywhere by being Mr. Nice Guy!

That aside, Scott Walker has worked wonders in his capacity as chief of six million people with a near four billion dollar debt plus millions owed to Minnesota and a slow economy and a runaway benefit package to the state’s 300,000 employees that the previous Governor tried to fix by borrowing more money.

Despite all the yelling by the “Occupy the Capitol” crowd, it isn’t “their rights” that they want. It is money. Those union people don’t want to pay eight percent of health costs or 12 percent of retirement. They want the taxpayers of Wisconsin to pay every dime of their benefit packages, something most people have not had for 40 years. They are now paying a fraction of what most people pay and they have thrown garbage on the Walker family home lawn to let the Governor know how they feel about it.

If the Governor was lacking in the public relations area, the unions have mastered the art of crying poor and making it appear they had the support of all Wisconsin citizens. They made it appear that the explosive demonstrations around the Capitol were spontaneous revolts of the exploited masses, that the recall petition circulators were just simple folk heaving the heavy yoke of suppression. They screamed 150-year-old Trotsky slogans while Scott Walker was helping school districts solve their current problems, one of which was the forced purchase of health insurance from a union affiliated company that charged 44 percent over the industry average.

In fact, while the unions and sometimes their democrat lock-step buddies were blocking the corridors in the Capitol with signs that said Walker was related to Hitler, the governor was addressing the many potential train wrecks accumulated under years of democrat, ala union, control of our legislature.

It will be a setback to the unions and a pleasant surprise to everyone else that Scott Walker’ s administration has actually produced a small surplus in the first biennium, that no one has been laid off as the malcontents had forecast and that Wisconsin has some 33,000 more people working than when Mr. Walker took office; and there would be many more if workers had the skills required to fill jobs available here.

But there has been a setback to decency, to civility, to reasonable behavior and to thoughtful people everywhere, first to witness the behavior of mobs of people, orchestrated by unions and possibly by democrats who should know better, daily assaults on our Governor, the legislature and our way of life.

And then, the setback of having the votes of more than one million people disenfranchised by a recall forced upon us by a special interest group that wants to control Wisconsin’s depleted treasury for its own benefit; deficits and taxpayers be damned!

All this from a special interest group that has no plan of its own to move forward. In 18 months of disruptions and lawsuits to block any legislation coming out of the Governor’s office, this group has no goal other than to remove the Governor. They have no plan. They have accomplished nothing.

We did not ask for this extremely costly recall election but, of course, we will have to pay for it. We believe this recall to be unfair, to be wrong, that it disrespects the electoral process and the majority of the voters and our Governor who has shown that he has Wisconsin’s interests first and foremost.

We will be there on June 5 as we are back in 2010, to show that the majority of Wisconsin voters approve of and believe in Scott Walker and in the direction that he leads our state.