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Wisconsin recall election

Tea Party People Shone Like Beacon in Wisconsin



Now that the country has been saved to live and fight another day, isn’t it time that all of us stop and salute and say “Thank Heaven for the Tea Party!” That’s right, the June 5 Wisconsin recall election has come and gone with Gov. Scott Walker winning a stunning 54 percent of the vote and sending a stinging rebuke to those who believe in government instead of liberty and freedom.
Walker’s victory firmly establishes (again) that conservative principles can and will triumph when presented candidly and unabashedly to the electorate. Moreso, we learned that massive efforts by the people, patriotic Americans from around the country,can defeat the insidious public sector employee unions. Without this mass mobilization of the money and manpower by the Tea Party American Resistance Movement, the highly motivated Left would have blown Walker out of the water. In the past, special interest groups, such as teacher unions, have been able to target politicians who have dared to curtail their power. These special interest groups have forced off-year elections in which they have been able to focus their members to vote on single issues while the rest of the population remained relatively apathetic and stayed home and did not vote. But on Tuesday, June 5, this strategy took a hard fall, thanks to the national determination to preserve Walker’s noble endeavor to end collective bargaining for public employees and maintain fiscal discipline. Millions of out-of-state dollars and thousands of out-of-state phone calls and emails prevailed upon Wisconsin to stand firm and keep Walker. It was a victory, as the Wall Street Journal called it, for self-government and a major defeat for the Entitlement Society and the rapacious state, county, and city employee unions.

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Let’s stop for a minute and consider what would have happened had the recall succeeded; every reform in education to create more school choice and every effort to limit the size and scope of government anywhere would be threatened by the calling of special elections by the public sector special interest groups. That’s why America, as envisioned by the Founders, was saved for another day on this particular Tuesday in June, 2012. Wisconsin agreed with Walker that there is no such thing as collective bargaining rights for public employees. No “right” exists, despite that the media consistently tried to define the election as Walker’s attempt to scale back public employee collective bargaining “rights.” Even President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s acknowledged the absence of this so-called “right” even when the New Deal was implemented; only President John Kennedy in the first years of the 1960s established the precedent that public sector employees could unionize and he was wrong to do it. Public sector employees have no need to unionize and they should not be allowed to unionize because they are a monopoly within the government; they face no competition as compared to private sector unions, which face challenge from other types of companies in the overall free market economy.

America can no longer afford their public employee pensions and unlimited health care and other benefits

Public sector employees can and should be protected by civil service rules. America, however, can no longer afford their public employee pensions and unlimited health care and other benefits. Walker had the audacity to require state workers in Wisconsin to contribute to their health care costs, something that is standard in the private sector. These unlimited benefits to public employees threaten to bankrupt several U.S. states, and all Scott Walker did was acknowledge that fact and lead with policies to restore fiscal sanity to Wisconsin and for that he showed tremendous courage. As a result, he was vilified in the Liberal media and even threatened for his life by the loony Left. How sad was the media coverage of this momentous political event? Much of the reporting tremendously missed the boat. One quote after the election in the Wall Street Journal, by a professor at the University of Wisconsin, lamented that win or lose, “Walker had divided,” the people of Wisconsin, and was “tearing apart” the state. No, Walker led Wisconsin to reality and better days ahead by advocating limited government to benefit the people and to create a state in which the economy could flourish. Another article explained the election this way: Walker had “saved his job,” making it sound as if election was about him instead of the principles and policies he espoused and implemented. If Walker had wanted to “save his job,” he would not have picked a fight in the first place with a vicious, snarling dog with sharp, pointed teeth that is the public sector employee unions. The coup de grace of disbelief was the White House announcement that the failure of the recall was insignificant. “White House shrugs off recall election,” the headlines stated. Everything that President Obama believes was repudiated on June 5. To the White House, though, the failure of the recall was an isolated incident of no real importance. Any rational person knows that had the recall of Scott Walker succeeded, the White House would have doing cartwheels in the end zone and then been flagged for “excessive celebration,” to use NFL parlance. So, in the end, the great people of Wisconsin thankfully roused themselves to protect their own futures, and subsequently have become a great, shining beacon for liberty and freedom for the rest of the nation.


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Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings.  He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.


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