Wisconsin governor (Walker) releases e-mails about union rights

[upstatecajun]

Source: msnbc/AP

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker released to The Associated Press on Friday tens of thousands of e-mails he received in the days after introducing his plan to strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.

The e-mails provide a first glimpse of the extent of public support that Walker said he was receiving from Wisconsin residents via e-mail for the proposal, as well as extensive opposition that he generally downplayed.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42153801/ns/politics-more_politics/

[midnight]

1. Just because this women identifies herself as a public school teacher

does not mean she is. "One woman who identified herself as a Milwaukee Public Schools employee wrote in to support Walker's plan.
"I voted for you in November, and today I am thankful that I did so," she wrote. "This legislation is more than fair to us in the public sector and will bring a measure of financial relief to the people of our state. Keep up the good work, Governor. I'm glad to see us moving in a conservative, constitutionally sound direction." But then some people vote against their own best interests.

[Iliyah]

5. I think his staff

omitted quite a few and probably themselves added their own e-mail messages. I don't trust any goper at this time. None of them.

[jmowreader]

12. It says "employee" not "teacher"

I would assume there are non-unionized positions in the Milwaukee school system--bus-garage workers, central office workers and the like. She might be pissed that "those teachers" get all these supposed benefits and she does not.

The flipside is, if you take all the jobs that require college diplomas and licensure, School Teacher pays the worst by far. AND they have to spend their own money to buy the supplies they need to do their jobs. I'm really shocked the school districts haven't realized they could charge teachers rent on the rooms they teach in, require them to provide their own desks and chairs, make them pay for the power used to heat their rooms, charge for parking etc., etc., etc. After all, teachers are SOOOOOOOO overpaid...

[Mr Generic Other]

14. even though it is hard to believe

there are some teachers who support this sort of legislation.
i am not one who does but there are several in my building who do and have stated so publicly.
i guess the "teacher" was right that there are those who vote against their own best interests.

[Astraea]

18. oh thank you Gov'nuh!

I just love having my rights taken away and my money as well... keep up the good work!

Please.

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[liberal N proud]

3. Must have needed time to fabricate and scrub

[FARAFIELD]

4. NO USELFUL INFO IN HERE AT ALL~~~~

first of all NO MENTION OF HOW MANY emails there actually were (in other words you could compare his numbers with actua) and second of all it says (gauging the extent of the support) without saying how many favorded it and how many didnt.. What a crappy article, sloppily written. They site some pro and con, but someone reading the article without knowing the raw totals would just pass on that "Eh, it was 50/50" total shit.

[Worried senior]

13. I wrote an email

it was not in favor of anything he was doing. Isn't it amazing if everyone was on his side that they were out in the streets protesting. This is just another walker trick.

[Number_Six]

6. Scam, Sam!

I'm calling bullshit. Same tactic Nixon used years ago, get someone to wish up some imaginary support for an item nobody really likes.

[still_one]

7. Then he should have no problem when his lying ass is recalled /nt

[Politicalboi]

8. If these are true

Those "supporters" need to hit the streets to protest the protesters. LOL! All 10 of them.

[IScreamSundays]

9. Someone needs to investigate the software he purchased

to "cleanse" his inbox. Fugger!

[Heywood J]

10. This is a meaningless gesture and an example of bad journalism.

Until it can be accurately determined how many of those emails are unique, how many are from his in-state constituents, how many represent the honest responses of individuals, and how many are paid spam from concerned corporations and teabag groups clicking on a button a thousand times, raw numbers are useless and don't amount to anything.

Any trained monkey or automated bot can hammer the Submit button ten thousand times on a program that emails text randomly generated from a list of key phrases or topics (basically a mad-lib generator), in order to provide the illusion of unique letters.

[elocs]

11. It's pretty easy to sit at home all warm and comfy and send emails

compared to the tens and tens of thousands of people who came out in force in Madison for weeks in the cold and the snow. That's dedication to a cause.

[Mr Generic Other]

15. according to the article referenced

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x684361
the e-mails have not been entirely sorted or even opened but it appeared that the ones against walker's budget repair bill far out-weighed those in favor.

[pacalo]

16. Hahaaa -- "the quiet majority"! If these e-mails did represent a majority of approvals, why didn't

he turn them over when first requested? This braggart would have flaunted them. I hope AP gets a computer expert to examine the e-mails; if any are frauds, it needs to be exposed.

[iwishiwas]

17. Walker is a jerk. It took a lawsuit to get him to comply with the law.