After tonight, people are pulling out all the stops on recalling the Dirty 8.

[Jackpine Radical]

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/waronworkingfamilies?refcode=pccc-e3-codered-don

CODE RED: Wisconsin's Republican senators just voted to pass Gov. Walker's anti-worker bill -- without Democrats present.

They are bending the rules in order to break Wisconsin unions, and they need to be punished for this undemocratic action.

We plan on working all night to prepare new online ads and radio ads -- and we'll buy more TV ads in the districts of Republican senators up for recall.

Please chip in $3 right now to help us punish the Republicans who just voted against workers. Click here to see the TV ad and donate.



8 Republican senators are facing recall elections. Voters need to know what happened in Madison tonight. This was wrong.

Now more than ever -- please consider chipping in $3 to help us punish Republicans for their war on working families and their undemocratic actions. Click here.

Then, please pass this email to others! Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Jason Rosenbaum, Amanda Johnson, and the PCCC team

[mike_c]

1. can we have the link for sending donations?

Much appreciated!

[bluestate10]

2. The link is posted in the OP. ActBlue is a highly skilled democratic

fundraising organization, probably the best around. I have contributed to democrats via the ActBlue organization for more that a year after discovering them. The site is easy to use and efficient.

[golddigger]

3. Self delete. See link.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. That was my edit.

[Cadilla]

5. Removal of Wisconsin governor.

Everyone keeps talking about RECALLING Walker and having to
wait one year. 

Why doesnt anyone just find out about REMOVING a Wisconsin
governor who is violating Wisconsin laws
concerning collective bargaining agreements  and LYING to
voters about his proposals and
DELIBERATELY violating Wisconsin laws and inserting HIS ON in
their place.

This man is INCOMPETENT and incapable of governing. It is
obvious by is turning deaf ear to what residents want. He
engages in criminal acts in order to get his way and their
ought to be a method for his REMOVAL for INCOMPETENCE.

I dont see how he could stay in office and govern in this
disruptive manner. He should be removed
right now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Good thoughts!

Welcome to DU, Cadilla!

:hi:

[tcaudilllg]

16. That won't do any good if the new gov doesn't do anything.

We need a civil suit + restraining order, until Jan when Walker's recall can take place.

[calimary]

6. Link doesn't work for me. I get taken directly to some gaming site.

:(

[mike_c]

7. done, contribution sent....

Pay up, folks! Spend a little for our future!

[Jim Lane]

8. K&R for the night owls (n/t)

[Cleita]

10. Why doesn't Wisconsin get a delegation of powerful

Wisconsinites, elected officials, judges, whatever it takes to go to the Governor's office and demand that he resign for attempting to turn the state into a kingdom, which is very unAmerican and treasonous I believe? No recall will be needed then.

[tcaudilllg]

17. You might could do it with psychologists + vote of no confidence.

after the GOP 8 have been recalled.

[Name removed]

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[travelingtypist]

13. Two posts and you know enough to disable your profile?

Hm.

Nice try, but you really should stop parroting the fact-challenged RePUKE talking points. Union bosses? Srsly?

[Shiver]

14. So prison workers shouldn't be able to negotiate for safer working conditions?

Police officers and firefighters, who put their lives on the line every day, shouldn't be able to negotiate health benefits or a retirement pension?

Collective bargaining makes perfect sense for public employees. Collective bargaining is not just for wages, but for working conditions, safe work places, overtime pay, sick days, vacation pay, and a whole slew of other things I'm forgetting.

And in regards to FDR... you're using the Republican talking point of referencing only a partial quote. Perhaps you would like to read the full letter?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

112 - Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service
August 16, 1937

My dear Mr. Steward:

As I am unable to accept your kind invitation to be present on the occasion of the Twentieth Jubilee Convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees, I am taking this method of sending greetings and a message.

Reading your letter of July 14, 1937, I was especially interested in the timeliness of your remark that the manner in which the activities of your organization have been carried on during the past two decades "has been in complete consonance with the best traditions of public employee relationships." Organizations of Government employees have a logical place in Government affairs.

The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."

I congratulate the National Federation of Federal Employees the twentieth anniversary of its founding and trust that the convention will, in every way, be successful.

Emphasis added. For proof that I'm not pulling this out of my ass, take a look.

FDR was against public unions striking, not their very existence. For someone who is proclaiming to be such a fan of FDR, you apparently know nothing of what you're talking about.

[Shiver]

12. Donated

Chipped in $50, which is probably not a proper use of my student loan money - then again, I can always claim that $50 came from my tax return. The money is in the same account...

[deacon]

15. K + R

[steve2470]

18. k&r nt