By a gossip site: Scott WALKER's "Contempt for Women and the Poor"

Comedians and gossip sites continue to show more insight than professional pundits.

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[font size=5]Wisconsin's Governor Cannot Hide His Contempt for Women and the Poor [/font]

Madeleine DAVIES

.... Since being sworn into office in 2011, Walker has singlehandedly dismantled Wisconsin's century-old reputation as a state with some of the most progressive labor laws in the country. While his highly publicized attacks on unions will likely be the defining moment of his first term as governor, Walker — who is running for reelection this November — has also been consistently at work at something far more sinister: a blatant attack on Wisconsin's women, non-white and poor people.

Problems with Governor Walker started less than two months after he was sworn into office with the signing of the "Budget Repair Bill," a piece of legislation that stripped most public employees' unions of all collective bargaining rights in order to close Wisconsin's $137 million budget gap (a pointless exercise as unions didn't cause the deficit and cutting their collective bargaining rights didn't save the state money). Conveniently, around the same time, he also introduced a series of tax breaks for the state's rich. ....

On November 4, Wisconsin voters will — for the third time — decide whether or not they want Scott Walker as governor. According to projections, he may very well beat Democrat Mary Burke and further his agenda to turn the previously left-leaning Wisconsin into one of the most conservative states in the nation.

It's a scary thought. Walker has already signed a (legally contended) bill that requires abortion providers to gain admitting rights to a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic (a real fuck you to the women of rural Wisconsin) and for women seeking abortions to obtain an ultrasound prior to the procedure. He is vehemently, frighteningly anti-abortion, having once told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he would ban abortion entirely, even in cases of incest and rape. Not that you'd know his extremist views from his 2014 campaign: ....

If it were up to Scott Walker, the upcoming election would not be a fair one. Wisconsin's Republican party has been working hard to institute a voter-ID law that would ensure that hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin residents would not be able to vote at the polls this November. It's also worth noting that voter-ID laws also happen to disproportionately effect people of color (most of whom vote Democrat), not that — when it comes to Walker — this should surprise us. Thankfully, the Supreme Court, as of Thursday, has blocked the voter-ID law from going into effect in time for this election.

Regardless of the SCOTUS' decision, Walker and his cronies have proven time and time again that they are not afraid to play dirty and will not hesitate to step on the disenfranchised if it helps them carry out their right-wing agenda. In four short years, they have committed countless assaults on women's, workers' and civil rights. Who knows what they'll do — and who they'll hurt — with four more.

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