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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:35 AM
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FEINGOLD: STOP THIS NOW!!!
"This is not about the budget at all this is about trying to destroy people's right to collectively bargain," Feingold told me. "If you begin with a dishonest approach...and begin making threats, it's a really an assault on Wisconsin's traditions. It's really something a new governor shouldn't be doing."

"I call on him tonight to pull back, to drop this issue of collective bargaining and get back to budgeting," he added.

Democrats lost all elected branches of government in Wisconsin this past November. Feingold thinks Walker's actions should be a wake-up call to Democratic voters to take back the legislature from the GOP in 2012. But he declined to endorse a fledgling push by progressives to recall Walker early next year, at least until the new governor has established a more complete record of leadership.

"We're going to have to elect a different legislature so this guy doesn't have the kind of absolute power that he's trying to abuse," Feingold said. "This is about stopping this now, so we don't have to recreate these rights that have been in place for so long on."

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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:42 AM
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1. Feingold is right, but until enough people realize that their way of life is actually being
destroyed, nothing will happen
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:09 AM
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2. They're going after our livelihood, after our bread and butter.
We need to stop Walker now.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:19 AM
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3. About time someone on the federal level said something!
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:20 AM
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4. Umm, Feingold is now a private citizen in WI
just sayin'....
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:24 AM
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6. Yes, but you know what I mean.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 10:24 AM by Fearless
The national level, no one seems to give a damn. Even Bernie Sanders hasn't said anything.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:19 AM
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10. not too many officials are speaking up, what's up with that?
are they thinking this is just going away.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:22 AM
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5. If Walker and the GOP are not stopped in Wisconsin...
It will fall apart nation wide.

Everything that was fought for by our fathers and grandfathers will be for nothing, it will all disappear.

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:41 AM
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7. i love it -- but please mr feingold -- stop writting missives and join the people in the street. nt
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:16 AM
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8. He is doing both. Here is a link...
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:18 AM
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9. good. nt
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