With visions of delusional grandeur, Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, nearly claims he’s been reincarnated as 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Walker said FDR would totally approve of his union-busting moves, according to jsonline.com.
“The position I pushed is not unlike the principle that Franklin Delano Roosevelt ? not exactly a conservative ? pushed as well when it came to public sector collective bargaining,” Walker said. “He felt that there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people. We are the people.?
Walker shared the pearls of wisdom during a speech at the annual Governmental Research Association policy conference Monday on University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s campus.
It’s great preparation of his star turn on national stage Sunday. Walker and Milwaukee begin hosting the National Governors? Conference. ?Of course, it wouldn’t be first time that he’s garnered national attention.
Walker and Wisconsin Republicans? union-busting ways sent some Democrats running for Illinois. In 2011, Republicans held a 19-14 majority in the Wisconsin Senate, the Rockford Register-Star reported. However, one Democrat had to be present, in order to vote on a controversial union-busting budget bill.
A gang of 10 Wisconsin senators holed up at Rockford’s Clock Tower Resort and Conference Center.
?This is pretty significant legislation that would take away decades of collective bargaining rights,? Wis. state Sen. Jim Holperin (D-12th) said, then added:
?The proposal was only given to us Tuesday. We need more than three days, and the people of Wisconsin need more than three days, to understand what’s in the bill, to discuss what’s in the bill and to consider the ramifications of what’s in the bill before we vote on it.?
Cher once sang that she wished she could turn back time. Walker and Republican legislators did just that. They demolished decades of collective bargaining history. Wisconsin passed the Collective Bargaining Act?the nation’s first?in 1959, according to the Wisconsin Labor History Society.
Photo of Governor Scott Walker (R-Wis.) from the Iowa Republican.
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