Liberal Speak: Gov Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law in Wisconsin

The initial reaction to this headline was "What are they talking about?" Then you read the article and realize that the author doesn't have a clue about what has been done in Michigan. What are states supposed to do if a city goes bankrupt and cannot pay its bills? If this author thinks that any Republican Governor wants to take over a city, they are not dealing with reality. What a pain in the neck to take over a bankrupt city and try to get them on firm, financial footing.

The following comment fit this column perfectly:

Liberals are calling it financial martial law. In my profession we call that hyperbole (extreme exaggeration for rhetorical effect)

What this article does is give an insight into how liberals think. Their first reaction is to go overboard about what this all means which tells us that taking over a city for political purposes is most likely what they would do if they were in charge. The liberals are so in lockstep with the unions that it is mind boggling. Wish they were tied to honest pay for an honest day's work, but then work ethic is not an agenda item for  most unions.

We have a hard time believing that anyone could write this article and it isn't satire. The unions are up in arms at Governor Walker and Republicans for trying to get the Wisconsin budget under control and looks like the Governor is going to be successful:

The property tax bill on the typical Wisconsin home would rise by less than 1% annually over the next two years under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget, the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office reported Friday.

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau also said Walker's plan would put the state's finances in the best shape they've been in for more than 15 years.

We are learning that Governor Walker and the Republicans who control the legislature who will be passing the Governor's budget submission are going to put Wisconsin in the best financial shape in the last 15 years. That is not good enough for liberals in Wisconsin it seems but we would bet the common sense residents of Wisconsin are much more in tune with Governor Walker then they are the liberal union leaders.

Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin
Apr. 16 2011 - 5:16 pm |

Reports are surfacing that Scott Walker is now preparing his next assault on the democratic political process in the State of Wisconsin.

Following the lead of Michigan GOP Governor Rick Snyder, Walker is said to be preparing a plan that would allow him to force local governments to submit to a financial stress test with an eye towards permitting the governor to take over municipalities that fail to meet with Walker’s approval.

According to the reports, should a locality’s financial position come up short, the Walker legislation would empower the governor to insert a financial manager of his choosing into local government with the ability to cancel union contracts, push aside duly elected local government officials and school board members and take control of Wisconsin cities and towns whenever he sees fit to do so.

Such a law would additionally give Walker unchallenged power to end municipal services of which he disapproves, including safety net assistance to those in need.

According to my sources, the plan is being written by the legal offices of Foley & Lardner, the largest law firm in the state, and is scheduled to be introduced to the legislature in May of this year.

The story first came to public attention yesterday during an interview with Madison, Wisconsin attorney and activist, Ed Garvey, on Wisconsin Public Radio.

While Mr. Garvey is a familiar player in Wisconsin politics, some of you who are football fans may recognize his name from his days as the Executive Director of the NFL Players’ Association, where Garvey is credited with making extraordinary strides in the protection of player rights and improving their earning opportunities.

I spoke with Mr. Garvey today to gain insight into his information, which led me to Mr. Nate Kimm – a Wisconsin based political organizer who is a leader in the effort to recall eight GOP Wisconsin State Senators who voted in favor of Gov. Walker’s anti-collective bargaining legislation.

While Kimm was unwilling to reveal his source, he was able to confirm that he had received the information regarding Walker’s plans from a highly placed GOP source, very much in a position to know what the Governor has in the works.

Should these reports prove accurate, Walker’s plan would resemble-if not directly mirror- the legislation signed into law by Gov. Snyder of Michigan which gives Snyder extraordinary powers to take over municipalities when he determines them to be in financial trouble, further permitting him to actually fire locally elected public officials when he deems it desirable.

Gov. Snyder’s extraordinary law became all too real this week when Emergency Financial Manager, Joseph Harris, appointed by the Governor to take charge of Benton Harbor, Michigan, issued an order which took away all powers of the city’s elected officials.

Yes, this has really happened right here in the United States of America.

Walker’s plans give further credence to the notion that the efforts of the GOP governors with Republican majorities in their state legislative bodies are part of a coordinated plan to enforce a right-wing agenda designed to not only destroy state, county and municipal employee unions, but to take control of local governments by replacing elected officials with appointees, both corporate and individual, of the state’s highest executive officer.

More on this as it becomes available.

Thanks to Wisconsinite Doug Olson for his help with this story.

Contact Rick at thepolicypage@gmail.com

One thing to remember is that the person who wrote this article and other liberals are the same ones who helped elect Obama. This writer should apply to get a job with the Obama media because he has the script down perfectly to take a small kernel of truth and put the liberal spin on it so you don't get the whole truth.