I reported a couple weeks ago that Ron Paul apparently buys the email list of anti-gay lunatic Eugene Delgaudio. It now appears that Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin does too. I got another email to the non-existent myers@ftb address, one used only by Delgaudio until the last couple weeks. Amusingly, it’s addressed to “Dear conservative.”
Dear Conservative,
As the duly elected Governor of Wisconsin I have been steadfast in my beliefs that limited government and fiscal responsibility should be the cornerstone of putting my state back on the road to prosperity.
I am facing a recall by the big-government public employee unions and their minions who are threatened by the voters actually being in charge of where their tax dollars are being spent.
In November of 2010, the majority of Wisconsin voters resoundingly said enough-is-enough to the status quo and put me in charge of a state that had been beholden to big government special interests with a tax-and-spend mentality that created a $3.6 billion deficit.
In less than a year we were able to eliminate this deficit and provide the freedom of choice for public employees. Our reforms are allowing them to decide if they would like to spend more than a thousand dollars a year in union dues or keep their money. We put a stop to the unions’ railroading of the taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars.
What we need now is your help in telling the unions we do not want another tax-and-spend liberal at the reins of power in Wisconsin. You can do this by contributing $20, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford by clicking here.
I have been a man of my word to the voters of this state and have always led by putting the interests of Wisconsin taxpayers first.
Since taking office, I have eliminated a bureaucratic and bloated budget mess left by the previous administration without raising taxes or laying off state workers. Thousands of Wisconsinites are back on the job, and statewide property taxes have decreased for the first time in years. Stand with me today with a generous contribution of $20, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford.
The people of Wisconsin deserve to see the bold and courageous choices I have made come to fruition. It is time to stop these out-of-state special interests in their tracks and let them know that our conservative values will not be taken lightly.
With your help, I will be the first Governor of Wisconsin elected twice in my first term.
Thank you for your support,
Scott Walker
GovernorP.S. Don’t let the liberal elite and the Big Government Union Bosses control this election. Will you help me spread my message of positive reform with a generous contribution today of $20, $50, $100? Thank you!
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eigenperson
May 6, 2012 at 11:05 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There’s another possible explanation: Walker may have bought the list of Paul.
Not that that is much better.
Ellie
May 6, 2012 at 11:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I just received the Walker email on Friday. Since I never received anything from Paul, I’m assuming DelGaudio sold the list to Scott Walker. I am also assuming there aren’t real people involved in these sales, or the name “Jane Doe” at an obviously anonymous email address, might give them a clue. I have no idea how DelGaudio got it.
bubba707
May 6, 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The funniest thing in that letter is his refference to stopping out of state special interests. Considering most of Walkers campaign funding comes from out of state special interests that is a real hoot.
Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe
May 6, 2012 at 12:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“minions”?
ricko
May 6, 2012 at 1:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, and I get Delgaudio’s stuff too… Probably because I voted no on one of his web sites.
So Scott Walker is on the gravy train. This will come back to him when he goes down in the recall… Although I live in Wauwatosa and he “may” get 51% in his neighborhood.
Reverend PJ
May 6, 2012 at 1:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve always wondered what was wrong with “tax and spend”, since the other alternatives are “tax and don’t spend”, “don’t tax and spend”, and “don’t tax and don’t spend”. The first and third alternatives are silly since they would imply that government has no real purpose. The second alternative seems to be standard operating procedure for the Rethuglicans, leading to big deficits and the screwing of the non-wealthy.
Tax and spend is the way to run a government, with the caveat that the objectives to be accomplished by taxing and spending should serve the general good. Mind you, I’m an idealist who believes that government exists to serve all the people.
raven
May 6, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Anyone in the area have any idea how likely Scott Walker is to be recalled?
I’ve googled for some of the polls and they seem to be all over the place.
I don’t think it is at all certain. The people of Wisconsin elected him in the first place along with all this co-thugs.
Modusoperandi
May 6, 2012 at 3:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s Mister Conservative.(*1)
Reverend PJ “Mind you, I’m an idealist who believes that government exists to serve all the people.”
That’s not idealism. That’s socialism.(*3)
*1. Only my friends and family get to call me by my first name.(*2)
*2. Which is also “Conservative”.
*3. SOCIALISM!!!
velociraptor
May 6, 2012 at 3:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There is also ‘borrow and spend’, which the GOP seems to favor.
reasonbeing
May 6, 2012 at 4:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Walker is a clown. I live on the MN/WI border (MN side)and am not sure if he will be recalled or not. He has been a terrible public official on many issues, particularly towards women. He needs to go. Wisconsinites need to get out and vote!
Reverend PJ
May 6, 2012 at 5:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
True. I always get the impression that “borrow and spend” is presented as not really borrowing.
raven
May 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
During the Bush catastrophe, it was, “cut taxes and increase spending wildly”.
The Federal Reserve is projecting a recovery by 2018. Unless the GOP gets another chance to sink the USA.
Martin Wagner
May 6, 2012 at 9:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If he’s so fiscally responsible, why does he need to beg for money?
Area Man
May 7, 2012 at 12:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
THIS TIME WE CAN’T LOSE DELGAUDIO!
Sorry. That just cracks me up, and I will do it every time this weirdo’s name comes up.
Midnight Rambler
May 7, 2012 at 4:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think Delgaudio has multiple lists. Not everyone gets every email, and on the account I receive his emails I’ve never gotten one from either Paul or Walker.
d cwilson
May 7, 2012 at 8:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You have to admire the chutzpah it takes to call taking away people’s collective bargaining rights as restoring their “freedom of choice”.
fifthdentist
May 7, 2012 at 11:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
d cwilson,
The choice is working a shit job with poor/no medical benefits guaranteed to lead to a slow death, or no job and no safety net leading to a somewhat quicker death.
There’s your choice.
But really smart like Mitt Romney choose to be born to a family where the father is a multi-millionaire governor. Obviously those who did not make that choice should take personal responsibility for the poor decision they made.
flex
May 7, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ d cwilson,
It’s not chutzpah when they believe it.
The logic is as follows:
1. In all states union membership is not required. But in most states unions are still authorized to collect fees from people who are covered by the collective bargaining agreements negotiated by the unions. In other words, you can be a non-union member teacher, but the teachers union can still charge you for the collective bargaining services they provide.
2. Which means that even if an individual doesn’t belong to a union, they are often paying a union fee.
They then conclude that people don’t have a choice about joining or not joining a union because of this fee.
So “freedom of choice” in their world, means an individual is free to choose to not pay for the collective bargaining which they directly benefit from. Note: I don’t know what the fees are generally, but when I got into a debate with a friend about the “forced unionization” of Michigan day-cares two years ago (it wasn’t) the fee was about $45 per year. I’ve heard numbers of up to $20/week for some unions, but I don’t have any confirmation of that level. That would put the amount at >$1000/year, as the letter suggests, but I would have to have some evidence for those numbers. Every study I’ve seen suggests that even at $1000/yr, the members of unions generally get more than $1000/yr value for their money through good collective bargaining agreements.
This is the basis of why the Right to Work movement destroys unions. People who are in Right to Work states can choose to not pay the unions for the representation they get by the unions. Which means the unions go bankrupt and workers loose the infrastructure which gives them collective bargaining power.
The inability of the members of the laboring class who support Right to Work legislation to see that they are shooting themselves in the foot astounds me. I think it is a result of decades of union demonization, combined with the idea that any government regulation of business restricts growth, along with an ignorance of the history of unions.
d cwilson
May 7, 2012 at 11:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Collective bargaining that the public service unions are no longer allowed to do, thanks to Scott Walker.
Skip White
May 7, 2012 at 12:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As a public service employee (thankfully not in Wisconsin), I must say, fuck Scott Walker and the horse he rode in on.
I’m tired of conservatives painting all public sector workers with the same incredibly wide brush, i.e., that we’re all basically welfare queens, suckling at the taxpayers’ collective teat. Sure, I get great health benefits, but that’s at the expense of higher take-home pay. I take in a whopping $42,000-odd per year, to support my disabled wife and I. I’m in an especially thankless job that’s already mostly vilified by the public at large, and especially the subset of the population that uses our services. I am not, for sure, living high on the hog, and my position takes several years of ongoing training in order to master it.
I am a union member, mostly because the difference in cost between full union dues and “fair share” dues is negligible (2% of each paycheck, I believe), and I get full union protection in case I would ever need it. But even if I was not in the union, I still benefit from collective bargaining, which is responsible for not just health benefits, but sick time, vacation time, and pay rates.
But back to my main point, Scott Walker is just another pandering apparatchik of the True American Republican Tea Party of America(TM).
sidhe3141
May 7, 2012 at 1:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For those of you playing at home who can’t be bothered to keep count, it’s fifteen sips and one shot.
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June 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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