Showing blog posts tagged with States
Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.)
proposed federal budget
, as we pointed out, is
bad for the nation and for working people
.
But it gets even worse: Ryan’s plan, which the U.S. House has approved already, would gut what little is left of state budgets by slashing funding for a range of programs. States and localities would lose $247 billion from 2013 through 2021, in addition to the cuts they would absorb because of caps on national spending,
according to
the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (
CBPP
). (Click on chart at left to expand.)
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We haven’t checked the national polls lately to see how Texas
Gov. Rick Perry
is doing in his I’m-more-right-wing-conservative-than-thou race to capture the Republican presidential nomination. But it looks like he’s closing in on the lead in another important election—the Transport Workers’ (
TWU
‘s)
Worst Governor Ever
summer special election.
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More than 100 union and community activists in House Speaker John Boehner’s Ohio district figured that the August “district work period”—better known to the rest of us as Congress’ summer vacation—would be a good time to talk with the Republican leader about work or, more specifically, the lack of it for millions of Americans.
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The first results in today’s six Wisconsin recall elections are in and working families in state Senate District 32 have propelled Rep. Jennifer Shilling (D) to a win over incumbent state Sen. Dan Kapanke (R).
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There has been a steady stream of voters today in the Wisconsin recall elections, according to news reports. The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
reports “strong turnout,” and in some precincts “as heavy as a presidential election.”
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There have been a lot of really bad governors over the years. But working families are confronted with quite a bumper crop of despicable state chief executives who are hell-bent on eliminating good middle-class jobs, giving the wealthy and corporations big tax breaks, undermining voters’ rights, cutting funding for education and jobs and more.
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Turnout will be the determining factor today in the six Wisconsin state Senate districts where working family voters have the chance to
recall the Walker 6
—Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) closest state Senate allies who spearheaded his move to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees and ram through a budget devastating to working families.
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Wisconsin voters go to the polls Tuesday to
recall six
of Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) closest state Senate allies. The Walker 6 spearheaded his move to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees and ram through a budget devastating to working families.
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Back in February, everyday Wisconsinites made political history when they rose up against Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) move to crush workers’ rights and eliminate the collective bargaining rights of public employees, from snow plow drivers to teachers.
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This week in New Orleans, some 2,000 state legislators are being wined, dined and given their legislative battle plans by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to push a corporate agenda and undermine workers’ rights. The Koch brothers-funded and corporate-backed ALEC generates model legislation for right-wing grassroots activists and funds their attacks on workers’ rights, public employees and more.
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