I really like the part where Barrett talked about the "massive layoffs" in Milwaukee that are Walker's fault. That was Talgo, a company that was going to require a huge amount of un-funded taxpayer dollars to support 36 jobs. I think Barrett should use his Milwaukee budget and save these jobs, if he is so concerned.

Really? It's working for everyone? Clearly the cuts in education haven't helped you- it's "an empty suit." Oh well, can't argue with stupid...

^ weakest troll ever ^

"He is simply a terrible candidate", not "He simply is a terrible candidate".
Ha, kathy is a moron.

LOL you proved my point. You want to talk about spelling and not about Backwards Barrett. Once again....I don't BLAME YOU! LMAO

The elite libs only come on here to check for spelling and grammar errors.....cause that's all they can find wrong with what we say. Get a life! And some sense! WALKER IS THE REAL THING! Barrett is just a socialist.

Funny how Barrett married a criminal, but won't have her arrested on any charges, isn't it?

At least Walker was responsible for turning his own people in. After all, isn't those that are closest to you the most likely to do you harm? If Barrett would actually call for investigations into all the shady things in Milwaukee, his people would be dropping like flies.

Walker has clearly taken the higher road in this regard - only the low information, non-thinking Barrett supporter would conclude otherwise, just as Barrett's little quip was intended to target.

Yea...because that is what happened, he turned his own people in. I don't even think I would believe that if it was front page news.

thats another lie from barrett! http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/jun/01/tom-barrett/wisconsin-recall-dem-challenger-tom-barrett-says-n/

Perhaps he did well, if you're impressed by platitudes delivered with his trademark 'nice-guy' smirk. Barrett is obviously the more intelligent of the two.

Barret is clearly the more intelligent of the two. I think if Barret would have won in the first place we would still have a balanced budget and the public unions would still have their rights. Clearly seeing the unions were willing to take all the concessions that were proposed.

You and I both know it wasn't about balancing the budget. It was about taking the state red and keeping it that way. Walker's vision for Wisconsin is not the state I was born and grew up in. It is not the state I love.

You forgot that he dropped the bomb

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

@Randy1949 -

Hasn't reality actually proven that it really was all about balancing the budgets - both state and local? Those municipalities, including Milwaukee, and school districts that used Walker's tools were able to do just fine, despite the reduction in state aid. However, those communities and school districts, such as MPS, that did not use Walker's tools are hurting. So, who is it exactly that is responsible for those communities/districts hurting - not Walker, as he gave them the tools to use. MPS and Kenosha Public could have easily re-opened their contracts and compromised. Did they?

Did you see what happened two weeks ago in Chicago? CPS offered teachers a 2% across the board raise. Not good enough for the teacher's union, who took to the streets with Jesse Jackson, closing off Michigan Avenue. And this occurred despite IL's massive taxes increases that came earlier last year. I guess they'll have to raise taxes even more, right?

You're already complaining about the taxes you currently pay, and yet, you'll be voting to pay even more - I honestly don't get it.

As far as intelligence goes, debates are supposed to flesh out ideas and real solutions to problems. Walker was the only one at the table offering any ideas or real specific solutions to problems. Meanwhile, all Barrett did was attack, play class warfare, and try to convince us of boogeyman conspiracies. If that's what impresses liberals, then no wonder you guys keep on picking such crap candidates that never get anything positive done! 8 years and counting and Barrett still hasn't fixed MMSD, despite promising to get that job done immediately when he campaigned for the job, remember?

@JRH -- When income taxes are taken from the people who live in localities and less of it is returned -- to balance the state budget -- that leave only increased property tax, a local sales tax or user-fees. I'm going to be paying one way or the other.

Meanwhile, I'm amused to learn that I paid more state income tax in 2010 than Diane Hendricks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wisconsin-billionaire-gov-walkers-main-donor-owed-no-state-taxes-in-2010/2012/05/31/gJQAIaJG4U_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments

Now, before you tell me I don't know what's going on, I do. I wish I could afford the lady's accountants. But now I understand why she's interested in seeing the state corporate tax rate lowered.

Or you could get a skill and stay here.

I am skilled. I am journeyman in my trade and I am very good at what I do. A fair days pay for a fair days work. That is my trade unions motto.

Sad liberal mentality. You say your highly trained and skilled but your whining about Arkansas. Let Arkansas decide what is right for Arkansas. Try reading the constitution and quit promoting yourself as a victim. It really gets old! If your Private union can sustain itself that's wonderful if that is what you want. But don't think everyone wants to be in a club that decides what is in their interests. Liberals are anti gun so union money goes to that effort because they support democrats. I was in a Union with a lot of Hunters who don't support those efforts However, the dues they paid went against their own beliefs. So unions can be good and bad . But They certainly are falling on their own swords because they are top heavy, bankrupt and because of federal laws protecting workers makes there roles less relevant . That's just the facts. Bottom line is no one is forcing you to do whatever work you decide. But you want to force everyone into a club they don't want to be in. That's why we have elections to see what the majority wants. I been on both sides of the fence. I admire Scott Walker for actually having a plan beyond the status quo of Barrett's life long failures.

Stop painting with a broad brush. I'm liberal and I'm not anti-gun. I'm anti-getting-shot-by-a stray-bullet, though. I really don't see what hand-guns and concealed carry has to do with hunting, though.

What are Tom Barrett's life-long failures? Graduating from college and law school? Becoming a member of Congress? Being mayor of a city that's been hosed by loss of manufacturing jobs, racial segregation and white flight? I'd like to see how well any of us would have done.

Randy ...sorry for your confussion. My comment was to DIRK ! I wasnt painting anyone with a broad brush . My point was I was on both side of the fence as I was in a union and out of union. Private Unions are fine cause they have to ultimately survive on their own merit. Public Unions as the WEAC insurance scam reveals have become a shell game to tax payers and that is why they should not be allowed Just as pro Union president FDR stated accurately. Fiscal sanity matters in any organization to sustain itself. That's just reality .

@skinnyDUDE said: "Liberals are anti gun so union money goes to that effort because they support democrats."

I wasn't 'confussed' at all.

“Right to Work” laws aren’t fair to dues-paying members. If a worker who is represented by a union and doesn’t pay dues is fired illegally, the union must use its time and money to defend him or her, even if that requires going through a costly, time-consuming legal process. Since the union represents everyone, everyone benefits, so everyone should share in the costs of providing these services. Amazingly, nonmembers who are represented by a union can even sue the union is they think it has not represented them well enough!

A February 2011 Economic Policy Institute study found that in right-to-work states both the unemployment rate in 2009 and the cost of living were lower.
Northwestern University economist Thomas Holmes, "compared counties close to the border between states with and without right-to-work laws (thereby holding constant an array of factors related to geography and climate). He found that the cumulative growth of employment in manufacturing in the right-to-work states was 26 percentage points greater than that in the non-right-to-work states.

Lets just concentrate on this part of the statement. I think this maybe a little more important than $$$. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that 19 of the 25 states with the highest worker fatality rates were right-to-work states, while just three of the bottom 25 states were right-to-work states.

Got anything from this decade, things do change. Back in 1893 unions may have even made sense.

This is as close to this decade I can get.
First, the differences in worker pay levels between free-bargaining states and right-to-work states are quite
evident. In 2009, the median weekly earnings of full-time workers in free-bargaining states ($771) was
13.4 percent higher, on average, than for workers in right-to-work states ($680).9 Similarly, the average
annual pay for workers in all industries was 14.1 percent higher in free-bargaining states ($44,707) than
in right-to-work states ($39,169).10
Household income figures show a similar contrast between these two groups of states. Among freebargaining
states, the median household income for 2009 ($52,513) was again 13.4 percent higher for
“free bargaining” states (on the average) than for right-to-work states ($46,328).

So 2003 was a good year from your standpoint, but nothing since then?

DIRK Private Labor unions are destroying themselves. They are top heavy. A lot of so called SUITS with the hands in the pie. A lot of the pensions are mismanaged and going bankrupt. Unions in this climate really try to please the people at the top at the expense of new hires. We seen it time and time again . So don't tell me they are for all workers cause I know first hand they're not. Furthermore, For you to think people should have to join a union they don't want to be in means you truly don't care about what is truly a RIGHT. Federal law protects workers plenty . The unions are corrupt and they simply leverage themselves out by pretending a struggling business wont shut down when they become unprofitable n the natural business cycles that can squeeze any company .When the Union dont budge they become the casualty and ALL lose jobs. The cycle continues as they cut their own throats.

That may have been true a half centry ago, welcome to 2012.