No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for March 11th, 2011

The last, desperate, gasp to delay the budget repair bill

by @ 17:26. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

H/T – Kevin Binversie)

WisPolitics is reporting that Secretary of State Doug La Follette will be taking the full “10 working days” (which excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays per state statute section 35.095 (1) (c)) he has under state statute section 35.095 (3) (b) to publish what is now Wisconsin Act 10. Since the state Constitution states no act is in force until it’s published, that gives the unionistas and their bought-and-paid-for local units of government two more weeks to ram through sweetheart deals.

I wish David King had been able to make it a clean sweep.

“Shut up!”, they explained, MATC edition

by @ 10:33. Filed under Politics - Milwaukee County.

Charlie Sykes got a hold of an e-mail circulated through MATC’s e-mail system calling for the boycott of the Shorewood Sendik’s because the owner committed the unforgivable crime of supporting Jeff Stone for Milwaukee County Executive. Below is the e-mail, complete with headers showing the misuse of MATC’s system for political purposes and multiple errors in grammar and spelling:

From: David Weingrod
To: Timothy Decker ; Charlie Dee ; John Eimes ; Amy Goldwater ; !Local-212-Full-Time-Faculty !Local-212-Full-Time-Faculty < !Local-212-Full-Time-Faculty@matc.edu>; !Local-212-Full-Time-Paraprofessionals !Local-212-Full-Time-Paraprofessionals < !Local-212-Full-Time-Paraprofessionals@matc.edu>; !Local-212-Part-Time-Faculty !Local-212-Part-Time-Faculty < !Local-212-Part-Time-Faculty@matc.edu>; !Local-212-Part-Time-Paraprofessionals !Local-212-Part-Time-Paraprofessionals < !Local-212-Part-Time-Paraprofessionals@matc.edu>; !Local-587-Full-Time !Local-587-Full-Time < !Local-587-Full-Time@matc.edu>; !Local-587-Part-Time !Local-587-Part-Time < !Local-587-Part-Time@matc.edu>; !Local-715-Full-Time !Local-715-Full-Time < !Local-715-Full-Time@matc.edu>; !Local-715-Part-Time !Local-715-Part-Time < !Local-715-Part-Time@matc.edu>; Richard Lokken ; Kevin Mulvenna ; Janet Nortrom ; Craig Smallish
Subject: Re: URGENT: Boycott Sendiks in Shorewood
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:28:47 -0600

Many of us live near or shop at the Sendiks in Shorewood and were told that Nehring was not giving funds to union busters, unlike the other Sendik owners, Balistreris. Please go to the Shorewood manager this weekend and tell him he needs to tell John Nehring that he either pulls his support from Jeff Stone or we will have a serious boycott of Shorewood. Tell him you shop ther but no longer unless he pulls his support–publically. Monday, there will be a protest in front of 2300 E. Kensington in Shorewood where. The fundraiser for Stone starts at 5:30 or please plan to be there by 5:00. More details to follow.

Walker signs budget-repair bill, rescinds layoffs

by @ 10:13. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Since I’m borrowing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story as the initial source, I’ll also borrow their headline. With a few strokes of Gov. Scott Walker’s pen this morning, the clock has now run out on unions and local units of government attempting to get one more round of one-upsmanship upside the taxpayers’ wallets. The budget repair bill, which limits public-employee collective bargaining to base pay (except for public-safety employees) is now law.

Shortly before Walker signed the bill into law, he also rescinded the planned layoffs of 1,500 state workers slated to begin on April 1. WLUK-TV has posted (H/T – Kevin Binversie) the letters delivered to the heads of the unions informing them that the layoffs will no longer be happening.

As Jim Geraghty tweeted for an alternate headline – “Walker, Wisc. GOP save or create 1500 jobs”.

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