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"SHORTLY after his exit from an abbreviated presidential run last fall, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin returned to a more successful undertaking: dismantling what remains of his state’s century-old progressive legacy.
Last month, Mr. Walker signed a bill that allowed corporations to donate directly to political parties. On the same day, he signed a law that replaced the state’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, a body that is responsible for election oversight and enforcing ethics codes, with two commissions made up of partisan appointees. Now a new bill supported by Mr. Walker, which is expected to clear the Republican-dominated Legislature with a Senate vote soon, threatens to corrupt Wisconsin’s Civil Service…
Mr. Walker’s new Civil Service bill replaces anonymous exams with résumés, opening the door to political or racial bias that would prove almost impossible to detect because personnel files are not part of the public record.”
By adding the Civil Service bill, Mr. Walker brings Wisconsin closer to the achievement of a long-sought goal of the libertarian right: universal “at-will employment.” Unlike union workers or state employees, whose collective bargaining agreements or Civil Service rules generally require employers to demonstrate “just cause” for them to be fired, at-will employees can be terminated at any time for any reason. At-will employment is promoted by the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, which disseminates model bills to state legislators benefiting its corporate members and conservative private backers.
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New York Times
George Rogers "Roger" Howard speaks about Scott Walker at:
Gwen Alexander's Americans for Christian Traditions in our Nation "ACTION Breakfast January 14. 2014 Candidates" YouTube
"Every day you've been hearing at the success in Wisconsin...We can reduce taxes and pay for our roads. They're doing it in Wisconsin...My message is, it's possible to do it here. It was done in Wisconsin. There is no more union state than Wisconsin, where public service unions were born. There is no more Democrat state than Wisconsin. There is no more resistance to conservatism than in Wisconsin. And yet they got it done as in Indiana. We can do that here. That's what I would work for."
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