# Big labor gets a big wakeup

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**Category:** PolitiSUCK\
**Created:** [August 10, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340 "2011-08-10T04:48:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/1 "2011-08-10T04:48:27Z")

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> **[GOP retains Wisconsin Senate control in recall battle](http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/10/wisconsin.recall.elections/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)**
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> Republicans retained four of the six state Senate seats that were in jeopardy in Tuesday's recall elections in Wisconsin, news media in the state reported.

> **[Wisconsin Recall Elections Don't Change Trajectory, But Larger Effort Persists](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/wisconsin-gop-holds-off-democrats-in-recall-elections.html)**
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> Republicans held control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday, keeping four of six seats against Democratic challengers in a recall election, but don't expect the bickering to end there as battles remain pitched across the country over union rights and...

Even MSNBC is having trouble putting a positive spin on this for their left wing union loving crowd:

> **[Democrats fall short in Wisconsin recall elections](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44075969/ns/politics-more_politics/)**
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> Democrats failed Tuesday in their effort to gain control of the Wisconsin state senate as Republican incumbents won four of six recall elections.

And two Democrats face recall elections there next week, so this could be a net gain of 0 after big labor spent millions.

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**Author:** ![n20junkie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n20junkie/32/7396_2.png) [@n20junkie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n20junkie)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/2 "2011-08-13T16:43:58Z")

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What if the unions had given the 35 million they wasted back to the union members instead of wasting it on this?

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**Author:** ![turbociv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@turbociv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/turbociv)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/3 "2011-08-13T21:12:27Z")

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every penny spent on trying to regain senate control in wisconsin is a penny well spent.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/4 "2011-08-13T23:16:39Z")

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Only big labor spent millions? Not Big _every industry in Wisconsin that enjoys fucking people over_? I’d say kicking out 33% of a caucus just on them being so out of touch with their state politically is pretty acceptable.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/5 "2011-08-16T20:52:38Z")

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cliffs?

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-labor-gets-a-big-wakeup/215340/6 "2011-08-17T15:26:12Z")

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The legislature of Wisconsin went Republican in 2010 for the first time in a very long time, and they elected a whackjob Republican governor. They passed such an out-of-touch right-wing agenda, fucking over the state employees among other things, that the people forced 6 Republicans into recall elections, along with two Democrats because the Dems left the state to delay the vote on it. Ended up with the two Dems holding their seats and two of the Republicans being kicked out, leaving the R’s with a one-vote majority in the Senate there.