Union Busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Gives $81,500 Government Job To Top Donor’s 26-Year-Old College Dropout Son

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Gov. Scott Walker - Modern Royalty

Since taking office in January, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights, proposed wage cuts to local government employees, and insisted that his “state is broke” and that its public workers are overpaid.

But Walker applies a different standard to himself.

Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that Walker is using state funds to pay more than $81,500 a year to the 26-year-old son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions.

Walker gives lobbyist's college dropout son an $81,000-a-year job

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Republican Bill Says If You Strike You And Your Entire Family Won't get Food Stamps

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Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

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Promises, Promises: Obama Rebuffs Invites to Stand with Workers In Wisconsin

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Will Workers Stand with Obama Again in 2012?


Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker's move to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

So far, however, the White House has stayed away from any trips to Madison, the state capital, or other states in the throes of union battles.

Five Things Unions Have Done For All Americans

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