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On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:44:13 -0500, David Hartung wrote:

> On 05/22/2012 08:37 AM, 3006 Dead wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 May 2012 06:23:15 -0500, David Hartung wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/21/2012 09:24 PM, 3006 Dead wrote:
>>>> House Democrats calls for Gov. Walker to clarify testimony in light
>>>> of new video By Eric W. Dolan Monday, May 21, 2012 19:31 EDT Print
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>>>> Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). Photo: Megan McCormick.
>>>> Topics: governor walker ♦ scott walker
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
>>>> have asked Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to obtain a clarification
>>>> from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).
>>>>
>>>> During a congressional testimony last year, Walker had denied that
>>>> his actions in Wisconsin were used to punish members of the
>>>> Democratic Party and their donor base, namely unions. But recently
>>>> released video of the governor appears to contradict his testimony.
>>>>
>>>> “This new video raises serious questions about the veracity of
>>>> Governor Walker’s testimony before our Committee, in which he
>>>> repeatedly described his decision to strip public sector union
>>>> workers of collective bargaining rights in purely economic terms,†
>>>> Reps. Elijah Cummings,
>>>> Gerald Connolly and Chris Murphy wrote in a letter. “Instead, this
>>>> video suggests that his motivation was to ‘divide and conquer’ public
>>>> sector unions in order to turn Wisconsin into a ‘completely red
>>>> state.’†
>>>>
>>>> Before he introduced legislation to strip public employees of
>>>> collective bargaining rights, he promised a billionaire donor that he
>>>> would use a “divide and conquer† strategy to bust unions, a newly
>>>> released video revealed.
>>>>
>>>> In the video shot by documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein on Jan.
>>>> 18,
>>>> 2011, billionaire Diane Hendricks asks Walker if he would make
>>>> Wisconsin a “completely red state, and work on these unions, and
>>>> become a right-to- work?†
>>>>
>>>> “Oh, yeah,† Walker replied. “Well, we’re going to start in a couple
>>>> weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going
>>>> to deal with collective bargaining for all public employees, use
>>>> divide and conquer.†
>>>>
>>>> Hendricks went on to give the governor’s campaign $510,000. That
>>>> makes makes her not only Walker’s biggest donor, but the biggest
>>>> donor to any candidate in Wisconsin’s history, according to the
>>>> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
>>>
>>> It appears that House Democrats do not realize that they have no
>>> Constitutional oversight of a sitting state governor.
>>
>> Actually, yes, they do.  Oh, they can't fire him, but they can
>> investigate, and if he has broken federal law, turn it over to Justice.
> 
> I see your point, but wouldn't that be the job of the State legislature,
> not the Congress?

The Wisconsin state legislature is incapable of doing its job.