UNION BUSTER CRIES UNCLE-DROPS OUT

Scott Walker drops out of race . . . .good freaking riddance you POS!

knothead wrote:Scott Walker drops out of race . . . .good freaking riddance you POS!

Indeed! He did such an outstanding job in Wisconsin you certainly wouldn't want someone of such competence and ability to follow such a failure. That would make semi-retired President Obama look even worse.

Hahahahahahahahaha. He has a bright future selling reverse mortgages on Fox News.

Now this is rich . . . . . . this weenie says he is dropping out to clear the field for the other candidates! Hell he was at -1% and who believes Trump will be hurt by his exit? This is rich . . . . !

Salinsky wrote:Another "top-tier" candidate consumed by the Trumpster fire.

As you know, it had little or nothing to do with Donald Trump.

He is a superior Governor and did great things for Wisconsin. He entered to late and was broke with the money holding off in the wings for the field to shrink.

Amusing is it not? My far left Progressive friends were joyfully reveling in the fact that so many highly qualified candidates were running for President. What else could they do given they have a field of...ONE.

Then, when properly so, the field is narrowing...that wrong too.

Who could make these things up?

It has everything to do with Trump, Walker believed that the Iowa race would be his ticket to advance and he now sees that Trump will crush him there. His ego could not bear the thought of being demoted to the 2nd tier happy hour debate to follow. By dropping out he saves himself the indignity that was sure to follow . . . . . total and complete failure . . . . . his message does not resonate for whatever reason, you pick. Money? Reportedly he still has in excess of $20M so it is not a money issue like Perry . . . he was broke. He can attempt to salvage his political career to run another time . . . . he's toast for now.

Markle wrote:

Salinsky wrote:Another "top-tier" candidate consumed by the Trumpster fire.

As you know, it had little or nothing to do with Donald Trump.

He is a superior Governor and did great things for Wisconsin.  He entered to late and was broke with the money holding off in the wings for the field to shrink.

Amusing is it not?  My far left Progressive friends were joyfully reveling in the fact that so many highly qualified candidates were running for President.  What else could they do given they have a field of...ONE.

Then, when properly so, the field is narrowing...that wrong too.

Who could make these things up?

Are you blind or just read what you want? Superior? Don't think so.

Just two months ago I wrote about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s dual attacks on his state’s flagship university. Walker, who is currently running for the Republican nomination for President, is moving to eliminate tenure for professors at the University of Wisconsin, while at the same time implementing an enormous $250 million budget cut.

This week we learned a new reason why Gov. Walker cut that $250 million: He wants to give it to wealthy hedge fund managers to build a new basketball arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

No kidding. I can only imagine what my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin are thinking.

On Wednesday, Walker signed a bill that would spend $250 million of taxpayers’ money to build the new arena. Last year, the team TISI +% was purchased by two billionaire hedge fund managers, Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens. In what’s become a standard ploy, the new owners threatened to move the team if they didn’t get a new arena.

As the Washington Post reported on Thursday, one of the team’s other owners is Jon Hammes, one of Walker’s top campaign fundraisers. Hammes’ son recently donated $150,000 to a pro-Walker super PAC. For the Hammes, this must feel like a pretty good return on investment: $150K plus some fundraising work in return for $250 million. (Obviously, Walker will deny that there’s been any quid pro quo. But Walker has been working on this deal for months: according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal, he included $220 million in state money for the arena in his budget back in February, but state lawmakers took it out.)

The libertarian Cato Institute denounced the public financing of the arena, according to the New York Times. Other Republicans are furious with Walker because one of the team’s co-owners (Lasry) is a major supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

When I wrote about Walker’s attacks on the University of Wisconsin in June, I was mystified by why he would go on the offensive against an institution that his state should be incredibly proud of–and that provides countless benefits to the state and the nation. It seemed petty and vindictive, and it still does.

But the money cut from the University of Wisconsin, $250 million, exactly matches the state’s contribution to the new arena for the billionaire hedge fund owners of the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s now obvious what Scott Walker’s priorities are.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/08/14/scott-walker-takes-250-million-from-u-wisconsin-gives-250m-to-billionaire-sports-team-owners/

Salinsky wrote:Another "top-tier" candidate consumed by the Trumpster fire.

How do you figure that? When he dropped out he was polling less than half of one percent.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

ppaca wrote:But the money cut from the University of Wisconsin, $250 million, exactly matches the state’s contribution to the new arena for the billionaire hedge fund owners of the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s now obvious what Scott Walker’s priorities are.

Walker is a lightweight. No wonder he cut the University of Wisconsin's budget: He failed to graduate from there. People who drop out of college do not become President of the United States.

Right boy college sure makes a difference!

Without advanced degrees where would Steve Jobs, Bill Gates be today?

Thousands, probably millions of highly successful people either dropped out or never attended college.

But then it was simply your childish way of whining.