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The unemployment rate fell in Wisconsin last month, but so did the number of jobs. Wisconsin lost 3,900 jobs in the private sector -- the sixth month of job loss in a row since his budget took effect, says the Wisconsin State Journal.
But there are a few positions open in Wisconsin, namely doing the thankless task of scanning the 1.9 million signatures to recall Governor Walker and his second-in-command. From the Wisconsin Reporter:
And speaking of temp jobs, the board has had a hard time filling the petition review positions, mainly because too many prospective employment candidates have signed recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
If you signed a petition, you can't get a job scanning them. And since so many people signed, the pool of potential applicants is small. Republicans and independents, come on down?
Above, a scene from the very real Recall Cam, doctored by @RecallCam to make things more fun.
(H/t @news3jessica, the official explanation of what's on the Recall Cam.)
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That makes a lot of sense. If you are FOR the recall we can't let you scan signatures supporting the recall but if you are AGAINST the recall, you can scan them? Sometimes life is just stupid funny!
"The unemployment rate fell in Wisconsin last month, but so did the number of jobs."
The irony is that he did create a few jobs, they're trying to remove him from his.....LOL....
I imagine the percentage of people in Dane County (progressive Madison with the UofW campus) who signed the petition is particularly high so it makes sense that finding people who didn't sign to scan all of those documents will be tough. It's too bad, in a way, because it is likely that the people who signed the Walker recall petitions are probably among those who have been hurt the most by Walker's anti-jobs, anti-worker agenda and could use the work.
That's a great point, @Charley_James -- Dane County probably does have a higher rate of signers.
This concern, combined with the "lost GOP primary votes", makes me believe our election systems have built-in fraud mechanisms inherited from past generations.
There is no excuse for why fraud should still be a concern for voters.
Social security, DMV, and banks should be integrated into an ID-centric system that can be used to add a secure on-line environment to the mix of things available for petitions and voting.
1.9 million signatures in 60 days comes to better than one signature every three seconds working 24/7. Way to go Wisconsin!
Why does the board need temps when there are plenty of clerical workers on the state's payroll? I can't imagine any state agency that could not spare a few clerical workers. It is not as if this work is going to be long term because the board will have a deadline to make a decision. The work can be done if the state is willing to pull in some state workers and pay them overtime.
I'm all for paying state workers overtime, but I've worked for state (& federal) agencies before, and most folks there are lucky if they're only doing their one full-time jobs' work - way too many offices have several people doing more than one job already. The fact that they are not long term is why they'd hire temps.
Um, they were the first ones to sign.
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They can't pull clerical workers from other state agencies because state workers were the first to sign! With a wage freeze since 2008 while your brand new Gov, takes a $7000 pay raise can make you bitter like that.
RECALL!
I worked for the state government and they are disinterested in the fact that work is not getting done when budget cuts are in place. Ultimately, when the work backs up enough, the state is forced to hire more people paying them the same salary and benefits. Work does not disappear and more work does not get done just because staff is cut. Budget cuts allow the politicians to tell the voters they have cut the budget, but the politicians never tell the voters the downside. These politicians know that eventually you have to hire more workers to clear up the backlog.
I'm not too busy. I can come up from Dallas to help out with the counting.
I didn't think any employer, let alone a government employer, could ask for this information as a condition of employment. Could someone enlighten me?
I am guessing that it is written into the statutes somewhere - therefore is law and not just simply a condition of employment
Can anyone say 'voter fraud in the making', when the opponents are going to vet the signatures?
exactly what i've been thinking. hope that the collectors of the signatures got backup copies made...
Indeed. Forms ending up in the trash. In the toilet. In a sandwich. Taking them home at night...Republican conservatives have threatened workers on this issue, I wouldn't trust a single one anywhere in the ROOM let alone working on a form.
Actually this is a duplication of efforts. The recall organizers were entering and validating signatures throughout the recall. If the GAB records are off, we'll know it.
http://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-recall-effort-tainted-corruption-fraud-224500720.html
WISCONSIN RECALL EFFORT TAINTED WITH CORRUPTION AND FRAUD.
*rolls eyes*
Let them do their work - I believe that this will be proven false after verification is complete. That is purely speculation.
This article is based on an Andrew Breitbart commentary. Consider the source.
Tell me Contessa do you ever watch anything but fox?Do you ever get tired of being conned?Just curious, some people are an enigma unto themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57MhgUTGek&feature=youtu.be
Thousands of working class people rally to support Scott Walker.
Paul. I like to watch lots of college basketball. I also read stuff on the internet like, Maddow blog, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, WSJ, Mother Jones, Real Clear Politics, Althouse and for kicks, Moonbattery.com.
Cheers.
The explains it--thanks.
Take them to the prisons and let the prisoners do the job- and pay them minimum wage.
Would that be one of those for profit prisons that lobby congress for more drug wars and stiffer sentencing? You know the ones that are behind the high rate of inmates.
... we don't need no stinking badgers...
The cameras are a joke of course. You can't see how they are ruling out names. The groups calling for the recall are sharp enough to know if there is a con job being done though.
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