Prosecute those responsible for plotting this corrupt power grab
The majority leader of the Wisconsin state Senate, Scott Fitzgerald, admitted today on FOX News that the radical budget plan he and his brother and Gov. Walker are trying to force on the people of Wisconsin is a deliberate strategy to cripple the Democratic party in 2012 and make it harder for Pres. Obama to win the state of Wisconsin.
Fitzgerald said if public servants lose their right to collectively bargain, it will undermine the unions that represent them in negotiations and that will deprive the Democrats of a key organizing and advertising platform, making it harder to win Wisconsin in 2012. Fitzgerald volunteered this information, and his admission should be treated by everyone across America as a shocking landmark in the degeneration of our politics.
The leading Republican in the Wisconsin state Senate has voluntarily admitted that his party's obsessive and irrational demand that no budget reform whatsoever pass unless it also strips public servants of their basic rights is a political conspiracy to rig the 2012 electoral playing field in favor of Republicans.
Shadowy front-groups funded by billionaires are already spending huge sums in the state to propagandize Wisconsinites and persuade them to forfeit their own right to organize, to defend their rights, to play a role in deciding the future health of their communities and their state.
Fitzgerald's admission is the clearest sign to date that there is no real budget crisis in Wisconsin. The Republican Senate leader's admission that the legislation is designed to operate as a concerted political assault on Pres. Obama and any Wisconsinites who might support his re-election is an admission of a criminal act.
The Wisconsin Republican party appears to have committed itself to the radical project of Walker, Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald, which aims to use the legislative process to dismantle over a century of gains in labor rights and re-engineer the political landscape to give themselves and undue advantage in the elections of 2012.
They are doing this in the wake of the Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which permits industry front groups to spend literally unlimited sums of money to influence the outcome of elections. They are trying to ensure that there is no opposition of any kind to any of the policies they seek to enact. They are seeking, very deliberately, and in what appears to be a coordinated effort across the country, to limit the ability of any group no supporting the Republican party to inform or influence the views of voters.
The people of Wisconsin should launch a petition to stage an independent investigation into the Senate leader's admission that the budget process is being used to rig the 2012 elections in favor of the Republican party in Wisconsin. If any discussions of this motivation are uncovered, every individual involved should be removed from office and prosecuted for corruption.