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Cigar
09-22-2014, 02:02 PM
Three state agencies in Wisconsin who are tasked with implementing voter ID for the Nov. 4 election say they have no additional money set aside to help voters and state workers comply with the newly reinstated requirement. In addition, there is no money for public information or an outreach campaign.

Municipal clerks in Wisconsin’s two largest cities say they will spend thousands of dollars and hire hundreds of poll workers in the next few weeks to ensure that voters have the proper government-issued photo identification when casting their ballots, according to Wisconsin State Journal.

According to spokesmen for the three state agencies — the Government Accountability Board, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Health Services — they are using existing staff and resources to handle the demand.

Laurel Patrick, a spokeswoman for Gov. Scott Walker, said the state has no estimate of how much it will cost to implement voter ID.

http://www.alan.com/2014/09/21/gov-scott-walkers-wisconsin-has-no-budget-for-voter-id/

What ... ? :huh:

You mean Voter Suppression isn't Free? :laugh:

momsapplepie
09-22-2014, 02:06 PM
you lose! LOL! Voter ID is the law.

Cigar
09-22-2014, 02:08 PM
you lose! LOL! Voter ID is the law.


I bet you're so Fiscally Smart you can tell us how many people have been caught and convicted per extra Wisconsin dollar. :laugh:

momsapplepie
09-22-2014, 02:09 PM
no ID no vote. simple.

Captain Obvious
09-22-2014, 02:10 PM
I bet you're so Fiscally Smart you can tell us how many people have been caught and convicted per extra Wisconsin dollar. :laugh:

It's the LAW.

You don't have to LIKE it, but you have to OBEY it.

Bitch!

:biglaugh:

momsapplepie
09-22-2014, 02:22 PM
uh oh, no more dead people voting, no more illegals voting. no more double voting, no more bussing people from out of state. The dums are screwed in Michigan, and surely other states are going to follow now.

Cigar
09-22-2014, 02:50 PM
no ID no vote. simple.


... and still will lose :laugh:

momsapplepie
09-22-2014, 02:52 PM
yes the dums will lose. no one to cheat for them this time in Wisconsin.

Cigar
09-22-2014, 02:53 PM
It's the LAW.

You don't have to LIKE it, but you have to OBEY it.

Bitch!

:biglaugh:

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/images/smilies/newsmilies/biglaugh.gif

Back-At-Cha
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texan
09-22-2014, 03:31 PM
Good thing Wisconsin has a surplus from good management to use if they so choose. Thank you Scott Walker.


Wisconsin budget surplus tops $977 million; Walker to unveil tax cut plan next weekhttp://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/21/image001-png_162613.png (http://www.ap.org/)By Scott Bauer, Associated PressJanuary 17, 2014 9:11 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's budget surplus was projected Thursday to reach nearly $1 billion, money that Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislative leaders are eyeing for income and property tax cuts.
But news of the $977 million surplus, which was expected for weeks but larger than many anticipated, set off a feeding frenzy in the Capitol among lobbyists, special interest groups and lawmakers.
"Everybody and their cousins from other states will be coming home to get a piece of the money," said Republican Senate President Mike Ellis, who has served through several budget booms and busts since he took office in 1971.
Walker and Republican leaders tried to dampen expectations for more spending, saying the money generated mostly through higher-than-anticipated tax collections should be returned to taxpayers. But Democrats and other liberal advocacy groups said it should be used for everything from aid to public schools and higher education, Medicaid and worker training grants.


Of course the liberals want to spend the money the republicans save. They can't save it themselves to spend.

Just another of those RED STATES doing well huh CEE'Gar? Remember that dumb Thread?

texan
09-22-2014, 03:35 PM
I love it too, the teachers unions were breaking the bank. Walker does some common sense reform. They revolt and bus people in from all over the country and try and have him removed.

They Lose.

Then he was right.

Now they want the money to be spent on them LOL! Democrats can't live with them can't kill them.

PolWatch
09-22-2014, 03:36 PM
In the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, as noted by Rick Hasen (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63868), a professor and election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, the justices cited a case from last month in which 50-year-old Robert Monroe was charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office with 13 counts of voter fraud.
According to TPM (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/robert-monroe-voter-fraud-wisconsin), Monroe is a Walker supporter who claims he had a form of temporary amnesia that kept him from remembering his alleged activities. He is accused of voting five times during Walker's recall election, three times under his own name and two times via mail-in absentee ballots using the names of his son and his girlfriend's son.
Hasen wrote that it "does not appear that ANY of the alleged 13 counts of voter fraud that Mr. Monroe was charged with would have been stopped by a voter id requirement," since Monroe voted under his own name when he voted in person. The professor also noted that the alleged voter fraud was caught without the voter ID law being in place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/31/wisconsin-voter-id-scott-walker_n_5638577.html

Cigar
09-22-2014, 03:38 PM
Good thing Wisconsin has a surplus from good management to use if they so choose. Thank you Scott Walker.


Wisconsin budget surplus tops $977 million; Walker to unveil tax cut plan next week

http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/21/image001-png_162613.png (http://www.ap.org/)By Scott Bauer, Associated PressJanuary 17, 2014 9:11 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's budget surplus was projected Thursday to reach nearly $1 billion, money that Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislative leaders are eyeing for income and property tax cuts.
But news of the $977 million surplus, which was expected for weeks but larger than many anticipated, set off a feeding frenzy in the Capitol among lobbyists, special interest groups and lawmakers.
"Everybody and their cousins from other states will be coming home to get a piece of the money," said Republican Senate President Mike Ellis, who has served through several budget booms and busts since he took office in 1971.
Walker and Republican leaders tried to dampen expectations for more spending, saying the money generated mostly through higher-than-anticipated tax collections should be returned to taxpayers. But Democrats and other liberal advocacy groups said it should be used for everything from aid to public schools and higher education, Medicaid and worker training grants.


Of course the liberals want to spend the money the republicans save. They can't save it themselves to spend.

Just another of those RED STATES doing well huh CEE'Gar? Remember that dumb Thread?


Wisconsin state budget shortfall projected at nearly $1.8 billionThe expected shortfall for the next two-year state budget starting in July has risen to nearly $1.8 billion, or about half of what it was when Gov. Scott Walker took office in January 2011.
Meanwhile, the state's projected gap in its current budget ending June has risen to $396 million — or about 1.2% of the spending planned for the 2013-'15 budget.
The Republican governor resolved a more than $3 billion budget shortfall in the months after taking office, but the latest projections show the state is running through the resulting surplus. The state is again facing a gap in the 2015-'17 budget because of tax cuts enacted by Walker and lawmakers and lagging growth in other state taxes (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/state-tax-collections-fall-281-million-short-of-projections-b99340228z1-273066471.html) in recent months.
The projected weakness in the state budget matters because it eventually could lead to cuts in spending on priorities such as schools or increases in state taxes or fees.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wisconsin-state-budget-shortfall-projected-at-nearly-18-billion-b99345660z1-274364501.html

texan
09-22-2014, 03:47 PM
http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/nw-wisconsin/Wisconsin-reaches-over-400-million-in-budget-surplus-274918061.html

Wisconsin reaches over $400 million in budget surplus By KBJR News 1http://media.northlandsnewscenter.com/images/470*264/NNC_Money+correctdimensions.jpgWisconsin reaches over $400 million in budget surplusSeptember 12, 2014Updated Sep 12, 2014 at 12:57 PM CDTDuluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- The Badger State began the 2014 budget with $400 million in budget surplus, which is the largest rainy day fund in state history.This means the state has $400 million in extra money which hasn't been spent as expected, and there is still four more months left in the year.

You democrats just keep lying...................Hey you lost!

When you wake up tomorrow Scott Walker will still be the Governor elected not once but twice!!!!!!

LOL CEE'Gars same writer wrote this article about the surplus as well.......Which is it Cee'Gar & Stein, can't make your discredited minds up on this topic?

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-to-tout-states-economy-tax-cut-plan-in-annual-speech-b99189785z1-241513471.html

texan
09-22-2014, 03:56 PM
Even funnier quote from Cee'Gar's Source:

"Burke (Walkers Democratic opponent) , a former state commerce secretary, said she agreed with using some of the money (Surplus she is referring to) on worker training and a property tax cut. But she said that because the surplus is only a projection, she would put more money into the state rainy-day fund and pay down state debt.

Cigar
09-22-2014, 04:02 PM
Despite $1 billion surplus, group says Scott Walker raising state deficit while borrowing is at record highhttp://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2FWalker_curtain.JPG
Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut income and property taxes would increase the state's "structural deficit," but that's not the same as an actual budget deficit. A higher structural deficit could lead to more state borrowing, but not necessarily.
:grin: Oops ---> http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2014/mar/10/we-are-wisconsin/gov-scott-walker-increasing-state-deficit-cutting-/

texan
09-22-2014, 04:07 PM
You need to make your mind up cause you been slam dunked again with your own material. You gonna keep posting without researching by Cut & Paste? Or will you go back to pouting like last week?

A higher structural deficit could lead to more state borrowing, but not necessarily.

You lost to me again pal.

Cigar
09-22-2014, 04:10 PM
You need to make your mind up cause you been slam dunked again with your own material. You gonna keep posting without researching by Cut & Paste? Or will you go back to pouting like last week?

A higher structural deficit could lead to more state borrowing, but not necessarily.

You lost to me again pal.

Wisconsin's private-sector job growth ranks 33rd in U.S., quarterly report showshttp://www.jsonline.com/business/wisconsins-private-sector-job-growth-ranks-33rd-in-us-quarterly-report-shows-b99354089z1-275599241.html

texan
09-22-2014, 07:40 PM
Lol

loser play!


Lost the primary argument so now you want to go and cherry pick something I provided in my links. I read it all and I saw where job growth could have been better but there was substantial growth. Also keep in mind the budget has about 10 more months. Sometimes job growth comes as an economy's health regains.

Get some facts or get out of the argument business. You lost here and your ridiculous red state thread last week. AND WHEN YOU WAKE UP SCOTT WALKER WILL STILL BE THE GOV OF WISCONSIN ELECTED TWICE AND I WILL STILL BE HERE DOMINATING YOU WITH THE FACTS YOU NEVER LOOK UP OR READ WHEN YOU CUT AND PASTE FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST, A BLOGGER OR THE KOS.

zelmo1234
09-22-2014, 08:39 PM
Despite $1 billion surplus, group says Scott Walker raising state deficit while borrowing is at record high

http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2FWalker_curtain.JPG
Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut income and property taxes would increase the state's "structural deficit," but that's not the same as an actual budget deficit. A higher structural deficit could lead to more state borrowing, but not necessarily.
:grin: Oops ---> http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2014/mar/10/we-are-wisconsin/gov-scott-walker-increasing-state-deficit-cutting-/


Cigar, what you are citing is unfunded liabilities, Your state of IL has unfunded liabilities of hundreds of billions of dollars.

What Walker is doing is balancing one budget at a time. If they continue to do this, they will eventually end the un funded liabilities.

Now Obama on the other hand.? Well he ran up as much national debt as the other 43 presidents combined, and you have No issue with this, so you really have no credibility

Mainecoons
09-23-2014, 10:57 AM
It's always fun to watch when Cigar gets around numbers.

:grin:

del
09-23-2014, 11:00 AM
it's always fun when catboy gets around cigar

hilarity ensues

Blackrook
09-24-2014, 12:33 AM
The article does say that the state government is handling Voter ID without increasing the budget. So the OP is a bit misleading. States can do things without always increasing the budget.

Cigar
10-02-2014, 12:30 PM
Supreme Court asked to block Wisconsin voter IawOpponents of Wisconsin's voter identification law are asking the Supreme Court to keep officials from enforcing it in the November election.

Legal papers were filed Thursday with the Supreme Court by the ACLU and the Advancement Project. The groups say there's not enough time to implement new ID requirements in the five weeks before the election.

A federal judge struck down the law last spring as unconstitutional. A three-judge ruling allowed the identification requirements to go forward.




Read more: http://www.wisn.com/politics/supreme-court-asked-to-block-wisconsin-voter-iaw/28369362

Professor Peabody
10-02-2014, 03:23 PM
... and still will lose :laugh:

Like that recall? How'd that work out for ya?

Amazon
10-04-2014, 06:29 AM
Good thing Wisconsin has a surplus from good management to use if they so choose. Thank you Scott Walker.


Wisconsin budget surplus tops $977 million; Walker to unveil tax cut plan next week

http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/21/image001-png_162613.png (http://www.ap.org/)By Scott Bauer, Associated PressJanuary 17, 2014 9:11 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's budget surplus was projected Thursday to reach nearly $1 billion, money that Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislative leaders are eyeing for income and property tax cuts.
But news of the $977 million surplus, which was expected for weeks but larger than many anticipated, set off a feeding frenzy in the Capitol among lobbyists, special interest groups and lawmakers.
"Everybody and their cousins from other states will be coming home to get a piece of the money," said Republican Senate President Mike Ellis, who has served through several budget booms and busts since he took office in 1971.
Walker and Republican leaders tried to dampen expectations for more spending, saying the money generated mostly through higher-than-anticipated tax collections should be returned to taxpayers. But Democrats and other liberal advocacy groups said it should be used for everything from aid to public schools and higher education, Medicaid and worker training grants.


Of course the liberals want to spend the money the republicans save. They can't save it themselves to spend.

Just another of those RED STATES doing well huh CEE'Gar? Remember that dumb Thread?

If Wisconsin has an extra 900 million, why is there no money to enforce voter ID?

Professor Peabody
10-04-2014, 02:01 PM
Even funnier quote from Cee'Gar's Source:

"Burke (Walkers Democratic opponent) , a former state commerce secretary, said she agreed with using some of the money (Surplus she is referring to) on worker training and a property tax cut. But she said that because the surplus is only a projection, she would put more money into the state rainy-day fund and pay down state debt.

Cee Gar's left wingnut sources are always comparable to those alien abduction websites.

Professor Peabody
10-04-2014, 02:03 PM
If Wisconsin has an extra 900 million, why is there no money to enforce voter ID?

Who said they have no money for voter ID?