Polifact: Gives Walker and Kasich a LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!

[Joanne98]

on the morning of Feb. 18, 2011 -- a day after Democratic state senators fled to Illinois to prevent a vote on the bill -- Walker made a startling declaration in a Milwaukee radio interview..

At the turn of the 19th century, the Republican governor told conservative talk show host Charles Sykes, Wisconsin adopted the "strongest civil service protections" in the world.

Walker then added:

"Those fully remain intact. Civil service does not get altered by the modest changes we're talking about here. Collective bargaining is fully intact. You've got merit hiring, you've got just cause for termination and for discipline. All those things remain."

In the middle of that statement is the eyebrow-raising remark.

Collective bargaining would remain "fully intact"?

In arguing the changes would be modest, Walker cited the civil service system and said "collective bargaining is fully intact." However, Walker himself has outlined how his budget-repair bill would limit the collective bargaining rights of public employees.

Indeed, it's that provision that provoked daily demonstrations at the state Capitol and national media attention. To now say now say collective bargaining would remain "fully intact" is not just false, it's ridiculously false.

And that means it is Pants on Fire

But John Kasich gives Gov. Walker "props" for creating a false budget imbalance to gin up a fiscal reason to strip state worker bargaining rights and then lying about the implications of what he is doing.

Here in Ohio just as in Wisconsin SB 5 is nothing more than an ideological political move.


http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2011/02/non-partisan-politifact-on-wi-gov-walkers-key-claim-about-his-budget-repair-bill-a-pants-on-fire-lie.html

[samplegirl]

1. Thanks Joanne

Rec!!!