From Governor Scott Walker’s upcoming
memoir Unintimidated:
A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge, The Cap Times highlights the unique business advancement
of Ian’s Pizza, from parlor to palace, during the organized protests against Act
10, Walker’s unprecedented reforms of public employee collective bargaining
rights.
memoir Unintimidated:
A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge, The Cap Times highlights the unique business advancement
of Ian’s Pizza, from parlor to palace, during the organized protests against Act
10, Walker’s unprecedented reforms of public employee collective bargaining
rights.
In 2011, Republicans in the Wisconsin
State House realized that public employee unions were taking bigger pieces of
the state’s financial pie, so to speak, while cutting out the man and women
kneading the dough and pouring the sauce: the taxpayers. Thus, Walker and colleagues
needed to order a different menu of governance: one which placed the needs of
the taxpayer and the public interest on top, without the additional toppings of
red tape and bloated, unionized bureaucracies.
State House realized that public employee unions were taking bigger pieces of
the state’s financial pie, so to speak, while cutting out the man and women
kneading the dough and pouring the sauce: the taxpayers. Thus, Walker and colleagues
needed to order a different menu of governance: one which placed the needs of
the taxpayer and the public interest on top, without the additional toppings of
red tape and bloated, unionized bureaucracies.
To feed the protestors who resisted these
reforms, contributors from all over (including France and Bosnia) sympathetic
to public sector unions donated funds to the nearby establishment Ian’s Pizza
during the height of demonstrations.
reforms, contributors from all over (including France and Bosnia) sympathetic
to public sector unions donated funds to the nearby establishment Ian’s Pizza
during the height of demonstrations.
Protestors dined on pepperoni and sausage
from Ian’s while peppering the state capital with shredded posters and cheesy
monikers decrying a subtle rise of fascism because of Walker’s necessary budget
reforms.
from Ian’s while peppering the state capital with shredded posters and cheesy
monikers decrying a subtle rise of fascism because of Walker’s necessary budget
reforms.
Walker should be proud that his reforms
of the political scope of Wisconsin’s public sector union cabal fired up
liberal interests globally, yet Walker stood up to them, as well. Even if the
governor has not reached the 250,000 mark for job creation, he at least
delivered on cooking up more business for his state, especially during those
fractious days in Madison.
of the political scope of Wisconsin’s public sector union cabal fired up
liberal interests globally, yet Walker stood up to them, as well. Even if the
governor has not reached the 250,000 mark for job creation, he at least
delivered on cooking up more business for his state, especially during those
fractious days in Madison.