This is the headline of the article Kasich linked to in his tweet:
Walker defends plan to strip state worker bargaining rights
And the image from the article:
Protesters direct their anger toward a car in Gov. Scott Walker's motorcade Tuesday
The protest was one of several in La Crosse to voice opposition to Walker's budget repair bill.
PETER THOMSON photo
"Walker was not forced into a budget repair bill by circumstances beyond he control," says Jack Norman, research director at the Institute for Wisconsin Future -- a public interest think tank. "He wanted a budget repair bill and forced it by pushing through tax cuts... so he could rush through these other changes."
In a Wednesday op-ed, the Capitol Times of Madison picked up on this theme.
In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million.To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January.
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.
Here in Ohio just as in Wisconsin SB 5 is a ideological political move.
Gov. Kasich would rather play partisan political games to satisfy campaign allies and hurt working families then focus on the real reasons for our economic crisis in order to get people back to work in good jobs.
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