That would be Sgt. Dale “I Know Nothing” Schultz (RINO-Ethanol), who apparently is going to work with the AWOL Democrat Senators to undercut Gov. Walker’s budget fix proposal.
Sgt. Schultz has been a frequent target of criticism in this space as well as its predecessor for his sellout to Big Ethanol and attempting to force a statewide ethanol mandate down the throats of unwilling Wisconsin consumers. He was also a key player in sabotaging the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and blowing the previous GOP majority’s chance to change the tax climate in Wisconsin.
Now, Schultz has come out with a piece at WisOpinion.com in which he proposes allowing the changes to the collective bargaining process to expire in two years. This will allow the thugs from the Wisconsin Extortion Association Council and other gummint union thugs to take back via new negotiations everything Gov. Walker is demanding they give up. In other words, the unions can contribute 5.8 percent to their pensions and 12 percent to their health insurance for two years then negotiate it back to having the taxpayer pay 100 percent for both.
This phrase from Sgt. Schultz’s op-ed both frightens and angers me:
Too often when we don’t come together
Why … why … why do these linguini-spined squishes view the process of coming together as Republicans agreeing with Democrats? If the 14 AWOL are allowed to gain anything for their despicable behavior, they will do it again and again every time they are faced with defeat.
Steve Eggleston at No Runny Eggs observes the following:
I guess that $500 WEAC PAC gave Schultz last year, along with the $1,000 they gave him in 2006 and $1,000 in 2002, the only significant money to go to an individual Republican lately from WEAC, just might have had something to do with that knife in the back.
James Wigderson wonders if the Democrats can recall Schultz.
Now why would they do that? Schultz is the Democrats’ best friend on the Republican side of the aisle.
A couple points of order:
- Almost all school districts purchase teachers’ health insurance from WEA Trust outside the state-run Public Employers Group Health insurance system, so the 12% of health care costs most other public employees will be paying won’t exactly be paid by the teachers.
- If WEAC rushes through contracts for the 2011-2013 period, they will never lose any collective baragaining rights.