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Post by 73withharoldlee on May 12, 2015 8:01:27 GMT -6
The Business Journal is reporting that Walker will veto any capital projects that require bonding in his budget along with two other UWM projects that may be more important than basketball. Meanwhile the immediately decaying highways get wider and longer white the rest of the world creates new modes of transportation. I am just an old fart who has waited for a long time to see my alma mater get ahead. We have a wonderful university that does great things for Milwaukee and Wisconsin. We deserve better.
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Post by apaladino on May 12, 2015 10:44:12 GMT -6
I was in a meeting yesterday and there are 3 projects that have been put on hold. The one that I was concerned about was the practice facility. What's concerning is that we have a lot of the funds needed to pay for the facility, and the cost will only increase.
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Post by PantherU on May 13, 2015 17:38:13 GMT -6
I was in a meeting yesterday and there are 3 projects that have been put on hold. The one that I was concerned about was the practice facility. What's concerning is that we have a lot of the funds needed to pay for the facility, and the cost will only increase. You do know this is 100% the Governor running for President, right? We wouldn't be talking about this if the election was in 2018 or another Republican were governor. This is 100% about looking good to Republican superdonors by balancing a budget ASAP, regardless of consequences. I don't understand how anyone can keep voting for this self-serving schmuck. I can think of 15 Wisconsin Republicans I'd rather have as governor than Scott Walker, who is so ridiculously messed up with priorities that it's incredible that we haven't gotten straight revolt and 100,000 protestors outside the statehouse this spring. Gimme Vos, Fitzgerald. Gimme Joe Sanfelippo, someone I greatly respect. Gimme a Republican whose personal aspirations include being the best Governor that Wisconsin can have, rather than some snake oil salesman with little regard for the rules and even lesser view of his office, which he views as a pit stop to the Presidency. His only saving grace to me is that if he were to keel over, we'd be left with Rebecca Kleefisch as Governor, which is quite possibly the scariest thought I've had since I was eight and watched Halloween by myself in the basement. This is a project that will have full funding. Give it 10 years and every dime borrowed from the budget will be paid back, guaranteed. There's absolutely ZERO reason to put it off, in fact as Paladino said there's every reason to do it now versus the future, when it will be more expensive. If he didn't just want to fund the other two buildings, I'd get it. I wouldn't like it, I'd disagree with it, but I'd get it. There's just no reason at all to not fund a practice facility project when it's fully funded. The other facilities aren't fully funded - nowhere near - but they're exponentially more important, especially the Engineering facility that's going to help grow the economy like gangbusters.
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Post by kingsteve on May 14, 2015 8:03:00 GMT -6
As Shakespeare said...beward the lean and hungry look...this guy is a modern day Claudius....wolf in sheeps clothing...blind ambition....his picture should be in the dictionary with the definition of Weasel
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on May 14, 2015 8:46:45 GMT -6
Holy sh*t there are some that are so far on the left on this board.
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Post by ghostofdylan on May 14, 2015 8:55:22 GMT -6
You'd almost think this was the Loyola board!
And Freak and Fran haven't even posted yet!
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on May 14, 2015 9:00:36 GMT -6
Your not kidding. Maybe this thread needs to be locked.
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Post by 73withharoldlee on May 14, 2015 14:50:13 GMT -6
There needs to be a reason for governance. Walker has an agenda based upon his desire to become President or maybe Vice President. This is not governance. Why it is taking so long for people to be upset surprises me, be you republican, democrat, or something else. This may not be the forum to discuss politics but we share a common interest in our University, a Public institution funded by tax dollars, tuition, and endowments. We can do better and should let Part time Governor Walker know there is more at stake than his career goals.
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Post by BBFran on May 14, 2015 16:21:04 GMT -6
I believe the latest Marquette Law poll amply demonstrated that the Governor's focus outside the state is eroding his standing within the state very significantly even among his supporters. But I believe this is a fairly common phenomenon with Governors who aspire, whether reasonably or ludicrously, to national office. (Especially those who have no foreign policy credentials who determine they are better off traipsing overseas learning how to pronounce hard foreign names even while the home state's problems are roiling.) It simply goes in the political calculus of such would-be candidates and the answer they always come up with is "Me, Me, Me!" That's why most politicians, like the rich, are different than us.
I was in Madison yesterday with some very involved people who were lamenting, as I do, the passing of the days when we had executives and legislators who disagreed vehemently on the floor of the Capitol but were also friends who could have a beer together, and for the benefit of the state, found a way to compromise and get things done. Warren Knowles, Pat Lucey, Lee Dreyfus, Tony Earl, Tommy Thompson and Jim Doyle were fundamentally about Wisconsin, not about party or ideology.
Anyway, we are all feeling the effects of one party rule right now. It's the nature of one party rule that it doesn't take long before the idealistic flush of victory becomes the cynical arrogance of incumbency. But that's why it always swings back -- and why the ruling partisans never see it coming until it's too late to stop it. Unfortunately, the citizenry gets subjected to the irrationality of the extremes in this pendulum swing, and as our state has become more deeply fractured than ever through demographic shifts and gerrymandering, those extremes are getting ever wilder. Hang on to your hats.
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Post by pantherwalleye on May 14, 2015 18:09:26 GMT -6
I'm taking my victories one at a time, the Panther Arena scare is late in the 4th quarter and we're ahead by a lot! .....Practice facility? Lets just start next season like we ended this last season ending run, and not let Valpo steal a game in the last 5 minutes.
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Post by panthersteve on May 15, 2015 8:05:27 GMT -6
Kind of laughable if it was not so pathetic...little guy is on some sort of Reagan "wanna-be" adrenalin fantasy quest...the thing is he is much more like say Sarah Palin than Ronald Reagan...not sure what the gipper would think of Scooter as Reagan was in fact much more centric and open to compromise putting ideology aside at times for the best of the country
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Post by PantherNation on May 15, 2015 9:08:18 GMT -6
I can't tell if I'm on the Panthers messageboard or reading political comments from JSOnline.
If everyone is so unhappy with the governor, maybe you could all organize some sort of effort to replace him. What's that called... a recall? Oh wait.
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Post by PantherU on May 15, 2015 11:14:54 GMT -6
I can't tell if I'm on the Panthers messageboard or reading political comments from JSOnline. If everyone is so unhappy with the governor, maybe you could all organize some sort of effort to replace him. What's that called... a recall? Oh wait. I get it. I didn't support it then and I wouldn't now. When you lose an election, gear up for four years later, or do nothing and then anoint someone totally in over their head and hope for the best. I don't think I could understand how anyone could be happy with the Governor's second term up to this point. But his overall job performance is not why you're reading this here now. You're reading all this on here because now the Governor's Presidential campaign express is running over this program, the entire reason this board exists. There's no earthly reason the practice facility should not be approved. It's going to cost the students more in the long run because we are going to be building it later to fit the Governor's personal ambitions, so the project is going to cost more. Not to mention the fact that the extreme benefits to the basketball program are now going to get postponed, which will put off the ability of the program to achieve sustained success and with that the student retention and bump in enrollment that comes from having a winning basketball team. We can't come to the table and believe that the sun shines out of every orifice on the politician we support. Look at Paladino, a staunch conservative who is questioning what is going on here. Look at the statehouse Republicans who are questioning these cuts to the UW. I guess what I'm trying to say is, this isn't just a bunch of liberals bellyaching about the conservatives being in charge. Conservatives aren't getting the Governor they voted for either.
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Post by Pantherholic on May 15, 2015 12:33:57 GMT -6
Maybe this thread needs to be locked. This thread needs to be deleted.
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Post by 73withharoldlee on May 15, 2015 15:58:10 GMT -6
So be it, let us talk basketball.
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