Really?

Now this is the kind of crap that I've come to expect from Tate and company!

By the way Mikey, can you reference a single time where Walker actually used the term 'union thug?' I didn't think so!

BTW - It should be called Taxpayer Park, and not Miller Park. But in conformity and subservience to your true masters, you choose to recognize the union involvement above the taxpayer's involvement in building that facility. I'm not surprised.

And that my friends in the real distinction in the upcoming recall elections: public sector unions vs taxpayers!

Thanks for setting the record straight and showing us what the recalls are really all about Mr. Tate, although us smart ones already realized your 'truth.'

What a JOKE!!!

Walker for President!
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I clicked on the link in the "Shout Box" or whatever they call it, expecting to find another Jason Pratfall gem. Imagine my surprise when....well, I guess I'm not really all that surprised. WI Democrats are ridiculous from the very tip top all the way down to the very bottom.

On the contrary, the ball players should be like the state and be able to elect the people they negotiate with. What could go wrong with that?!

What a joke. How did Miller Park come to be??? What a pathetic way to attempt to make a completely pointless statement. If I was in support of the democratic party, I wouldn't be after an ignorant blog such as the one above. I guess the sun rises, the moon glows, baseball exists in Wisconsin and the angels sing because of the democratic party. Was the above opinion written out of stupidity or arrogance or a very dangerous mix of both? As the old saying goes, its better to be quite and let people wonder if your stupid rather than opening your mouth and proving it. Please keep proving it.

What untrue garbage.

This is pathetic. This is just another cut and paste job from the DPW website.

I will again voice my complaint. For this to be considered a blog it cheapens the work done by the rest of us bloggers.

Mike Tate, you are truly an idiot.

I'm pretty sure Braun and the boys were not picketing outside of Walkers house and yelling at the kids to the grocery store

Mike Tate is a moron, idiot and whats really bad is that he believes his own BS. Sure hope he doesn't breed.

sad

GO BREWERS!!!!!!!!!!

As always, this has become a bunch of "do-nothings" ideologues that live on the Patch a way to voice their conservative propaganda about the Democrats. It's true that Walker is avoiding any situation that might cause him to be challenged. Why don't you all try to find a legitimate argument to debate rather than beating your chests and making ape noises?

Maybe The Governor is thinking of the good families who will be there that day. He probably does not want them to have to witness the ugly childhood rants that the left so blatantly displayed at State Fair and other events last year. Mike Tate and Graeme Zielinski....do you know how utterly stupid you look. The movie Dumb and Dumber comes to mind. Why would the Governor want to make Opening Day about Him? I would not have thought about Booing Doyle at an event....I guess that's the difference between the 'adults' and the "entitled".

Labor unions go against every single employer-employee relation example in the Bible, it never ceases to amaze me how Christians still try to justify their membership in and support of unions. The Bible calls willful sin "lawlessness" and there is a higher level of accountability for this. A faithful Christian simply cannot join or support a labor union in any way. You're known by the company you keep, and union members are extortionists and are on a rocket sled to Hell.

Note to Patch stylebook::

A quotation which extends over more than one paragraph requires a new quotation mark at the start of each new paragraph (but not at the end of each paragraph) and then, a quotation mark at the end of the entire quote. Also, a quote within a quote ("thug") requires a set of single, not double quotation marks.

In the case of the above article, since there are no quotation marks in the interior of the quote, a reader could easily make the mistake of thinking that the article had switched to the voice of the Patch itself, and not that of the idiotic hack called Mike Tate. I am sure the Patch wouldn't want this to happen.

The reason Walker is not going to opening day is because the Koch Bros invited him to a Walker fundraiser at the Florida Marlins game where he will be applauded by about 3 people who will sign a big check for him. That is more important than attending a game with the family because we all know who Walkers real friends are.

All of this back & forth is nonsensical. Walker is simply not interested in supporting the local teams - he has much larger ambitions than this state, and is focused on rubbing elbows with big money (aka the Kochs and other wealthy campaign donors) which can easily be seen by his daily activities. Even if he loses the recall, he is not going to be too worried because he has been smooching as many of the big boys butts he can to ensure fame and fortune beyond Wisconsin. Wake up Wisconsinites who support Walker - he doesn't give a damn about you or this state - just like he didn't give a damn about Milwaukee. He left Milwaukee holding a bag full of lawsuits and a ruined infrastructure and didn't give that a moment's thought. The problem is that people who have "chosen Walker's side merely because he is a declared Republican have put blinders on to what he is all about. He is not a republican - he is a political opportunist who will do the bidding of anyone willing to pay the highest price.

Its a good thing the private sector unions were a part of building Miller park,they show up to work. If WEAC or AFSCME was there it wouldnt even be up yet. Teachers only work 7 months a year and cry when the have to stay late and have half the work force because the senior people make triple the wage and are already on retirement and no new workers can get hired . Cnty and state would be calling in sick to pad OT pay and the Muni's are all on vacation or disability.

Has anyone told this MORON that Walker has no the issue with the private unions (duh!.....) .like the ones that helped to build Miller Park....how conveinient that small detail was overlooked

I must point out once again that Scott Walker created the polarization by "dropping the bomb" on public employee unions after campaigning on "Jobs Jobs Jobs" and union negotiation. If he is trying to avoid public appearances and the protests they are certain to bring it is for him to reflect upon his own role in the acrimony.

Now, with ALEC's involvement in the Trayvon Martin/Stand Your Ground/concealed carry shame exposed and major corporate members running for the hills (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Kraft) and more to follow, Scott Walker's embrace of this seditious organization and ALEC funders the Koch brothers will draw even more attention to him.

I try. I really, really try to see the other side's point. I try to think that there are good people on both sides and a lot of this is just honest disagreement. I try to keep in my head that the other side might have good and reasonable points. I try to tell myself that the other side is comprised of smart, well meaning people.

I can't do it any longer. They are...in two words...unbelievably stupid. And what is worse, they think the rest of us are as stupid as they are, which we would have to be to buy this garbage they are putting out there. Its not even fair anymore.

"That's because this year, the benefits of collective bargaining are writ large in the exoneration of Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun"
I guess I missed seeing Ryan Braun marching at the Capitol this past year. I think Mike Tate should pick on him, the ingrate that he is.

Why wouldnt Gov Walker want to spend time at a Brewers game on Good Friday? I can think of many reasons 1) He is a Christian and its a great time to spend with a family. 2) Why would a leader want to put on national display the kind of stupidity that is present in WI when he has a publicly announced event. 3) Why needlessly distract your team with BS while they are playing their nemesis ? 4) Its a long weekend and he doesnt need more work. etc etc etc .... Tate and Bren must be sharing the same needle, they have the same symptoms , craving a fix ,throwing up on the Patch and having everyone that see's or hear's them wishing they would just go away and whispering about how they got as bad as they are.

You people are whacked!! Lets just get on with business and start to make WI the place people want to live. Low taxes, good jobs and fair governement. Things we haven't for the past 8 years before Walker.

Mike Tate is a poster child for NAMBLA

Tate forgot to include all those great union jobs that are building and working the iron mine in his Patch article.

This post is obviously propoganda. What gets me is the amount of time people spend getting enraged over it.

Miller park, the Brewers, Wisconsin in gerneral, all super-awesome things. In fact, the only thing that could make all of that better is a sweet-ass socialist light rail system that can get me and my drunk friends to and from Miller Park.

Well, that, and if the citizens of the best state in the Union could engage in productive conversation.

Why would Walker go to Brewers game? He is hated by a vast majority of people and would be booed out of Miller Park.

As I posted on my Facebook Blog http://www.facebook.com/groups/RecallWalker/ March 5, 2011

It is interesting that when Scott Walker was in the WI Legislature he carried water for Bud Selig and the other private owners of the Brewers' Team, so they could pay high salaries to the Union Ball Players.

He even helped create a tax, that we the public are still paying, to raise money for the "for profit" private company known as the Milwaukee Brewers ($310 Million from taxpayers)

Walker even went to bat for the Union Players when he was Milwaukee County Executive. When the Brewers decided to cut their payroll, Walker said it was bad for the public investment, and players needed to be paid more.

And the MLB players are making quite good money now. According to the Major League Baseball Players Association (union) --- the average in 2010 was $3,340,133. *

I wonder how many public employees are making $3 million a year from taxpayer money ---- not too many, I would think.

Walker and his TeaGOP minions will be out of their offices very soon.
Starting a War on Women this close to the Recall election was stupid.

John Nichols ‏ @NicholsUprising

WIGovWalker goes all in for GOP war on women, approving anti-choice, anti-equal rights bills. As if #wirecall gender gap wasn't wide enough!

The comparison between the ballplayers and the union is absurd. The ballplayers don't get to elect the people they negotiate with. The people they negotiate with did not campaign for the vote of the ballplayers. There is no conflict of interest in MLB like there is at the state level.

@Luke Unfortunately the Republican politicians who gave away our tax money to the multi multi millionaire owners to build stadiums that the majority of us will never go into, and that are part of a private business enables the multi multi million dollar payrolls for the players.

Now I get it --- WE, the voters and taxpayers, are the Chumps !

@David T.

1. The stadium was a bipartisan decision.

2. Yes, we are the Chumps!

Make this simple. Rep. Dem. battle is childish. Until this country gets a President that is either we will stand by as a country and watch them fight like schoolyard kids. Cut, Cut Cut is not the solution especially in education. What about the pentagon that has a budget two thirds of the income of social security to police the world? This country needs to stay IN the classroom and OUT of other countries. The less education these kids get the worse of our future looks. Save all this money now to lose future business owners and inventors. Oil is traded in U.S. dollars globally and we cannot afford to lose that due to our debt. And that is why we spend most of our budget on military. So other countries agree globally to keep it in U.S. dollars. Question is how much farther will we dig ourselves to keep it and how big of a budget problem would we have if not spent on military? Canada seems to be doing just fine and last I heard nobodys threating them! Has nothing to do with baseball. BUT... GO Brewers!!!!!!

Today was the real opening day.