Monday, August 8, 2011

Today's Teamster News 08.08.11

Democrats ready to wage state Senate recall war in Wisconsin  Washington Post   ...After months of partisan turmoil solved not all that much in Washington, the political world will turn its attention to Wisconsin this week in search of some clarity...
Walker, Ryan absent in run up to recalls  Politico   ...Wisconsin's two most polarizing Republican figures are largely absent from the action in the run-up to the recalls...
Kasich looking to privatization to cut costs, raise cash  Springfield News-Sun   ...Shifting at least five prisons to private ownership and operation is just one of Gov. John Kasich’s privatization efforts designed to cut government costs and generate cash...
Florida Governor Scott gets to work on his own problems  News-Press.com   ...Gone are the brusque tea party talking points, replaced by folksy reminiscences about family, his Navy days and business realities learned selling doughnuts and cleaning phone booths...
Snyder recall efforts retooled  Lansing State Journal   ...Tom Bryant, communication director for the Committee to Recall Rick Snyder, said the group now is retooling the effort for a new Sept. 29 deadline to get it on a February ballot...
Second Recession in U.S. Could Be Worse Than First  New York Times   ...the economy is much weaker than it was at the outset of the last recession in December 2007, with most major measures of economic health — including jobs, incomes, output and industrial production — worse today than they were back then...