MJ is right. Wisconsin, as most states, have one party consent when it comes to recording.

Did a judge issue a warrant to the prankster prior to his prank call? For crying out loud, your analogy is not even close.

The smell of democrat’s fear is strong. If Walker just dropped that one provision about union dues they would be back in an hour. What a bunch of dupes to believe these people are standing up for the little guy. I am embarrassed for them.

Idiot, I guess you weren’t there that day at law school…..wait, I’m guessing you didn’t graduate high school and are now a union member. Pathetic LOSERS doesn’t even begin to describe you people

The difference… the Mafia wiretaps were Court Approved “PRIOR” to the actually taping… dahhhhd you dummy.

wow… le’s see the State Legislatores refuse to show up for work… several thousand employees call in with bogus excusses to work… the State Legistators run an hide like cowards and someone has the nerve to attack the Governer… what a bunch of trashy people.

Wrong, Jason. As long as one party is aware the recording is taking place, it’s perfectly legal.

Don’t ever listen to anyone who ever says “expecially”

Sorry Paul,
I jumped the gun on that one.

You must be Wisconsin educated. The best resource you could locate was wikipedia. Obviously the most reliable resource on the internet.

Hey MJ. The word is especially, not expecially. Don’t use the big words if you don’t know what they are.

Uh, MJ…that sort of thing is done when you have an official criminal investigation and a WARRANT.

Slight, slight difference.

without a warrant, you moron

You’re focusing on the wrong issue. The “one consent” rule is applicable to whether or not the person recording the phone call can be prosecuted for wiretapping. In this case, he cannot.

That does not, however, make the recording admissible in court, which is what would be needed here.

Funny how certain people flip flop on their values and beliefs. When this was done to ACORN, the repubs were screaming and looking for heads to roll while the dems defended them. On this issue, just take the ACORN issue and replace the two parties and they sound the same

It may be legal, i.e. the prankster will not be charged with wiretapping, but it’s not admissible as evidence in a civil matter, unless the person recording the call advices the other expressly that it could be used as evidence in a court. The statute is Wis. Stat. 885.365.

The bigger question is, was the recording against the law state or federal? If so, prosecute.

You can almost always use video as evidence. Audio obtained illegally may in certain cases be used to impeach testimony, and there are exceptions to the general rule. You can for instance, record telephonic threats or extortion without violating the civil rights of the criminal. Only Law Enforcement Agencies or Agents can “entrap” for the rest, its roping, or “journalism”.

Try telling that to a left-winger.

Maybe it would be a good idea for all of you wisconsian to find out the funding for the get away. If these Democrats are being supported in any way, shape or form by the union or by the DNC then they are legally in a lot of trouble.
Find out the crumb and follow it. How are they paying for their food, shelter, gas, and all other on the road expenses, if there is a collection for them to be on the lamb and it leads to any conflict of interest institutions. they are in a whole lot of trouble.
Aside from that, I agree, their childish behavior is a disgrace.

It’s all hyperbole. The Dems are scared. They fighting as hard as they can to do whatever they can. Call it the last “death throws” of a desperate, dying party.

Having the Democratic investigate ethics is like Jack the Ripper conducting a prayer meeting…what a farce.

Dems need to go to jail if they collect their pay, even after returning to work, for the period they were AWOL!

These are career politicians, not your employees.

Did you read the article or do you just go right to the comments? There are statements prank call or joke in conversation a politician should not make. It is called ethics. How quickly the ex governor of Illinois is forgotten (Blago something or other)

You know what??? Mpst states need someone to come in a kick a little behind and be the ugly duckilng, whether they be democrat or republican. Our entire counrty is in budget deficit hell and everyone just wants to turn the other cheek or just keep raising taxes, Everyone complains about everything…they want to increase taxes so lets complain, they want to make state workers contribute more, everyone complains, if they cut out out assistance programs everyone complains!!! Complain, complain, complain that is all anyone does now-a-days!! WAKE UP AMERICA!! We have gotten far to used to having things NOW and having it OUR WAY and when that doesn’t happen its evil, horrible and bad. This Generation and the past are the biggest bunch of whiners in the entire United States history. Everyone wants everything given to them, but everyone doesn’t want to help work hard for it. They all want someone or something to do it for them so they can sit on their butts and do nothing but complain when it doesn’t go their way or interferes with their plan of complete and utter lack of responsiblity and laziness!! Its amazing we get anything done as a country with how incredibly selfish EVERYONE ( I mean that generally) is on both ends of the political party and everyone just wants to always point fingers and put the blame on everyone else. Children behave better than most adults now-a-days!! Its sickening!!

We need a PRESIDENT like this one. Go in and slash the spending down to 1970 levels. Government employees have no business having a union. The US is doomed. unless we can cut the fat INCLUDING entitlements.
GET A GRIP PEOPLE.

It is so obvious, if, in any situation, the rules as written allow one side or the other to gain a lopsided advantage then the rules must be changed. Simple philosophy,

Here’s fair and equitable: market-driven employment. Cut public employee’s salaries and benefits until you can’t get enough good workers at that level, then work up from there. If public sector employees don’t turn over as frequently as private-sector employees, we’re paying them too much.

It’s nice to see that one party works to make it fair and balanced with the other party…kinda like the democratic congress did with Obamacare….not…

Honey, come get your snacky and go to bed.

You epitomize everything that is wrong with todays electorate!

And unions vote Democrat because they are an easy wheel to grease, right?

How do you explain the very richest people in America (Bill Gates, George Soros, Teresa Hines, The Rockefeller family, 95% of Hollywood, etc.) voting for and actively supporting the most liberal of Democrats? By the way, Wall Street has given more to Democrats in the last two elections than to Republicans. In most years, it is about even. Republicans tend to be the middle class from middle America. They are America.

You seem to forget that the Democrats last presidential election corporations gave more money to Democrats than Republicans. Democrats get 90% of union money and they are in the bag for the unions and union leaders which get rich off the workers. Both parties get too much money from corporations and unions so they are out of touch of what we want.

No they vote for republicans because typically it’s not the right supporting bills that kill the economy. A free enterprise is best for anyone who is willing to go out and earn their money and that’s why business owners support the GOP.

Thank you! I am not paying for another Union Job. I’m so happy I moved out of there, you won’t get another dollar from me.

If your elected officials are taking your rights away, it doesn’t matter if they were voted in. People’s lives and livelyhoods are not a game that you ‘win’ or ‘lose’ at.

Hate Republicans, quit hiding in the “Fox Hole” your great State is broke and you talk like your educated, maybe you missed the election deadline. Your very Union educated the way you write, tell me what the Union dues are used for ? I’m sick of paying the dues after thirty years and I’m sure it will be hard for you to except but you have a choice, face reality.

You are an idiot. He does not want to bust up unions. He wants to let the PUBLIC have a fair shake in union dealings. they can bargain on wages and a few other things but not LUMP everything together in one pot. You really need to get your facts straight. Government employees should have never had the right to unionize in the first place. but since they are there they need to understand that they are the PUBLIC’S servants not the other way around.

You don’t actually think being a union thug is a right, do you? You think you have a RIGHT to hold the public hostage while delivering third rate services? Governor Walker is not busting a union. He is simply scaling back the inordinate power that the Wisconsin public employee union has to something on par with what federal employee unions have. But let’s indulge your nightmare. What would be so awful about breaking up a criminal organization of thugs who have no interest in serving the public? Walker is not going far enough. Every one of those ignorant thugs in Madison should be fired and many of them imprisoned for committing the fraud of pretending to educate children while collecting a salary from taxpayers.

Did you agree to make all the concessions yet your union refused to make any that would affect the union itself? Insisted you protest?

That is usury.

Why should ANYONE be FORCED to pay union dues if they want to be a

firefighter or teacher ?

I am FORCED to pay taxes> which go to pay public servant > who are

REQUIRED to pay union dues > who give MILLIONS of MY/OUR tax dollars to

union bosses and their thugs > then in turn give it to Democratic candidates.

It’s an unholy alliance !

The tax payer has no say on how the money is spent…I don’t want to support

Pro-Abortion democrats….but am FORCED to via my money to pay the public

servants!

WAKE UP……It’s ALL and ONLY about the MONEY !

IF people are given a CHOICE to join a union ~ 50% of the people will NOT

join…and there go BILLIONS from the Unions to give to Democratic officials.

THAT is the ONLY thing those “caring” union bosses are worried about!

HR you are soooooo besoted with the Kool Aid of unionism. Public employees unionizing and then sending part of their paycheck to the same politicians that decide their paychecks is prima facie collusion to commit a fraud. In proper law they would have to recuse themselves from voting and be forbidden to give anything of value to a politician who held sway over their jobs.

Otherwise you get what we have now… a bunch of spoiled rotten pocket picking prima donnas. No thanks. Oh yeah, BTW, your parents and grandparents did NOT fight to unionize the government employees. Even FDR, amongst others, was adamantly against it.

This argument has nothing to do with labor unions in the private sector. That’s a fight for another day. Public unions remain accountable to nobody. They make their deals with a revolving door of administrations who want nothing more than to look good for a few more years. Teachers’ unions have nothing positive to point to in the way of success. My only problem with Gov. Walker is that he’s not attacking all public sector unions equally.

The only way to ensure that you’re not being screwed by a public union is to make sure they cease to exist.

Would you go tell a teacher that to their face?

In Detroit, only 25% of freshmen actually graduate!! What’s happening to the 75% – that’s the really scary part!!!

Republicans just assume people to be honest. I guess if Walker was a Democrat he would assume the other person to be dishonest…..probably because they assume others are like themselves.

All of those services could easily be provided in the private sector in a more efficient manner.

Mark, In a free country you need to be responsible.. Mr. Crannick’s, I think it was, irresponsibly in forgetting to pay his $75 yearly fee for fire protection ought to be mentioned don’t you think? .. $75 a year?????? The article did meniton he had some insurance against loss. I’d like to see yearly figures on how many times that happens.. However, that is not the point of all this.. The point again is the taxing away and redistribution of the productive private citizen’s money, ie freedom, and when is enought enough. I say again, government workers do not produce. As was mentioned by someone else, most everything government does could be done by a business. Regards

No, Peter. The only way to remove and replace the fleeing Democrats is for the people of Wisconsin to get enough signatures on a recall petition, and then hold an election. It takes many months – I think it can take as many as 18.