Yesterday Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker survived a recall election that began when he pushed through a bill that severely hampered public unions in their bargaining rights. According to Wikipedia the bill, 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, primarily impacted the following areas: collective bargaining, compensation, retirement, health insurance, and sick leave of public sector employees. The bill was passed into law and became effective as of June 29, 2011. The only represented public employees that are exempt from the changes to the collective bargaining law are State Patrol Troopers and State Patrol Inspectors.

This brought extreme anger from democratic voters and also brought massive protests to Madison. The other thing that really made this famous is that when the bill was proposed, the Democrats in the State Senate didn’t have the votes to filibuster it so they used a law that said at least one member of the opposite party had to be in attendance to vote on the bill. Their next move made headlines as they fled the state and hid out in Illinois so that the state police in Wisconsin couldn’t force them to come back.

After the act was passed a recall effort began and was successful in getting the number of votes needed. So last night Scott Walker easily defeated his opponent in the recall election and what came next is a disgusting display. Death threats actually started to roll in on Twitter! Check out the disgrace below and form your own opinion on these types of people who would hate on someone for winning an election. Both sides do it and it is disgusting!