Right wing running scared in Wisconsin

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/right-wing-running-scared-in-wisconsin/

by: Dominique Paul Noth
August 5 2011



MILWAUKEE - With the first big electoral test of whether organized labor can successfully push back at the polls against the radical right, it is apparent here that labor's opponents are running scared.

In an attempt to win one of the eight remaining contested state senate recall elections scheduled for Aug. 9, supporters of challenged incumbent GOP State Sen. Alberta Darling circulated a campaign brochure featuring a picture of Phil Neuenfeldt, the state AFL-CIO president with the printed label, "union boss."

They're also pumping millons of dollars into Darling's re-election campaign.

Their aim is to tie Darling's challenger, Democratic State Rep. Sandy Pasch, to unions, which have become their favorite "whipping boys."

Whether the GOP campaign succeeds in scaring voters, in Milwaukee and elsewhere in Wisconsin, will determine the outcome of the eight recalls. Six Republicans and two Democrats face the voters, each with a major-party foe. One big issue, if not the only issue, is right-wing GOP Gov. Scott Walker's law stripping 200,000 state and local government workers of their collective bargaining rights.

One Democratic state senator, a Teamster from Green Bay, has already won his recall election. The other two Democrats are expected to win re-election.

If the Democrats, with labor backing, take three of the six GOP-held seats, they take over the state senate and can frustrate further Walker-backed schemes. Wisconsin is the leading edge of the national GOP and right-wing effort to to trash workers, unions and the middle class.

FULL story at link.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Want to help the cause in Wisconsin?

www.wisdems.org

Contribute, make phonecalls, etc.

[classof56]

4. Thanks for the link.

Just made a contribution. Not much, but I'm thinking every little bit helps. Good luck and best wishes to those in Wisconsin fighting the good fight. Keeping my fingers crossed!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Wisconsin is more of a test case than most people even faintly imagine.

This is where we discover whether a massive, dedicated grassroots movement can carry the day against a huge outpouring of reactionary money paying for media saturation with right-wing advertising and deployment of dirty tricks of every sort. The media in the state are bought, and are not carrying stories about the various Republican electoral crimes.

Here is a Vimeo clip that you might find interesting. Chippewa Falls is a small town of 13,000.

http://vimeo.com/27351061

[HelenWheels]

3. wonderful clip. nt

[LiberalFighter]

5. They need to align the Republicans with mafia, banks foreclosing,

CEO's outsourcing their jobs and firing their workers.