Wisconsin Dems sidestep labor debate in recall
BRAVENDER makes a good point. Why isn't this race focused on teachers, students, education, state services, labor rights, collective bargaining?
Oh wait, it is. The voters have not forgotten 2011. Or have they?
With the new focus on Walker, his ethics, and WI jobs, Walker still loses, right? Or do these foci entrench more people towards the right?
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By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 6/4/12 7:39 PM EDT
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77042.html
MILWAUKEE — The bitter battle over union rights in Wisconsin sent masses of angry protesters flooding into the streets, placed the state at the center of a national debate over Big Labor’s power and sparked the historic recall to topple GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
But you’d hardly know it from the campaign to replace him. ....
On the eve of the June 5 recall election, the issue of collective bargaining has become just a footnote in the hard-fought battle for Wisconsin. Democrats gloss over the issue in campaign speeches, political advertisements and debates in favor of zeroing in on Walker’s tactics. Democrats and labor groups run separate field operations. And the party’s nominee, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, wears the fact that he wasn’t labor’s top choice for the ticket as a badge of honor. ... Barrett defeated the labor movement’s preferred candidate .....
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