Heartland Institute: Operation Angry Badger (Scott Walker recall)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/scott-walker-heartland-institute_n_1285100.html


"WASHINGTON -- Recently leaked documents show that a Chicago-based conservative think tank plans to spend money on an issue-advocacy campaign timed to influence a potential recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, which could happen as early as April. The proposed campaign highlights the invisible hand that nonprofits, shielded from disclosure laws, can wield in electoral politics.
According to documents leaked and posted to DeSmogBlog, the Heartland Institute has budgeted $612,000 for a Wisconsin campaign called Operation Angry Badger. The campaign consists of an effort to inform voters of the success of Walker's budget law, passed on June 26, that included a reduction in the collective bargaining rights of workers in public employee unions. The budget sparked a labor-led protest movement that has consumed Wisconsin politics over the past year.
The leaked budget document describes Operation Angry Badger as "a research and education project built to take advantage of the public interest in Wisconsin’s Act 10 generated by recall elections that could take place." The plan includes print and Web advertising to help publicize Walker's changes to collective bargaining rights and what the institute claims are the high salaries of public school teachers and poor educational results within Wisconsin's schools. The group also proposes creating blogs during a potential recall election to counter local newspaper and media reports on the Walker budget, school teacher salaries and public employee unions."

In the leaked PDF of their budget, there are line items referring to the costs
of publishing teacher's salaries... to enrage the masses seems to be their agenda.
You know, enlighten the public about those overpaid state workers.

BHN