Right-Wing Money Fuels Fight Against Wisconsin Recalls

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/08/03/right-wing-money-fuels-fight-against-wisconsin-recalls/

by Mike Hall, Aug 3, 2011



In less than week, Wisconsin voters will go to the polls to take back the state Senate for working families and recall six of Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) closet allies. The half-dozen lawmakers spearheaded Walker’s move to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees and ram through a budget devastating to working families.

But by the time voters enter the booth, they will have been bombarded by an unprecedented advertising and dirty tricks campaign fueled by money from of out-of-state extremists. Says Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt:

As the election draws near, right-wing money is flooding into the state at an unprecedented rate. Just recently, Americans for Prosperity and the Koch Brothers purchased $150,000 worth of airtime. Yesterday, the Presidential Coalition, an affiliate of the conservative group Citizens United, announced a $270,000 ad buy. A last minute Tea-Party and right-wing spending influx is expected.

For a closer look at the flow of extremist dollars—estimated to be as much as $18 million—into the state by Milwaukee Labor Press editor Dominique Paul Noth, click here.

Neuenfeldt says Americans for Prosperity has been targeting Democratic households by mailing them absentee ballots that have the wrong election date: Aug. 11 rather than the real election date, Aug. 9.

This is the second time right-wing groups have blatantly tried to suppress our vote.

FULL story at link.