Fueled by Protests, Angry Wisconsin Voters Show Up to Fight
By MONICA DAVEY
NYT
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Union supporters and Democrats unleashed their fury over Scott Walker, the Republican governor, and his efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights at the ballot box on Tuesday.
Angry voters managed a task some had said was impossible: they locked a veteran State Supreme Court justice, who is considered conservative, in a razor-thin race with an opponent who is much less well known. (The opponent declared victory on Wednesday.)
And voters rejected a Republican lawmaker for Milwaukee County executive — yet another contest that had been transformed, at least by some infuriated voters, into a referendum over the state’s new Republican leadership.
Democrats here trumpeted the outcome as the beginning of the end for Mr. Walker and the Republicans who swept into control of the state in November. “What the vote showed is that people really woke up to Walker’s agenda,” State Senator Chris Larson, a Democrat, said on Wednesday. “And I’d say they’re only getting warmed up.”
(More here.)
NYT
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Union supporters and Democrats unleashed their fury over Scott Walker, the Republican governor, and his efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights at the ballot box on Tuesday.
Angry voters managed a task some had said was impossible: they locked a veteran State Supreme Court justice, who is considered conservative, in a razor-thin race with an opponent who is much less well known. (The opponent declared victory on Wednesday.)
And voters rejected a Republican lawmaker for Milwaukee County executive — yet another contest that had been transformed, at least by some infuriated voters, into a referendum over the state’s new Republican leadership.
Democrats here trumpeted the outcome as the beginning of the end for Mr. Walker and the Republicans who swept into control of the state in November. “What the vote showed is that people really woke up to Walker’s agenda,” State Senator Chris Larson, a Democrat, said on Wednesday. “And I’d say they’re only getting warmed up.”
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
I must be missing something, I thought after the Arizona tragedy we were supposed to tone down the rhetoric and not be angry anymore. God bless Rep. Giffords and God bless the defenseless taxpayers of WI should the unions prevail.
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