{"id":7717,"date":"2012-05-09T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:43:25","slug":"match-set-in-fitzwalkerstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/match-set-in-fitzwalkerstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Set in Fitzwalkerstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Democrats in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, chose the candidate to end the political career of Fartfuhrer Scott Walker.  In less than a month local heroes have an excellent opportunity to overthrow Fitzwalkerstan and restore Wisconsin.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9Barrett\"The candidates may be the same, but Wisconsin isn’t.<\/p>\n

In the tumultuous 18 months since Republican Scott Walker defeated Democrat Tom Barrett in the 2010 governor’s race, Wisconsin has been rocked with massive protests over workers’ rights, recall elections over a contentious union rights law<\/strong> and a partisan divide that’s strained families and friendships.<\/p>\n

Now, Walker and Barrett are headed for a rematch.<\/p>\n

Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee since 2004, easily won the Democratic primary Tuesday and will take on Walker in the June 5 recall election. Walker defeated Barrett by 125,000 votes, or 5 percentage points, in 2010 as part of a GOP sweep into power that also saw them take the Legislature and knock off Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold.<\/p>\n

The recall drive was sparked when Walker and Republicans passed a law that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers and forced them to pay more for health insurance and pension benefits. Walker contends the moves were necessary to help balance a state budget shortfall of $3.6 billion, while Democrats argue the law’s primary purpose was to eviscerate the unions, which tend to back their party\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow covered this and other election news.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

When the Fartfuhrer defeated Barrett in 2010, Walker was running on what he said he would do.  That has nothing whatsoever in common with what he actually did after the election.  That is the key difference.  Congratulations to Barrett and all the other Democrats challenging the Republican Regime on June 5.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Democrats in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, chose the candidate to end the political career of Fartfuhrer Scott Walker.  In less than a month local heroes have an excellent opportunity to overthrow Fitzwalkerstan and restore Wisconsin. The candidates may be the same, but Wisconsin isn’t. In the tumultuous 18 months since […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}