Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Enraged by Walker, activists put Kloppenburg’s Supreme Court campaign on their shoulders

Enraged by Walker, activists put Kloppenburg’s Supreme Court campaign on their shoulders
"Ordinarily, a few independent supporters wouldn’t go very far in helping a first-time candidate take down a well-known incumbent. But to say that the anti-Walker forces are mobilized would be a gross understatement. Walker’s Feb. 11 unveiling of his budget repair bill, which strips public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights, put the State Capitol under a weeks-long state of siege by hundreds of thousands of state workers, teachers, union members and others who felt that Walker had gone too far. And anti-Walker rallies in dozens of other locales have drawn thousands."