by Jim Cavanaugh
http://www.thebellforum.com/system/files/imagecache/story_tn/sites/labornotes.org/files/leads/wisconsinjune5vote.300.jpg Tomorrow’s Wisconsin recall election will be a replay of November 2010—Governor Scott Walker vs. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

If the million voters who signed recall petitions, plus another half million, come out and vote for Barrett, Walker will be toast.


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by Jim Cavanaugh
http://www.thebellforum.com/system/files/imagecache/story_tn/sites/labornotes.org/files/leads/wisconsinjune5vote.300.jpg Tomorrow’s Wisconsin recall election will be a replay of November 2010—Governor Scott Walker vs. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

If the million voters who signed recall petitions, plus another half million, come out and vote for Barrett, Walker will be toast.


read more (http://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/06/will-recall-vote-end-wisconsins-nightmare)


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This is delicious, the unions decided that the way to beat the union-buster was to ditch the pro union candidate for the guy who ALREADY LOST to Walker once and a man who has antagonized unions himself. Further, his plan to beat back the damage already done is to..call an assembly that is guaranteed to do nothing.

This is "political calculation". This isn't Orwells 2+2 =5. This is adding two plus two and getting..a magical unicorn.

Of course, it is all moot since it very much looks like Walker will win and that this might mainly be serving as a vehicle to fund his legal defense fund for criminal charges that are on their way.

I was talking to a liberal meathead yesterday and he was all hangdog 'cause Walker was going to win. He just couldn't understand why the "people in Wisconsin didn't get out there and vote Walker's ass out!" I said, "Maybe they prefer Walker to the Democrat." He said, "But Walker is the one who came down on the unions - and Wisconsin is a union state!" I said, "Maybe they prefer Walker to the Democrat." He just glared at me and I just smiled...

This is delicious, the unions decided that the way to beat the union-buster was to ditch the pro union candidate for the guy who ALREADY LOST to Walker once and a man who has antagonized unions himself. Further, his plan to beat back the damage already done is to..call an assembly that is guaranteed to do nothing.

This is "political calculation". This isn't Orwells 2+2 =5. This is adding two plus two and getting..a magical unicorn.

Of course, it is all moot since it very much looks like Walker will win and that this might mainly be serving as a vehicle to fund his legal defense fund for criminal charges that are on their way.

It's still sad...

Working people invest a lot in this kind of political involvement. They don't take the loss well; nor do many know what to make of the "win" which leads to the inevitable sellout.

It all reinforces modern day fatalism, which is not right but "feels right".

Where do you start?

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I hate to ask it, but does "Slap back the bully" have a "plan" for making this happen? I have heard this lament from liberals before: "We need to roll back 'corporate personhood!'" Right. And "we need full employment!" And, "we need single payer health care!" I am in agreement. Now what?

Yeah it is, there were many like the perfesser's blind lady who really invested themselves in 'the process' , gotta be crushed, led into the narrow arrayo to be slaughtered by the Dems and the union leadership. It was the wrong battle, the wrong candidate. As for fighting Citizen's United, good luck on that, money as speech, fully legal, will be with us until the bougoise state is taken down. This makes the electoral process even more transparently useless than previous, perhaps that might make politics by other means more palatable and necessary to folks.

I am reminded of the Textile Strike of '37 in the South and the horrible effect it's failure had upon the people's spirit down here. I know we say that no strike however the result is a failure but that event was perhaps the exception to the rule. The worker's here in the Upstate got their asses handed to them and that beating seems to have been imprinted genetically. Fortunately the unions are well established and solidarity is established so the result shouldn't be the same.