Republicans Gearing Up to Destroy Recall Effort in Wisconsin

March 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM Leave a comment

Recall Battle in Wisconsin

I predict the recall fight in Wisconsin is going to be the nastiest we’ve seen yet in American politics.  The corporations are going to fight with everything they have (meaning billions of dollars) because if the people win, it will set a precedent for the rest of the country and they sure as hell don’t want that:

Here’s another sign that some folks may be getting mighty nervous about the Dem drives to recall Wisconsin GOP state senators: I’m told that a major national Republican polling firm is in the field in the state testing some hard-core anti-union messages, including ones about how pro-union forces targeted a GOP state senator with death threats. It’s another sign that the Wisconsin standoff has escalated further into a protracted, high-stakes national war.

I was unable to obtain the exact wording of the poll, but the source, who is familiar with the line of questioning, confirmed to me that it was testing messages asking whether recipients’ opinions would be changed by the following:

* The fact that union sympathizers have given Darling death threats

* The fact that the recall is being funded by out-of-state unions

* The fact that the highest paid public employee in Madison is a bus driver who made nearly $160,000 a year

* The fact that unions used collective bargaining to try to get Viagra

Again, these are approximations, but they’re telling nonetheless. The bus driver in question, of course, is the famed Madison driver who earned roughly $160,000 in 2009 thanks to union-negotiated rules allowing drivers with the most seniority to snap up lots of overtime — rules that have now been changed. The Viagra reference is to a recent effort — which has since been dropped — by Milwaukee teachers who went to court to get health coverage for the drug.

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