The Air War
WisPolitics just reporterd that there are 29 different groups spending $30 mllion dollars around the current recall elections. In most cases, Club for Growth is the only truthtelling group on the other side. We're OK with those odds. But the left gets their money from out of state groups like the AFL-CIO. We don't have an endless supply of forced union dues, we must rely on individuals who voluntarily contribute.
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No Excuses
There’s been good news about the results achieved in the brief seven months since the Walker administration took office. Next Tuesday, August 9
th, will determine whether the good news keep coming, or whether Walker's limited-government agenda will itself be limited to what we’ve seen so far.
It may seem unfair to put everything on the backs of so few, but we didn’t make the rules. If you live in one of the six State Senate districts with a recall election, there is no excuse for failing to show up and vote. You can be sure the union member next door plans to.
Last fall we said the November elections might be the last chance to stop the Obama-Big Labor agenda from making itself permanent. This spring we said Wisconsin’s April election was a battle to protect choices voters made last November from being overruled by Liberal courts.
Both things were true, and you showed up at the polls, and the people who would suppress your freedom and take what you have were repelled.
Repelled, but not defeated. The Left is well-financed and willing to say or do anything to retake the State Senate.
Voters who believe in limited government must fight and win at least one more defensive battle next Tuesday. If you have an election, be there.
We are WHO?
We mentioned that the Left is well-financed. And if you own a radio or TV, you’ve heard of something called We Are Wisconsin. As we’ve said here before, a more honest name would be “We aren’t Wisconsin,” and now this has been abundantly
confirmed.
Late July brought acknowledgement that Barack Obama’s Organizing for America has been providing foot soldiers for the Wisconsin recall campaigns, after previously helping to orchestrate the February protests against collective bargaining changes.
But the Obama campaign is a bit player in this summer’s political drama. Public records—which always lag behind current reality—show that through just four weeks in May and June, the national AFL-CIO poured more than $3 million into We Are Wisconsin, hoping to seize control of the State Senate.
People actually from Wisconsin are junior partners. The Wisconsin arm of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) chipped in with a little less than $14,000 as an in-kind contribution during the same legal reporting period.
Back at the national level, the liberal activist EMILY’S List spent more than a quarter-million dollars last month saturating two western Wisconsin state senate districts with TV ads aimed at taking down their Republican incumbents.
According to WisPolitics, EMILY’S List acknowledges that among other things, its recall activity is a warm-up for the push to send Madison Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate next year to succeed the retiring Herb Kohl. If you thought Kohl was too liberal, just wait.
And if you suspected We Are Wisconsin has nothing to do with Wisconsin—except to punish Wisconsin legislators who stand up to government union bosses—now you have proof.
KRM, R.I.P.
For far too long, far too many Republicans thought the only viable defense against destructive Liberal ideas was to implement them a little more slowly and finance them a little less generously than the Left preferred. Thankfully, that’s over.
A fitting official holiday to mark the occasion might be the anniversary of then-Governor Elect Scott Walker saying yes, he really was serious about Wisconsin rejecting borrowed federal money for a not-so-high-speed rail line where one was least needed.
And now another celebration is in order, as the
curtain closed last week on the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee (KRM) rail project. Five years in the unmaking, this boondoggle would have become a steady drain on local taxpayers, but for the efforts of elected officials and constituencies that knew how to say no.
Coincidentally, the Wall Street Journal’s
Holman Jenkins this week shared his take on why high-speed rail stands out in the Liberal Pantheon of Bad Ideas. It’s not about transportation. It’s about spending lots of money.
