Tom Barrett is smart. The rest of the Dems? Meh.
Short-lived plans by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin to hold a unity rally in Madison Wednesday, the day after the recall election primary, have been replaced with a plan to launch a get out the vote effort.
With the historic recall of Gov. Scott Walker set for June 5, party officials say the best use of time and resources is to ask volunteers and supporters across the state to make phone calls, knock on doors and “do everything within their power to generate the turnout” needed to win the election.
The public employee unions have nowhere to go in this race, and Barrett being seen with them only hurts him among the seven people in Wisconsin who are still too clueless as to be undecided in this race. (And to digress briefly, what likely voter in Wisconsin could possibly be undecided after living through the last 18 months? Seriously, who the hell are you, undecided voter?)
By this time tomorrow night, I suspect the returns will show that Wisconsin Democrats are already plenty united. The public employee unions will once again have bet big and lost big. And Tom Barrett's supposed to show at a rally the next day to make the losers feel better about losing yet again?
Enough with the political narcissism, AFSCME toadies. Get over yourselves. Nobody cares.
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The undecided are the few people waiting for a Walker corruption scandal to breaking out at PSC, DATCP, the State Public Defender and the LAB because then Walker will complete the crony, corruption and defiling cycle for all state agencies under his control. The Babe Ruth of Wisconsin modern political graft, Governor deserves a full term so the state will remember what a gangster he was.
Many public employees are pragmatic enough to know Falk can't win statewide and will vote for Barrett with the understanding he has the best shot at winning. I think the Dems candidate of the future is Kathleen Vinehout, so I hope she doesn't get discouraged if she gets blown out in the primary. I think she could be a strong candidate down the road if she has more time to campaign. The Dems will need some fresh candidates in 2014 if Walker wins the recall.
RS asked,
"And to digress briefly, what likely voter in Wisconsin could possibly be undecided after living through the last 18 months? Seriously, who the hell are you, undecided voter?"
I think I'd consider myself an undecided voter. It's probably because I am a non-union Milwaukee County employee. While I like Tom Barrett generally, I also like Act 10 because I had to live with unions and their complete and total rejection of fiscal reality or any sense that they had to make sacrifices. The way they happily threw younger employees over the side to save their own perks made me want to vomit, as did their desire for idiotic work rules like seniority and, well, everything else.
On the other hand, Scott Walker. didn't give a rip about reforming the County and making it better, or about governing in general. I'm gonna go ahead and guess it's probably the same at the State level. Plus, he's a Republican. Enough said, right?
I want to vote and make a decision, because I don't think just tuning out is the way to go. So how do I pick between the, as South Park explains it, Turd Sandwich or Giant Douche?
I would probably call myself undecided if I voted. I sympathize to a small degree with both sides. I just don't think it matters a whole lot who gets elected, so I don't much care how this plays out.
It seems to me that the things that need to get done always get done with very little nuance, regardless of party. The rest is just political theater and gamesmanship.
Does anyone really believe that Barrett wouldn't have done something to public employee benefits if he won back in 2010? I'm sure the automatic withdrawal of union dues would have been left intact (gamesmanship), but the real substantive fiscal decisions would have played out similarly, whether it was Walker or Barrett.
At least that's my read on the situation, given the difficulty Doyle had negotiating with the unions, and the state's financial situation.
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