Wisconsin: Turnout and Enthusiasm High in Recall Balloting...AFL-CIO
Turnout is high across Wisconsin today as working families are getting out the vote to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) and elect Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett as the state’s new governor. The turnout in Milwaukee has been so heavy the city Election Commission had to send extra poll workers to several sites to handle the long lines.
Voters also are casting ballots in recall races that pit Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four state Senate recalls. A pickup of one seat swings control of the Senate away from Walker’s Republican allies who spearheaded his 2011 drive to eliminate the collective bargaining rights of 380,000 public workers.
Working families also are holding Walker and his backers accountable for the nation’s worst job creation record, big new tax breaks for the rich and corporations, cuts in health care and tax increases on low-income families (read more here).
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