This will come as no surprise to anyone - in Wisconsin or beyond our borders - that the narrative about the recall efforts against Republicans in the state senate is being cooked up, financed and rolled out by big Union dollars and Obama henchmen.
I am involved in the Recall Alberta Darling campaign. She is not my state Senator (alert readers know that I am represented by Tea Party anti-choice, anti-gay extremist Senate Freshman Leah Vukmir). However, Darling's recall effort has galvanized people from all across SE Wisconsin.
Here is what State Senator Alberta Darling has to say about the recall efforts:
Darling said national unions are behind the effort to frame the debate in Wisconsin as a Republican attempt to bust up unions and tear down the middle class. Darling said unions are spending big dollars on paid canvassers, direct mailings and advertising to shape the debate and spur recalls.
You can read the entire piece in in the Shorewood Patch (hint: you've heard it all before).
Here is what State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has to say about the recall efforts:
"There's many people that are beginning to believe this is a delay tactic by the Democrats in the Senate so that these recall elections can be organized by the Obama team out of Chicago, which they are, as we start to do the research on the people that have filed the petition," Fitzgerald told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News."
When asked whether Fitzgerald knew that for a fact, he responded, "The organizer against (River Hills Republican Senator) Alberta Darling definitely has direct links to the Obama camp. There's no doubt about it. These guys might be out until June. Unfortunately, what they're trying to do is flip the majority, and I think that's becoming very evident."
You can read that article on TMJ4's BS (Biased Shite) newssite but I don't recommend it before breakfast.
Kristopher Rowe, the Darling Recall Campaign Organizer, lays the truth bare (this is from a Darling Recall informational email):
I am a concerned citizen just like you. I have a full-time job, just like many of you. I have a lovely wife and two cats--I am not being paid by anyone to do this, nor are any of the hundreds of volunteers that came out to canvass last weekend. I mention that last part because Sen. Darling has been going around to the press claiming that you were all paid to go out and canvass.
He was just interviewed for the Ed Show, and you can see him at about the 10 minute mark here (I'm not up to embedding video this early on a snowy work day).
I went to the first Recall Darling meeting at the Shorewood Public Library on the 25th of February. Mr. Rowe had booked a small room for 30 to 50 people. My numbers-challenged estimate would be that about 100 people attended, and many more were there in spirit but had gone out to Madison for the 100,000+ rally at the Capitol that day.
The people at that meeting were operatives for Democracy.
Last weekend, my husband worked the petition table outside of a Shorewood Pick 'n' Save, gathering signatures along with about 600 other volunteers last weekend.
These canvassers are operatives for Democracy.
I'll be volunteering this Sunday to do the same, because I am an operative for Democracy.