I was talking with a fellow recaller yesterday evening, and he made a very good point: while an avalanche of facts is great to have, they'll rarely get the point across to marginal voters in a way that gets them bounding out to the polls to end the blot on Wisconsin's history that is Scott Walker's governorship.
Last year I was collecting people's information for the United Wisconsin database of pledges to sign for the recall. One person who said she didn't pay attention to the news immediately lunged for the pen as soon as I told her about what Walker said in the following clip. Cast your mind back to February 23rd 2011, when six-figure numbers of people were turning up repeatedly with their families and children to peacefully protest:
Fake Koch: What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers
Scott Walker: You know the, well, the only problem with that - because we thought about that...
That should make
anyone mad.
We have an Assembly that is so ashamed of what they have been doing that they put black plastic over the windows:
That should make anyone mad.
Walker brazenly violates court orders.
That should make anyone mad.
We must be able to show those impervious to TV ads why they should be mad at Walker within whatever few seconds of attention we can get.
UPDATE
Now we have Walker on tape saying this:
Hendricks: Any chance we'll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions -
Walker: Oh, yeah.
Hendricks: - and become a right-to-work (state)? What can we do to help you?
Walker: Well, we're going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is, we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.
Donation links:
Tom Barrett via Daily Kos Wisconsin ActBlue.
Mahlon Mitchell who is up against Lieutenant-Governor Rebecca Kleefisch.
Lori Compas who is up against Senator Scott Fitzgerald in SD13.
John Lehman who is up against Senator Van Wanggaard in SD21.
Kristen Dexter who is up against Senator Terry Moulton in SD23.
Donna Seidel who is up against Jerry Petrowski in SD29 after incumbent Pam Galloway resigned.
If you can't decide, there's the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.