Local Police Union Switches From Walker To Barrett (Friday)

[ProSense]

Local Police Union Switches From Walker To Barrett

The Tom Barrett campaign has announced a new gain, in the wake of Thursday night’s release of a documentary video that showed Republican Gov. Scott Walker telling a wealthy donor last year that he had a “divide and conquer” strategy to take down organized labor: A local police union that had endorsed Walker in the 2010 election, is now instead endorsing Barrett.

The Barrett campaign e-mailed this announcement to reporters:

FRIDAY: West Allis Professional Police Association Endorses Barrett for Governor

WEST ALLIS – The West Allis Professional Police Association will endorse Tom Barrett for governor at a news conference today at 11:00 AM CT.

The WAPPA endorsed Scott Walker in 2010, but is now endorsing Tom Barrett after witnessing Walker’s ‘divide-and-conquer’ governing style over the past 16 months.

A more complete release will be issued following the news conference.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/local-police-union-switches-from-walker-to-barrett

Not buying any narratives that claim Walker is ahead.

In fact, the primary results showed more Democrats (even subtracting the numbers for the fake Dem) turned out than Republicans.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2012/by_state/WI_Governor_0508.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS

Democrats can pull this out.

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[malaise]

2. Not buying any narratives that claim Walker is ahead

Any such narrative is bullshit!

[tallahasseedem]

3. I am not buying these new polls...

there is NO way that he is suddenly up 9 points...this is being done to dis-hearten the Dems...and it's working! GOTV!

[tblue37]

4. It doesn’t matter. The real purpose of these implausible narratives

is to lay the groundwork for stealing the election yet again.

As long as they can keep the total vote counts close and as long as they have these phony polls to “prove” that the race was close and the Republican was always at least somewhat “ahead,” they can steal the election and most people will just roll over for it and call the rest of us conspiracy theorists for knowing how often these elections are being stolen out from under us.

[KansDem]

5. Walker's exemption of police and firefighters' unions was cowardly...

He went after teachers, city and county workers, but exempted police and firefighters.

Talk about craven...

[kentuck]

6. Why would a union be supporting Walker in the first place...

He wants to destroy them.

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