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A year of popular organizing and partisan showdowns is ramping up to a photo-finish conclusion in the Wisconsin recall election to be held on Tuesday to determine if Governor Scott Walker will keep his office. A Marquette Law School Poll conducted last weekend found Walker, in office for only one year before facing a recall, leading with 52% of the vote to challenger Tom Barrett’s 45%. Tom Barrett lost to Walker by a nearly identical split when they faced off in the 2010 Gubernatorial race, reflecting a sharp, persistent partisan divide in the state. The two candidates squared off in a debate on Thursday night with Barrett reminding voters of the labor battle Walker sparked, and the Governor accusing his rival of taking orders from union bosses. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the embattled Governor’s campaign has once again been buoyed by wealthy donors throughout the popular resistance to his anti-union, pro-corporate agenda. During the 2010 Gubernatorial race, through campaign and super PAC funds, Walker was the recipient of about $100,000 of Koch Brother money. This time around, Walker continues to be funded by conservatives from outside his state with ambitions for a national right-leaning agenda. John Nichols of the Madison Capitol Times wrote this week that 70% of Walker’s 31 million war chest has come from out-of -state contributors, including Texas millionaire developer Bob Perry and billionaire Nevada casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. Walker’s campaign also received $500,000 from Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks, who paid zero dollars in taxes in 2010. <\/p>\n
Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee, was elected to face Walker in an early May primary that gave him less than 30 days to fund-raise. In just under a month he has raised about $4 million, with 70% of his campaign funds come from smaller in-state donations. <\/p>\n
GUESTS: John Nichols, associate editor of the Capitol Times in Madison, Wisconsin and a correspondent for The Nation magazine, contributing writer for The Progressive, co-founder of Free Press, author of many books including his latest called Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street; Paul Buhle is co-editor with Mary Buhle of, It Started in Wisconsin, Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest. He founded the Students for a Democratic Society journal Radical America and the archive of Oral History of the American Left. He is also coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American left and is a former Senior lecturer at Brown University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year of popular organizing and partisan showdowns is ramping up to a photo-finish conclusion in the Wisconsin recall election to be held on Tuesday to determine if Governor Scott Walker will keep his office. A Marquette Law School Poll conducted last weekend found Walker, in office for only one year before facing a recall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}