With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state Commerce secretary. Walker’s response in the home stretch appears to be to a “divide and conquer” strategy, as he once described it to a billionaire donor in early 2011 just before destroying union representation rights for almost all public employees. The Republican governor has sought to divert attention from his failure to meet a central 2010 campaign pledge of producing 250,000 jobs by 2014. “According to statistics upheld by Scott Walker himself as the ‘gold standard,’” points out Saul Newton, a researcher for the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, “Wisconsin is currently ranks… Read more…