Kathleen Falk, a former Dane County executive, is planning a run against Gov. Scott Walker if a special recall election moves forward against the embattled Republican.
Falk made the announcement in an e-mail to supporters where she told them “The people of Wisconsin have done a brave thing: demanded change. And together we will continue to make history,” according to WisPolitics.com.
Democrats on Tuesday – that still have to be verified by the Government Accountability Board – in their attempts to force a special recall election against Walker. Walker’s been under fire since February 2011 when he introduced legislation that would limit collective bargaining for public employee unions.
“My choices as your governor will be different than Scott Walker's,” Falk’s campaign website states. “I know Wisconsin is a place where we can have good paying jobs, a clean environment, successful schools and affordable health care. We can have workers and management talking and working together to solve tough problems.”
Falk was the first Democrat to formally announce her campaign against Walker, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The Friends of Scott Walker communications director, Ciara Matthews, issued the following statement about Falk’s announcement in a news release:
"Kathleen Falk's announcement today comes as no surprise, as we have long anticipated she would be the nominee hand-picked by big-government, public employee union bosses. Falk has already lost two statewide elections, failing to earn the trust of Wisconsin voters. Governor Walker's record of success and progress will stand in stark contrast to Falk’s intent to take Wisconsin back to the days of record job loss, massive deficits, and double digit tax increases. Falk's record as Dane County executive falls in lockstep with a Madison liberal ideology that is far outside the mainstream of the majority of Wisconsinites."
Young Mr. Hoffa, you know I present valid sources for my facts. Sometimes facts are hard to accept, but that acceptance brings maturity. Terry, I'll play too. How much did the unions "flood" into the state, and lets compare it to the amount that has and will be spent by right wing PACs. I believe we will find that the right is spending more. I'm sure you didn't honestly believe that I didn't know that Democrats have funding sources? And thank you for the additional helping of sour grapes--I will add them to the stock I have already received. I'm planning to open a new "whinery," and I'm calling my new label, "Wisconsin Spring." Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
In the polls, no one will watch them!
What ever would we do without Fox News Network and Rush Limbaugh?
Otherwise, what would stop the government for taking the jobs of Republicans who voted for George W. Bush and Scott Walker and giving them to unemployed Democrats and independents? Hm.
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it's not a bad choice on their part. They need someone as different from Walker as possible, even on the most superficial of levels. Kind and Barrett have solid gigs. Obey's an unattractive candidate and has the potential of becoming a gaffe machine. This will be a test of whether or not the Democratic party is going to allow the will of "the people" to prevail, should that will back another candidate, or if they truly are the servants of the unions as many have suspected all along.
You're one to talk - you're constantly talking about the Koch Brothers and other lefty concepts in a vast majority of your original postings, coming straight from the left-wing talking points inventory, so you get a big check mark yourself! Then you complain about Fox News and conservative talk radio, despite the FACT that the left has far more television outlets such as ABC, CBS, NBC, MS-NBC, CNN, HLN, Comedy Central, Current TV, RT, etc. Yet you never once complain about the accuracy of the information being reported by any of those networks, do you Bren? Ah yes, Bren the big time leftist DEMOCRAT, what would we here on Patch do without your massive hypocrisy?