Recall Scott Walker Now

In a groundbreaking, history-making move, Democratic leaders petitioned to recall the Governor, Lt. Governor, and four republican state-senators in Wisconsin. The move came because of the Republican's harsh measures taken against the state's workers in the name of austerity.

Workers in Wisconsin are not fairing well under Governor Walker, who has repealed their rights to collective bargaining as well as equal pay laws for women. Governor Walker has declared war on the middle class by attacking workers rights and increasing taxes on the middle and lower class.

Walker also slashed funding for education across the board causing many teachers to lose their jobs. He is denying those that cannot afford private education access to better lives. By cutting funding for education, Scott Walker proved that he would do anything in the name of austerity.

Ironically, Wisconsin is already in a surplus so these austerity measures were unnecessary, but that did not stop Scott Walker from slashing funding and raising taxes on those who could not afford it. In one of the worst recessions this country has ever faced, Walker starved the economy and made the people suffer.

Thankfully, America is a democracy not a dictatorship so the people rallied against him and his unfair policies by imposing a recall election. The Republicans, clinging to their values of austerity, played many dirty tricks including having Republicans run as fake Democrats to force primaries as well as outspending the Democrats 7.5 to 1.

While the Republicans have money on their side; Democrats have the people on theirs. The Democrats managed to get many volunteers moving and getting people to vote for Tom Barrett and his Democratic allies.

If the Republicans win here it will send a message to the entire country: big money means more than grassroots support in elections and that you can force the middle class to struggle economically and get away with it. However, if the Democrats wins the message will be very different: the voice of the people prevails over the money of big corporations and that you cannot get away with repealing workers rights, cutting education, discriminating against women and increasing taxes on the poor without losing your chance to govern.