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Kathleen Falk’s Fading Hopes
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Apr 24, 2012 12:57pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Christian Schneider |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 05:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In A Case of Identity, Sherlock Holmes quotes an old Persian saying: “There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”
In the recall race against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, Democratic challenger Kathleen Falk is slowly having her delusions of holding the state’s executive office pulled from her grasp. Falk, who became the “union candidate” by promising to veto any future budget that didn’t fully restore the collective-bargaining power scaled back by Walker, has begun sliding in the polls, and is currently trailing her primary Democratic challenger, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, by 14 percentage points.
The unions, sensing Falk’s electoral weakness, pulled their pro-Falk advertisements over the weekend, vowing to “regroup.” A union-backed group called “Wisconsin for Falk” had spent an estimated $3 million to back the former Dane County executive, but apparently didn’t succeed in moving the needle in her favor. Public-employee unions have been critical of Barrett, accusing him of using Walker’s reforms to save Milwaukee millions of dollars in balancing the city’s budget. (Barrett’s campaign is allegedly receiving a good deal of help from President Obama’s campaign operatives — meaning, of course, that the president is waging a war on Democratic women by opposing Falk.)
Furthermore, just today, the state’s largest teachers’ union appeared to back off their strong endorsement of Falk, instead saying they will back whoever wins the state primary. Walker has actually implied he would rather take on Falk in the general election, citing her ties to organized labor. Falk’s spokesman, Scot Ross, laughably suggested Walker was trying to damage Falk in the primary because he was actually more“scared of facing her in the general election.” |
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