The recall election in Wisconsin is now in a month-long sprint to the Democratic nomination for governor –Â a process already revealing divisions within the state party base, most notably from organized labor.The recall was in large measure sparked, of course, by Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s legislation last year that, in the name of fiscal austerity, erased most collective bargaining rights for public employee unions that had been in place since the late 1950’s. The move touched off a storm of protests, a wave of recall elections for the state Senate, and now the recall against Walker, plus his Lieutenant Governor and four state Senators.
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