Tomorrow is the first of three big days in Wisconsin -- days that will determine whether voters return the state Senate to Democratic control and (we hope) put a brake on the extremist, corporate-backed agenda pushed by
Tuesday is actually a primary in which Republicans are running fake Democrats against real Democrats. UPI reports the Democrats are expected to win:
The six are expected to easily beat "fake" Democrats supported by the GOP.Here's a rundown of the elections.
And here's a story about how a Texas-linked group is trying to get out the Republican vote for the fake Democrats.
According to the disclosure on the bottom (of the flyer) was paid for by a group called Patriot Advisors which is registered out of a PO Box in Cobb, Wis. However, they do their banking at Bank of America in Austin, Texas. According to the Shepard Express, not much information is available regarding Cobb's Patriot Advisors.
Something we do know about, thanks to Karoli at Crooks and Liars, is a conservative Texas group that shares the very same name and also banks in Austin.Finally, here's a story about how Walker threatened Republican Sen. Cowardly Rob Cowles. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that Cowles, discussing Walker's union-busting bill, had a conversation with a Wisconsin businessman in which Cowles said,
"'I didn't like this (bill) either. I didn't like being put in this position. I didn't like anything about the way it was done,' " the business leader quoted Cowles as saying. " 'But the governor's office told us if we didn't give them our support, they would run a tea party candidate against us.'Walker denies it, through his spokesman, but does anyone believe him anymore?
