
The Weekly Standard has a great rundown on the latest Wisconsin Democrats rally efforts with national Democrat figureheads flying in from around the country. You know things are not looking good when Jesse Jackson is the most reasonable, and civil in tone, at a rally. Despite 2-J’s comparing Governor Walker to former Gov. George Wallace, who was a Democrat mind you, his rhetoric was by far the least hate filled.
Carrying around so much hate while maintaining such an anger filled visible disposition must be very draining. The rabid hatred of Governor Walker is beyond normal political disagreement. The rally speakers even went so far as to include comparisons to the 911 World Trade Center terror attacks and Walker allies to be jihadists.
TWS – Shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday, a flashy two-car motorcade pulled up in front of the Destiny Youth Plaza on the northwest side of Milwaukee. A crowd gathered around the first car to greet the Reverend Jesse Jackson, visiting Milwaukee to speak on behalf of Wisconsin workers and to rally voters to unseat Governor Scott Walker in the recall election here Tuesday. If anyone was bothered by the fact that Jackson arrived to speak on behalf of the working class in a Mercedes Benz S550 (starting price of some $100,000) and that his escort vehicle was a Cadillac Escalade ESV (starting at about $75,000), nobody showed it.
Jackson was ushered in the front door and quickly escorted to a back hallway, where he mingled with VIPs as a cameraman from WISN television, the local ABC affiliate, captured the warm greetings he had for union leaders and prominent Democrats.
Jackson is in Wisconsin in support of Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett’s effort to unseat Governor Scott Walker in the recall election June 5. If there is a central message to Barrett’s campaign, it is that he wants to begin the process of healing a state divided by Walker’s reforms. Barrett’s not subtle about this. And in a speech in DePere Sunday morning, he used one of his favorite lines to drive home his promise. “I will end that civil war.”
Jackson didn’t get the message. And neither did the many speakers at the pro-Barrett rally Sunday evening. For them, the civil war is just beginning.
Two days before the election, a crowd of 250 Democratic and union activists gathered to hear from Reverend Jackson and a host of left-wing leaders. The crowd applauded mightily when one union leader compared Scott Walker’s reforms to the attacks on 9/11.
They rose to their feet when a local teachers union head screamed that Walker is a serial liar. And they cheered wildly when Jackson compared Walker to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.
“So now you have a governor,” Jackson thundered. “Wallace did it in Alabama and now Walker in Wisconsin – trying to take back access to vote.”

“Scott Walker is a liar!” screamed Michael Milton, head of the American Federation of Teachers union 212. “When Scott Walker says he’s created jobs, we know instead Wisconsin’s been losing jobs!”
Larry Hanley, head of the Amalgamated Transit Union, speaking moments earlier, suggested that Walker’s reforms were like the attacks on America that took place on 9/11. “I want to just take a minute here and remind everybody about an event that happened here in the United States eleven years ago. We were attacked. Consider this in the context of what happened here in Wisconsin – and around the United States over the last two years: the attack on government workers.”
Public employees, Hanley complained, are no longer entitled to health care, pensions or bargaining. Their treatment, he said, has been “brutal.”
Hanley continued: “On September 11, when we were attacked, I didn’t see any bankers running up the stairs to save lives. … Rev. Jackson, I looked really hard to find somebody from Wall Street only a few blocks away from the trade center who would run over and save a life. I couldn’t find any. There were none. It was the public workers…And now we have watched people including some politicians in this state turn public employees into a worse enemy than Osama bin Laden.” (read more)

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