Walker’s in, the left fires first, and the War for Wisconsin is on

By M.D. Kittle April 16, 2014

 

That didn’t take long. Literally minutes after Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch officially announced their re-election campaign Tuesday, a Hillary Clinton front group rolled out its attack machine against the Republican governor and potential 2016 presidential hopeful.  American Bridge, backed by big-money liberal donor George Soros, “welcomed” Walker and his “failed job creation promise to the Wisconsin governor’s race.” 

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch announce their re-election campaigns Tuesday. The liberal “research and communications organization committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words” by employing liberal spin, made its first sortie an all-out assault on Walker’s jobs record, criticizing the governor’s failure to date to hit his ambitious pledge that the state would create 250,000 jobs by the end of his first term.

Walker’s official campaign launch made one thing very clear: The political war is back on in Wisconsin.  And liberals again are ready to pump in big money and national resources to take down the man who reformed Wisconsin’s public-sector collective bargaining system, among one of the most active public policy reform agendas since the progressives’ “Fighting” Bob LaFollette.  .....To Read More.....