Walker Recall Sparks DC Action

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)With more than a million signatures turned in yesterday in Madison, WI to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, local plans are ramping up for a major action at next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference in DC, where Walker is to be the keynote speaker. “Walker and his anti-worker friends at CPAC are no more welcome in our nation’s capital than they are back home in Wisconsin,” said Metro Council President Jos Williams. The total of a million signatures to recall Walker represents nearly half of the Wisconsin electorate, making this the largest recall effort in American history. “In a Wisconsin winter, an army of more than 30,000 Wisconsin born-and-bred recall volunteers took to street corners, malls, places of worship, dinner tables and sidewalks to take their state back,” said Ryan Lawler, board member for United Wisconsin, the non-partisan grassroots organization heading up the recall efforts. Stay tuned for details on the DC action. - photo from 2011 rally by Adam Wright