Walker to mend political divide with brats, beer

Walker recall elections cost $13.5 million

Published: September 14, 2012
Tags: recall, Scott Walker

Gov. Scott Walker’s June recall election and the primary held a month before it cost taxpayers more than $13 million.

Nearly $81 million spent on Walker recall

Published: July 25, 2012
Tags: recall, Scott Walker

Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker spent more than twice as much as his recall election challenger Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Democratic supporters.

Prospects of updating recall law unclear

Published: June 25, 2012
Tags: recall, Scott Walker

Wisconsin lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that the state’s recall law needs to be updated, but they may have trouble compromising.

Wisconsin adds 900 private-sector jobs in May (UPDATE)

Published: June 14, 2012
Tags: Department of Workforce Development, DWD, jobs, recall, Scott Walker

Wisconsin added 900 private-sector jobs last month as the state’s unemployment rate held steady, the state Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday.

Walker to use brats, beer to bridge divide

Published: June 11, 2012
Tags: collective bargaining, recall, Scott Walker
Comments: 1

Nothing brings people together in Wisconsin like the promise of beer and brats.

Rift over political spending divides AFSCME

Published: June 8, 2012
Tags: AFSCME, Obama, recall, unions

A heated battle is taking place inside a giant U.S. public employees’ union after its crushing failure this week to oust Gov. Scott Walker — organized labor’s biggest political loss in decades.

Winners and losers in recall 2012

Published: June 8, 2012
Tags: Bill Lueders, Mike McCabe, recall, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett

As the dust settles on Wisconsin’s tumultuous recall elections, let’s acknowledge some of the winners and losers.

Nation’s unions lost big in the recall showdown

Published: June 6, 2012
Tags: AFL-CIO, AFSCME, recall, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett

Gov. Scott Walker’s definitive victory in Wisconsin’s recall election is already reverberating in other state capitols. It exposed the shrunken political muscle of the unions that tried to oust him, underscoring their vulnerability to attacks from the right and inability to retaliate.

State’s voters divided on bargaining, governor

Published: June 6, 2012
Tags: collective bargaining, election, Obama, recall, Scott Walker, Tom Barrett, unions

Talk about a sharply divided electorate.