Remembering Wisconsin

This coming week Wisconsin residents will vote whether or not to recall their current Governor, Scott Walker. I sat on a plane today, on my way to DC for a conference, with a Wisconsin business man who was trying to convince me of all the benefits that Walker has brought to the state. I was not convinced. Unless you think about the ways in which Walker’s union-busting, anti-public actions have energized a wave of resistance — then, perhaps, I can say he brought something good to Wisconsin. Here’s the post I wrote back in February. And I’m repeating this video to remember what’s at stake this coming Tuesday. No matter what happens (and outside forces have spent millions trying to keep Walker in office), the brave and smart folk of Wisconsin have achieved something important simply by managing to make a recall vote happen.