[h=1]Wisconsin recall: DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz sees no national impact if Democrats lose[/h]The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said Friday that if Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) doesn’t prevail over Gov. Scott Walker (R) in next month’s Wisconsin recall election, there won’t be any ramifications for Democrats nationally.
“I think, honestly, there aren’t going to be any repercussions,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a broad-ranging interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
“It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin. It’s an election that I think is important nationally because Scott Walker is an example of how extreme the tea party has been when it comes to the policies that they have pushed the Republicans to adopt,” Wasserman Schultz said. “But I think it’ll be, at the end of the day, a Wisconsin-based election, and like I said, across the rest of the country and including in Wisconsin, President Obama is ahead.”
The interview, taped Friday morning, is scheduled to air 10 a.m. Sunday.
Walker found himself at the center of a national party battle earlier this year after Democrats collected more than 1 million signatures to force the freshman GOP governor into a June 5 recall election.
Democrats have cast the recall as a referendum on Walker’s push to curtail collective-bargaining rights for public workers, arguing that a Barrett victory next month would send a warning to national Republicans: Pursue a Walker-style agenda, and pay the price at the polls.
National groups and party committees on both sides of the aisle have spent heavily on the recall, and recent polls show Walker building a slight lead in the race.
The DNC has directed more than $1.4 million to Wisconsin, and Wasserman Schultz herself is set to campaign on Barrett’s behalf early next week.
Some Wisconsin Democrats have complained that the national party has relied on labor groups to support Barrett and did not get involved in the race until it was too late.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...emocrats-lose/2012/05/25/gJQAVJ8KqU_blog.html
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She knows they are losing in the polls, it will be a big deal because the other states will follow in Wisconsin's footsteps.
“I think, honestly, there aren’t going to be any repercussions,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a broad-ranging interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
“It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin. It’s an election that I think is important nationally because Scott Walker is an example of how extreme the tea party has been when it comes to the policies that they have pushed the Republicans to adopt,” Wasserman Schultz said. “But I think it’ll be, at the end of the day, a Wisconsin-based election, and like I said, across the rest of the country and including in Wisconsin, President Obama is ahead.”
The interview, taped Friday morning, is scheduled to air 10 a.m. Sunday.
Walker found himself at the center of a national party battle earlier this year after Democrats collected more than 1 million signatures to force the freshman GOP governor into a June 5 recall election.
Democrats have cast the recall as a referendum on Walker’s push to curtail collective-bargaining rights for public workers, arguing that a Barrett victory next month would send a warning to national Republicans: Pursue a Walker-style agenda, and pay the price at the polls.
National groups and party committees on both sides of the aisle have spent heavily on the recall, and recent polls show Walker building a slight lead in the race.
The DNC has directed more than $1.4 million to Wisconsin, and Wasserman Schultz herself is set to campaign on Barrett’s behalf early next week.
Some Wisconsin Democrats have complained that the national party has relied on labor groups to support Barrett and did not get involved in the race until it was too late.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...emocrats-lose/2012/05/25/gJQAVJ8KqU_blog.html
LOL
She knows they are losing in the polls, it will be a big deal because the other states will follow in Wisconsin's footsteps.
