News Archives: Tagged recall
TPM: PCCC Airs Ad Featuring Republicans Voting Against Sen. Darling in WI
The liberal groups Progressive Change Campaign Committee, the Wisconsin division of Democracy For America, and MoveOn have a new ad up in the state Senate recalls, going after one of the higher-value targets, state Joint Finance Committee co-chair Alberta Darling. [more]
TPM: PCCC Money “Flowing In” Wisconsin
National Democratic money is flowing into the Wisconsin state Senate recalls, with a new $100,000 ad buy from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America, in just a single targeted race. [more]
POLITICO: WI SC Election has National Implications, PCCC Fighting for Working Families
The once-obscure judicial race, which will be decided in an election Tuesday, has taken on national implications, both because Gov. Scott Walker’s signature legislation stripping public unions’ bargaining powers could be decided by the court and because it’s the first time voters have gone to the polls since Walker signed the bill that sparked the national push. [more]
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: PCCC Launches New Recall Ad
The same national groups that created the TV ad showing Capitol Square demonstrators expressing their opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill is out with another one featuring volunteers working on the recalls of Republican state senators. [more]
POLITICO: PCCC Raises $200,000 Overnight in response to WI Anti-Union Bills
In the aftermath of Wisconsin Republicans using a procedural move to pass an anti-collective bargaining bill last night, two liberal groups reported a fundraising bump of $200,000 alone since the bill passed. [more]
TPM: Feature – Progressives Get Serious About WI Recalls
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/progressives-get-serious-about-wisconsin-recalls.php [more]
CBS NEWS: National groups seek local support to recall Wisconsin lawmakers
Today, the liberal groups Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America launched robocalls in the districts of five Republican state senators to determine whether voters are interested in pursuing recall efforts against their respective representatives. [more]
THE HILL: Progressives press Obama for firmer stand on workers’ rights
Liberals on Capitol Hill are upping the pressure on President Obama to amplify his support for public workers in Wisconsin and beyond.
The Progressive Caucus co-chairman said this week that Obama’s words “are important,” but “there is more to do.”
“There’s a bully pulpit there that the president has and I think it needs to be used – it needs to be used to rally national support,” Grijalva said on a press call Wednesday sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
“I don’t think you can turn the cheek on this one,” he said. “This is one where you have to be very firm.” [more]
