Six senators Wisconsin struggled Tuesday to keep their jobs in a recall election, trying to beat back Democratic rivals, which fueled a political backlash against Republican Gov. Scott Walker for his efforts to strip public employees of the rights most unions. Powered by millions of dollars in national working groups, the attempt to eliminate the holders of the Republican Party did not ultimately change the control of the Senate Democrats of Wisconsin. In the match-ups that took place on Tuesday to The Associated Press said four Republican senators to the winners of their respective careers. Two Democratic challengers defeated sitting Republican legislators.
The Republicans held control of the Senate in Wisconsin on Tuesday, pushing back four Democratic challengers in a recall election despite a strong political backlash against the Republican governor's support of Scott Walker effort to curb the rights of public employees the Union.
Powered by millions of dollars in national working groups, the attempt to eliminate the Republican incumbents served as a referendum on the conservative revolution of Walker and could provide a new indicator of the mood of the public less than a year after the Republicans radical advances achieved in this state and many others.
Two Democratic incumbents face recalls the upcoming week, but even if the Democrats win they will remain a minority.
Turnout was strong in the morning and afternoon constant in communities like Whitefish Bay, Shorewood Menomonee Falls, where Senator Alberta Darling was one of four Republicans to stay in his seat.
Tony Spencer, 36 years old Shorewood fired carpenter, aspiring voted for Darling, Democratic state Rep. Sandy Easter.
"I'm in a union setting, so it does not necessarily have come after me," said Spencer. "But everyone should be entitled to be in a union. I left everything to stop the union-bashing."
John Gill, 45, of Milwaukee, voted in favor of Darling and questioned the anti-republican rhetoric that went beyond collective bargaining.
"This was supposed to all the rights of workers, so to speak. But that has not been brought up once. Everything has been misleading attack ads, that sort of thing, "said Gill." The reason I started this recall, that does not appear once. "
Until this year, there have been only 20 attempts since 1913 to remember any of the state legislators of the nation of the office. Only 13 of those efforts were successful.
