Ed. Forwarding a message from returning WI Senator on the battle for workers’ rights.
This is Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson — and today, I’m heading home to Wisconsin to join the fight in person.
The last three weeks have shown what progressive strength and worker solidarity look like.
My fellow senators and I know that thousands of PCCC members in Wisconsin and across the nation have been fighting right alongside us — attending rallies, making phone calls, donating to some great TV ads, and telling your friends about the Republican war on workers.
I want to say thank you. I also want to let you know that the fight’s not over.
Republicans need to learn what accountability feels like. It’s time for Republican senators to be recalled from office.
The PCCC just opened up an official Recall Committee in Wisconsin — which will mobilize volunteers and run new ads against vulnerable Republicans. (Ed. Note: the PCCC refers to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a project of Bold Progressives.)
Wisconsin Republicans brazenly stampeded over the will of the people as they engaged in their right-wing attack on workers.
They shut down the public hearings, they shut down the legislative hotline, they shut down debate in the Assembly in the middle of the night, and they tried to lock citizens out of the Capitol. And on Wednesday night, when they had their last chance at redemption, Republican senators chose to bend the rules and join Governor Walker’s war on working families.
The citizens of Wisconsin are rising up and engaging in the democratic process like never before. Recalls of the Republicans are kicking into high gear as clipboards begin to replace protest signs in neighborhoods across the state.
Governor Walker and Republican senators refused to listen to the public — but now the people will be heard all across the state at the ballot box.
To chip in to assist the PCCC’s Recall Committee, click here.
Thanks again for standing with us in solidarity, and for being a bold progressive.
— Senator Chris Larson, Wisconsin’s 7th District, Twitter: @ChrisJLarson