AUDIO: Soglin full speech (14:30)
This week, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a non-partisan organization, announced that nearly forty-four million dollars had been spent on the nine Wisconsin State Senate recall elections that concluded last month—offering a glimpse of the spending that might be expected in the general election. The recall effort began in mid-February, days after Governor Scott Walker’s proposed eliminating most collective bargaining rights for public workers. There had previously been only four recalls of state officials in Wisconsin since 1926, when the process first became possible. The recalls cost several million dollars more than the state’s most expensive campaign to date, the 2010 governor’s race that Walker won.
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NEW YORK - Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.