Wisconsin state Sen. Dan Kapanke, a Republican facing a recall election in the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-public employee union legislation, might come to regret some of the language he used to fire up local Republicans in his western Wisconsin district.
As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, a secret audio recording of a talk that Kapanke gave on May 25 reveals Kapanke bemoaning the presence of a large number of public employees in his district — and his tongue-in-cheek hopes that they’ll be asleep on election day:
“So, we’re going with our campaign, we’re doing whatever we can. But we’ve got tons of government workers in my district — tons, from La Crosse to Prairie du Chien and to Viroqua and to Ontario and to Hillsboro, you can go on and on and on. We have to overcome that. We gotta hope that they, kind of, are sleeping on July 12th, or whenever the date is.”
Hmm, with remarks like that about the unions, they’ll probably be setting their alarms early.
Eric Kleefeld
Eric Kleefeld joined TPM as an intern for the final months of the 2006 midterm elections, and then kept showing up for work. His other interests include guitars, old comic books and the politics of various English-speaking countries.
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