Want to win the WI Recall? Make sure this story goes as wide as humanly possible

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/20/1093293/-Want-to-win-the-WI-Recall-Make-sure-this-story-goes-as-wide-as-humanly-possible

Certainly the litany of Scott Walker's sins is long and varied: Gross mismanagement, worst in the nation Job numbers, union-busting, billionaire toadying, and good old fashioned political corruption and criminal activity. But the fact is, anyone upset about these things is already voting against him, and many polls still have the race tied or ahead. So to win this thing, we need a wedge issue that peels off some of his support, particularly in his Northern WI base areas. Fortunately Scott Walker has just handed us just such a wedge on a sliver platter in his appointment of Dr. James Kroll as the State's "deer Czar". You see Dr. Kroll considers allowing hunters to hunt for free on state-managed game lands, "the last bastion of communism" and want to do away with it altogether.

Even if you think this issue doesn't matter because you've never shot an animal with anything other than a camera, if you want the Dems to win the recall election you need to spread this story as far and wide as possible. Because, trust me, there are people in WI for who this will REALLY matter, and they're precisely the people we need to reach. Let me explain:

The first thing you need to understand, is that for a significant number of people in WI, deer hunting is less of a sport and more of a religion. I've spoken to a lot of people who grew up in WI, particularly the northern part of the state, who told me that growing up, most high- and even Middle-schools managed to make sure that the first day of whitetail season was some sort of school holiday, since they knew that huge percentages of their students wouldn't be there anyway. It is a time when contractors turn down business, people take days off of work, shifts go unfilled and deliveries are delayed, because, hell, it's deer hunting time.

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1. Hoping this changes a few minds

But the Walker people have been working on hunters/sportsmen for a long time... and imagery and propaganda speak louder than facts and reason for the Right.

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2. Forwarding this to everyone I know...

Let's get the word out on this!

[EC]

3. Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without the deer hunting

that week. Factories use that week to shut down because so many people would schedule vacation time then for the deer hunting. It is THE THING TO DO around here for Thanksgiving week (opening of hunting season). So many families around here do this, the men go hunting all week and get back just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. Bars and nightclubs do well that week with all the "girls night out" business while their husbands and boy friends are away hunting. It really hasn't lessened in the years either. I thought with each generation there would be less of it, but it has seemed to survive each generation.

[midnight]

4. Interesting detail. K&R

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5. Easy: he's made things hard on Obama, right?

So take him to task for it. Do what Clinton would do: show how he's gotten in the way of the president's priorities. Make this a race between Walker and Obama.