Barrett Will Face Walker June 5th
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 -- 11:35 PM
-Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic primary Tuesday in Wisconsin's historic recall election, leaving him with a short four weeks to make the closing argument that Republican Gov. Scott Walker should be booted from office after 16 contentious months on the job.According to the Associated Press, Walker easily defeated token opposition in the GOP primary Tuesday, and Barrett's win set up a June 5 rematch of the 2010 governor's race.
"We know that the real battle is ahead and it's really going to be a battle for the values of Wisconsin," Barrett told The Associated Press shortly after the race was called. "Our view is Scott Walker has done a lot of damage to the state and Wisconsin can't be fixed as long as Scott Walker is governor."
Walker told his supporters Tuesday that the choice in the recall is to move ahead with his initiatives that he said are putting the state in a better position to succeed or revert to what he called the failed policies of Democrats.
"We're not going backwards; we're going forward!" Walker said.
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