I‘ve long been under the assumption that Wisconsin Democrats would unite around Voldemort if he were running against Gov. Scott Walker. But the Democratic primary for the right to challenge Walker in next month’s recall election got much more contentious than I would have expected. Now, with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett looking like the probable victor in tomorrow’s primary against union-backed Kathleen Falk and other minor candidates, Democrats have cancelled a unity rally for Wednesday that had been intended to bring together all of the candidates for an anti-Walker fiesta.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin announced on Facebook:
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After serious discussion, we believe we can’t afford to lose a single day of voter contact. It is imperative that we do everything we can to contact and turn out the voters we need to achieve what we have all worked so hard for over the past fifteen months – recalling Scott Walker.
The time for celebrating is when we beat Scott Walker on June 5th. So instead of uniting in celebration at the Capitol now, we need to unite in action all across the state.
A poster at liberal blog Daily Kos isn’t buying it:
Others are speculating that the whole thing is a last-minute dirty trick perpetrated by supporters of Kathleen Falk. Barrett has a wide lead over Falk in the most recent polls. Is it really Barrett who backed out, or did somebody design a set of conditions for the rally that they knew would force Barrett to back out so they could smear him?
I wouldn’t vouch for whether or not the rumors are true, but the fact that these sort of suspicions are floating around in liberal circles seems noteworthy given that there’s just one month to unify before the June 5 recall.
National Review’s Jim Geraghty had some fun with the development.
