These Harley Workers Weren't Fooled by Walker's "Divide and Conquer" Strategy
I took this photo in February of last year, not long after Scott Walker dropped his budget bomb. It never was about the money. It was about attacking unions, as Walker made clear in his now infamous "divide and conquer" remark to Beloit billionaire campaign donor Diane Hendricks. Walker was following a long-standing GOP pattern.
Rich corporate interests have used a divide and conquer strategy to pit natural allies against each other for years. Attacking unionized public employees has always been a favorite strategy, and certainly worked well for Reagan when he broke the air traffic controllers union, PATCO.
Like Tom Barrett, who talked at the time about Walker's "divide and conquer" strategy, these Harley workers knew what Walker was doing and called him on it early on. It seems like poetic justice that the Walker-Hendricks clip emerges now in the last stages of the recall campaign, because it's just that pattern of deceit on the part of Scott Walker that led to the recall in the first place. The difference is that a year ago, only a few people knew. Now everybody knows.
These Harley Workers Weren't Fooled by Walker's "Divide and Conquer" Strategy
I took this photo in February of last year, not long after Scott Walker dropped his budget bomb. It never was about the money. It was about attacking unions, as Walker made clear in his now infamous "divide and conquer" remark to Beloit billionaire campaign donor Diane Hendricks. Walker was following a long-standing GOP pattern.
Rich corporate interests have used a divide and conquer strategy to pit natural allies against each other for years. Attacking unionized public employees has always been a favorite strategy, and certainly worked well for Reagan when he broke the air traffic controllers union, PATCO.
Like Tom Barrett, who talked at the time about Walker's "divide and conquer" strategy, these Harley workers knew what Walker was doing and called him on it early on. It seems like poetic justice that the Walker-Hendricks clip emerges now in the last stages of the recall campaign, because it's just that pattern of deceit on the part of Scott Walker that led to the recall in the first place. The difference is that a year ago, only a few people knew. Now everybody knows.