Walker, Special Interests Going All Out in Battle for Airwaves
Nearly $3 million has been spent thus far in the Milwaukee market alone on ads by Democratic recall challengers, governor trying to keep his office, and the special interests trying to sway the vote.
UPDATED 8:45 a.m. April 26: For this story reviewing of records occurred through April 20. Since then, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has purchased an undetermined amount of advertisements at Milwaukee area TV stations. It’s quickly becoming just another part of summer and spring in Wisconsin — TV airwaves cluttered with political ads trying to sway the voting masses in a particular direction, and huge amounts of money flowing in. Last summer's high-stakes state Senate recall elections saw an unprecedented amount of money spent on TV ads, and experts say we can expect much of the same in the state's gubernatorial recall elections. "Spending will no doubt far exceed spending on TV this year compared to last summer's slate of Senate recalls," …
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Rachel Holley Sciortino
7:20 am on Monday, April 30, 2012
Adam W --Maybe that's the situation where you live. In our district teachers care and they work hard. The administration respects them and works with them -- so they stay and they are happy. Last year they began paying into their own fringes (without compalint) and they're self-insured so no WEAC, they also lost their retirement health coverage. Our test scores are awesome -- best in the county … more ›