The recall effort began when the first-term governor and Republicans in the state legislature rolled back what they considered excesses in the collective bargaining agreements of public-employee unions — an effort to cut Wisconsin’s estimated $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Tuesday’s results are likely to reverberate in other state capitals as politicians struggle to address shrinking revenue and public-pension shortfalls without raising taxes on financially insecure citizens.
Wisconsin’s Walker survives recall by wide margin
June 6, 2012 By
