Wisconsin News Round-Up, 8/8

Polls open in Wisconsin in less than 24 hours, and we can’t afford to stop now. If you live in Wisconsin and want to help get out the vote, sign up at We Are Wisconsin’s website [1]. People outside the state can go to http://calloutthevote.com/ [2] to make calls to Wisconsin voters from home. We Are Wisconsin has knocked on 125,000 doors in just the last few days [3], but there’s still plenty more work to be done before polls close tomorrow at 8pm CDT. Regardless of the outcome of tomorrow’s election, though, the most important thing to come out of these recalls will remain the same: the hard work of thousands of ordinary Wisconsinites standing up to fight against Walker’s extreme agenda, and to fight for teachers, students, seniors and working families who are struggling to get by. In an election with such intense national interest, extreme Republicans across the nation will have to take notice that the people won’t put up with an agenda like Walker’s. It may feel like tomorrow is the end, but in reality, it’s just the beginning.
Showing just how seriously the big corporations and right wing extremists are taking this election, the Tea Party Express rolled into Wisconsin [4] over the weekend, bringing with them offensive comparisons between progressives and, of course, the Nazis. Additionally, this being the Tea Party, they got the location of their rallies wrong [5], listing a Thiensville rally as a Milwaukee rally. Facts are boring, though.
Stephen Colbert [6] did a brilliant segment on the recalls and Americans for Prosperity’s misleading absentee ballot mailers last week. In further news on those mailers, it seems their reach was much more widespread [7] than previously thought.
In a bit of good news, the DMV closures we reported on before [8] are being halted [9] for now.