Sunday, June 10, 2012

Election Day in Wisconsin (4 of ?): Pissed-off voters.

A friend from Milwaukee says that people are pissed off in direct proportion to how much Walker has f*ck*d them over.  Here were 3 voters I met:

1) An old (black) grandma in Racine who's pension check has gone down $100 a month because of cuts caused by the budget crisis.

2) A working-class (white) mom with a baby at home who is pissed since the middle school across the street - which she pointed to! - was where her grandma went to, her mom went to, and she went to, but because of education cuts, it was closing down, and her kids couldn't go to it.

3) Two lower-class (white) moms in this really run-down house who were sick that their kids' class sizes were increasing out of control...   One of the kids was running around and was like, "It's over thirty people!", which just made his mom inhale in absolute rage at the governor.

Her husband, however, wouldn't go vote, and when I said that Walker just might win, she was like, "What?!?!", and I told her it was become there was a portion of people who disliked him but wouldn't go to the polls, and since her husband's back was turned I pointed to him and mouthed the words "Like him!" to her...

I saw rage flare in her eyes, and as I said bye and closed the door, I could hear her and her friend start to grill her husband about why he wouldn't go walk 5 minutes down the street with them to vote when they went.

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