Politico has the story here:
Despite his late entry into the race, Barrett held a wide lead in the polls, aided in part by higher name recognition. Falk acknowledged that fact while campaigning in Milwaukee on Monday, saying she has always been the underdog.
“I have been all along because Tom [Barrett] just ran for governor a year ago,” she said.
Barrett’s victory came despite organized labor’s best efforts against him. Most of the state’s unions – including the AFL-CIO, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the SEIU and the United Food and Commercial Workers – endorsed Falk.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel shows here the beating the unions' candidate received at the hands of Barrett, who will face energized Republicans who turned out massively for Walker yesterday in the pro forma Republican primary:
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel shows here the beating the unions' candidate received at the hands of Barrett, who will face energized Republicans who turned out massively for Walker yesterday in the pro forma Republican primary:
