Walker's Recall By The Numbers - Money Can't Buy Him Love

On Tuesday, the campaign finance numbers came out.

As you can imagine, Team Walker was quite ecstatic.  The raised a whopping $13 million in the last reporting period, bring his total up to $25 million since January 1, 2011.

They also boasted about how 96,292 people gave donations of $50 or less.

Such a grassroots movement!

Needless to say, the squawking heads and the acolyte bloggers sang his paeans.

Surely, there is no way that the unionistas and the rotten liberals could stand up to this tour de force, right?

Wrong! (And stop calling me Shirley!)

There is no denying that $25 million is a considerable sum.  But it's not exactly grassroots.

If one assumes that each of those 96,292 people gave the maximum of $50, that total comes to $4,814,600, or about 19% of the total he raised.  The rest of it came from the out-of-state, big-money donors that Walker's been crossing the country to suck up too.  In other words, his campaign, like him, does not come from this state and is not here for our common good.

The percentage of instate support shrinks even more when one considers the untold millions of dollars being spent for the unreported in-kind contributions by the Koch/Bradley Foundation/Sam Adams Alliance-funded propaganda machines or all the free air time the squawking heads give him in an effort to ensure the corporate takeover of Wisconsin.

It should also be noted that out of that $25 million, Walker has only $4.8 million left.  He's already blown through 80% of the cash on hand.

And he spent more than $20 million on what? Not much.

He spent all of the money and is still losing ground to both Kathleen Falk and Tom Barrett according to polls  just released today.

Despite (or perhaps because of) flooding the TV and radio airwaves with their unceasing stream of commercial and jamming our mailboxes with so much junk mail, he's got nothing to show for it.

People are seeing through the lies to the fact that he's led Wisconsin to be the only state to have a statistically significant job loss.  They can see with their own eyes that their taxes did not really go down, and if they did or even stayed the same, their property values also dropped like rocks.  And most importantly, with the ongoing Walkergate investigations, they can see what a corrupt, untrustworthy weasel he really is.

Despite his impressive numbers, when one looks past the initial magnitude of them, one can see that this contest is coming down to the corporate interests that want to buy the state out and the people who are fighting for their very rights and freedoms.  And one cannot put a price on the fight in people fighting to protect their homelands.  Sisu is priceless.

And while I'm talking about the numbers, for Wisconsin's sake, don't take the fact that the poll shows Walker and Barrett in a dead heat as a sign that Barrett is the more electable, the more viable or the better candidate to take on Walker.

What that shows is only that Barrett as more name recognition which stems from the facts that (a) he just ran  against Walker two years ago and (b) Walker and his propagandists have been attacking Barrett for months, even before he entered the race, thereby raising his name recognition.

And yes, there are clear reasons why Walker would rather face Barrett over Falk, but just remember, Walker doesn't get to decide who we vote for.

I hope you'll join me and all of the other people and various groups who support Kathleen Falk and voting for her on May 8th.  For me, it's not just who is best to beat Walker on June 5th, but also who will take that momentum to fully restore all which was taken and make Wisconsin whole again.