Check here for coverage of day 2 of the DPW’s 2010 Convention.
9:45 a.m. Lots of amendments and floor resolutions. Gah….booooring.
9:46 a.m. Official count for the convention: 861 delegates, 246 guests.
10:02 a.m. Sen. Herb Kohl talking about Mayor Tom Barrett: “Tom Barrett will be one of the most outstanding governors the state has ever had.”
10:10 a.m. Kris Barrett, Mayor Barrett’s wife, talking about Tom Barrett: “He’s always there for us.”
10:11 a.m. Kris Barrett: Who’s going to advocate for families as governor? Tom Barrett.
10:18 a.m. Tom Barrett: The number one issue in this elections is jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. He notes government doesn’t create jobs, but adds that govt. should be a partner with businesses to create jobs, as he’s done as Mayor of Milwaukee.
10:20 a.m. Tom Barrett: Are we going to have a governor who’s going to fight for the middle class, or a governor who’s going to fight to reward big businesses?
10:23 a.m. Barrett: The state has $2.3 billion deficit, and we need serious candidates, not candidates who’ll increase the structural deficit to over $4 billion with tax cuts.
10:25 a.m. Barrett: I’m the only candidate with a detailed 67-page plan for tackling the state’s budget deficit and cutting spending.
10:26 a.m. Sanders campaign is cautiously optimistic the results of the Democratic straw poll will be favorable.
10:28 a.m. Barrett: The Republican Party is based on division, while the Democratic Party is about bringing people together.
10:30 a.m. Should have an interview with State Treasurer candidate Dan Bohrod after he finishes his remarks to the convention.
Your concise and descriptive posts are very appreciated. really.
Oddly though, I am reminded of something that has always confused and bothered me. And now Barrett is doing it (every Democrat does)
If someone could ever explain to me why “they” always always talk about fighting for the middle class (a group of people who by definition are doing well whether using local,national or certainly by global standards)
but no one ever talks about “the lower classes”. Ever.
When I have brought this up or asked friends they just laugh and say “the lower classes don’t contribute to campaigns and voting numbers are lower, the middle class votes and contributes, so candidates suck up and tell them how tough they have it”.
Yet, it seems alienating when heard by a blue collar person, and leaves many susceptible yo images some joker in a hardhat in and F350 clearing brush talking about how Mexicans want to take our jobs (an those will NOT be middle class jobs, so you know who that scare tactic is targeting – NOT the middle class at all) and then it’s so easy for those people to think “he’s like me”. I genuinely do not get that constant harping on the middle class. You can be listening and agreeing and then the fight is suddenly designated “for the middle class”.
It feels like a door has just slammed shut.
The term middle class has become something of a buzz word because that group is rapidly shrinking in the US. So it tends to get a lot of attention. But in his efforst to provide a concise summation of the Mayor’s comments Zach left out the additional phrase that the Mayor emphasised with each middle class uttered: “and working people”.
Yeah, that’s my bad. I think I got it right on Twitter, but something must have gotten lost when I transferred it over here.
Fighting for the status of the middle class means fighting so more people can rise up out of the lower class.
sorry but…that philosophy doesn’t exactly “reality test”
sorry for typos
don’t worry about that; you made a really insightful comment.
Thanks a lot 🙂