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LA FOLLETTE OFFICIALLY ENTERS RECALL ELECTION
WPR News - La Follette officially enters recall election
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Thursday March 29, 2012
by Shawn Johnson
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(STATE CAPITOL) Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette has officially entered the Democratic race for Governor in the upcoming recall election.
La Follette had previously been exploring a run for Governor. Now he says he's in. The man who's been Wisconsin's Secretary of State for roughly three decades says his long record of winning statewide elections should be appealing to Democrats.
La Follette joins former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and State Senator Kathleen Vinehout as the only announced Democratic candidates. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is expected to announce his intentions soon.
La Follette had harsh words for Falk, who's been the beneficiary of a major T.V. advertising blitz from a third-party group funded by unions. La Follette says it's not the Wisconsin way, "And that is exactly what we were frightened by Mr. Walker. We expected that. I knew there would be one Goliath. I didn't know we'd have to face two Goliathas of big money, out of state money."
La Follette had said previously that a primary reason he was exploring a run for Governor was to get his name included in public opinion polls. If polls showed him trailing badly, La Follette said, he wouldn't run. A Marquette University poll released this week showed LaFollette pulling 8% of a the vote in a hypothetical four-way Democratic primary. La Follette said today that his own pollster thought the survey was flawed, "But the bottom line and the truth is I don't care about those polls. I care about the polls of the people and what I'm hearing. And I think that that's what I'll fight for as I always have."
La Follette says his top priority as Governor would be to treat people with respect, be they business owners or workers, Republicans or Democrats.
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