Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Scott Walker like George Wallace, Jesse Jackson says

Scott Walker like George Wallace, Jesse Jackson says - POLITICO.com
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Tuesday that Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a historic recall election, is trying to do in Wisconsin what anti-civil rights and segregationist George Wallace tried to do as governor of Alabama.
“Wallace tried to deny the right to vote and Walker’s trying to limit access to voting with the voter ID scheme and the roll purging,” Jackson told POLITICO.
“What happened in the south with Wallace as the governor of Alabama, it symbolized the Southern Manifesto: the resistance to voting and the resistance for workers right to organize. …
What’s happening in Wisconsin is an attempt to revert to that time.”

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