Russ Feingold: "Our Fight is not Over-Progressives Unite!!!"

[kpete]

Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 08:18 AM EST
Russ Feingold: "Our Fight is not Over." Progressives Unite.

Russ Feingold also has some insider perspective on the Wisconsin "Budget Process", as he served there of ten years. He also explained this to Rachel Maddow:

The argument that this is really about the budget process is phonier than a $3 dollar bill. There is a budget process in the state, I served for ten years in the Wisconsin state senate. It’s a very methodical process and they usually figure it out by July and they have a budget. What Walker did last week was say basically, ‘I wanna take away all these rights of collective bargaining for people and I want it done within the next five or six days. This is just a direct attack driven by corporate interests in the state and this country that they have been fantasizing about forever, which is to bust the unions. And that’s what the agenda is. It is really NOT about the State Budget -- that's just simply phony.

MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/18/946544/-Russ-Feingold:-Our-Fight-is-not-Over-Progressives-Unite

[FBaggins]

1. We may see more of him... thank goodness.

If Kohl decides to retire, Feingold's career might not be over.

[TheKentuckian]

3. Over? Hell, it should just be beginning. He should be a leader in a workers party until

it can break through over several cycles.

[madmax]

2. Russ may be more valuable outside the beltway than within. nt

[MasonJar]

4. I am sure the senator is correct. Walker is the Koch brother's man.

Walker cannot afford to bend to the will of the people he allegedly represents, that is, the citizens of Wisconsin. He would lose his financial backers.

[WI_DEM]

5. I wish Feingold would challenge Walker for Governor in 2014