Wisconsin Fights to Recall’s Bitter End, Some Using Fists
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The fistfight at the Short Branch Saloon in Neenah began after Dan Wintheiser, a union worker at a manhole-cover foundry, altered a yard sign promoting Wisconsin’s governor to read “I Can’t Stand Walker.”
Wintheiser said he tried to stop the punch-up between workers and managers that he set off at a May 30 retirement party. Still, it drove home that no matter what happens in tomorrow’s recall election pitting Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett against Republican Scott Walker, Wisconsin won’t greet the next day’s sunrise in a spirit of peace and unity.