Subject: [big campaign] WI: State Capitol 'Run Against Walker' to Focus on Walker, GOP Attacks on Health Care, Middle Class to Pay for $600 Million Corporate Tax Cuts
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*For Immediate Release
June 7, 2011*
*Contact: Cody Oliphant
Phone: 608-772-9202*

 State Capitol ‘Run Against Walker’ to Focus on Walker, GOP Attacks on
Health Care, Middle Class to Pay for $600 Million Corporate Tax Cuts *Walker
Budget Slashes Middle Class Priorities to Pay for Corporate Tax Payoffs to
Special Interest Donors
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Madison -- Massive attacks against health care, education and middle class
priorities launched by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislative
majority are the focus of a “Run Against Walker,” scheduled at the State
Capitol today. The “Run Against Walker,” a run/walk for citizens organized
by One Wisconsin Now as part of the “Walkerville” activities on the State
Capitol Square, will accommodate both runners and walkers who are united
against Walker's attacks on the middle class.

The run will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the top of State Street, travel down
State Street to the University of Madison-Wisconsin Terrace and along the
lake and back to the Capitol in advance of the “Walkerville” health care
events scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

“Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans call for ‘shared sacrifice,’ while
attacking the working people of Wisconsin,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin
Now Executive Director. “But their idea is to sacrifice the health care,
public education and priorities of the middle class, while allowing special
interests to share more than $600 million dollars every two years in new
corporate tax breaks and giveaways.”

Walker and the Republicans have already passed into law $140 million in new
tax breaks that help corporations and the wealthy. In the recently completed
Joint Finance Committee budget writing, the Republican-led committee passed
nearly $500 million coming biennial new corporate tax giveaways. [Wisconsin
Legislative Fiscal Bureau]

The unprecedented corporate giveaways by Republicans come at the same time
Walker and his allies have attempted to pass the following attacks on the
middle class, including:

   - Allowing the Secretary of the Department of Health Services to cut,
   without full legislative approval, 70,000 Wisconsinites who pay for health
   care through the BadgerCare program;
   - Increasing the health care costs for potentially 1 million
   Wisconsinites;
   - Refusing to protect seniors from being forced after next year out of
   the successful SeniorCare prescription drug program and into the more
   expensive Medicare Part D federal plan that would result in higher costs for
   seniors.

Walker and his allies are also making drastic cuts to public education and
higher education, including $1.6 billion in less funding for public schools,
$71 million in cuts to the Technical College System and $250 million in cuts
the University of Wisconsin system. Republicans have even voted to increase
taxes on the working poor by $60 million.

“We will ‘Run Against Walker’ as long as Walker runs against the values of
the people of Wisconsin and remains in the pocket of corporate special
interests,” said Ross. “’Run Against Walker’ is our effort to make Wisconsin
a healthier place for the middle class and workers across Wisconsin.”

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