Hello and welcome to this day in Soterra political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, early April 2012, let's go to Wisconsin where a ton of attention and money and TV

ads and much more is descending on the state where there is an increasingly contentious

effort underway to recall

Republican governor Scott Walker. Walker had won election just a couple

years before in 2010 riding that national wave of Tea Party politics.

Now he was in office and he's clashing

with unions, he'd introduced austerity budgeting measures and otherwise started to

remake a state that has a deep urban rural blue-red divide.

You'll maybe remember those 2011 protests that descended on the Capitol from people trying

to stop Scott Walker's budget measures.

That is all wrapped up into this and now there is this

attempt to stop him at the ballot box again through a recall election supporters of the

recall said that this was the best way to prevent him from enacting draconian policies.

Others saw this as an attempt to redo or undo an election that Walker had won fair and

square just a couple years earlier. So we will get into all that. Let's cast our minds back to not that long ago

Here as always Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Welsley. Hello there. Hello Jody. Hey there

Let's set that context. I hinted at it in the intro here but I think the two big

moments that I stick out for me are obviously his election in 2010 as part of that Tea Party

wave and then those protests a year later I think you know those images really flew

around but I don't know you want to you want to lay the context of who Scott

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