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Scott Walker's Billionaire Boys Club: Big Money Backs Anti-Labor Agenda

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Various Club for Growth, "Right-to-Life" and corporate front groups are spending more on Walker's behalf.

Walker needs the help.

His latest report reveals that, of the $25 million his campaign has taken in, as much as $21 million has been spent.

Yet most polls show the governor struggling to get to 50 percent against his prospective Democratic challengers in the June 5 recall election. And despite Walker's complaints about "big labor," the truth is that his massive television advertising and direct mail campaign has not been challenged.

That will change after the May 8 Democratic primary nominates a candidate against Walker.

There is no question that the governor will enter the record books when it comes to campaign fundraising and spending in Wisconsin.

But that entry could well be as a footnote to the one headlined: "Only Governor of Wisconsin to be Recalled and Removed From Office."

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