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Johnni, Milwaukee: "It's important to me because if I do the same job as any man, I want to get paid just like any other man!"

 

Linda, Milwaukee "I've lost over $600 out of my paycheck...It's really hard to make ends meet"

Nicole, Milwaukee "My father is a state employee and he sees a cut of over $300 a month"

Ted, Milwaukee: "I'm voting to recall Scott Walker on June 5th is mostly concern for my kids and their education. My kids go to a very good school is Milwaukee...and the cuts that Walker has delivered to Milwaukee Public Schools are beyond devistating"

Carrie, Milwaukee: I'll vote on June 5th for the 82,000 students in [Milwaukee Public Schools] that don't have a voice"

Sandy, Oak Creek: "For the last 15 years I've had a voice, but now that voice has been taken away by Scott Walker" 

Chris, Milwaukee: "It's just ridiculous that the cuts are always to the poor, the middle class, while embracing big business who are doing nothing on job creation"

Jennifer, Milwaukee: "The reason I'm going to vote on June the 5th is because I want to make sure I keep my healthcare"

 

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Kelly, Milwaukee: "I am a proud parent of two [Milwaukee Public Schools] high school students, at Reagan High School. I'm also a proud MPS teacher. I believe we need to put money back into education where it belongs.

Phyllis, Milwaukee: "they want us to have health insurance that is so unaffordable that I will never ever ever get to use it. And that is sad when I have illnesses to take care of"

Lynn, Milwaukee: "I am against Walker because I have a handicapped son and I'm not sure how his...livelihood will be affected by Walker cutting things back"

Michelle, Milwaukee: "I don't have billion dollar supporters like Scott Walker does, but what we do have is the power of the people. And if we are united then we can make change"

Shirley, Milwaukee: "I see how the kids don't have the opportunities I had at [Milwaukee Public Schools]. I had driver's ed, I had art classes, I had a librarian, I had a social worker. And these kids do not!"

 

Joanna: "Leadership shouldn't cause the feelings, emotions, that have been happening between friends, families & neighbors; that's just not real leadership"

 

Collete, South Milwaukee, to "do what is right for the children of this state"

Darla, South Milwaukee, "get out an vote, we need everybody"

Tracy, Milwaukee: "The reason I'm going to go vote on June 5th is because in my school we have no specials: no gym, art, music

 

Arthur, Milwaukee: "The Medicaid program, because I'm disabled myself"

 

Bonnie, South Milwaukee: "parents have to spend more money on supplies. I just think it is incredibly unfair that corporate people would be getting all this money over kids"

 

Deiona, Milwaukee: "the reason I'm voting on June 5th is because of Badgercare"

 

Helen, Milwaukee & Donna, Muskego: "we're very concerned that if Walker gets the public unions they're going to get private unions too"

 

Larry, Milwaukee: "I'm embarrassed now when I leave the state to tell others I live here"

 

Kris, Milwaukee: "I have a granddaughter on Badgercare, and if Scott Walker gets his way I don't think she'll be on Badgercare"

Kehinde: Milwaukee: "I'll be out June 5th to vote because it is my duty to vote...and we have fought to get that right"

 

Ursula, Milwaukee: "I want to make sure that my mom & my dad have access to Badgercare. They worked their whole life to provide for me, my family and our community and I want to make sure they are taken care of"

 

Pam, Greenfield: "His War against Women will lower my wages, and how will I pay my mortage?"

Becky, Milwaukee "the reason I'm working so hard to get rid of Scott Walker is because I work for the school system, I work with kids, our classrooms are now overcrowded, we don't have enough teachers to support our classrooms"

Jean, Milwaukee "I'm hear for my daughter Maggie and her husband Ben. She's a teacher and he works for the City of Madison; and I know what kind of long hours they put in, and I know what kind of a pay cut they took"

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Joe, Richfield: "he's trying to put brother against brother, sister against sister"..."[his niece] was kicked off Badgercare because she made a few dollars too much"

Joe, Waukesha: "I've never belonged to a union, but I just don't think it's right to take away people's rights to solve a budget, they don't go together"

Olivia, Milwaukee: "My reason to get out is the attack on Planned Parenthood"

Brian, Milwaukee: "the thing that I'm concerned about is school funding. The children are absolutely our future and if we don't have funding for schools we don't have a future"

 

Bruce, Milwaukee: "The Talgo fiasco, the idea being we were somehow doing to save money by not extending the light rail and now we're going to be tied up and paying more money than if we would have light rail and that would have also created jobs"

Gene, Lodi: "I'm voting on June 5th to recall Governor Walker so the people who work for the state have the ability to have a say in their own safety regulations. Until then we have no say what so ever.

 

Ingrid, Lodi: "I'm voting on June 5th because of what they've done to education"

 

Jackie, Milwaukee "The cuts that Scott Walker did affected me, my family & my community"

 

Dillan, South Milwaukee, "because I'm a young educator, my wife is also a young educator, and we want to see a future in this field!"

Esti, Milwaukee: "My brother has been unemployed for 2 years, he's an electrician and he's had very little work to do because of this economic crisis and it's only gotten worse this last year"

 

 

Pam, Cudahy WI: "It is my civic right, duty, and responsibility to vote on June 5th"

 

Diane, South Milwaukee: "I'm going to vote because I believe the kids of this city deserve much better!"

 

 

Gail, South Milwaukee: "I am voting at the Recall Election because I am very upset about the way Governor Walker has not been honest with Wisconsin"

Guy, Milwaukee: "I'm getting out to vote on June 5th to Recall Scott Walker, cause I think this election is about the heart & soul of Wisconsin"

 

Lori, Milwaukee "I am going to be hard pressed to have $330 cut from my pay every month from now on in starting in July. I have some health issues...I don't know how I'm going to do it"

Nancy, Greenfield: "Scott Walker is responsible for removing people from Badgercare, the most recent number is 17,000 or more!"

Halle, Milwaukee: "Since Governor Walker has been in office I've felt ashamed to share with people that I am a teacher, and that he almost things I should be ashamed that I am a teacher!"

 

Janet, South Milwaukee: on cuts to education: "they don't have the opportunities we had as kids"

 

Joan, Milwaukee: "I see what it is doing to the [Milwaukee Public School] system and education in general, really concerned about that"

Barbara, Milwaukee: "I care about the future of my grandchildren"

Brian, Milwaukee "I want someone to tell me when teachers and unions became a bad word"

 

 

Giuseppe, Milwaukee "a family [told me] they didn't want to go outside anymore after 6pm [they didn't feel safe]"

Jaime, Bayview/Milwaukee: "I'm really motivated to vote on June 5th, first for my son's education. We cut $1.8 billion from public education"

Jean, Greendale: "I've watched librarians get laid off as well as art & music teachers"