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Mr. Walker: Pull Down Your Ad!

Offensive...Appalling...Unprecedented.

Pick your outrage, but Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's unseemly attack ad against Mayor Tom Barrett must be pulled. Immediately.

Stand with us and demand Scott Walker pull down his offensive 'Fighter' ad immediately.

We will send a message loud and clear and united to Scott Walker that Wisconsin --  liberals, conservatives and moderates -- want his horrible ad off the air.

Tell Scott Walker: Pull Down Your Ad!

Walker turned hardball politics into dirty ball. In his television ad, he implies he's ready to get physical with Mayor Barrett -- going so far as to don boxing gloves and knock them together likes he's ready to fight.

Why would Scott Walker mock the heroic effort made by Mayor Barrett to protect a grandmother and her granddaughter who were under attack? Why would Scott Walker diminish Mayor Barrett's real heroism -- heroism that left him the victim of a vicious and potential fatal beating with a crowbar when he intervened?

It's unbelievable. But he did. And now he has to stop.

Demand Scott Walker pull down his offensive ad and get your friends and family to do the same. We need the loudest, largest voice possible to convince Scott Walker he is wrong and his ad must stop.

Scott Walker's tactics would embarrass even Karl Rove. What's worse is that Walker defended the ad just last night.

In the reprehensible ad, Walker exhorts, "I'm ready to go the distance." Defending the ad to a reporter yesterday, Walker said of Mayor Barrett's assault, "It wasn't even about a punch."

What does that mean? That Mayor Barrett didn't throw enough punches defending the grandmother? And that Walker would "go the distance"?

Inevitably, history has the final say in the tales of heroes and cowards.

We know Mayor Barrett is a hero.

And we know what this despicable ad makes Scott Walker.

Walker needs to dump his boxing gloves into one of his brown paper bags and get back to the issues facing Wisconsin - like creating jobs and how we can balance our budget and protect our important priorities like education, health care and police and fire protection.

Join the One Wisconsin Now community and people from all across Wisconsin in telling Walker "take down that ad."


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