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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:02 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 31 March 2011 01:02
From the Politico:
“We generally are welcomed when we come in because we bring resources and a level of sophistication,” said Chris Jankowski, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, the GOP’s state campaign arm.
The committee primed Wisconsin for conflict by spending more than $1 million to flip both chambers last November — and $31 million overall in a national effort that cost Democrats more than 700 legislative seats across the nation, the most ever by either party. Democrats lost control of 20 legislative chambers on election night, a number that grew to 21 when party-switchers handed the Louisiana Senate to the GOP.
“The Democrats started this. They got better at it quicker further down the ballot,” Jankowski explained. “The Republicans we work with feel like, ‘Thank God. Finally I’ve got a group that can help me fight back.’”