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FALK SPEAKS AT LATINO MARCH
WPR News - Falk speaks at Latino march
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Monday April 30, 2012
by Chuck Quirmbach
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Two leading Democratic candidates for governor made a pitch for Latino voters in Milwaukee Sunday. One of the contenders had a larger audience.
Before the start of a May Day solidarity march, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk criticized the record of Republican Governor Scott Walker. She spoke to the marchers in English, and her remarks were translated into Spanish, "Governor Walker is against workers' rights! Governor Walker cut funding for your childrens' schools! Governor Walker has made it harder for us to vote."
After the speech, Falk said as governor, she would sign into law any bill that brings back an in-state tuition plan for children of undocumented immigrants. "Because immigration is the pathway to success, and we want to make sure that people study hard and work hard, and they ought to be able to get an education," she said. "That is the American dream."
Falk has been endorsed by Voces de la Frontera, the Milwaukee group that organized yesterday's march. Voces said Democratic candidate Tom Barrett was also going to speak before the event, but Barrett did not do so. But a Barrett campaign spokesman said the Milwaukee mayor was at a previously-scheduled event in another area, and couldn't make it for the program. Barrett did apparently swing by a lakefront rally at the end of the march, aftrer thousands of people had left.
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