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Campaigning with Jean Stothert in Omaha, Scott Walker stirs up union opposition

    By Roseann Moring / World-Herald staff writer Apr 26, 2017 Updated Apr 28, 2017



Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker drew a few hundred people to a Monday rally with Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert — and a few hundred union members to protest outside the event.

Walker, whose moves to restrict labor unions have made him a polarizing figure nationally, said there’s a clear distinction between Stothert and challenger Heath Mello. The governor came to Omaha in part as a response to last week’s Mello rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Do you want Midwest common sense?” Walker asked about 250 attendees. “Or East Coast radical values?”

He pointed to several specifics, including Stothert’s property tax cuts and her moves to add police officers and eventually a fifth police precinct.

But about 100 union members including firefighters, teachers, laborers and operating engineers said at an earlier gathering that neither Walker nor Stothert share their values. The group, along with about 100 others, then went to protest the rally.

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