Newt's Wednesday Wisconsin visit could be fun

Bigtime Walker-backer Newt Gingrich, one week removed from officially announcing his Presidential candidacy, is coming to newly hostile territory in Holmen this Wednesday at 6:30 PM.  The La Crosse Tribune reports the former House Speaker will be visiting Drugan's Castle Mound Country Club in Holmen, about 20 minutes north of La Crosse, near the hometown of Gingrich's third and current wife, Callista.  And I can't imagine the visit will go unnoticed--by the media, or by anti-Walkerites near Holmen.

Gingrich called for Americans to "help" Walker  in February, describing the Madison protests as "a campaign of intimidation and cowardice, (in which) the government employee union bosses and the Democratic Party that is beholden to them, are trying to thwart the will of the people." 

We'll see what the "will of the people" really is.

La Crosse is ground zero for the recall effort.  Current district Republican Senator Dan Kapanke is very vulnerable (he won his 2008 by a scant 2%).  The area's 94th District Assembly seat was recently won by Democrat Steve Doyle, an upset considering it had been held by Walker crony Mike Huebsch from 1995 until earlier this year when Walker appointed him to be his Secretary of Administration, the right-hand-man post in which Huebsch was the chief author of the anti-collective bargaining bill.

Clearly, the will of the people has changed, Newt.  I can only imagine that if people stood outside Walker's Wauwatosa home in February, greeted Paul Ryan with jeers at town meetings, and even came out to join Walker when he went fishing, for goodness sakes, it's likely you're going to get a front-row seat to that change come Wednesday evening.

Have a nice visit.