U.S. Senate candidates looking for party endorsement

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GREEN BAY - To earn the party’s endorsement this weekend, one of four Republican candidates for U.S. Senate has to gather 60 percent of the votes. All four have been working to build support and all will speak to delegates this afternoon before the vote is taken.

Earning the endorsement would mean access to financial support from the party, contacts for the campaign and access to additional networking. The candidates are Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald of Horicon, hedge fund manager Eric Hovde of Madison, former Wisconsin Congressman Mark Neumann of Nastosha and former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.

However, the U.S. Senate race has been shoved into the background by the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker.

Walker says he has no interest in making Wisconsin a right-to-work state. Walker says he wouldn’t let the Republican-controlled Legislature pass a bill making that change. Video was released last week from January of last year showing Walker talking about taking a “divide and conquer” approach to dealing with Unions. Walker’s political opponents say those comments point to his wishes to make Wisconsin a right-to-work state. Walker backed a proposal law year which effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers, but he says he was worked well with private sector unions in the past.

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