WI-SEN GOPer Ron Johnson: Construction Workers Should Boycott Cordoba House

Republican candidate for Senate Ron Johnson (WI).
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Ron Johnson, a businessman and the likely Republican nominee against Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), is voicing his opposition to the proposed Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York. Furthermore, he’s calling for construction workers to boycott the project if the city and state won’t revisit the matter and block it.

As the Racine Journal Times reported on Friday:

“Those folks are trying to poke a stick in our eye,” Johnson said. “I just hope the zoning officials and the city, the state revisit that, rezone that piece of property.”

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate continued: “If they don’t do it I hope the construction workers in New York show their outrage and say we are not going to do that.”

So this is what it takes for Republicans to support organized labor…

The TPM Poll Average currently gives Johnson a lead of 48.8%-46.9% over Feingold. Previously, Feingold came out strongly against the center’s opponents, calling the opposition “one of the worst things I’ve ever seen done in politics.”

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