Milwaukee Mayor Gets Walker Rematch in Wisconsin Recall

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has had 18 months to ponder his 2010 loss to Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker. In 27 days he’ll get a shot at redemption -- a rematch in the third recall vote of a state chief executive in U.S. history.

After more than a year of anti-Walker protests and the collection of 900,000 signatures to force the June 5 election, Democratic primary voters yesterday chose Barrett, 58, from a field of four. The combatants will participate in a four-week sprint that has already drawn tens of millions of dollars in out-of-state donations and turned Wisconsin, with 5.7 million people, into a national battlefield of ideological titans.