Gov. Walker Serves Sprecher “Moving Wisconsin Forward” Beer & Angers WCTU

It wasn’t as interesting a story when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker served up Beer & Brats to lawmakers as a celebration for winning his recall election, but the Women’s Christian Temperance Union has now made it much more interesting.  This from ABCNews:

Walker invited state lawmakers to a cookout at the governor’s mansion after winning a recall election last week that was spurred by anger over a law he pushed through the Legislature effectively eliminating most public workers’ union rights.

Now, he’s angered the Women’s Christian Temperance Union with his plan to serve beer at the Tuesday cookout designed to help bring Republicans and Democrats together. The WCTU successfully lobbied for Prohibition, which made selling alcohol illegal from about 1920 to the early 1930s, and its 5,000 members continue to spread its anti-drinking message nationwide.

The cookout menu features brats, a local sausage whose name is pronounced "brahts," and beer produced by a number of Wisconsin companies. Root beer from Milwaukee-area brewer Sprecher, which made a special label saying "Moving Wisconsin Forward," also will be served.