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Opponents File Petitions to Oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker From Office

Opponents Push to Recall Scott WalkerMADISON, Wis. (The Blaze/AP) — Groups seeking to recall Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many signatures Tuesday as required to force an election, an overwhelming number that may make a vote later this year inevitable.

But Walker’s opponents still must transform public outrage over his pushback against unions into actual votes to oust him from office. If Walker is worried, he’s not showing it: As petitions were delivered to election officials, Walker was out of state raising money to defend himself and the agenda that has made him a national conservative hero.

The 1 million signatures that United Wisconsin, the coalition that spearheaded the effort along with the Democratic Party, said were collected far exceeds the 540,208 needed and amounts to 23 percent of the state’s eligible voters.

Efforts to recall Walker stemmed from anger over his aggressive moves during his first year in office that included effectively ending collective bargaining rights for nearly all public workers.

Petitioners were also submitting about 305,000 more signatures than were needed to trigger a recall election against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and said they also exceeded the number needed to force recall elections of four Republican state senators, including Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.

The massive number of signatures against Walker means his supporters would have to successfully challenge about 46 percent of them to stop an election.

“I don‘t know if it’s insurmountable, but it would be extremely difficult,” said Joshua Spivak, a recall expert and senior fellow at Wagner College in New York.

During the recall of California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, petitioners also turned in almost double what was needed and only about 18 percent were tossed, Spivak said.

Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said given the number of signatures collected, Walker shouldn’t seek delays and instead let the vote proceed.

“Does anyone really honestly believe we’re not going to have an election?” Tate said.

Walker has expressed confidence he will survive a recall and that voters will reward him for balancing a $3.6 billion budget shortfall without laying off state employees or raising taxes.

His campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said he was not available for comment Tuesday, but he did appear on Wisconsin and national conservative talk radio shows to criticize the recall process and defend his record.

Republican Party Chairman Brad Courtney issued a statement denouncing what he called a baseless and expensive recall. An election is expected to cost at least $9 million.

“Regardless of what the radical left may believe, Wisconsin families will continue to stand with Gov. Walker,” Courtney said.

The governor’s supporters have been training volunteers how to vet signatures and they plan to create a database where names will be entered and verified. Walker has already successfully sued the state elections board to require it to do a more extensive review of the signatures than originally planned in order to catch duplicates and obviously fake names like Mickey Mouse.

The Government Accountability Board has said its review will take 60 days or more and it will go to court this week to seek more than the 31 days allowed under the law.

Tate said he didn’t expect a Walker recall election would happen before May. Walker has said he thinks it will be in June.

Recalls have become common in Wisconsin since the political tumult of 2011 that saw Walker and Republicans pass the collective bargaining changes, one of the country’s most restrictive laws requiring photo identification at the polls, and a budget that included an $800 million cut to public schools.

The opposition started with massive protests and then grew into organized campaigns – first to recall state senators, then Walker himself. Last summer, six Republican state senators and three Democrats faced recall elections. Two Republicans lost, leaving the party with a one-vote majority in the Senate.

A recall against Walker couldn’t officially be filed until after he had served a year in office, an anniversary reached earlier this month.

But Walker hasn’t been waiting around to see what happens. He ran a television ad the night before recall petitions hit the street in mid-November and has been on the air nonstop, saying that while some of his decisions to balance the budget were difficult, the state is in a better financial position and will prosper in the long run.

The governor has been raising money at a furious clip. He was hosting a $2,500 per-person fundraiser in New York City on Tuesday along with Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the founder and former CEO of American International Group. AIG was one of the world’s largest insurance companies but nearly collapsed in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis and received about $180 billion in bailout aid from the government.

Walker has also recently attended fundraisers in Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee. He is taking full advantage of both the conservative star persona he built as he put Wisconsin at the center of the national labor rights debate and a quirk in state law allowing those targeted for recall to ignore normal contribution limits until an election date is set.

As of mid-December, he had raised $5.1 million, with about half coming from out-of-state donors.

Democrats, who have no candidate raising money to challenge Walker, concede they will not be able to match him dollar for dollar. Instead, they are counting on the same type of energy that drove the protests and the petition drive to translate into the campaign.

Two prominent Democrats, former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold and retiring U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, have repeatedly said they aren’t interested. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who lost to Walker by 6 percentage points, issued a statement praising recall circulators but did not indicate whether he would enter the race.

“It’s time for a new direction that will heal our fractured state and move Wisconsin forward again,” Barrett said.

Besides Davis, the only other successful recall of a governor in the nation’s history was North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921.

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  • racer89
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:00pm

    I am from Wisconsin, and being a business owner, I talk to and deal with many, many people. Like myself, 99% of the good people from this state that I talk with are in favor of Scott Walker, and against this union spear-headed recall. Plain and simple, unions are losing millions of dollars by not being able to rip-off Wisconsin tax payers anymore, and school districts like the one that my children are in, are saving millions of dollars by not being forced to buy union health insurance, and can now buy the same insurance from a private carrier, for $1000 a month less per teacher!!! Just on health insurance savings alone, many school districts have gone from an operating deficit to a postive cash postion for the 201-2012 school year ( These are factual numbers available for anyone to see, NOT guesses or assumption). And this is just one of the ways Scott Walker has been able to save this state and its tax payers money. 2/3 of this state AGREE’s with Scott, and he will prevail, even if Madison is in our state.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Then why do the useful idiots not “ get it ”? Seems to me they would be thrilled with what is going on.

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    • Reload
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Just make sure that you get out and vote.

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    • chfields62
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:15pm

      Again…will they never tire??? Union morons hard (more like hardly) working…..

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:31pm

      The Wisconsin voters that elected Scott Walker do not want out of state union money determining our politics in Wisconsin. This is the start of a new conservative uprising and we need out of state help (money) to fight the millions and millions of dollars the unions are about to unleash to remove Walker.

      Please consider donating money TODAY to Governor Scott Walker and show the unions who is really in charge, the voters.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:35pm

      I don’t recognize the country I live in anymore. WTF. Communists are everywhere. We used to use communists as target practice. What has changed?

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:53pm

      Uh, the honorable Governor is held accountable to the citizenry… Pure Tea party ethos.

      TEA

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:55pm

      I’m sure Mickey Mouse and Captain Hook are on that petition..
      Hoffa “lets take out these Sons a Bitc**es” , Nice Touch Goober..

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:02pm

      So, now recalls are being used to change the results of elections we don’t like? I thought they were a remedy to remove people from office for gross misconduct, illegal activity or incompetence. Silly me. All Walker did was what he said he’d do.

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:02pm

      PATRICK: The Marxist professors ( like Juan Lazaro of CUNY who was part of a Russian spy ring but whom Obama shipped quietly back to the Motherland ) who have infested our universities since the 60′s ; the Bill Ayers lawyers / Saul Alinski community organizers devotees; the Van Jones types who have influenced young people and the growing secularism have all had something to do with this sad effect.

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    • lvamervet
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:25pm

      Scott was put in office to do what the people wanted…. CUT SPENDING!
      He did that….Now the people want him out office….
      I am a solid trade union member for 30yrs… What my brothers do not
      understand is that are being used by our so called leaders….
      GOD
      FAMILY
      COUNTRY
      UNION
      In that order……………

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:36pm

      Mickey Mouse and Adolph Hitler and all the other cartoon characters will be voting early and often.
      It’s the Progressive way.

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    • Robert999
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:16pm

      I agree that it is the Good people who support Scott Walker, but the Evil union members and their Commie buddies are the ones who signed the petitions (some with fake names). The only way to return America to constitutional and conservative government is to make ALL Unions illegal. Make it illegal to engage in any kind of collective (another Commie word) labor bargaining. Arrest anyone with a union card and put them on a lie detector. If they are conservatives and constitutionalists and agree to be anti-union, let them go. If not, they need to be educated in constitutional principles to be loyal conservative Americans. Once they are re-educated so we can be sure they won’t be terrorists or traitors, they can be released.

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:32pm

      FORMER: Think you have hit on an interesting legal/ constitutional issue. So anyone can recall an election if enough people just sign the paper ? No other reason than that they do not like the election result ? And what if they do not like the results of the recall election ?? Hmmm. Sounds like a chaotic , expensive , budget -busting tactic. Sounds so Cloward/ Piven . BUT I’m sure old Eric Holder and his DOJ is seriously looking into this potential injustice. Correct ???

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:44pm

      .
      “Let’s get rid of Walker and get back to the business of bankrupting this state!
      After we get our scam, of course.”

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    • jzs
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:44pm

      As I understand it, Wisconsin has about four million eligible voters. About 1 million signed the petitions, partly because they disagree with him, and partly because Walker said no word is his campaign about eliminating collective bargaining to pay for tax cuts for businesses (Wisconsin has lost jobs since Walker’s election by the way, despite giving tax breaks to the “job creators”).

      If 1 million people in Wisconsin are evil, then Wisconsin must be a pretty sorry state. Or maybe they simply don’t like the bait and switch he pulled on the average worker.

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:50pm

      A sensible voter. I expect the Walker Campaign better check those signatures. Probably will see a lot of Goofy or Donald Duck. I wouldn’t trust those Unions.

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    • cwollenberg
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:47pm

      Racer, I’m from Wisconsin too! What part of the state are you from? I’m in kaukauna. Most people I talk to, including democrats, also thinks this is bogus! They just saw there property taxes go down, including myself’ for the first time in decades!!! Wisconsinites are not stupid and Governer Walker will win this thing!!!

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:55pm

      Thank You RACER for your post.
      I now understand the Wisconsin situation.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:35am

      I wonder how many people signed that petition not knowing what they were signing??
      It’s very easy to go up to someone on the street and say, “Hey, we’re out here today asking people to sign a petition for “such and such…fill in the blank”. It could sound like a GREAT idea and so many people might just blindly sign and walk on. All the while, the petition is something completely different.
      I wouldn’t put it past the union to pull something like that.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:54am

      Take a look at the faces of those douchebags. Pure hatred of anything not commist.

      I’ll stand by my FACTS, no matter how many of Obama‘s legion of gutter trash try to crack into my system’s to cause viruses to shut me down. UNION workers are traqsh from beginning to end.

      *****Note to Crackers. You MIGHT want to do some indepth diagnostics. You‘re not going to enjoy what you find and can’t do a damned thing about. The government has jr college level hackers, and they just aren’t anywhere near good enough. Happy sailing!

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:26am

      RACER89, I heard Mr. Walker on Rush’s radio show today. He was awesome. The entire program today was excellent. Rush was on the money with his opinions. I am shocked that the signitures of Hitler and Mickey Mouse will be counted. This is insane and proves the fraud that the left is capable of. I am happy for your state and its citizens. The left does not want people to see that it is possible to accomplish what Mr. Walker has. It is possible for each and every state to do the same and that would expose the lies and manipulation that we have been fed for the past 3yrs. They do not want success. They want only to destroy any chance of it. I hope your people will get out and vote to keep Mr. Walker in office. He has given allot of us hope that there are politicians that actually look out for their people that put them in office.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:42am

      Racer I’m also in Wi, the recall is not only a waste of our money but I have no doubt in my mind that while they may have a million signatures on these petitions I never in a million years believe that they had 1 million different people sign them. Especially since I have heard people say “I’ve signed the petitions 7 or 8 times myself”. So rife with fraud and corruption these idiot Dems in our state are. It ain’t no surprise Madison was as screwed up as it was with these Dems in charge the last 8 years (well 9 years excluding this past year with Scott in office).

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    • hifi74
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:45am

      barber2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:32pm

      FORMER: Think you have hit on an interesting legal/ constitutional issue. So anyone can recall an election if enough people just sign the paper ? No other reason than that they do not like the election result ? And what if they do not like the results of the recall election ?? Hmmm. Sounds like a chaotic , expensive , budget -busting tactic. Sounds so Cloward/ Piven . BUT I’m sure old Eric Holder and his DOJ is seriously looking into this potential injustice. Correct ???
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      Well at least as far as our state Constitution. People have suggested that we in Wisconsin move to have it changed but it is a process that would take several years and would do nothing to help Walker in this case. And also why take away the ability for us on the right in Wi to play the same game with the left that they are playing right now. Leave it and lets give em a taste of their own medicine.

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:54am

      @ JZS:
      (1) I doubt the numbers.
      (2) My understanding is the collective bargaining only affects government employees.
      (3) With all the Public sector liars and thieves I believe Wisconsin is a sorry state.
      (4) This has nothing to do with the average worker. It is all about the Public Worker parasites feeding on the average worker.

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:03am

      Bing it! Wisconsin voter sign recall petitions 80 times. (along with Mickey Mouse and Adolph Hitler..)
      No, I don’t believe the numbers at all. Now how many people would it take to sign petitions 80 times to reach the numbers they claim to have? Don’t even count the cartoon characters. If you are a graduate of the Wisconsin Public School System please put down your crayon and go get a calculator. We don’t have all day.

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:06am

      @kentuckypatriot

      Lefty nut-jobs are afraid of the word “work”. That‘s why they don’t get it.

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:09am

      The only problem with my assertion is that they may not have that number of knuckle dragging union thugs that can spell Wisconsin.

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:12am

      OH if we could only petition to recall members of Congress and the President !

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    • wolfinshdo
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:33am

      I’m all for the recall election if the state is disqualified from getting any financial assistance, above what they are normally supposed to get, for the next 5 years. The state should also be required to balance their budget for at least 4 of those 5 years.. If they truly want to see what a collapse looks like, let them play it out to the end. This would also help other states to see whats coming if they don’t act themselves.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:48am

      Where can we physically send money to help fight the Unions. I do think Walker should have let the state workers checks bounce. The workers could have seen the Union stewards and bosses get paid by the Union. When GM closed the plant in Oklahoma City the Union people(about 90), 3 years later are still meeting each day across from the closed plant and get a pay check.

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    • EchoHawk
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:13pm

      The only time cartoon characters names are added to petitions is when conservatives or republicans do so to subvert the petitions cause.

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  • sawhorse1950
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:00pm

    The proof will be in the voter fraud..you stupid Wisconsin bastards..If you don’t have a job, how can a union help you. You idiot northern rats. can’t stand it when a good man does something good for the entire state, whiney ass union thugs.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:06pm

      Unions VS. Elected Officials, Niceee !! Only in Obamaland..
      he’s going to need these JERKS come November, don’t
      think it‘s gonna’ be pretty.. anybody but Obama 2012….I
      think the Tea Party are about to awaken again, look out
      Libotards..

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:47pm

      Cuz to Democrats, a balanced budget is RADICAL……

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    • cwollenberg
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:56pm

      I’m from wiscosin and Walker and the republican legislation passed strict Voter ID bills effective this month! So the dead people and illegals and the twice and thrice voters are sh!!!t out of luck this election!! Go Walker!

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  • barber2
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:56pm

    Ah. Good old unionized Wisconsin. Scene of our First Occupy . Bull horns, busses from out of state. Legislators who ran away to Obama’s state, Illinois. The inspiration for the other assaults on the American taxpayers by our Occupiers. Ah. Good old Wisconsin . Where elections don‘t count if the Democrats don’t agree with the results. And the tax payers get to pay AGAIN for the recall elections. Ah. GGood old unionized Democrat occupied Wisconsin…

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:34pm

      And it’s time to change Wisconsin. This is the start of the conservative uprising movement and we need out of state help to fight in support of Gov. Walker. Please consider donating money TODAY to Governor Scott Walker and show the unions who is really in charge, the voters.

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:53pm

      THELEFT: I plan to do so. I also find insight in your name !

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:50pm

    I feel marginally sorry for those who have to attempt to verify the signers.
    In an ideal world, those who provided bogus signatures would be off to the slammer…., oh wait, I said ‘ideal’, that means they would spend a week or two in the stocks.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:04pm

      I signed up to help the great state of WI verify the vote. I felt it was my duty and my honor. I have had some training via the internet. There are over 3000 of us waiting to take a stand and do what we have to. God Bless Gov Walker.

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    • Steverino
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:33pm

      KENTUCKYPATRIOT-
      I’m right there with you – looking forward to starting the verification process.
      Steve

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    • Sarah Smith
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:59pm

      It’s over 8000 volunteers KY-patriot. Most people in Wisconsin are completely fed up. 0bama and the MSM can spin numbers how ever they wish. 2010 was nothing compared to what 2012 will be like for the Libs/Progressives/Communists/etc. They are becoming more and more irrelevant every day!

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  • PJ3
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:48pm

    There is a lot of anger here against the recall idiots. Afterall, we took back Wisconsin from the liberals and voted these people in. The ones that are recalling him are unions and teachers who didn’t want to pay one penny towards their healthcare like the rest of us. Whose benefits & pensions give them a life of luxury while the rest of us in Wisconsin have to struggle to make ends meet. I was near one of the rallys these people were doing and I realized what I had been seeing, tons of expensive shiney new vehicles. These people live plush lives. And when asked to do their fair share they ranted and vandalized our Capitol & didnt pay for it. Now when Walker’s budget has shown success they want to remove and others just because they didnt like the election. This is just terrible.

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    • Amma K
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:57pm

      Amen PJ3!!! I think there are many more ‘silent’ majority voters out there that are fed up with the democrats acting like babies, stamping their feet because they didn’t get their way. Walker has got this state heading in the right direction and thank God every day that we have him!!!!

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    • Enema of the State
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:21pm

      Communists !

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    • WIjoyzie
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:28pm

      I’m with you PJ3. I’ve had it with the illogical unionistas. If they want to get rid of Walker they ought to move south to Illinois (aka obamaland)… the democrat government there has done everything opposite of what Walker has accomplished here… their taxes and deficit are sky high.

      Wish we could bill the union for the 9 million Wisconsin taxpayers will be forced to pay for their senseless recall election.

      Gov Walker is the best governor Wisconsin has voted in for the past 50 years!

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    • Sarah Smith
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:02pm

      You are right PJ3. I live here too and there isn’t a chance of their success. The Dims don’t even have a candidate. The non-vocal majority is going to rise up again. If the unions lead this state/country to violence….I personally think Americans are fed up enough to not stop the beat down in a way that would make Joe McCarthy blush!

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:52pm

      PJ3—
      Just a BIG thank you and to the other people on here from Wisconsin who have explained this “recall”
      Saw on tv today,those people delivering the boxes of signatures and they were scary!!! Seems like Walker is doing a good job and the Unions are mad??? Well its GOOD to hear that Conservatives are fighting for their freedom and their VOTES.
      Thanks Again.

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    • Cathy in Washington
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:55am

      Unions broke America’s back! They gave members crazy high of wages and benefits and they protest if they can not extort the companies.The Japanese built better cars for less and there you are…

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  • ENTP
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:46pm

    I am so sick of all the bull crap. People are so full of hate towards the other side how can anything be accomplished? I am so sick of all name calling, the underhanded dirty tricks, it’s ridiculous the extremes that some people go through just to try to win. Can’t we all just get along? : )

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:30pm

      It’s called ALINKSY! It’s mission is exactly what you describe..

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    • kellyflorida
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:07pm

      You can’t just “get along” with those that want to kill the country either via legislation or literally. Sorry, can’t negotiate with Pelosi – she says so herself – so does Reid, “If a Republican is Elected President I will NOT work with him” – who is the one who won’t find middle ground? Certainly NOT the communist hard core left – they say it out loud – will anyone please listen to what they say and not the lies they accuse others of saying? Listen to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, they condemn the anti-communists while saying WE aren’t working with them…HA HA HA…what a JOKE!!!!

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  • AnaChris
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:45pm

    23%? methinks that Walker will stay…and i for one hope he gets another term!

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  • alpha2omega47
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:43pm

    If I were Governor Scott Walker and these corrupt, left-winged, union zombies wanted me recalled ~ I‘d happily step down if that’s what the voters want and vote for … and to heck with Wisconsin ~ I’d move to Texas.

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    • PJ3
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

      We dont want Walker to step down. Only the lazy liberals do.

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    • Nanner-SW
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:30pm

      Well wishes to y’all from Texas. I approve of anyone able to balance a budget.

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  • SteamedinMichigan
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:41pm

    What needs to happen is to fully take the gloves off when fighting the unions. Who besides unions get health care for free? Who besides unions gets pensions anymore? Who besides unions CANT be fired? Who besides unions work in a mediocrity? Show the people of Wisconsin the pay of each of the union members. Show them the excessive vacation. Make it clear that while the majority of people work for a living in the private sector and are held to strict requirements, the unions encourage sloth, selfishness and reward mediocre performance! NO ONE WILL SUPPORT THE UNIONS WHEN THEY LEARN OF THE TRUTH!

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  • andredegas
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:38pm

    Wonder if we can petition to recall Obama

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  • lisa2994
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:38pm

    I pray Scott Walker wins!

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  • Brontefan
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:36pm

    If we can’t lie, cheat, steal, or protest our way to victory.. we will try to remove the governor. The truth is that we can no longer afford Unions who charge money to play politics. We are bankrupting our states and the federal government is destroying our country. God Bless Scott Walker!

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    • DoubleThrowDown
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:54pm

      I wonder how many dead people signed the petition, or how many people put the names or relatives on the petition that don’t even live in the state. Unions have shown time after time how to cheat and lie when it comes to elections. The union members should be ashamed of their leadership. Right to work is the only way that a state can survive. I almost feel sorry for the people of WI, but I don’t cause they dug this deep hole they are in. It’s not a over night fix for WI, there is going to more recalls and election fraud for years to come.

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    • bolivar
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 9:03pm

      Given all the bs Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in Wisconsin have had to put up with is it any wonder why we cannot get more decent, intelligent CONSERVATIVES to run for office???

      The grief the commie rats heaped on Sarah Palin alone just make my blood boil. They cannot win fair and square so the use every dirty trick in the book and then make up some new ones. Too bad they don’t use this creativity for a positive purpose – it might actually make a good impact. This will be the undoing of this once great country – we will be undone by commies and socialists from within – not from without. Our own “citizen” apparatchiks will be our undoing…sad thought isn’t it?

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  • hauschild
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:33pm

    Wisconsin is chock-full of more dirt bags than I had thought. It’s probably well over 40% now. But, that’s what they get for allowing public sector jobs to run rampant over the past 20 years. Way too many teachers, way too many county workers, etc. So, if the people want to change long term, they’re gonna have to reduce the number of dirt bags they, themselves, create thru public sector employment.

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  • gpk
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:32pm

    The Governor should publish the list of all those collecting lucrative pensions etc. Quite sure the good citizen of Wisconsin will do the right thing.
    DEATH TO UNIONS.

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    • tmplarnite
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:36pm

      All of Walkers new laws and rules are lowering taxes and burdens on Wisconsinites…but not the Anti American Union thugs still want to break the bank…and go back to the old crap!

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:05pm

      us union states just laugh at right to work states… we pay your way
      you poor lazy welfare red-staters should be cut off-
      states should only get federal dollars what they put in
      us blue-staters are tired of paying for red-staters……..
      we are so sick of you welfare queens talking about handouts when you fricken morons-take the most handouts
      right-to work states are the poorest in the union that alone proves right-to work is not alone stupid-but a drain on blue-states
      red-states are so lazy good for absolutely nothing
      you red-staters are bottom feeders always was always will be-

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:24pm

      Well thank you Mr. tail….I appreciate your donations to all the red states.
      Keep it up. Kiss, kiss. Say hi to uncle Stalin for me.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:30pm

    HEY, maybe we should write to Gov. Walker and make hi TAKE THIS TO THE COURTS? We all know how long THAT would take to rule. May buy the time he needs to disqualify all those FAKE signatures! BTW.. please contribute a few bucks to help him in the fight ahead. The Democrats are ALL IN on this one making it the BATTLEGROUND state for UNION DOMINANCY!

    “So, if the legislature grants the GAB’s request for additional $600,000, up to 50 temporary workers, aided by GAB staff, will have at least a month to make sure the forms were completely (though not necessarily legally) filled out. Governor Walker and any legislator facing recall will have a whopping ten days to verify the hundreds of thousands of signatures are valid.
    That’s right. Ten days.
    *****However, the Walker campaign could go to court to contest GAB’s finding that the petitions are sufficient or for more time or to contest the validity of the signatures.*****

    DO IT WALKER! Don’t be intimidated by these commies. I’ll send my check to help out. :)

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:28pm

    My thoughts and prayers will be for the people of Wisconsin. Truth will overcome lies and evil.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:48pm

      Now I’m seeing RED! Those fools who are out to get Gov.Walker will surely go to HELL for what they’re doing. I’m gonna pray for Gov. Walker each day and hope wrath gets those hateful commies trying to get him out. He’d done more for that state in the last year and has actually helped the people.
      Think about it you people in Wisc. Do you want a well run state or Union commies running YOU?

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    • sawhorse1950
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:02pm

      You’re right. Not too many Christian people in the Wisconsin unions to do this awful thing to a decent Governor.

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    • Gabbie
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:12pm

      Thank you, we need all the help we can get. Between the Obama who has sent his people here, the unions and the teachers it will be a fight to the end and they are mean and vicious. They will stop at nothing to get their way.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:24pm

    Let’s see…
    You vote in a democrat who spends the state (or country) into near bankruptcy, bends over to the outrageous demands of the gov’t union thugs, and undermines anything that is good and decent….and conservatives have to accept it.
    Then you vote in a Conservative who starts working to reverse the corruption and bring fiscal responsibilty back to the state…and the progressives just decide to change the rules and try to force the duly elected Governor out of office.
    And the Conservatives are supposed to sit back and accept that as well.
    We have to vote every last leftist out of office and then offer their supporters free passage to the communist country of their choice.
    I hear North Korea is looking for a few million diehard libs.

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  • Choctaw25
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:20pm

    The Union thugs in Wussieconcin are eating too much yellow snow. I certainly hope the voters don’t cave in to their demands, otherwise they will be paying some hellious pensions, once the union thugs get their way.

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  • Balthazor
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:19pm

    I would honestly expect that easily more than half of those signatures are phony. The leftist cheat machine has been chugging into overtime with lefty zombies signing multiple names, trying to trick people into thinking they were registering to vote, trying to get signatures out of senior rest homes, paying people for signatures, getting signatures from school children…and so on.

    It‘s really a shame that there’s virtually no accountability for any of this. Frankly, I think ANYONE who tinkers with the voting process like this should be punished by execution. ******* on our most sacred American right deserves nothing less.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:18pm

    http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/11/don’t-look-to-gab-to-keep-recallers-accountable/ And they won’t even spend the time to VERIFY the signatures. The OWS fake protestors were giving out free CIGARETTES to anyone who would sign… even KIDS! Sick country now that the Progressives have taken over. NOTHING will EVER be FAIR or FRAUD FREE again. I hope REAL voters in WI use common sense and do not fall for all the liberal CRAP! http://mediatrackers.org/2011/11/occupy-bribes-minors-with-cigarettes-in-walker-recall/

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:16pm

    .
    See what happens when you take away their ability to get at your tax dollars…….

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Here is an E-Mail that Charlie Sykes ( A Conservative Talk Show Host) received in Milwaukee enlightening all interested on what this recall is all about. You can read it at

      http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/charliesykes/137470108.html

      To give you an idea of the content of the e-mail it is signed by
      Brian Piech bpiech@wi.rr.com
      UNION “THUG” (soon to be one again)

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:42pm

      WOW! I think this story bothers me more than most because it is the Progressive wing of the Democrat party flexing it’s muscle to see just what they CAN GET AWAY WITH and how they can INTIMIDATE to influence the election process. I fear this is going to be USED as a model for future races. Like they did in a small NY victory..”National Democrats are giddy over the results, crowing that they’ll use the same formula in swing districts across the country in 2012.” They don’t need any more AMMUNITION at this point! That’s why I think EVERY CONSERVATIVE should be jumping on the bandwagon to help Scott Walker and the others trying to be recalled! If the Democrats take the majority back, they will be BEYOND giddy and their HUGE investment will have paid off!

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:29pm

      EQUAL: Agree These Democrats and their bully-buddies, Occupiers , are all “nudging” the system to see just what they can get away with. I wonder how much that will be…

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  • Scottt01
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:15pm

    Scott Walker needs to double check everything and collect names of all hands involved because liberals are double dealing dirty dogs.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:19pm

      I wonder if they tracked the guy down who was interviewed in Milwaukee a couple months ago on TV admitting he signed the petition about 80 times?

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:21pm

      They didn;t give him TIME to do that. They hung him out to DRY.
      “The GAB will not be checking for fraud, but will rule on challenges brought forth by the subjects of the recalls, should they find evidence of fraud.
      Reid Magney, GAB spokesman, cited Section 9.10(3) of the State Statutes, under which the filing officer, ”shall determine by careful examination whether the petition on its face is sufficient.”
      What a CROCK. errrrrrrrr

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    • Amma K
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:45pm

      Verify the Recall has over 8500 volunteers signed up (myself included) to input the names/addresses into a database. They are still looking for volunteers. All I want is a fair and honest recall. This is the least I can do to help!!! It is something anyone in the United States can do from their home. If you want to help go to :
      http://www.verifytherecall.com

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:59pm

      I am in NH.. wish I could, but my check is in the mail, so to speak. (I donated online) Some of you might be able to afford $20. The Democrats are sepnding MILLIONS more, so let’s STEP UP here.This is WAY too important and something we can ACTUALLY do instead of just complaining about the situation! :) Thanks.
      https://scottwalker.ezcontribution.com/scottwalker-for-governor

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:55pm

      AMMAK How can I do it from home? You can only sign up if you have a zip in WI? NO? Please eadvise. I would LOVE to HELP!!!

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    • Amma K
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:14am

      EqualJustice, it is all done over the internet. The petitions are scanned in and then after you are signed up you are sent a website and password. You sign in and get access to scanned petitions. Your job is to input the data from the petitions to the database. I did a sampling the other day and it was very easy – quite a good database. If you have some extra time, please sign up. The more people we have the better.

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  • freeweever
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:13pm

    This is the begining of one of our Ends. Either the marxist communist progressives topple of we do. They are full blast out to bring America down and this is there year to start…wait til the 0ccupiers start again…they want to bring on Marshal Law before the election now. Bet you the Country that they do.

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  • Harry Assenback
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:12pm

    Mr. Walker-it’s not to late to run for President. We will take ya!

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:22pm

      AMEN. Wouldn’t that be GREAT!!!!! :) The libs would have shot themselves in the foot! :)

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  • HKS
    Posted on January 17, 2012 at 4:11pm

    Regardless of the unions opinions, the people have and will speak again and that’s the way the mop flops.

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