Gov. Scott Walker Recall Organizers Say They Have More Than Half the Signatures Needed to Force Election
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Organizers of the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Monday they had collected more than half the number of signatures required to force an election. (AP Photo)
Organizers of the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Monday they had collected 300,000 petition signatures in 12 days, more than half the number needed to force an election.
United Wisconsin, the coalition behind the drive, needs 540,208 signatures by Jan. 17 to trigger a recall election sometime in 2012. Their efforts kicked off Nov. 15 with more than 100 signature-gathering events, including a rally outside Walker’s home.
Walker opponents are furious over the Republican governor’s successful efforts to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers. The law passed in March despite massive protests and 14 Democratic state senators who fled to Illinois for three weeks.
Organizers‘ signature counts can’t be independently verified — the petitions won’t be submitted for verification until all the required signatures have been collected. Still, United Wisconsin said signatures have come from all 72 counties.
United Wisconsin did not report how many signatures had been collected for the recall of Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, but a spokeswoman for the group told the Associated Press the totals were close.
In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Walker said he expects his opponents will probably collect the required number of signatures in time, and looks forward to the opportunity to campaign on the reforms he’s enacted.
“If come next May or maybe early June, if they actually have the signatures and it forces a new election, all of those issues will be up on the ballot. But I look forward to that,” Walker said. “I’d love to have the chance to talk to the voters of Wisconsin again to tell that story.”
Walker has defended the collective bargaining changes, and other moves such as cutting public education aid, as necessary to bring the state’s budget back into balance at a time when it faced a $3.6 billion shortfall.
“I think if voters hear the facts, every week, every day, every week, every month that goes by, our numbers get better because our story gets out and people see the positive impact of the results,” he continued. “The facts, I think, ultimately trump all the attacks. If you see that the schools are the same or better and that our governments are doing well and in the end our taxes are going down, people want to hear that, and I think the results will trump everything else.”
In anticipation that the necessary signatures will be collected, Walker has released two television ads to counter the recall effort.
Ben Sparks, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Republican Party, said the recall effort is “a baseless partisan power-grab being pushed on Wisconsin families by liberal special interests.”
“We remain focused on Governor Walker’s common-sense reforms that have laid the ground work for economic growth, and our economy only continues to improve,” Sparks said in a written statement.
Opponents of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker demonstrate in favor of recall efforts against him. (AP Photo)
Anger spurred nine Wisconsin Senate recall elections this summer targeting six Republican and three Democratic incumbents. Two Republicans lost, leaving them with a slim one-vote majority in the Senate.
Petitions are also circulating against four more Republican incumbents, setting up the possibility of more recall elections next year that could give Democrats control of the Senate.
Assuming enough petitions have been collected, March 27 is the earliest a Walker recall election could be held, though legal challenges and additional time to verify the signatures would likely push any recall election to later in the spring or summer. There could also be a primary.
No Democrat has announced plans to take on Walker. Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate has said Democrats are in no hurry to name a candidate and they hope to make the recall a referendum on Walker.
But the signature-gathering has not been without suspicion: Conservative radio talk show host Vicki McKenna, a Walker supporter, said Wednesday she found out someone fraudulently used her name to sign a petition. She said a listener emailed her with the subject line “election fraud.”
“I was obviously mad, but I was thinking to myself, ‘That’s got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Who’s not going to notice that?’” McKenna told the Wisconsin Reporter about the discovery.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (198)
Rowgue
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:55pmSo they’ve collected 25,000 signatures a day. Yeah as if anybody is buying that.
Report Post »pjmarshake
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:06pmI wonder how many of those signatures belong to actual living people?
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:34pmhaha i was thinking the same thing… they went to all the grave stones to get the signatures. typical lefties
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:34pmThere is probably a guess of 20,000 union members in the state of WI who signed the petition, then about 100,000 out of state union members who signed the petition, and then about 300,000 dead people who signed the petition…. yeah that sounds about right. Union organizers and leaders should be thrown in jail for their mafia politics.. and yes I do mean union leaders are apart or connected to the mafia.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:38pmThe communist teachers are at it again.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:45pmThe majority of the people said they were going to do this if Walker rammed thru his agenda. So this is what Walker expected. Walker on the other hand, is just doing what he must do – and is not paid to represent losers and thugs or undeserving common persons.
Our Belief in Walker will NOT be swayed by the will of the people!
TEA
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:57pmHere is why liberals in Wisconsin have nothing to worry about in the signatures. “The state board overseeing the potential recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tells the MacIver News Service that they will rely upon temporary workers to scrutinize recall petitions and those individuals will not be expected to catch any duplicate signatures submitted by recall organizers.”
Lucky Walker had the foresight to pass a Voter ID law to eliminate the Unionistas from trying to commit voter fraud which is their usual MO. This recall will never work in the communists (Dumbocraps) favor.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:00pmRegardless of any of that the numbers just don’t make sense. In order for them to get 300,000 signatures in twelve days they had to get 25,000 signatures every day for those twelve days. In order to accomplish that they would have needed to have been getting a petition signed every 3.5 seconds 24 hours a day every day nonstop. It’s simply not possible.
Report Post »mad_hatter
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:05pmIt’s like Bachmann said today, this is America’s last chance. ( http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/nov/bachmann_americas_last.html ) Now she said it as a presidential candidate, but the same goes for Scott Walkers case and all conservatives.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:06pmThis whole thing may have been just about the most despicable act of politics I have seen thus far. Being in college at 36 , but having already lived life and attaining actual wisdom as compared to knowledge, these people are a joke. They are actually threatened by my presence in their classes, as they know they just can’t BS me, as I have really lived a life where I have worked , not just wrote papers and conducted research on stupid meaningless causes.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:18pmI would hope it takes them a very long time, to find enough people who want this country destroyed bad enough, to sign their name on that petition.
Report Post »Fly on the Wall
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:28pmWorried? ;-)
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:43pmThe Union Thugs and the useless tenured teachers occupying space who could not teach a dog to sit
will not be happy until Wisconsin is gutted … like Detroit.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:57pm@SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:34pm
haha i was thinking the same thing… they went to all the grave stones to get the signatures. typical lefties
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You can’t ASSUME they did something and then scoff at them with “typical lefties”. They didn’t actually do what you said they did!
That is the problem with this site. One person says, “I bet they ___“ or ”Obama would totally support __“ and it turns into ”Did you know they ___“ and ”I heard Obama supported ___”
Facts people. Learn to stick to them!
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:00pmsmackdown33:
You’re right. About 1000 of those signatures are from teachers…and about 100,000 of them are from students (in the 5th grade and under) doing their “homework” assignments.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:00pmWell it appears Walker does. Cause you don’t start campaigning for something unless you know it is gonna happen and more specifically are afraid of it. If the numbers speak for themselves, why would he need to campaign.
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:02pmMickey mouse donald duck road runner etc.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:22pmPinnocio, Shrek, Jimi Mandrax, Moms Mabley…
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:31pm@Rowgue Little math challenged are ya. You do understand that they could have had 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 or more people gathering signatures at the same time right.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 5:26pmEnd the Department of Education and let these communist states rot in their own intellectual dung.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 5:31pmTom Dooley, The Thing, Lucille McGillicuddy, Frito Bandito.
Report Post »theaveng
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 6:07pmYES YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO STRIKE.
That doesn’t mean you have a right to keep your job afterward. The taxpayers are free to hire somebody else who won’t randomly “not show” for work.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 7:59pmThe people who signed are government union workers. Can anyone say Greece”?
Report Post »Amma K
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 8:38pmI live in Wisconsin and those collecting the signatures are telling people that they can sign more than one recall sheet. On top of that the Election Board (a group of old judges that were put in place by the last Democratic governor – so of course, there is no partisanship there) said that they will not be checking to see if there are duplicate signatures or if the addresses actually exist. The Election Board has the signatures for 30 days and Governor Walker only gets the signatures to check for a 10 day period. There is so much corruption with this recall – all I can hope is that if/when there is a recall election everyone who sees that Governor Walker’s fixes are working will go out once again to vote!!!!!!
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:14pmI agree with the majority of posters. Well folks, your state is basically broke. There is no money to keep funding your big pensions (without your contribution) and all your other free benefits. Fire and Police exempted. They risk their lives every, and I have no problem with them. The other public employees can contribute to both their pensions and health insurance like the tax payers. They want to recall Walker? Go ahead, but eventually, there will be a lot of lay offs. So Be it.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:31pmThe Koch brothers have increased their wealth by 15 billion dollars since Walker was elected, an increase of 43% ….coincidence, I think not.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 12:22amI wonder how many deceased signers are on the list of signatures.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:59amBARKHAWK1 . . . fraud? I got your fraud right here:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/739922/fake_website_tries_to_stop_recall_walker_petitions/
http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/11/walker-thugs-falsely-accuse-recall.html
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8916
Here, let me help you understand the world – This is why we’re throwing you conservatives on the ash heap of history. But fear not, you can claw your way back up into God’s good graces. All it takes is a little hard work, perhaps you and your kids can start by assisting the school janitor.
Adios, Scott Walker. Here’s $10. Get that lazy eye fixed. By the way. Koch on line 2.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 7:09pmI hope someone is smart enough in Gov. Walker‘s arena to do an investigation on those signatures and to investigate the left’s entire process of this.
Report Post »Educate2Elevate
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 1:46pmYou are all amusingly under educated, and most likely without you being aware, are quite misrepresented in our government here in Wisconsin. You are fighting the fight for people who have a lot more money than you, and in Scott’s case, less education…. What’s wrong with recalling the high school graduate? He isn’t helping any one
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:54pmThey will force this down our throats, and when we try to verify the names they will shout fraud and maybe racism.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:19pmyes that seems to be the usual tactic these days doesnt it. I am beyond tired of the overly whiny leftists in this country they exhaist me with their ignorance. I am sure that new election will be cheap too right? no thought for the actual cost or consequence of things.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:57pmShout fraud? Like you all are doing right now?
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:52pmi live in Wisconsin. my money is being used to pay the union coffers, which they use for all these elections. they don’t use the money they get for education, they use it for these elections, and to pay their ever increasing salaries. I am basically funding this recall election for them. the unions pay absolutely nothing of their own actual money.
No. the signatures are not frauds like some of you say. that’s a reasonable suggestion, but there are TOO many people in Wisconsin that are union thugs. flat out stupid people are not hard to come by here.
I despise this movement in Wisconsin almost as much as the occupy movement. These are sad, pathetic individuals acting like kids at the check out counter when they don’t get the gum the want. They will destroy themselves.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:56pmAre you kidding me? I know of people who found out they signed it when they really did not. That’s not fraudulent?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 4:37pmOk you realized that once the teachers are paid it is their money, so if they choose to pay union dues that would be them spending their money. Your analogy would mean that the Koch brothers are investing anyone who buys their oil money on political activities. Just because it is taxes and not a purchase of a product or service doesn’t mean the teachers salaries are any less theirs than yours is. As far as fraudulent, the inference all over here that only democrats engage in shifty election activities is laughable at best. Read Nixon’s book where he admits that his problem in W.V. was that he only had $100,000 in pay off money for the country sheriffs, while JFK had $1,000,000. We have the best politicians money can buy. Don’t even and try and tell me Walker is not bought and paid.
Report Post »Bmoorefree
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:32pmUnfortunately voter fraud has been a way of life here in Wisconsin for much too long…finally, FINALLY, we have legislation in place that requires voter ID. And for years leftists (Democrats) have hollered that having voter ID would disenfranchise poor voters or those from certain parts of the city. (Milwaukee) And for too long we just let that fallacy go. As if everyone doesn’t have some form of ID…how do people get their checks cashed or cash in? There have been acts of fraud perpetrated by leftists for years…such as people handing out cigarettes for votes, high school students being bused to the polls, tires slashed on Republican vans, ets. and all of these acts were to garner votes for Democrats. Oh, and yes the recall folks have told people, in writing, that they should sign recall petitions multiple times because the duplicates won’t be caught. College students have admitted, in past elections, to voting multiple times…yes, for Democrats. For too long Democrats were in control of this state and all of these acts of fraud were not just ignored, they were encouraged. Now we have someone with integrity trying to help ALL Wisconsinites keep their jobs, to keep schools open with quality teaching, to dig us out of the financial pit Doyle put us in. And these guys want to recall him? Unbelievable! Don’t you get it??! If we all don‘t give up something we’ll all lose everything!! Once again, we stand with Governor Walker.
Report Post »sapper
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:48pm1. Donald Duck
2. Daffy Duck
3. Daisy Duck
4. Scrooge McDuck
5. Mickey Mouse
6. Minnie Mouse
7. Mighty Mouse
8. Speedy Gonzales
9. Hanah Montana
see I can do it too…………………….
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:55pmHow many were dead?
How many were from out of state?
How many Illegals?
How many were convicted felons?
Personally I hope he is recalled so the good people of Wisconsin
put these liberal commie maggots out to pasture once and for All.
Can’t remember, does Soros have the Wisconsin Attorneys General in his pocket yet?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:55pmACORN signatures! They better check them carefully .. some might not be quite as obvious as those you listed. It will be interesting to find out how many are bogus.
TEA!
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:46pmAh Wisconsin the home of hte Progressive/Marxist movement. Why would anybody want to live in that crappy state. Don’t get me wrong Wisconsin is beautiful just like California, but just like California it is populated with lefty politicians and moron citizens
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:50pmNO, its just NORTH of union central. Chicago. The thugs are pretty much confined to Madison and Milwaukee. The rest of Wisconsin is mostly conservative. Milwaukee and Madison are liberal strongholds.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:57pmYou’re right, it is beautiful here (at least for 6 months of the year) :-)
The lefties are a pain in our backside, for sure. They lack common sense in so many things. I have friends that are liberals, teachers, etc., and they just don’t get it for some reason — they follow their union blindly and don’t seem to be able to reason like an adult. Scary that there types are teaching children.
I don’t have a problem with collective bargaining so long as the bargainers are not greasing the palms of those that will be passing legislation to enable them to grease their palms even more. Why people have trouble understanding that concept is beyond me.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:58pmJoel Rogers and the ENTIRE communist house of Law Students is certainly the afterbirth clinic for the progressive movement. Being a Buckeye I’ve been to that crap hole Campus in Madison more often than my sensibilities can handle. The Wisconsin Law Department is the center of the New Party as long as Joel the marxist cow turd Rogers is alive. They endorsed and then groomed Obama with the assistance of terrorist Bill Ayers.
Walker stands in the breach against mentally corrupt evil racists from the liberal hate society of murderers, thieves, and outright liars.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:09pmAmen !!!
Report Post »Bmoorefree
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:33pmDang, I’m in double trouble! I live in Wisconsin…33 years now…and I emigrated from California. Now I agree that California is really lalala land…I know first hand. I went to high school in Marin County, one of the wealthiest counties in the country, I still don’t know how my folks got in. In my senior year in high school I had a class in tanning…yeah, you read right, TANNING. I got an A. Geograpy?? Never heard of it…not in Cali. I just grew up thinking “Yuh, I live in California…the beach is over there…the rest of the country is that way.” Thank God, I met my husband, a nuclear reactor operator on the USS Enterprise (Don’t laugh, when I was teaching as a sub, I told my class of middleschoolers that my husband served on the Enterprise and one of the boys looked awed…in a hushed voice he said, “That’s real?” I didn’t even try…I said, “Yes, yes it is.”) When my husband got out of the Navy he took a job with WE Energies, he still works there, while pastoring our church as well. At the rate our 401K is dropping, he may never retire.
Report Post »Anyway, I love Wisconsin…the people are genuine and neighborly, they’ve explained patiently about bubblers, and brats (Ok YOU may know what it is…it took me awhile, I thought they were selling unruly children at the stadium) and the folks in our church family are the best in the world. I would never move back to California unless God gave me a handwritten note to do so. Thank God for Governor Walker, he gets it! God
asybot12
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 8:57am@bemoorefree I live way northwest from you (CANUCK), but your “enterprise”story made me run to the bathroom laughing so hard I barely made it I nearly died, THANKS I realy, really needed that!
Report Post »daveposh
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:44pmBut how many signatures were forged from names taken off of gravestones, or were from underage children that were bribed with cigarettes?
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:04pmI’m a tried and true Walker supporter here in war zone known as Wisconsin. I’m about to sign the recall petition, but only because I believe the stupid people in Milwaukee and Madison don’t deserve such a decent honest and honorable man. They deserve 4 years of a robber baron like Doyle. Once a liberal is in office, I‘m taking my business and my family out of the state and I won’t do ANY business there or withies residents. Sometimes you have to give a spoiled greedy child just what they want so that they can learn for themselves how disastrous their ideals really are. Time to take off the training wheels and let these idiots crash and burn by their own hand.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:15pmSo in essence, you’re strategy is to ensure that Walker is recalled so you can cry foul and leave others in the lurch who may not have the means to flee the state as you claim you will do? Get enough people following your strategy and you’ll be the reason Walker was removed.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:17pmCome on, Dave…Don’t dead people have rights, too? It’s not fair to give rights just to people who are aline!
Report Post »And kids should be able to smoke if they sign a petition…why can’t you get with the program?
WIjoyzie
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:09pmHuggin… if you signed the petition get the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out NOW. Talk about stupid people! I live in the liberal-infested Milwaukee. If what Gov Walker and Republicans did were so bad to right the budget… how come our lefty mayor in Milwaukee is using the tools of Act 10 to clean up the budget shortfalls in city government?
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:41pm@WIJOYZIE I know how you feel…..the man righted all the wrongs in Milwaukee and even Ablee is strong arming the board, but no one appreciates him. I feel like we live in a war zone and I’m tired of the baby chants and whining just because times are rough and we all need to give a littl to right the ship that Doyle started sinking. This fight is not being driven by Wisconsinites……it’s out of state out of their mind unions. I get that the beast screams loudest right before it dies, but the death scream is going on almost a year now and I’m tired. They should get what they deserve and it’s not Walker.
Report Post »@GHOST – its the very people who need his reforms that will not have the means to escape when he is out and the state tanks. And they are the one pushing the recall efforts. They can’t see past their own greed (pensions, hand outs, double time, health care, etc.) to help the state as a whole. I say screw em……they‘ll know they had a good thing when Milwaukee is burning in flames and there’s no money to pay the firemen.
WIjoyzie
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 10:22am@Hugging. We’ve given the crybabies enough. I’m tired of the dummies too… but not ready to give in to the union thugs and spoiled public employees one more time. We conservatives in Wisconsin DO NOT deserve their over-spending leadership. They will NOT win this overthrow… there are more common sense people here in Wisconsin than there are screaming loonies.
Report Post »Amma K
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 10:30amHuggin – what you are talking about is EXACTLY what the lefties want. They keep coming at us hoping that we will give up. As a Wisconsinite, I will not give up – I will fight harder for the state I grew up in. These lefties have awoken me and I will not back down from this fight!!!!
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:44pmSo this ‘United Wisconsin’ foolishness wants to put the union back in control of the state government? What a bunch of.. well.. FOOLS. Their state is already starting to get ‘some’ businesses back that left ‘because’ of the Unions, but if the Union is given control again, those businesses will flee again to states where Unions ‘are not’ in control of the state government. (Which, sadly, is becoming less and less, which is one of the reasons why businesses are moving overseas)
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:55pmThey know the key to their success is to get control of tax payer monies….if you breath, you owe these people a living. This system is only going to collapse given enough time….we’re almost there.
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:43pmThis is how stupid the Democrats are…this proceedure goes both ways you IDIOTS! What do you think is going to happen when a Democrat is in office…round and round the craziness goes. You didn‘t get it right the first time so we’ll do another election, and another, and another, and another until your guy/gal is in office.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:51pmConservatives don’t do that, I can’t recall ever even hearing of a conservative lead recall attempt, if the person doesn’t commit an outright crime and get legally taken from office, we just wait till the next election.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:56pmConservatives don’t do it because conservatives have a JOB, BILLS and don’t work the system like Marxist democrats do!
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:08pmSwampy, you foolish clown…you don’t know much history do you? The very left leaning Grey Davis was recalled as governor of California. This was led by conservatives who made the foolish mistake of electing Arnold to replace him. Arnold just wasn’t as conservative as everyone thought.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 11:58amCalifornia republicans are conservatives, they are all RINOS, there is nothing conservative about them. I didn‘t say republicans didn’t do it, I said conservatives don’t. The name calling does drive your point home though. ;-)
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:42pmPeople being paid by tax money screaming that they are a priviledged class? I am ABOVE you cause without me you don’t get your trash collected! I know whats best to fix your childrens minds full of mush, THROW more wasted monies at the Teacher’s Unions…..THIS kind of BS is why we as a country are failing hard fast and in a hurry!! Continue to protest the business UNION thugs, they don’t have to stay open and then what? EVERYONE is FIRED!!! That work for you? Even George Soros will run out of money eventually!!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:41pmHow many of those signatures are from people that actually exist?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:48pmSnooki,,, Roger Rabbit,, his cousin’s Crusader and Harvey, P Bunyan,
Report Post »Badger Patriot
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:41pmGovernor Walker’s reforms ARE WORKING
http://walker.wi.gov/journal_media_detail.asp?prid=6093&locid=177
Those collecting signatures are telling people to sign more than one petition. The union thugs will stop at Nothing here. Please Stand with Governor Walker!
http://americansforprosperity.org/walker/
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:07pmWe need ways to catch these thugs asking people to commit fraud by signing wrong names and multiple petitions. We need to put people in jail for fraud. We also need to put these petition carriers in jail for conspiracy to commit fraud when they suggest that people sign more than one petition. Make the penalty severe enough and this sneaky fraudulent crap will at least slow down a bit.
Report Post »JakeEllis
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:33pmBack in the early 90′s, James Carville realized that the way to win elections that are filled with fraud are to ensure each state has a liberal, communist democrat as the secretary of state. No one was paying attention, because the secretaries of state are such a minimal pre-election hype position. So the damage has been done. Communists overseeing the election process to ensure communists are elected in any way possible. Thats why recounts ALWAYS go to the communist democrats. No exceptions. Find fraud votes to ensure the win, and it is certified.
Report Post »altops
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:41pmTHEY HAVE MORE THAN HALF THE SIGNATURES NEEDED TO FORCE ELECTION, in other words they don’t have enough!!!!! stupidity…
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:40pmWhere do I send my check, to help the honorable Governor Walker fight this sedition ?
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:43pmDitto!
Report Post »Badger Patriot
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:01pmStand with Governor Walker
http://donate.standwithgovernorwalker.com/
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:39pmGuaranteed over half are fraudulent signatures…Wis. is a unionized shi thole…
Go Green Bay! Not
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:37pmSure Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have made their names known too! Love how when the Dems lose they use the legal maneuvering to FORCE their wills onto the electorate i.e. Prop 8 passed overwhelming in California and then the 9th Circus Court threw it out against the “will of the people”!!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:37pmThese communists will never stop their attacks on conservatives that’s why we have to fight them hammer & tong on these recall elections and keep conservatives in office.The unions are ows freaks,they have the same agenda,destroy the economy by spending us into a depression.Fight the heathen and never quit.
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:35pmIt is amazing that any state, excepting Illinois, can have so many thugs in residence.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:40pmThey are recalling the thug in the govenor’s office. Basically, everybody woke up in 2011 with a hugh tea party hangover and realized their mistake.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:47pmMOST of these thugs ARE from Illinois.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:53pmThere was NO mistake encinumb. Walker is going to REMAIN OUR GOVERNOR HERE!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:34pmWinny little babies, don’t cheat well enough to win an election (lying or cheating is the only way a liberal ever wins, if they don’t lie nobody in their right mind would vote for them, so if they don’t lie, they have to stuff the ballot box), cry and bus in people to sign partition to try again.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:38pmWow, there are 300,000 communist/socialist/liberals in Wisconsin?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:42pmThe people of Wisconsin get what they deserve…… Sad. Sad . Sad …
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:44pmAnd why do we DESERVE this Detroit? MOST of these morons running this recall are NOT EVEN FROM WISCONSIN. So why do we deserve it?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:54pmJZS, no that is why the big portion of their effort has been bus in people, have them register and sign the partition at the same time, in other words cheating.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:33pmWhy haven’t we recalled Obama?
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:39pmGaryM, I was about to post the same question! What does it take to recall one occupying the White House?
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:45pmIt really only takes a Congress with cajones!!! Of course since the lefty loons control the Senate he will remain in office!!!! Same question should be asked too “why can’t we get term limits for congress”?
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:48pmThe simple answer is, because he controls the main stream media. The minute a recall effort gets underway, the people conducting it will be labeled lunatic racists. Hell, we can’t even get the cowards in congress to act on the treason Obama has already committed. There is more than enough evidence for the immediate start of impeachment hearings. The whole system is corrupt !
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:27pmYeah, lets recall Obamanation
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:33pmSo we‘re to understand that in Wisconsin it’s “government for the unions, by the unions”?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:41pmAt least they are proving that WI is not the private property of the Koch brothers, they are kicking the Koch habit and their lackey out of office.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:55pmEncinumb this has NOTHING to do with kicking out a rogue governor and EVERYTHING to do with the unions power. They are losing power and they do not like it. To bad so sad.
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:56pmHey ENIMACOMMIE, I see your spewing your leftie talking points again. Seriously dude, do you really think you have a chance in Hell of persuading anyone here with your mindless dribble? Or, is this how you entertain yourself while you wait for your next welfare check?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 2:01pmEncinom have you ever had a thought of your own in your entire life? Or do you just enjoy parrotting talking points all day every day and looking like the biggest idiot on the face of the earth?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:03pmSo in short ENCIDIOT (short….like your intellect)……you want the unions to run Wisconsin against the will of an electorate that duly elected their governor?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:15pmAvengerK
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So in short ENCIDIOT (short….like your intellect)……you want the unions to run Wisconsin against the will of an electorate that duly elected their governor?
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Funny, given the polling Herr Walker is in office against the will of the electorate. Even the Republicans are supporting a recall. Looks like the citizens of Wisconsin, not just the unions, want to correct this tea ****** mistake.
AvengerK
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:42pmDeflecting isn’t helping you ENCIDIOT…please…you’re a mental midget all you can muster is some nebulous polling for your support of the unions hijacking Wisconsin elections? Seriously…you want that precedent? Didn’t we just see their first recall effort in Wisconsin sputter and fail by the way? That’s not polling…that’s established fact.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 5:05pm@AvengerK
Report Post »If I am not mistaken the Democrats picked up two more seats in Wsconsin.
preppymom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:32pmI am glad there are some politicians out there that are doing the right thing despite the opposition. I’m tough on politicians in general and I probably should give some of them more credit.
New article: Herman Cain and the Tramp-O-Meter
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boston-rightwinger
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:32pmIf these guys worked this hard at their jobs, there probably would not be an issue.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:29pmAnd probably 80% of those signatures are duplicates or frauds.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:33pmOriginally I figured better than half were fraudulent, now to think of it, 80% or more is a closer and accurate figure.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:34pmIt’s a union organized recall…you expected it to be honest?
Report Post »donflow
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:36pmYep
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:42pmNot only is it NOT honest….they are not trying to hide that fact. They should all be shot. By the way that is a figure of speech not a call for murder.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:05pmIAMMADOG…don’t be too hasty there….let me think about that a moment…
Report Post »HamiltonBurger
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 3:42pmYes, Iammaddog, and you should be eviscerated and forced to watch your own entrails being roasted on a fire.
Report Post »Metaphorically, of course.
jakartaman
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:26pmThese communist union thugs need to be taught a lesson along with all their sheeple friends.
Report Post »Americans not special interest groups are going to take back this nation – the White house and all of Congress with true conservatives. If not we will all go down even the commies in a very bad depression.
These dopes don’t understand – you just run out of other peoples $$.
They also did not get the memos from Europe – Socialism does not work!
ares338
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:26pmWalker is a good man who sees what the problem is. This makes him a target for Union thuggery. How can there be so may clueless people in this state?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:42pmHerr Walker is a Tyrannt and a lackey for the 1%.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 1:58pmI see you are still waiting in line for your brains encinumb.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:21pmThey have a lot of time left to get the other half…IDIOT!
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:24pmencinom… guess that makes Mayor Barrett, the lefty mayor of Milwaukee a tyrant too… since he is using all of the tools from Act 10 to right the city’s budget.
Fact is Gov Walker and the Republican’s Act 10 is working. The only school districts it is not working are places like Milwaukee and Racine where they refused to open the contracts and enact the changes to have teachers pay for a very small portion of their OWN health insurance and pension.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:25pmWalker is a bought and paid for politician who’s only interest is to line the pockets of his puppet masters. He’s a goner as is the rest of your phony baloney Pea Party losers. The real America will come to polls in 2012 and kick out these do nothing so called ‘patriots’.
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