Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board meets tomorrow to decide whether to schedule recalls for Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. The GAB staff write today that they'll be "recommending the Board find there are a sufficient number of signatures to order recall elections."
From the numbers they post, it's not even close. Recall organizers needed 540,280 valid signatures to put Walker and Kleefisch up for a vote either in May or June, depending on possible primaries. After the GAB review, they appear to have gotten 900,938 for Walker and 808,990 for Kleefisch.
For the record, that works out to a validity rate of just under 97 percent for the Walker recall signatures and 96 percent for recalling Kleefisch.
(Image: A sign in Shorewood, Wisconsin, this winter/@triumph68)
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And the Right Wing Money will now just poor in. The detail that's the devil in this one is the Demo Candidate. Praying for an "anyone but Walker election" is NOT in anyone's best interest. Who ever it is must come out swinging hard for the fences. I don't see "small ball" winning in this one...times too short, just not enough innings. Stay on message, "Beat Walker". Then beat him morning new and night...screw any of his attempts to re-frame to issues. Walker's the issue, he's the problem...now hit him over the head with that over and over and over....
You mean the right-wing money will KEEP pouring in. Walker is firmly attached to the Koch teat; he gets virtually no money from in-state, with most of it coming from out-of-state corporate coffers. He's not Wisconsin's governor, he's the corporations' governor.
I would say Walker is facing a recall election. Since it's incredibly difficult to recall incumbents in general I would say that Mr. Walker, if he wants a political future, needs to move far, far away. Alaska won't be far enough. The US Virgin Islands will be too close. I suppose though if Presidents Romney or Santorum were elected Walker could become "the honorable Ambassador Walker..." He can hope can't he?
I realize Russ Feingold wants his private life, but if he doesn't run for Governor, he will have passed by an opportunity to do the best work - meaning the most valuable - of his life thus far. That would be a loss for everyone.
Did you ever see the episode of the Simpsons where Homer is elected head Garbage Man? Yeah, it's kinda like that.
The fact that someone actually has that sign prominently displayed speaks volumes as to why Wisconsin and the rest of the nation are under attack by these thugs in their efforts to support the Oligarchy over working Americans!
Most of tiny hamlets and farmlands had signs like that out on the lead up to the governor and federal senate election.
The ironic part is that the current GOP frontrunners are all-but-ignoring any part of Wisconsin North or West of Madison and mainly sticking to the Democratic hot-beds of Madison and Milwaukee.
Out of curiosity, to what do the 97% and 96% refer?
Percentage of the total signatures collected that are legally valid for the recall count. Some people may have signed, and then moved, some people perhaps signed a nickname instead of their legal name. Not too many Walker-voters signing with false names to try to screw things up.
I object to the use of that photo with this story. That sign would have a reader believe that Scott Walker is FOR workers. . . and it's simply not true. He's for the out-of-state big business rich guys who are filling his war chest with campaign money. If Wisconsin Workers are to survive, they must vote Walker OUT!