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Recall Walker Signatures Pass 500,000 Mark

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United Wisconsin, the coalition spearheading the movement to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R), announced today that volunteers have collected more than 500,000 signatures on petitions to put the recall on the ballot.
Working families need 540,000 signatures by Jan, 17, but are aiming to gather another 250,000 to offset expected dirty tricks and challenges from Walker’s supporters. This Saturday,volunteers across the state are holding a massive petition drive to collect recall signatures.Wisconsinites began mobilizing against Walker after he rammed through legislation that eliminated collective bargaining rights for public employees and made huge budget cuts to education, health care and other vital working family services. He’s also attacked voting rights and cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations. A new study this week showed his policies have cost the state 18,000 jobs.​
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Source @: Recall Walker Signatures Pass 500,000 Mark | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Anti-union Wisc Gov Walker in DEEP **** as recall petition tops 540k in only one month!! All i say is good luck to you govenator Walker...


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Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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Tell us what you think happened. They went through the phone book writing up names and then making up signatures?
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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Like the ones that say hitler and mickey mouse? That "fraud"?
 
I can't believe this children are serious. Really? A recall?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Whats the problem with a recall again?
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It's foolish and gravely overreacting. It's akin to people wanting to impeach Obama over the healthcare bill. Recalls almost never happen, and I think it's a shame that people would go through such lengths over their union benefits at the expense of the taxpayers.
 
digsbe said:
It's foolish and gravely overreacting. It's akin to people wanting to impeach Obama over the healthcare bill. Recalls almost never happen, and I think it's a shame that people would go through such lengths over their union benefits at the expense of the taxpayers.
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Union busting. His legislation that was shoved through had nothing to do with the budget. The unions had agreed to all of the budget stipulations, including paying more for their health coverage and contributing more to their pensions, they just wanted to keep their right to collective baraganing.
Plus apparently the people of Wisconsin dont think they are overreacting.
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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Nonesense the real fraud and proven fraud has been by scott walker supporters...ripping up signatures etc and CAUGHT
 
digsbe said:
It's foolish and gravely overreacting. It's akin to people wanting to impeach Obama over the healthcare bill. Recalls almost never happen, and I think it's a shame that people would go through such lengths over their union benefits at the expense of the taxpayers.
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I hope this mutt gets thrown out on his ARSE...hes scum the way he did it and the reason he did it...rick scotts favorables are in the 20s...hes a one term gov
 
digsbe said:
It's foolish and gravely overreacting. It's akin to people wanting to impeach Obama over the healthcare bill. Recalls almost never happen, and I think it's a shame that people would go through such lengths over their union benefits at the expense of the taxpayers.
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Some might consider that act of joining/establishing unions a human right.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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I guess you would have to be human to notice the problem.
 
lpast said:
...hes a one term gov
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If a recall is forced and Walker loses that election he could be a 1/2 term governor.

Are Republican's starting a pattern of 1/2 term governors? :shock:
 
BWG said:
If a recall is forced and Walker loses that election he could be a 1/2 term governor.

Are Republican's starting a pattern of 1/2 term governors? :shock:
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He'll be the GOPs VP candidate in 2012. Conservatives would love that, because he's a hero to many of them.
 
digsbe said:
..............Recalls almost never happen........
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Perhaps that is part of the problem and needs to change. If elected officials knew it was likely they would recalled in mid-term for going against the wishes of those they represent, maybe the power would return to the people instead of to the highest bidder.
 
Frolicking Dinosaurs said:
Perhaps that is part of the problem and needs to change. If elected officials knew it was likely they would recalled in mid-term for going against the wishes of those they represent, maybe the power would return to the people instead of to the highest bidder.
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I like this idea... another cute avatar btw...
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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.. And to see how many times they signed it.
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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In any petition, you are going to get smartasses who write-in Mickey Mouse or Adolph Hitler. In fact, those who oppose petitions do a lot of that, in order to attempt to invalidate the petitions. However, while 540,000 signatures are needed, the recall volunteers are going to end up collecting almost a million, far more than enough to invalidate claims that the petition drive itself is fraudulent. Once the invalid signatures are removed, via the challenge process, there will still be far more than enough. This recall is going to happen, and there will be no doubt in anyone's mind that enough valid signatures were submitted.
 
MrVicchio said:
Not hard with all the fraud going on. They need to make the signatures and address open to the public in a searchable database so people can see if they "signed" the petition unknowingly.
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This way the kochroaches can take action against their employees who signed the petition, heck while you are at it maybe the votes for all offices should be made public. That way no one can hide what they have done in the voting booth or otherwise.
 
SheWolf said:
He'll be the GOPs VP candidate in 2012. Conservatives would love that, because he's a hero to many of them.
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Newt and Walker ---- that would be terrific.
 
I'm sure that its not hard to come up with the needed signatures to get a recall done. All that they have to do is get people that voted against Walker to sign. But in the end it is the election itself that is going to matter. The only way that Walker will loose is if the other side promotes him in a bad light to sufficiently change the numbers game. I'm sure that words like "union busting" and such might just do it. Never mind the actual fact that no union busting ever went on. The only thing that Walker stopped with his bill is the ability of public workers to negotiate with the very people they vote for how much money they get. The ability to negotiate safety measure and such was never taken away. The ability to gather and voice complaints with a unified voice is still intact.
 
mattillac said:
This way the kochroaches can take action against their employees who signed the petition, heck while you are at it maybe the votes for all offices should be made public. That way no one can hide what they have done in the voting booth or otherwise.
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Actually, Mr. Vicchio got caught up in a lie that he must have seen on FOX News. The signatures ARE made public, after being turned in, so that those signatures can be challenged.
 
good riddance.
 
danarhea said:
Actually, Mr. Vicchio got caught up in a lie that he must have seen on FOX News. The signatures ARE made public, after being turned in, so that those signatures can be challenged.
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What lie? I said they shoudl be, but will they hit the public in time to make a difference? That's what Danarhea isn't telling you.
 
the real test is in securing enough votes to oust him.. not in seeing how many signatures you can get to call for a recall election.

collecting signatures for a recall election is an exercise where only his opponents have a say... the actual election is where his supporters will have the chance to chime in as well.


i'm not a Wisconsin resident, so I can't even count the way I don't care about the issue of this governors potential recall.
 
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