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Obey, considered to be Wisconsin's liberal lion, may be too eager. The Republican governor has been in office for only eight weeks and state law requires that elected officials be in office for at least a year before being eligible for a recall.
Obey claims that despite the law, Walker should be recalled because his attempt to dismantle union protections for state workers is "abusive."
I don't understand the one-year recall rule. What if the person starts acting crazy after 3 months, or 6 months? Do people just say "Oh well I guess he can't be recalled" and let him continue?
Insanity. LOL
How do they confirm that the signatures are real?
Insanity. LOL
How do they confirm that the signatures are real?
Insanity. LOL
How do they confirm that the signatures are real?
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.
WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it's going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn't leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so "high" on Koch and have decided that you are
now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a
demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed
in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
You act as if death threats to lawmakers are something new or confined to one particular group.
No, I act as if death threats are now so common that they're ignored.
as they should be. if someone makes such a threat, it should be handed off to law enforcement and otherwise ignored.
We will have to see how that one plays out. Meanwhile, Recall drives are currently taking place against 16 state Senators, in what appears to be the largest recall frenzy, on a state level, in American history. Both, Democratic and Republican activists, are taking part in the efforts. 8 of the targets are Republicans, and 8 are Democrats. The Republican Senators are those who support Walker, the the Democrats being targeted are among those who walked out. So, in a sense, you can say that the recall petition drives are a bi-partisan effort being carried out by partisans...... huh? :mrgreen:
The bar for conducting a recall in Wisconsin is high. The petitioners have only 60 days to obtain 25% of the total number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial race in each particular district where a recall is being attempted. After only a couple of days, 25% of the required number have been collected against one Republican, and 20% against another Republican. No numbers have been posted yet for the other Republicans, or for the Democrats, but the Democratic party is claiming that they have already reached 15% of their total goal, and say that efforts against all 8 of the Republicans being challenged are going to be successful.
Which brings me to the moral of this story. If you are elected, do what the people put you into office to do. If you overstep your authority, it is at your own peril. Walker had a mandate for fiscal responsibility, which I totally agree with. However, with the help of the infamous Koch Brothers, he turned that into waging a war on the collective bargaining rights of state employees, something that Wisconsin's population is overwhelmingly against. His transparent lies that busting the unions in Wisconsin was really about addressing the debt didn't fly with Wisconsinites either, who saw through his deception. He is now going to pay the ultimate political price, which will be the death of his political career. He can't blame the voters for that. He can only blame himself, and his radical agenda.
Article is here.
Insanity. LOL
How do they confirm that the signatures are real?
Here's hoping the majority of Citizens will see that what Scott Walker did was for the good of the State.
This is a pathetic liberal democrat tantrum. Waa evil repubwicans got wid of our unions we gonna make you pay.Waaaaaa! And if that don't work I am going to lay down on the ground and kick and scream waaa!!!
Tea Party people get energized and vote in a bunch of conservatives. Liberals get energized and recall a bunch of conservatives.
“No blame.” — I Ching
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