Walker recall campaign reaches key threshold

[JoeB131]

MILWAUKEE - With two weeks to go until the final deadline for gathering names, the labor-backed campaign to recall GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin reached its needed minimum of 508,240 signatures.

But organizers want to send at least 720,277 names to the state by the deadline, Jan. 17, both as a show of strength and to provide a cushion should officials disallow some of the signatures. Organizers garnered the minimum in just over a month.

“Wow!” the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO said on its blog. “If everyone pitches in we will have the grassroots people power to combat Walker’s big moneyed corporate backers like the Koch Brothers.

“A new report released by the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future shows the ripple affects of Walker’s policies will cost Wisconsin over 18,000 full-time, private sector jobs a year. This report is a stark reminder of why we must recall Walker. In Wisconsin, we need jobs, not a governor who puts corporate special interests above the 99%.”

The effort to recall Walker began after he pushed through legislation destroying collective bargaining rights for 200,000 state and local government employees. Two Republican state senators who backed the anti-worker measure already have been recalled.

Walker and his allies have spent at least $3 million so far to fight the recall, according to media reports.

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Two weeks to go and they are barely at the minimum? After the challenges, that isn't going to go anywhere.

 

[Claudette]

I think this recall will turn out to be a big waste of time, effort and money on the part of the Unions.

If the voters don't like Walker they will vote him out come election time.

The Union should have saved its money so they could give it to Barry.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

You guys have been harping about this since the democrats fled the state like chicken shits. At the rate your going you might get a recall election about the same time he's up for reelection anyhow.

Good use of resources.

Idiots

i don't live in wisconsin and don't really care what the citizens of wisconsin do. i don't have a dog in this fight. but, if the government/rules are set up to allow the citizens of a state to do this, then why should citizens of other states care? and with respect to resources, are you speaking of government resources or private resources used by citizens trying to get the recall enacted?

 

[Dragon]

Lets say Walker is recalled, loses the election, his policies overturned.

Where does the money come from to pay for these public employees?

The same place it does if they don't. All the cuts requested by Walker were already agreed to by the unions. Cutting out their collective bargaining rights saved not one cent.

 

[Conservative]

Lets say Walker is recalled, loses the election, his policies overturned.

Where does the money come from to pay for these public employees?

The same place it does if they don't. All the cuts requested by Walker were already agreed to by the unions. Cutting out their collective bargaining rights saved not one cent.

Walker’s Bargaining Limits Save Millions; Some Districts Still Short

Act 10 limited collective bargaining to salary negotiations when Walker signed it March 11. Now, several months later, 67 of the state’s 424 school districts reported saving more than $140 million because of it. More than 150 districts rushed to preclude the law’s effects by concluding union contract negotiations beforehand, but if all districts employ Walker’s proposals they could save more than $451 million, estimated Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute for Public Policy.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

MILWAUKEE - With two weeks to go until the final deadline for gathering names, the labor-backed campaign to recall GOP Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin reached its needed minimum of 508,240 signatures.

But organizers want to send at least 720,277 names to the state by the deadline, Jan. 17, both as a show of strength and to provide a cushion should officials disallow some of the signatures. Organizers garnered the minimum in just over a month.

“Wow!” the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO said on its blog. “If everyone pitches in we will have the grassroots people power to combat Walker’s big moneyed corporate backers like the Koch Brothers.

“A new report released by the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future shows the ripple affects of Walker’s policies will cost Wisconsin over 18,000 full-time, private sector jobs a year. This report is a stark reminder of why we must recall Walker. In Wisconsin, we need jobs, not a governor who puts corporate special interests above the 99%.”

The effort to recall Walker began after he pushed through legislation destroying collective bargaining rights for 200,000 state and local government employees. Two Republican state senators who backed the anti-worker measure already have been recalled.

Walker and his allies have spent at least $3 million so far to fight the recall, according to media reports.

Welcome to Workday Minnesota, your leading source for labor news!

Two weeks to go and they are barely at the minimum? After the challenges, that isn't going to go anywhere.

It was all so much mental masturbatrion for the terminally stupid.

 

[Amelia]

I thought the number required is near 540,000?

You are correct. Whoever spun 508,240 as the "needed minimum" was being careless.

They need 540,208 valid signatures.

 

[Truthmatters]

The Heartland Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Heartland Institute is a conservative[2][3] and self-described libertarian[4][5] public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies. The Institute is designated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit by the Internal Revenue Service and advised by a 15 member board of directors, which meets quarterly. As of 2011, it has a full-time staff of 40, including editors and senior fellows.[4] The Institute was founded in 1984 and conducts research and advocacy work on issues including government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, information technology and free-market environmentalism.


This is a partisan hack site

 

[Conservative]

The Heartland Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Heartland Institute is a conservative[2][3] and self-described libertarian[4][5] public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies. The Institute is designated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit by the Internal Revenue Service and advised by a 15 member board of directors, which meets quarterly. As of 2011, it has a full-time staff of 40, including editors and senior fellows.[4] The Institute was founded in 1984 and conducts research and advocacy work on issues including government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, information technology and free-market environmentalism.


This is a partisan hack site

yes yes... we know... conservative sites are hack sites... liberal sites are bastions of truth, justice and apple pie.

 

[Big Fitz]

For anyone who thinks this is a gr-ass-roots effort, I drove by the Recall Walker headquarters in the Fox Valley the other day. Err... I mean the WEAC Headquarters... that's the teacher's unions office building.

The entire place is surrounded of course in recall signs, and they're the ones providing most petition takers it seems with members and their families. I guess the desperation to survival has them really struggling.

Never forget that this is because the Governor stood up for the taxpayers of Wisconsin and said 'no more' to the ethically compromised public sector union for their desires will destroy the state so a few public employees may live against the economic direction the rest of this nation is going in.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

You guys have been harping about this since the democrats fled the state like chicken shits. At the rate your going you might get a recall election about the same time he's up for reelection anyhow.

Good use of resources.

Idiots

i don't live in wisconsin and don't really care what the citizens of wisconsin do. i don't have a dog in this fight. but, if the government/rules are set up to allow the citizens of a state to do this, then why should citizens of other states care? and with respect to resources, are you speaking of government resources or private resources used by citizens trying to get the recall enacted?

Citizens aren't pushing nor funding this effort. The unions along with the democratic party are. The people voted for walker. Walker did as promised and now the left is trying to usurp the voice of the people.

It's plainly obvious.

 

[freedombecki]

My prayers for the voters of Wisconsin deciding to keep their elected Governor Walker and appealing to his detractors to try and get by as best they can.

 

[Amelia]

Appreciated, Becki. Thanks.