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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:14 PM Jan 2012

1,000,000 signatures to recall Walker.

Organizers behind the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collected 1 million signatures to be submitted to the state’s Government Accountability Board on Tuesday, dwarfing the required number of names and virtually ensuring that a recall election will take place later this year.

A total of 540,208 valid signatures, or 25 percent of all of the votes cast in the election that put Walker in office last January, were needed to force a recall election, but organizers had aimed for hundreds of thousands more than the minimum requirement to ensure that they met the threshold even if some signatures are disqualified.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party was quick to dub the recall effort — which also targeted Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and a handful of Republican state legislators — the “biggest” in American history, and boasted that organizers had gathered a whopping 460,000 extra signatures for the recall of Walker, who infuriated many in his state last year by pushing through a law that ended most collective bargaining rights for many public workers.

Meagan Mahaffey, executive director of United Wisconsin – the group behind the recall efforts – told POLITICO that Tuesday’s results sent a “crystal clear message to Scott Walker that voters are done with his extreme policies and his destruction that he’s doing to our state.”




http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71548.html#ixzz1jkSzuW6Q

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1,000,000 signatures to recall Walker. (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2012 OP
Wow, can we stick a fork in him yet? Rex Jan 2012 #1
We can't beat someone with no one. RandySF Jan 2012 #6
Well whoever it may end up being Rex Jan 2012 #7
So they got 50% of all votes cast? tabatha Jan 2012 #2
We did it! WI_DEM Jan 2012 #3
Perhaps these idiot R's will learn about collecting signatures. Loudmxr Jan 2012 #4
3 Cheers to Wisconsin!!!!! HockeyMom Jan 2012 #5
The tears and wild flailing of the right N7Shepard Jan 2012 #8
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. Wow, can we stick a fork in him yet?
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:15 PM
Jan 2012

What a royal pain in the ass Walker has turned out to be. What a waste of taxpayer money.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. Well whoever it may end up being
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:33 PM
Jan 2012

their record cannot be worse then Walkers...he is an embaressment.

Loudmxr

(1,405 posts)
4. Perhaps these idiot R's will learn about collecting signatures.
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:24 PM
Jan 2012

Anyone who has done this knows you get 30% over what you need.

Therefore there are only two R's for VA. STUPID!!!

Having done this before... my kudos to the WI signature gatherers!!!

I envy your skills.

N7Shepard

(220 posts)
8. The tears and wild flailing of the right
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 04:40 PM
Jan 2012

about dead voters and donald duck is hilarious.

Scooter is TOAST

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