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Organizers behind the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collected 1 million signatures to be submitted to the states 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 Tuesdays results sent a crystal clear message to Scott Walker that voters are done with his extreme policies and his destruction that hes doing to our state.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71548.html#ixzz1jkSzuW6Q
Rex
(65,616 posts)What a royal pain in the ass Walker has turned out to be. What a waste of taxpayer money.
RandySF
(57,661 posts)And I do not know how strong the likely candidates are.
Rex
(65,616 posts)their record cannot be worse then Walkers...he is an embaressment.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)Strongly indicates that Walker will lose.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)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.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Wish Florida could do the same to their Scott.
N7Shepard
(220 posts)about dead voters and donald duck is hilarious.
Scooter is TOAST