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xchrom

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Wed Jun 6, 2012, 05:43 AM Jun 2012

Progressive Movement Rises Up But Can't Oust Walker From Wisconsin Governorship

http://www.alternet.org/story/155759/progressive_movement_rises_up_but_can%27t_oust_walker_from_wisconsin_governorship/

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Progressives held their breaths and grimaced Tuesday evening as the trickle of Wisconsin recall election returns showed that anti-labor Republican Gov. Scott Walker – and four senior GOP state officials – were not going to be removed from office, despite overwhelming turnout in the state’s Democratic urban strongholds.

With 99 percent of the state’s 3,424 precincts reporting, Walker led Barrett 53 to 46 percent, a lead of nearly 173,000 votes out of 2.5 million votes cast. Barrett told reporters that he called Walker, “and congratulated him on his victory tonight. We agreed that it is important for us to work together.”

A fifth race may offer some consolation to progressives. It appears that Democrat state senate candidate John Lehman beat the incumbent Republican Sen. Van Wanggaard by 779 votes out of more than 71,000 cast, according to late-breaking unofficial returns. Should Lehman's victory hold up when the final count is certified, the Democrats would become the majority party in the state Senate, breaking the GOP's lock on legislative power.

The conclusion of Wisconsin’s special recall election capped months of frenzied grassroots organizing that captivated progressives from coast to coast, prompting a record turnout that could only be compared to a presidential election. In the state’s two largest Democratic strongholds, Milwaukee and Madison, turnout exceeded all expectations as polling places ran out of voter registration forms and ballots and officials scrambled to accommodate voters.
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Progressive Movement Rises Up But Can't Oust Walker From Wisconsin Governorship (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2012 OP
Our only hope is that Walker's victory is erased by his felony arrest... rfranklin Jun 2012 #1
If Walker were to be arrested, he would be replaced by a clone. nt ladjf Jun 2012 #2
That's fine with me...as long as he is discredited... rfranklin Jun 2012 #3
 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
1. Our only hope is that Walker's victory is erased by his felony arrest...
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 06:58 AM
Jun 2012

of course we have been hoping for years that war criminals and corporate crooks would be prosecuted and nothing ever comes of it.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
3. That's fine with me...as long as he is discredited...
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 07:30 AM
Jun 2012

because it will set them back a long ways.

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