From The Plum Line comes news that organizers of the effort to recall Republican State Senator Luther Olsen – who called Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to weaken public employee unions “radical” – have filed their recall petitions with the state’s Government Accountability Board. According to Graeme Zielinski of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, recall organizers [...]
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The name is hilarious… Time: Saturday, April 16 12:00pm – 2:00pm Location: Saukville, Grady Park, Hwy 33 @ Park Ave. Do you really want to see Glenn Grothman recalled? Come to Saukville at Noon on Saturday. Bring everyone you know. Get inspired by our great line-up of speakers: State Senator Chris [...] On April 5 a recall petition circulator was allegedly attacked and their petitions were shredded at an undisclosed polling place during the spring election. Speaking about the alleged attack, Government Accountability Board (GAB) executive director Kevin Kennedy issued a brief statement: “One incident that was brought to our attention involved physical violence against a [...] Late last week, organizers of an effort to recall Republican State Senator Dan Kapanke filed a petition with more than 21,700 signatures calling for a recall election of Sen. Kapanke, one of the “Republican 8″ – the 8 Republican State Senators who voted in lockstep with Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to severely curtail collective bargaining [...] Yesterday Jeff higlighted the new TV ad being run here in Wisconsin by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of the efforts to recall the “Republican 8,” the 8 Republican State Senators who voted to support Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on public employee unions and who are legally eligible to be recalled from office. [...] There are now recall efforts underway against all 16 Wisconsin State Senators who are eligible by law to be recalled, so I thought we’d talk about those efforts. Personally I see recall elections against Republican Sens. Dan Kapanke, Randy Hopper, and Alberta Darling being successful, giving Democrats back control of the State Senate. You all are amazing. Over the past few weeks (with the exception of our “lost week”) I’ve asked you all to help the efforts to recall the “Republican 8″ – the eight Republican State Senators who voted in lockstep with the wishes of their party leadership to eviscerate the ability of public employees to collectively [...] It’s common to hear many on the right refer to union members who dare to exercise their Constitutionally-protected first amendment rights to free speech and assembly as “union thugs” and “goons,” as if the right would never dare resort On Saturday, March 19, two individuals were gathering signatures in support of the recall effort against [...] Watch for yourself as Scott Walker explains why recalls are a good thing: I’ll have to agree with Scott Walker….recalls are a good thing, especially when the “Republican 8″ are the ones being recalled! I have to admit this brings a smile to my face: Both national and Wisconsin-based Republican operatives tell the Huffington Post the party is being dramatically outworked and out-organized by Democrats in the recall campaigns being launched against state Senators. The operatives, who raised their concerns out of hope it would jar the GOP into [...] |
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