Over at the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog, Constitutional Law Prof Ed Fallone pulls the rug out from under Rick Esenberg’s latest attempt to thwart the Recall Walker effort. Here are my favorite snippets from Fallone’s response to Esenberg’s somnambulist drool.
“Perhaps this is why neither the nonpartisan agency charged with interpreting these provisions of law, nor any experienced practitioner in this area, have ever read the statute in the manner that you suggest.”
And…..
“I might add that your offhand suggestion that “illegible” signatures not be counted would be a particularly pernicious restriction on the recall rights of electors (and one that has no basis in law). Do you really mean to suggest that a legally binding signature for purposes of access to a bank account, filing taxes or signing an affidavit might be purged from a recall petition because you can’t make out the spelling of my name?”
Read the whole exchange if you like, or you might decide to not waste your time in the manner that Esenberg so clearly did.
If Esenberg ruled, there’s no way that Jack Lew, the new White House Chief of Staff, could ever vote in Wisconsin.
Check out this sig:
http://main.aol.com/2011/09/22/jack-lews-signature_n_976729.html
Looks suspiciously like “Bugs Bunny.”
Unlike nomination papers for local elections that only ask for signature, address and date…the recall petitions include a requirement for printed name as well…that fact alone should make illegible signatures a moot point.
The printed name is not required on recall petitions in Wisconsin, at least Republicans didn’t include it last summer on their forms to recall Democratic Senators. The results were often beyond illegible and of course no complaints from the wingers on that occasion. The Democratic recalls of Republicans have included the signer’s printed name as a common sense measure.
I think it behooves us all to remember that this is the same guy, ( Esenberg) who thinks that 5,000 people might sign recall Walker petitions 25 times each. He suggested that in one of his Shark/Shepherd blog posts.
That’s absurd. That’s beyond absurd, it’s crazy.
It’s possible that Professor Rick could be given to flights of boozy fancy, or he may be suffering from some kind of psychotic/paranoid disorder.
Scott Walker’s signature looks as though it says “No klu” (no, really, check it out)