Recall Scott Walker Now
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“At the moment, [Governor Scott] Walker is benefiting from a loophole in Wisconsin election law that allows candidates to raise unlimited funds between the beginning of petition gathering and the deadline for the election board to authorize a recall election. Petition gathering began in November and the election board might not be ready to authorize a recall until March.
Under normal rules, donors are limited to $10,000 contributions and nonaffiliated groups are limited to $43,128.
About 45 percent of the $4.5 million Walker collected during the last two reporting periods originated from outside groups giving $250,000 or more.
WisPolitics.com, an online media outlet in Madison, reported that two contributions totaling $500,000 came from Texas billionaire Bob Terry, who was a major financier of Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, the group known for the attack campaign against Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid in 2004.” - Mark Guarino
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker poised to bury recall foes in money chase](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydwjy9J0i1qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
“At the moment, [Governor Scott] Walker is benefiting from a loophole in Wisconsin election law that allows candidates to raise unlimited funds between the beginning of petition gathering and the deadline for the election board to authorize a recall election. Petition gathering began in November and the election board might not be ready to authorize a recall until March.
Under normal rules, donors are limited to $10,000 contributions and nonaffiliated groups are limited to $43,128.
About 45 percent of the $4.5 million Walker collected during the last two reporting periods originated from outside groups giving $250,000 or more.
WisPolitics.com, an online media outlet in Madison, reported that two contributions totaling $500,000 came from Texas billionaire Bob Terry, who was a major financier of Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, the group known for the attack campaign against Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid in 2004.” - Mark Guarino
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker poised to bury recall foes in money chase
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And again, public education has to shoulder most of the burden.
The UW-system will lose $46.1 million, which is on top of the $250 million Walker has already slashed from the system. Other cuts include:
• $9.4 million in cuts this year for the Department of Corrections, including nearly…
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New Rule: Walker doesn’t get to complain anymore about out-of-state money playing a part in the effort to recall him. Here is a very very small sample of some of his donors:
Foster Friess, Wyoming resident and Santorum fan, donated $100,000 to Friends of Scott Walker.
Bob J. Perry, the Texan behind Swift Boat, donated $250,000.
John Nau, Bush’s friend from Texas, donated $40,000.
Ross Perot, Jr. (ha!) gave $20,000.
Joseph W. Craft of Oklahoma donated $25,000. Craft is the head of one of America’s most dangerous coal companies, and Walker has consistently advocated eliminating Wisconsin’s mining regulations.
All information is from the Campaign Finance Information System.
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Announcing the best job numbers of his tenure with a splash last summer, Gov. Scott Walker left out the fact that his office had been told in an internal report that the monthly numbers were “very questionable” and “suspect.”
The snapshot of jobs in the state is normally announced each month simply through a news release, but in July Walker traveled to Milwaukee to announce that the month before the state had gained a net total of 9,500 jobs, a big chunk of the net total of 18,000 new jobs nationwide for that month. It was announced at the time as the biggest monthly increase in jobs since September 2003.The unusual announcement was made in the run-up to pivotal Senate recall elections last summer that were seen as a referendum on Walker’s policies.
But three days before the announcement, Walker’s office received a report from the state labor department that raised serious concerns about the numbers. The PowerPoint presentation was released to the Journal Sentinel under the state’s open records law.
“Results, while (federal Bureau of Labor Statistics) approved, are very questionable,” reads the first line of the report.
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Shared from a facebook friend: Signature Collecting every day at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St. in Madison. Desperate help needed especially on Black Friday. Many cars lining up but some leave because of wait. Dedicated volunteers working 9am-6pm without breaks! If you can work all day, 1 hour…
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Scott Walker: The complex changes his administration has devised are a smokescreen for forcing tens of thousands of people off BadgerCare in order to enable Walker’s plan to slash $554 million from Wisconsin’s Medicaid programs. It’s that simple.
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“Corporations, and individuals allied with corporations, were invited to come in and take what they would. I determined that the power of this corupt influence, which was undermining and destroying every semblance of representative government in Wisconsin, should be broken.” - Fighting Bob LaFollette.
On, Wisconsin.
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This statement is objectively false. The recall provisions contained in the Wisconsin State Constitution were never intended to be limited in such a fashion. The original design of the right of recall is, in fact, intended to permit voters to recall elected officials for virtually any reason.”
-Edward Fallone, Constitutional Law Professor at Marquette. The Original Intent of the Recall Power.
I think this needs to be repeated again and again. The entire article is a worthwhile read for those interested in history and election law.
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This gets more beautiful the more I learn about it.
Not only is there a march to sign Walker’s recall papers on Tuesday in Wauwatosa near Walker’s home, Walker’s own neighbors are volunteering their yards for the purpose. Enough people are coming that buses will be running for about 4 hours!
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Join progressives from Whitewater and surrounding communities area, as well as Jon Erpenbach, as we “occupy” Whitewater and plan for Walker’s recall. The event starts at 4 pm at 402 W. Main Street, and Senator Erpenbach will address the crowd at 6 pm. Then we’ll march to the university, where…
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The pay freeze on general wages comes just months after Walker and Republicans who run the Legislature required public workers to pay more for their health insurance and pensions and eliminated almost all collective bargaining for most of them.
And this is comes less than two weeks after it was revealed that Gov. Walker lied about his own pension contributions.
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