It's on! Wisconsin Dems officially back recall effort against GOP Senators

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It's on! Wisconsin Dems officially back recall effort against GOP Senators
by Chris Bowers

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/02/951841/-Its-on!-Wisconsin-Dems-officially-back-recall-effort-against-GOP-Senators

The Wisconsin Democratic Party is now officially backing a citizen-led recall campaign against eight Republican state senators. The page announcing their support for the campaign, which is also a donation page to the Wisconsin Democratic Party, can be found here.
https://wisdems.zissousecure.com/contribute/RecalltheRepublican8Email

Greg Sargent interviews the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party about this development:

The Wisconsin Democratic Party has decided to throw its weight behind a nascent grassroots drive to recall a number of GOP state senators, a move that will considerably increase the pressure on them to break with Governor Scott Walker, the Dem party chair confirms to me.

"The proposals and the policies that Republicans are pushing right now are not what they campaigned on, and they're extreme," the party chair, Mike Tate, said in an interview. "Something needs to be done about it now. We're happy to stand with citizens who are filling papers to recall these senators."


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[xchrom]

1. Awesome. nt

[mitchtv]

2. the right has mounted a recall against

several of the Dem senators, so there should be a big election coming up.

[Cieran_WI]

6. They WANT to recall, but it would require actual signatures

The teabaggers have no patience to go door to door gathering the thousands of signatures it would require in those democrat's districts. And even if they did... they simply wouldn't be able to gather the needed amount to actually recall. There simply is no public support to bust unions in WI.

Recalls of Republican senators will be very easy to get the 15,000-ish signatures needed in the various districts, we won't need anywhere near the 60 day limit to gather them all. I'm guessing a couple days of canvassing will be enough.

[Tigress DEM]

7. But Koch could pay people to go door to door...

And a lot of the nutbaggers think the "Wisconsin 14" are not "doing their job" so it is concievable we'll have as much of a problem with this whole recall thing. But I believe MoveOn.org has already gotten about 50% of voters on board for the 8 Rethugs who are in the Gov's pocket on this one.

[cognoscere]

9. That's easy to defend against. The senators' job is to provide legislation

that is beneficial to Wisconsinites, not to two assholes in Kansas. Barring that, which is what the Republican majority would do, they must try to prevent harmful legislation from occurring. As it is now, the only way they can do their job of protecting the public interest is to prevent a vote and the only way they can do that is by being absent. Ideally, they won't come back if Hosni Walker gives in on the bargaining rights - that is just monumental misdirection to keep people from seeing how Hosni wants to sell off the whole damn state.

[sybylla]

13. I would add that the polls show the public is on our side

The senate Dems up for recall live in fairly Dem districts - logically, after an election-day "wipeout," that's pretty much all that's left. If the momentum is on our side, 15,000 legit sigs will be nearly impossible. Hell, if the polling is right, it would be impossible even in swing districts.

On the other hand, Dems only need to take 3 of the 8 pukes out. There are more than three who represent swing districts. And I think one or two live in districts that vote for Dems in every other office. So they are holding on by their fingernails.

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

:kick:

[disillusioned73]

4. k&r

:dem:

[HereSince1628]

5. The $60 request is something I wonder about...

It's a peculiar amount of money and I don't know how it was decided upon.

I've made a call to Madison to find out what the fee for registering a recall committee is. I hope to be able to get back to people with an answer soon. But it could take a while to get a call back.

[dragonlady]

8. There will be lots of expenses to pull this off

I don't think there is any filing fee involved but that would be trivial compared to the other expenses--organizational, legal--that will be needed before this is all over.

[HereSince1628]

10. I think that there is also the issue of the cost of the recall election

But, again, I am wondering on how the $60 cost was settled on. It's something of an unusual number.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

12. $6 is an option, too

or $25.

[sybylla]

14. $1 a day for the 60 days it takes to collect sigs.

It's weird, I know. They should have made a more direct correlation between the days and the money.

[HereSince1628]

15. Thanks. That makes marketing sense. n/t

[dragonlady]

11. True, although

I think the campaign expenses come under the candidate(s) who run in the recall election (and we'll need to help them with that too.)