Organizers with the effort to from office announced Thursday that they have collected more than 507,000 signatures recall petitions. United Wisconsin, along with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, set a new goal for how many signatures it hopes to collect: 720,277.
But a lot of these fortunes in this country were created by destroying jobs, not creating them. And we shouldn't reward that. Nor should we be giving these obscene compensation packages. And they do it because they can, and they can because our taxes on the wealthy in this country are so low, making this perhaps the one of the best countries in the western world to shelter wealth. It's time we start taxing them back to reality. We've done the opposite over the past 30 years and this country has gotten no where. Tell us please. What do you get out of defending the status quo, pulling policies that have worked nowhere.
It's getting so tiresome looking at you people just pulling things out of your behind to defend this aristocracy.
Right now, generally, liberals have initiated the recall effort and are in favor of it while conservatives generally oppose it. If the roles were reversed and conservatives had initiated the recall effort, I'm sure that the liberals would generally oppose it. The point is, the flawed recall laws apply to both political parties.
1) Recall laws are too lax. Right now, Wisconsin recall laws allow recall for any reason, as opposed to "high crimes" or similar causation (think of impeachable offenses as applied to the presidency). Such lax laws can thus facilitate a never ending recall and election cycle, thus rendering our present periodic elections meaningless. If the present recall is successful, then conservatives can initiate a recall of any elected liberal - this could go back and forth forever. 2) The recall laws procedures are too lax. The current procedures do not prohibit a single individual from signing a given petition multiple times, thus placing the burden on the GAB to review and cull the signatures for such multiple signings, and on those opposing the recall when verifying the signatures. Any GAB review for such multiple signings cost taxpayers $. Why not ease the burden by prohibiting multiple signings in the first place? The foregoing needs to be revised to remove these flaws. It’s just common sense. Again, I apply no party bias here, for the flaws affect both parties, depending on whether or not that party is for or against a recall during a given recall cycle
In his little offering of perspective on the number of signatures collected thus far, Tate forgot to mention how their target goal of 720,277 signatures is still 25,713 short of the number of votes cast for Joanne Kloppenburg in the recent Supreme Court election, or about the capacity of one sold out concert at the Marcus Amphitheater. And I think we all remember how that election, which the left made into a referendum against Walker and his policies, turned out, don’t we? Walker is safe!!!
Spending a lot of time over on the Daily Kos I see! BTW - 1) Doyle instituted deeper cuts in state aid to fund education than Walker did and you didn't try and recall him; 2) overall, Walker actually increased state funding for health care programs and is trying to save SeniorCare; and 3) I think that you are obsessed with the Koch Bros!
You forgot to give a comparative perspective example, Tate would be displeased! Don’t worry, I’ll cover it for you: Or the fire-coded capacity of about 23 average sized Sizzler Steak Houses!
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Craig 6:12 pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011 Craig No need to further demean State and municiple worker. Walker has done enough of that to last a life time. Which is a good reason to recall him. He and his like have devided the state. Agreed Mark. Morningpissed apparently thinks Gvt. workers are such high achievers, guess they are compared to what they could do for a living in the private sector.
Maybe you should take this up with the long deceased writers of Wisconsin's CONSTITUTION! Funny how "Constitutionalists" only object to items in constitutions when they favor their right wing extremist agenda! I'll call your attention to Section 12 of Wisconsin Constitution ARTICLE XIII. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.this " Socialist" document! http://my.execpc.com/~fedsoc/wi-con13.html
OK, I read your cite. What about it? You are quick to snark, but if you actually read my posts, you'll see that I am not against the recall per se. This is because it is permitted by the constitution (as you so smugly set forth section 12 as if I have not read it). Nonetheless, it is pretty loose to the point of nonsense. That is my objection. I am undecided about whether or not to sign the petition, and I apply no bias here. However, that does not seem to be good enough for you. What right wing agenda have I supported or favored?
Nah! It was government contracted Teamster concrete, so it just kind of crumbled around me into dust – no digging required! At least Fitzsimmons’ screwing up the union resulted in something good. Hoffa is back baby! Now, can anyone tell me how to get to the Desert Inn out in Vegas? I have a meeting with some men of Italian persuasion that I’m 36 years late for!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/17/1046497/-Recall-Trail:-Our-Lives-Were-Threatened,-My-Camera-Destroyed-UPDATE-2:-Chip-Found-but-Broken?via=siderec
Citing to the Daily Kos??? This is a joke, right?