Poll: Plurality of Americans Support Walker

Well, I guess the liberal cries of Americans siding with them is, unsurprisingly, not true. According to a poll released today, 48% of Americans support Governor Scott Walker's attempts to balance the Wisconsin state budget. That is a plurality, compared to the 38% that support unions.

The best part of this poll is that fact that pro-union protesters were eager to call Walker a Nazi, a "turd," Benito Mussolini, and even Osama bin Laden. With this new poll, I suppose these union followers will now call a plurality of Americans Nazis and such. In other words, according to unions, there are a hundred million Osama bin Ladens running around the United States!

As could be expected, there is a strong partisan split. Democrats and liberals were much more likely to side with unions while Republicans and conservatives were much more likely to side with Governor Walker.

68% of Democrats support unions in the dispute, while the same percent of Republicans side with Walker. Very telling, however, is the fact that a solid majority of independents side with the governor: 56%.

THEY UNIONS ARE PLAYING DIRTY (WHAT A SURPRISE) AND ILLINOIS ALF-CIO UNION BOSSES ARE LEADING THE CHARGE AGAINST WISCONSIN’S GOVERNOR. IN THEIR OWN WORDS BELOW.

This is a FYI to ALERT you on what the LEFT – is planning.

The UAW- WI AFL-CIO Statewide Political Steering Committee is the “machine” promoting the protests,

and is the main organizer AGAINST Walkers Budget Repair Bill.

NOTE: The Madison protests are being organized by HEADQUARTERS located in the state of ILLINOIS.

Brad Schwanda is the Political Director of UAW Region 4

UAW Headquarters: http://region4uaw.org/regional-offices
680 Barclay Blvd.
Lincolnshire, ILLINOIS 60069
Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Bradley Schwanda, Community Service, Education, & Retirees
UAW CAP Coordinator
(O) 847-459-3888,
(F) 847-459-5680

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisaflcio/4523689408/

http://region4uaw.org/ (Daily articles on the Wisconsin Protests)

Forwarding: - FYI – Senate Recall Organizing

-——Forwarded Message-——
From: Bradley Schwanda
Sent: Feb 20, 2011 6:19 AM
To:
Subject: Senate Recall Organizing Meeting Tomorrow Sunday

From: Buzz Davis, Save Our Kids (SOK) Recall Campaign, 608-239-5354

Would you please consider sending the attached invitation out to your lists today.

There will be an initial organizing meeting tomorrow, Sunday, Feb. 20th, in Madison at the AFT-W headquarters at 1 PM. Persons who are interested in asking the group they belong to if that group would like to become a member of this coalition are invited to join us. Individuals who are interested in donating a good amount of time to this effort are also invited.

Those who are willing to help a little bit will be contacted later. This meeting is to organize.

If you wish to attend in person or by teleconference do this. Send Buzz Davis an email at dbuzzdavis@aol.com and give your name, tel. #, email, city and what group you are in and he will send back an email with conference call numbers. His cell # is 608-239-5354.

If you will help collect signatures and do other jobs in the future, send Davis and email and say you will not joining the meeting but want to be placed on the contact list for future action. Name, tel. #, email and larger city you live near.

Thank you!

Proposal: Save Our Kids (SOK) Recall Campaign

Buzz Davis, AFT-W Retirees Chapter, 608-873-4886 (H) or 608-239-5354 cell #

dbuzzdavis@aol.com, Stoughton, WI 2-18-11 Draft

1. PURPOSE: To remove over the next year members of the legislature and the governor because they are harming the present and future lives of the people of WI - economically, educationally, and physically (health care)

2. PHASE I: Start Immediately. Recall 8 Republican State Senators by conducting recall petition drives in their senate district (one district at a time). These are the ONLY legislators who can be recalled at this time. The entire assembly and the governor have to be in office for one full year before any can be recalled (Jan. 2012 is the earliest any such a recall effort can start.) The Senate currently has 19 Republicans and 14 Democrats.

Robert Cowles* (R) 2nd Senate District – 15960 signatures required, Alberta Darling (R) won with 50% in 2008 8th SD – 20343, Sheila Harsdorf (R) 56% 10th SD– 15744, Glenn Grothman* (R) 20th SD – 20061, Randy Hopper (R) 50% 18th SD – 15269, Dan Kapanke 51% (R) 32nd SD - 15588, Mary Lazich* (R) 28th SD - 20973, and Luther Olsen* (R) 14th SD – 14733. * Ran unopposed in 2008. Members of Joint Committee on Finance and voted for the budget repair bill are: Darling (co-chair), Hopper and Harsdorf.

3. PHASE II: Start in January 2012. Recall appropriate assembly and senate members and the governor.

4. PROPOSAL FOR PHASE I: Conduct a two prong effort in a target state senate district as soon as possible.

First trained volunteers, going door to door and tabling at certain viable locations in the district, collect signatures of district voters on a petition. We need to gather, probably, at least 10% to 15% more signatures than required. If we have resources then we gather many more signatures.

Secondly, at the same time, volunteers collect signatures to place two referendum questions on the ballot.

The first questions will be along this line: Should the state of WI raise taxes on wealthy families and larger business to make up for the billions of dollars in tax cuts they have received by Republican and Democratic legislators and governors? Yes or no. Note: This question has to be refined and reviewed by the planning team and by certain state experts at the state Government Accountability Board (GAB).

The second question relates to K-12 school funding: Should the state of WI, as soon as possible, raise the sales tax a penny on the dollar/or 1 cent/or from the present 5% to 6%, to increase state aids to local school districts to reduce the financial crisis that most school districts face? yes or no Again, this draft question has to be refined.

5. CONCEPT: To “break the back” of the idea that citizens in no way will stand for higher taxes. With two yes votes citizens would be saying to the legislature and the governor that we know why we have revenue short falls it is because of all the tax breaks you have given the rich and corporations. We want them taxed fairly and we also accept an immediate one “Penny for Kids” increase in the sales tax on ourselves.

6. ACTION: This Sunday, Feb. 20th, the organizing committee for the Save Our Kids recall campaign will meet at 1 PM in the American Federation of Teacher - WI headquarters located at 6602 Normandy Lane Madison. Directions: Exit S. Beltline at Gammon (West Town), drive north toward West Town, at stop light turn right (east) onto Odana, drive to next stop light, turn left (north) onto Yellowstone, at next corner turn right onto Normandy, and the AFT-W HQ is second bldg. on left. Conference call will also be conducted for those outside Madison. Contact Buzz Davis at dbuzzdavis@aol.com for number.

· If you are involved in a community group, faith group, coalitions, peace and justice groups, unions, veterans groups, retire groups, etc. that you think you can get to join the SOK campaign, then please join us Sunday and provide your contact info. The wider the base of the coalition we form - the better off and faster we will be able to work.

· If you are a person who now wants to donate many hours to the effort over the coming months, then please join us Sunday and provide your contact info.

· If you want to be briefed later on what is going on and how you can help then provide your contact info and we will contact you later after things are organized.

7. DETAIL ON RECALL & REFERENDUM ELECTIONS.

A. Petitions must be gathered in 60 days and the number of signatures needed is 25% of the total votes cast in that specific district in the 2010 governor’s race.

B. Recalls election are filed at state level (GAB). Referenda are filed at city and village clerk level and cannot be done statewide or at county or township levels.

C. After state and clerks put recall and referenda on ballot then a campaign finance committee must be registered in order to spend money for or against candidates or referendums.

D. The name of the person recalled is automatically on the ballot unless the person withdraws within the first few days.

E. Primaries by party are held if necessary and then the final election.

F. The election is set for 6 weeks from the date the state approves the recall petitions.

G. Money spent prior to turning in the signatures and prior to the election date does not have to be recorded with the state or local clerk.

H. Circulators of petitions do NOT have to live in the district but they must be valid electors 18 and over.

I. It would be best if the referenda, which will drive up voters turn out, and the recall election are at the same time.

J. It is estimated that a volunteer going door to door may gather approximately 10 signatures per hour. Thus 50 volunteers working 5 hrs. could gather 2,500 signatures, 500 volunteers at 5 hrs. = 25,000. Thus 1,000 volunteers working 5 hrs. = 50,000. Conceivably a well organized campaign could do one senate district a weekend!

K. Important sites are: http://elections.state.wi.us/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2154&linkcatid=2154&linkid=155&locid=47 Recalls are described in Article XIII, section 12 of the Wisconsin Constitution, and Statute 9.10. Government Accountability Board Manual on Recall: http://gab.wi.gov/publications/manuals/recall

8. PUBLIC INFORMATION. A public information plan needs to be developed to prepare a senate district for the recall effort. This would include press releases, press conferences, town meetings, radio and maybe TV ads, speakers at community groups, etc. Campaign flyers need to be developed for each district outlining how the incumbent has violated his oath of office to protect the people of the state, etc. explain the tax cuts/breaks for the rich and corporations, which taxes should be raised on those groups, the financial crisis the schools in that senate district are in, shortage of money, how much a Penny for Kids would bring in per year for the schools (about $800 million/yr.), etc. The pamphlet would be given to each person talked to and left at the door of those not home. It would tell them who to call and where to come to sign the petitions, etc. The public information campaign would run a week or so prior to the start of the weekend of signature collection.

9. DATA BASES. All signatures collected would be entered into data bases for each district so the signers can be activated to vote in the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) drive after the recall and referenda are placed on the ballot.

10. PETITION DRIVE DAYS. People may drive for an hour or two to get to their assigned community or if local people get to the training sight at 9:30AM or so. All volunteers are trained on what to do and not to do, practice what to say at the doors, are broken into small teams, each team has a map with instructions, petitions, pens, clip boards, water, snacks, etc. By 11AM they are onsite doing doors, come back about 1:30 for lite lunch and drop off petitions, go out again until 5:30 or 6, come back for bean feed, totaling and debriefing, thank yous and description of the plan for the next day. Some volunteers might go to high person traffic areas and circulate petitions there.

People can talk and collect signatures only so long each day. It is very tiring to do it day after day. About half the homes have someone home, and maybe half of those or less might sign. Therefore if a volunteer got 10 or 15 signatures per hour that would be good.

11. ADJUSTING THE PLAN. To do this campaign fast we would need to do something like this. Attack only one district first and complete the job. Raise money so we can feed volunteers, mileage to the cities, maybe overnights, brochures to leave at each home, radio ads, team leaders, etc. We need to adjust the plan as we go along based on what is working. We cannot depend on only local volunteers to do this. We would mass our forces from the region of the state we were working in and probably also bring in people from across the state to work for two days at a time. We want to spend only a few days in each district rather than the maximum 60 days.

It all sounds like a great deal of work but NOT removing these folks is getting more dangerous by the day. Thanks for reading this.

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