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Payback: Group says it has enough signatures to force recall election for Wisconsin fleebagger!
Hotair ^ | 04/04/2011 | Allahpundit

Posted on 04/04/2011 6:54:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A moral victory, if nothing else. And it really might be nothing else: This guy won reelection three years ago with 67 percent of the vote, so tossing him out in a recall election will be unlikely. But who knows? Without Obama at the top of the ticket for Democrats and with the locals (hopefully) irritated at the fleebaggers’ fleebaggy ways, 51/49 to remove isn’t impossible. At the very least, it’s a shot in the arm for Wisconsin conservatives on the eve of tomorrow’s supreme court election. If they can still make Democrats squirm, they’re not licked yet.

Dan Hunt, chairman of Taxpayers to Recall Robert Wirch, says his organization has “well over” the 13,537 signatures required to force Wirch into a recall election, though he said the group still has a goal to collect 18,000, in case some of the signatures are disqualified. He said it’s likely the signatures would be filed with the state Government Accountability Board next week.

“Let the voters of Senate District 22 decide whether Senator Wirch was justified when he left the Senate to flee to Illinois,” Hunt said in a statement, referring to a tactic used by Democratic state senators to stall a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill. After three weeks, Republicans stripped the bill of items that made a Democratic presence necessary, and passed it without Democratic votes.

The group seeking to recall Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) is the only one of 16 recall campaigns against eight Republican and eight Democratic state senators that has filed its signatures with the state.

Fun fact about Wirch: In 2004, the guy he defeated for the state senate seat was … Reince Priebus. As for tomorrow’s election, the results of which will certainly warrant a Hot Air cameo from either Humpbot or the melting bunny of despair, read John McCormack’s reality check at the Standard. A Democratic win doesn’t necessarily mean that Wisconsin’s turning blue again and that Scott Walker’s agenda will be bogged down in court forevermore, but … it probably means that. Via NRO’s Robert Costa, here’s David Prosser making the case for reelection at an event over the weekend. Exit quotation: “Sometimes I feel like David against the whole empire of the Wisconsin left, and the left from other parts of the country who are coming into this state to try to determine this race.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: elections; fleebagger; fleebaggers; recall; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown

1 posted on 04/04/2011 6:54:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; Wisconsinlady; JPG; bushwon; Principle Over Politics; creeping death; LMAO; ...
Wisconsin Politics Ping List Ping!

As the joke of old having a Lawyer at the bottom of the ocean (except for mine; SHE ROCKS!) let me just say...it's a START!

2 posted on 04/04/2011 6:57:45 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Wisconsin used to be America'a dairyland,
now it is the FLEE capital of our country!

3 posted on 04/04/2011 7:16:56 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: SeekAndFind

Question - does the Dems have enough signatures to recall GOP senators?


4 posted on 04/04/2011 7:34:31 PM PDT by Fee
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To: Fee

RE: Question - does the Dems have enough signatures to recall GOP senators?

As of this time, not yet.


5 posted on 04/04/2011 7:42:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Good news!


6 posted on 04/04/2011 7:47:45 PM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: SeekAndFind

Throw out the Union Thug supporting bastards.


7 posted on 04/04/2011 7:49:00 PM PDT by blam
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To: Fee
Question - does the Dems have enough signatures to recall GOP senators?
In one case, so far. They have submitted their petitions against Kapanke (LaCrosse).

Keep in mind that this is only the first of 19 recall efforts to file their signatures. Expect many more, against Senators from both parties.

8 posted on 04/05/2011 4:01:32 AM PDT by Johnny B.
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To: SeekAndFind

Good

Somehow I don’t see his constituents picking this clown again.


9 posted on 04/05/2011 10:28:29 AM PDT by Del Rapier (W)
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