Posted on 01/06/2012 2:19:20 PM PST by Hunton Peck
Madison, Wisc…] If there is a statewide recall election this year, it could cost Wisconsin taxpayers more than $9 million according to a new report issued Friday.
State Representative Robin Vos (R-Rochester) requested the information from the Government Accountability Board. The GAB memo was sent to Vos this afternoon.
“It’s about time taxpayers learned the cost of these unnecessary recall elections,” said Vos.”The citizens of Wisconsin should have known the estimated cost on local governments before a single petition was circulated.”
The figures released does not account for possible primary elections which would drive up the costs significantly by the millions.
“Is this how they want their valuable taxpayer dollars spent?” asked Vos. “At time when local government budgets are very tight, this will have a dramatic impact on the dollars that pay for our streets to be plowed and our neighborhoods to be protected by police and fire departments.”
To obtain the results, GAB staff solicited municipal and county election officials via an online survey. All 72 counties and more than 92 percent of the 1,850 municipalities in Wisconsin responded to the survey.
There have been very few successful gubernatorial recall elections in the history of our country. I have no doubt in my mind that this one will be unsuccessful as well,” said Vos. “The real results of the statewide recall election will be a financial drain on our local governments and an emotional drain on our electorate. The recalls are not healthy for our state.”
Vos is the author of a proposed constitutional amendment that would require petitioners give a specific reason – such as a criminal conviction or ethics violation – before mounting a recall effort.
“I’m currently working toward ending such a waste of taxpayer dollars,” Vos said. “While my efforts will not impact any recall election this year, we must seriously consider preventing any recalls in our state’s future.” Share
WI recall ping!
That’s OK. Wisconsin has money now.
I don’t have a problem with recall elections, but I also think they ought to tagged to people walking into the poll station and require them to pluck down $3 or $5 each as they vote in a special single-candidate election. I admit that might cut fifty percent of the voting public from casting a simple vote, and you might not even pay half of the $9 million dollar bill....but you have to be realistic in this mess.
Wisconsin Recall Cost Estimate Ping
Thanks, Hunton Peck. If anyoone else sees an article that you think will interest the members of the Wisconsin ping list, just FReep Mail me, and I’ll ping the list.
If you want on, or off, this list, just FReep Mail me and it shall be done.
This is more about the testing of the process of political imitation and how if works so it can be employed in other sates
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The poll last Nov. showed 58% support the recall. That can change but I don’t see how people can be so sure about Walker winning.
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