Wisconsin's historic recall elections wrap up this week (2 RAT Fleas can be removed - TOMORROW!)

Reuters ^ | 8/14/11 | James B. Kelleher

[Libloather]

Wisconsin's historic recall elections wrap up this week
By James B. Kelleher
Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:34pm EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wisconsin's series of recall elections concludes on Tuesday when voters go to the polls in two state Senate districts where Democrats are being forced to defend their seats.

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Nevertheless, Tuesday's two final votes, like the seven before them, will be watched closely.

Two Democrats who opposed Walker's anti-union bill and even fled the state for weeks in an unsuccessful effort to prevent a quorum and delay passage -- Jim Holperin of Conover and Robert Wirch of Pleasant Prairie -- will be defending their seats.

"As always in Wisconsin politics, one has to give the incumbent an edge," said Mordecai Lee, governmental affairs professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

"It is likely the two Democratic incumbents will win their recalls -- but it is not a slam dunk," he said.

Holperin seems to be in the tighter race. His rival is Kim Simac, founder of the Northwoods Patriots, a Tea Party group.

Though Simac is a political novice, the district has leaned Republican in the three years since Holperin was elected.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Wisconsin voters, the eyes of the nation and your state are upon you!!! Defeat both Democrats facing re-call!!! Republican victories for your children, your families, your state and our nation!!! Get out and vote tomorrow!!!!

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Let’s use “Flee” powder on them tomorrow!

[rcrngroup]

GREAT note! My feeling & support exactly. I grew up in Menomonie, WI, and my 94 yr old dad still lived on his place in the country south of Menomonie. I go there every weekend to help my sister care for him and to take care of his land (120 acres )& buildings. In any case, this is District 10, in which the RATs & unions & local ragweed partisan Dunn County News had been savagely ripping Gov Walker & State Senator Sheila Harsdorf for months, and it only intensified in the last few weeks before last week's recall elections. Instead the voter turnout was GREAT and Sheila Harsdorf (R) demolished her radical dimTurd challenger Shelly Moore, 58% / 42% Praise God!

Now the Wisc GOP voters in these two RAT recall elections need to do the same thing, and turn out in record numbers, to put more nails in the union & demoRAT coffins!

[ken5050]

I don't know how you can poll a race like this..there are so many variables..and no history...It's gonna come down to turnout..will the Dems be too upset to come out.

BTW..what do you think of Pawlenty running against Klobuchar? there's talk...

[mwl8787]

We MUST win one of the two races tomorrow — not just to hurt the White House, the MSM, and leftist fundraising, but a 17-16 narrow margin is TOO CLOSE. Any legislator could drop dead, resign, or be caught in scandal.

We need to at least restore a 18-15 majority.

[Norseman]

>>Byron York was filling in for Bill Bennett this morning and made a comment to the effect that polling doesn’t look good for either GOP challenger.<<

Holperin is the weakest candidate, but his opponent has gotten some unneeded press about her property taxes being delinquent for several years, which is partly true though they’ve always been paid.

I suspect that Dems are demoralized and are going to be harder to turn out this Tuesday now that they failed last Tuesday to regain the Senate, but the tax issue might depress what I earlier thought would be strong Republican turnout to get back for the seats lost last week.

My guess is that we win one and lose one, with northern Republicans defeating Holperin.

[shield]

Really.....are these dem senators from a lib district hellll hole?

[rcrngroup]

Absolutely! I hope & pray that the same intensity & turnout by the Wisc GOP voters in last Tuesday's Repub recall elections, will hold or even intensify with record GOP turnouts, in order to throw both of the demoRATs cowardly bums out of office for derelection of duties. Last week one could say we were more on defense....tomorrow's recall elections against the 2 RATs being recalled, I hope & pray that the WI GOP & TEA Parties have record turnouts. What a fitting payback it would to to the demoRATs to win both recalls tomorrow and offset the 2 recalls the Repubs lost last week.

I've heard the RATs are demoralized after last week... I hope & pray that is the case, that the RAT voters will be too bummed out to get their socialist union thug asses out to vote.

GO WISCONSIN GOP!!! Blast the demTurds with everything you got!

[Norseman]

On another Wisconsin note, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that the Prosser/Bradley dustup has been referred to a Republican DA for investigation on the criminal side. A Judicial Commission is also investigating on the judicial ethics side.

My guess on the outcome of this: No criminal findings, but clear judicial misconduct on the part of both Bradley and Chief Justice Abrahamson (just guessing, no evidence other than what I’ve read) with Bradley deciding to resign from the Supreme Court and Abrahamson deciding to step down as Chief Justice.

Walker’s got some spine, and if he’s got the goods on those two, some pressure is going to be exerted, in my opinion, especially now that the Republicans still control the Senate.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I don’t spend any time over in the Kenosha area (Wirch)

The first go round (six Republican Senators recall effort) the unions poured money into the campaign (something near $25,000,000) and lost 4 to 2 with one of the two being a squeaker that could have gone either way 'till the end. I live in the 22nd Senatorial district (Wirch) and have seen yard signs for both candidates but not near as many as you'd expect. Lots of "robo-calls" for Seitz from Governor Walker and Pat Boone to name a few. I have yet to get a call pushing Wirch. Slick glossy mailings for both keep appearing in the junk mail and 30 second TV spots are popping up with Wirch back to back with Seitz.

Weirdest thing, I went to "YouTube.com" to view some clips and every clip started with an anti-Seitz spot tacked on the front. They also had some anti Seitz stuff in a sidebar ad. Most of the demo push isn't pro Wirch as much as anti Seitz. They are up to their usual class warfare painting Seitz as an lawyer for big corporate interests when nearly all of the "big corporations" have fled Kenosha County and lots of smaller business have taken their place. I don't think that class warfare is going to play very well here and running and hiding for three weeks out of state doesn't sit well with most people either.

I'm wondering if the unions shot their wad in the first round and haven't got enough left to put up much of a fight for Wirch. Just from what I'm seeing here, it looks like Seitz has a better than even chance of winning. Here's hoping!

Regards,
GtG