Posted on 01/18/2012 7:04:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Given that the "Recall Walker" effort reached 300,000 signatures in just 12 days, it would have been far more surprising if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s opponents didn’t manage to collect enough signatures to go forward with the election. Still, 1 million signatures is nearly twice the number needed to trigger an actual election — and Wisconsin Democrats are happy to hammer home that fact to anyone still following the story of their sad, insistent effort to undo what Walker promised to do from Day 1:
More than a million people have signed a petition to recall Wisconsin’s governor, the state’s Democratic Party said Tuesday.
That’s nearly twice the 540,208 signatures required to seek a recall of first-term Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who drew the ire of labor unions and public school teachers after he stripped public employees of their collective bargaining rights.
State Democratic Party officials said they would submit the signatures by close of business Tuesday. The officials also said they would turn in more than the required number of signatures needed for recall elections for the state’s Republican lieutenant governor and three state senators. …
“I think it’s going to be a very impressive number that we hand in, beyond any challenge that this election is going to happen,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate told CNN affiliate WTMJ Monday.
No doubt activists were also emboldened by the knowledge that virtually any signature at all will be accepted by the Wisconsin petition board provided that the signature is accompanied by a valid Wisconsin address.
Walker himself isn’t worried, though, so I won’t be, either. He was quoted by WTMJ as saying, “The optimist in me looks at that and says: The overwhelming majority of the people in the state chose not to sign that, and I earned the trust of the majority the last time. My hope is I will earn their trust again.”
He’s right: Not only did the vast majority of Wisconsinites choose not to sign the petition, but, as I’ve pointed out before, a signature to allow a recall effort to go forward is very different than a vote to actually recall an elected official. It takes very little effort to an answer your front door and sign a petition that commits you to very little; it takes considerably more effort to go to the polls at an odd time to vote against a governor you’d have the chance to vote against in the next upcoming ordinary election anyway.
At this point, Wisconsin Democrats’ desperation to prove a point makes even less sense than it ever did.
Oh, they’ll get their recall election, but I’m confident they’ll lose, having wasted untold millions of dollars in the process. (I’d add “thousands of hours of time,” but these are union goons who don’t do much actual work anyway.)
Mega dittos.
Legit means nothing to them. They will fight you more knowing they will be found out and fraudulent then if they were confident these signatures were real. There is no punishment to date on election fraud and it’s procedures and until there is whats stopping them from using it for the presidency which I am sure they have.
Democrat signatures, like democrat votes, do not need to be legitimate. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent boxes of petitions to Chicago and Atlanta for ACORN to fill out.
Some of the signatures are bogus, such as “Mickey Mouse,” “Adolph Hitler,” etc. Yet the corrupt dems have allowed these “singatures” to be counted.
Rush mentioned this on his radio show yesterday.
Two months of full time effort, millions of dollars of outside money, completely lax requirements on who can sign and all they have to show for it is rolls of paper with Disney characters.
RE: completely lax requirements on who can sign and all they have to show for it is rolls of paper with Disney characters.
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Plus Adolf Hitler and Mao Tse Tung :)
Legit? We’re talking about unions here; of course the signatures aren’t legit. They don’t call it “organized CRIME” for no reason. Thugs do what thugs do, i.e., lie and cheat.
Always submit WAY more signatures than required. That leaves too high a bar for those looking to discredit enough signatures to get the number of legit signatures under the minimum.
That’s the way the game is played.
Kathleen Falk just announced she is running. If she ends up being the best they can do I’d like to have the recall election next week. She is the big union’s favorite to run.
She’ll lose by 30%
I’m sure if you did an anagram search for ‘I’m a communist’ or some other hate screed, you’d find other names they’ve included.
This is a civil war by other means...
Unions require ID’s when they vote on union stuff but demand no ID’s for regular elections. So what does that tell you.. (rhetorical question)
I also heard Walker tell Rush that the bar was very low for requirements to sign. Not even voters-—just 18 years old. And as someone else mentioned, I’m sure the union leaders in neighboring states like Illinois were happy to provide more “signers.” Overwhelm the system to demoralize the opposition. After Walker explained what has happened to the financial condition of Wisconsin under his watch, one would have to be a fool to support this recall effort.
Oh; Sorry!
When all is said and done and both Verify the Recall and the RPW get done with confirming signatures it’ll be down to maybe 750K legit signatures...and I wouldn’t be shocked if it was a lot lower.
The 1 million sigs was a PR effort by the Dems. The MSM around here is lapping it up which was the whole point.
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