Democrats and their allies in organized labor say they delivered over a million recall petition signatures against Gov. Scott Walker (R) Tuesday, far more than the 540,208 needed to spark a recall election.

The filing kicks off the latest phase in a fight over collective bargaining rights that began almost as soon as Walker took office last January.

Democrats also filed 845,000 signatures to trigger a recall against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) and enough to recall four Republican state senators, according to party chairman Mike Tate.

Last summer, Democrats attempted to win back control of the state Senate after the Republican leadership passed legislation limiting public workers’ bargaining rights. They recalled two Republicans but fell one seat short of flipping the chamber.

But Democrats and unions pressed on against Walker, who was not eligible for recall until this year. According to the New York Times’ Nate Silver, if last summer’s recalls had been a statewide vote, the results would have been too close to call.

Washington Post

Wow. The GOP is going to have a heart attack if their 2010 poster boy bites the dust.

Thankfully Republicans are so arrogant and over reach such that they raise the ire of the voters.

Walker, Christy, Scott and Kasich are all prime examples of the Republican overreaching, and they are all helping set up a wave of remorse and regret over 2010.

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Wisconsinites collect

With the help of unions from all over the country.

Union helped them get signatures? And this is a problem because?

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Wisconsinites collect

With the help of unions from all over the country.

So I suppose you objected to Jews joining the resistance movement against Hitler?

*CJ

Were they Government workers?

Many of them were.
And a lot would up being Government workers...unpaid, if you get my drift...

Republicans won a court order which requires the Government Accountabiity Board to check for duplicate and fake signatures which will put off the election until late spring. The election could be further delayed by legal challenges fueled by a separate examination of signatures by the Walker camp. Democrats claim this will help Walker because college-age voters and volunteers will have gone home for the summer.

Source: Wisconsin Recall Drive Hits Republican Hurdle in today's Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile, Scott is a lame duck.

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Republicans won a court order which requires the Government Accountabiity Board to check for duplicate and fake signatures which will put off the election until late spring. The election could be further delayed by legal challenges fueled by a separate examination of signatures by the Walker camp. Democrats claim this will help Walker because college-age voters and volunteers will have gone home for the summer.

Source: Wisconsin Recall Drive Hits Republican Hurdle in today's Wall Street Journal

Checking signatures shouldn't be a problem with having twice as many as needed. In my state they only need to check a sample to see if they need to check more. They would have to find almost half of those collected were invalid before it was even questionable.

Do you support all lousy tricks to try to invalidate the democratic process to subvert the will of the people?

Do you honestly think half are phony?

Can you see that it is a real crappy anti American thing for the Republicans to pull?

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Can you see that it is a real crappy anti American thing for the Republicans to pull?

Not since signatures like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were allowed on the petitions.

Caught and removed.

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Can you see that it is a real crappy anti American thing for the Republicans to pull?

Not since signatures like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse were allowed on the petitions.

"Allowed...?" to document your charge that Disney character signature were "allowed."

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...A total of 540,208 valid signatures, or 25 percent of all of the votes cast in the election that put Walker in office last January, were needed to force a recall election, but organizers had aimed for hundreds of thousands more than the minimum requirement to ensure they met the threshold even if some signatures are disqualified.

And just to make the recall efforts even sweeter... it turns out that the "over one million signatures" collected is nearer the two million mark... 1.9 MILLION signatures were collected to recall Walker, Kleefisch, and Fitzgerald.

ESAD Walker, you're toast.

*CJ

Why do conservatives hate Americans so much?

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Why do conservatives hate Americans so much?

They're probably don't hate America all -that- much... they're just projecting their self-loathing on something safe.

*CJ

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ESAD Walker, you're toast.

Maybe you should consider the previous recall elections.

Yes. Two Republican state senators were successfully recalled, and a third race was narrowly won by the Republican.

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MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Critics of Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker showed on Tuesday how unpopular he is with many voters, filing more than 1 million signed petitions -- nearly twice the number needed -- to force the first-term Republican to defend himself in a special election.

On Wednesday, they faced what is likely to be a harder task: finding a Democrat who can beat the battle-tested 44-year-old.

"There is no single preeminent candidate," said Charles Franklin, a political scientist and visiting professor of law and public policy at Marquette University, said of the Democrats who might challenge Walker, who gained a national following in leading a successful push to curb Wisconsin's public unions.

http://news.yahoo.com/bid-unse...ngers-040348319.html

They might settle for a moderate Republican. No doubt many of them signed the recall petition as well.

 
You can watch Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board employees verify the 1.9 million recall signatures.

BIM that this webcam ain't got nuttin' on paint drying.

*CJ

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Why do conservatives hate Americans so much?
They're probably don't hate America all -that- much... they're just projecting their self-loathing on something safe.

I think they do. It's weird -- they claim to love America, but they keep showing how much they hate Americans.

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finding a Democrat who can beat the battle-tested 44-year-old.

Russ Feingold!!!!

A Democratic primary is likely.