{"id":184804,"date":"2012-01-17T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/17\/and-in-the-further-adventures-of-walker-wisconsin-asshole\/"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:17:00","slug":"and-in-the-further-adventures-of-walker-wisconsin-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/17\/and-in-the-further-adventures-of-walker-wisconsin-asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"And in the Further Adventures of Walker Wisconsin Asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-01-17\/wisconsin-governor-s-foes-have-1-million-names-for-recall.html\">turned in the petitions for his recall<\/a>.&nbsp; They needed 540,208, and were hoping for about 750K.<\/p>\n<p>They <b>got more than one million<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than <a href=\"http:\/\/gab.wi.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/reg_voters_by_county_august_2010_pdf_15332.pdf\">\u00bc of all registered voters<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The wind is blowing in from Wisconsin, and I smell toast \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 My bad that&#8217;s Scott Walker, who smells a lot like toast right now.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, it&#8217;s not just Walker&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Democrats and union members also collected about 850,000 signatures to recall Republican Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and 20,600 names to recall <span style=\"color: black;\">[Republican]<\/span> Senator <span style=\"color: black;\">[Leader]<\/span> Scott Fitzgerald, about 4,200 more than necessary. Also targeted are Senators Pam Galloway, Terry Moulton and Van Wanggaard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, where was the Governor when this was all going on?  He was in New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,2104652,00.html\">raising money with Maurice &#8220;Hank&#8221; Greenberg at a $2500 a plate fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why was he raising large chunks of out of state cash from one of the prime architects of the AIG fiasco, whose bailout continues to cost taxpayers billions of dollars?<\/p>\n<p>Why because those pesky lefties are flooding Wisconsin with masses of out of state dirty money.<\/p>\n<p>Who says irony is dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They turned in the petitions for his recall.&nbsp; They needed 540,208, and were hoping for about 750K. They got more than one million! That&#8217;s more than \u00bc of all registered voters. The wind is blowing in from Wisconsin, and I smell toast \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 My bad that&#8217;s Scott Walker, who smells a lot like toast right &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}