{"id":184907,"date":"2011-12-15T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/15\/its-on-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T00:21:00","slug":"its-on-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/15\/its-on-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s On Wisconsin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With over a month to go to gather signatures to recall him, the petition drive has already collected 97% of the signatures required<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Organizers of an effort to kick Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker out of office said Thursday they\u2019ve collected nearly enough signatures to force a recall election, though their financial backing is far behind the Republican governor\u2019s fundraising.<\/p>\n

The state Democratic Party, unions and disgruntled citizens started organizing amid growing anger over Walker\u2019s polarizing measure approved in March that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for public workers. Now, the United Wisconsin coalition reports that it collected 507,533 in 28 days; the group must submit 540,208 signatures by Jan. 17 to force the recall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Wisconsin have said enough is enough,\u201d Democratic Party chairman Mike Tate said.<\/p>\n

But the coalition and Democrats have raised roughly $1.4 million since July, compared to the $5.1 million that Walker raised over the same period, according to reports from both sides Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Walker’s response is to try to tie it up in the courts<\/a>, and he and the ‘Phants in the legislature are trying to replace the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board with lapdogs as well.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention that state senate leader is attempting to make signing a recall petition a possible cause for a felony investigation as well? (2nd<\/sup> link)<\/p>\n

You know, I think that the protestations of Walker and his bully-boys that the voters will reject the idea of recalling them are ringing awfully<\/b> hollow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With over a month to go to gather signatures to recall him, the petition drive has already collected 97% of the signatures required: Organizers of an effort to kick Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker out of office said Thursday they\u2019ve collected nearly enough signatures to force a recall election, though their financial backing is far behind …<\/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-184907","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\/184907"}],"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=184907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}