2011 Wisconsin Recall

[gotsnowgotslush]

Pterocarya Fraxinifolia growing in the Minneapolis area?

Police take notice of death threats and threatening phone calls to recall petition drive volunteers in Wisconsin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/scott-walker-recall-threats_n_1105115.html?ref=politics

"The FBI has been keeping watch over a Brookfield-based national marketing firm that represents teachers unions
after the business reported receiving threats and harassing phone calls last week."

http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/articles/threats-made-to-national-teachers-unions-firm-in-brookfield

"They pull up on the side of the road. A volunteer armed with a clip board and pen greets them and
asks a few questions. Then a few instructions and finally the signature. For the last four days this
has been the routine for Ray Blum and his group of volunteers.

They normally change locations. But for the second day in a row they are located along Midvale Blvd.
Thursday was the only time they've encountered any real problems.

Yesterday morning Blum says a person in a red truck pulled up and indicated he was interested in
signing the petition. But it turns out he had other plans.

" He was handed the clipboard. He took the sheet for Scott Walker ripped it in half and then gave it
back to the collector and then took off quickly."

Felony!

http://www.nbc15.com/mobi?storyid=134077318

"I spoke with a recall signer who said her husband had worked a petition table at Edgewood. According to her
yesterday a man came up to their table and tore through a stack of signatures destroying 450 of them -1 page of signatures.
A total of 450 were collected in all that day...."

Felony!

Who would want to throw a rock through a window with a note?

"....on the day the recall begins, some apparently pro-Walker person sends a rock through a window at high speed,
which “but for six inches could have killed a human being.”

http://www.progressive.org/anti_walker_protester_gets_death_threat.html

Madison Protest

"The note began with a smiley face, and then said, “Kloppy Rocks!!” with another smiley face at the
end of the first line. Then it said, “Congratulations and thank you for voting for J. Kloppenburg.
Display your free Kloppyrock (tm) with pride.”

original note- from the rock thrower

http://www.bluecheddar.net/2011/11/16/dear-rock-thrower-business-at-the-victory-is-booming/

Why would anyone want to make a cyber attack against United Wisconsin to recall Walker?

http://newiprogressive.com/index.ph...sin-website&catid=38:the-state-news&Itemid=56

Why would anyone mislead a voter who wants to help recall Walker?

"So when State Treasurer Kurt Schuller tweeted some legal advice about recall petitions, it caught our attention."


"Schuller said on Twitter that it’s a "violation of election law" to print out and sign your own recall petition.
He said he was responding to a tweet he felt was incomplete. But it’s not a violation of election law.
The same person can be both the signer and the circulator.

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...treasurer-kurt-schuller-says-recall-petition/

"In the first three days of the recall, we have seen many reports of harassment of circulators and attempts
to commit election fraud, and even vandalism of private property as one organizer's tires were deflated."

Organizers said the goal was to try to collect an average of 9,000 signatures daily to meet the target
of 540,000 names to trigger a recall.

Who are the vandals that are removing the signs, that are in favor of the recall?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Pterocarya Fraxinifolia

Racist...

 

[NeverEndingMe]

clearly this shows the union and teachers greed

maybe teachers need to be sent off to be educated and stop being so sick and demented. time to end the greed

Pterocarya Fraxinifolia growing in the Minneapolis area?

Police take notice of death threats and threatening phone calls to recall petition drive volunteers in Wisconsin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/scott-walker-recall-threats_n_1105115.html?ref=politics

"The FBI has been keeping watch over a Brookfield-based national marketing firm that represents teachers unions
after the business reported receiving threats and harassing phone calls last week."

http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/articles/threats-made-to-national-teachers-unions-firm-in-brookfield

"They pull up on the side of the road. A volunteer armed with a clip board and pen greets them and
asks a few questions. Then a few instructions and finally the signature. For the last four days this
has been the routine for Ray Blum and his group of volunteers.

They normally change locations. But for the second day in a row they are located along Midvale Blvd.
Thursday was the only time they've encountered any real problems.

Yesterday morning Blum says a person in a red truck pulled up and indicated he was interested in
signing the petition. But it turns out he had other plans.

" He was handed the clipboard. He took the sheet for Scott Walker ripped it in half and then gave it
back to the collector and then took off quickly."

Felony!

http://www.nbc15.com/mobi?storyid=134077318

"I spoke with a recall signer who said her husband had worked a petition table at Edgewood. According to her
yesterday a man came up to their table and tore through a stack of signatures destroying 450 of them -1 page of signatures.
A total of 450 were collected in all that day...."

Felony!

Who would want to throw a rock through a window with a note?

"....on the day the recall begins, some apparently pro-Walker person sends a rock through a window at high speed,
which “but for six inches could have killed a human being.”

http://www.progressive.org/anti_walker_protester_gets_death_threat.html

Madison Protest

"The note began with a smiley face, and then said, “Kloppy Rocks!!” with another smiley face at the
end of the first line. Then it said, “Congratulations and thank you for voting for J. Kloppenburg.
Display your free Kloppyrock (tm) with pride.”

original note- from the rock thrower

http://www.bluecheddar.net/2011/11/16/dear-rock-thrower-business-at-the-victory-is-booming/

Why would anyone want to make a cyber attack against United Wisconsin to recall Walker?

http://newiprogressive.com/index.ph...sin-website&catid=38:the-state-news&Itemid=56

Why would anyone mislead a voter who wants to help recall Walker?

"So when State Treasurer Kurt Schuller tweeted some legal advice about recall petitions, it caught our attention."


"Schuller said on Twitter that it’s a "violation of election law" to print out and sign your own recall petition.
He said he was responding to a tweet he felt was incomplete. But it’s not a violation of election law.
The same person can be both the signer and the circulator.

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...treasurer-kurt-schuller-says-recall-petition/

"In the first three days of the recall, we have seen many reports of harassment of circulators and attempts
to commit election fraud, and even vandalism of private property as one organizer's tires were deflated."

Organizers said the goal was to try to collect an average of 9,000 signatures daily to meet the target
of 540,000 names to trigger a recall.

Who are the vandals that are removing the signs, that are in favor of the recall?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Why people are trying to make the recall against Walker a success-

Lack of transparency in government, for the rule of law and for the constitutional authority
of the courts by elected officials.

Appointing of unqualified cronies to important state functions.

Power politics used against citizens and political opponents

Unusual obstacles to voting public

Using the myth of voter fraud against opponents

Covering up election fraud

Favoring to major campaign donors over tax paying citizens

Undue influence of campaign donations to the rule of law

http://www.wisdc.org/index.php?rw=pr030507.php

Abusing the Unions in order to provide an excuse to shift to profit hungry private providers
(Pay more! Get less for your tax dollar!)

Politically motivated exemptions from collective bargaining restrictions for public sector workers
who helped Walker's campaign.

Harassment of the critics of Walker

Incompetence and bad faith

Telling lies. Cheating. Smears against opponents. Stealing from citizens.

Double dealing. Underhanded moves. Dishonest and disingenuous statements to the Press.

 

[richard_daily]

Walker... suitable name, since he's going to be doing it soon.

 

[benschup]

Walker... suitable name, since he's going to be doing it soon.

Just wondering. What part of the state do you people live? Just wondering.

 

[benschup]

clearly this shows the union and teachers greed

maybe teachers need to be sent off to be educated and stop being so sick and demented. time to end the greed

Shame on you. They deserve everthing for free.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

West Bend man accused of defacing recall petitions for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch

Dec. 5, 2011

WEST BEND — A West Bend man has been arrested and accused of defacing recall petitions for Gov. Scott Walker
and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

Police say the 30-year-old man stood in line outside the house of a teacher in West Bend Sunday. And, when he was
given the clipboard to sign, he scribbled out some of the names. Officers used a license plate number given by recall
organizers to find the man after he left.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article...titions?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

Woman accused of destroying Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recall sign in Chippewa Falls

December 4, 2011

A Thorp woman expressed her anger towards local recall efforts by tearing up a recall sign.

According to the Chippewa Falls Police, Mary Jean Dezurik, 68, parked her white minivan by a group of recall volunteers
shortly before 10 a.m. at the intersection of N. Bridge and W. River streets in Chippewa Falls.

After stopping, witnesses said she grabbed one of the signs, tore it up,
threw it on the ground and drove away.

Witnesses got Dezurik’s license plate number and called the police department.

Chippewa Falls Officer Brian Zwiefelhofer apprehended Dezurik at W. Central and Bay streets, and arrested her
for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

http://chippewa.com/news/local/article_820dbd68-1e12-11e1-ae39-0019bb2963f4.html

Republican vandals- An army of angry Tea Party members violate the rights of others-

http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-...nts-resort-to-threats-banana-republic-tactics

November 29, 2011
Former Caledonia Cop Has Run-in With Republican While Collecting Recall Signatures

The people who were manning a recall drive say- (Democrats)

On Saturday, several people collecting signatures for the recall were parked in the All Sports parking lot,
located at 3458 Rapids Drive, when a man driving a Lexus drove into the parking lot and almost
struck Simons, Gallaher said.

“A Lexis ran through parking lot and the man (driving it) almost backed up into a retired police officer,” Gallaher said.
“The man in the Lexis was yelling profanities and he had stalked the location a couple of hours prior to that.”

“The man in the Lexis was causing so much trouble and the owner was getting mad because of what they were doing,”
Gallaher said. “And I don’t blame them for changing their mind.
But we left because of the Republicans and the weather,
not because we didn’t have permission to be there.”

The people who are harassing the recall petition collectors- (Tea Party/ Republicans)

Bill Folk, chairman of the Republican Party of Racine County, said the member of the Republican Party,
who did not want to be named, admitted that he had “probably taken things too far.”

Folk said the petitioners didn’t have permission from the owners and that’s why they left. Gallaher said the group left
because of the confrontation between the Republican and the owner of the business.

“We called Emil Infusino after we got a number of complaints that the recall petitioners were on All Sports property,” Folk said.

(From who? Who complained?)

“They were using their lot, and claiming they had permission from owners.
But the owners had clearly not given permission.” ( A little bit of "spinning" by Folk? What is it that Folk is leaving out of the picture that he is painting?)

The truth?-

However, the owners of All Sports didn’t file a trespassing police report with the City of Racine Police Department.
Sgt. Martin Pavilonis, public information officer, said he hasn’t found any calls listing back to that address.

Gallaher said they had permission and that’s why they were there for hours.

The people who own Infusino’s, and All Sports and Paesano’s, don't want to be caught in the middle of a political argument?
They just want to run their small businesses and make money, in peace?
-

When Simons and the group went to leave, the Republican came back to check to see if the petitioners had left.
When he saw that they were still there, one of the petitioners (who turned out to be Simons) took down the man’s
license plate after the two had a verbal confrontation, Folk said.

 

[HB1965]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtSC3eCS9fY&feature=g-u-u&context=G2aa554dFUAAAAAAAAAA

They are still at it in Wisconsin

 

[Cheyenne]

The truth...

Christian Schneider
It’s Working in Walker’s Wisconsin
The governor’s controversial labor reforms are already saving taxpayers millions.
Winter 2012


One morning last February, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker called his staff into his office. “Guys,” he warned, “it’s going to be a tough week.” Walker had recently sent a letter to state employees proposing steps—ranging from restricting collective bargaining to requiring workers to start contributing to their own pension accounts—to eliminate the state’s $3.6 billion deficit. That day in February was when Walker would announce his plan publicly.

It turned out to be a tough year. The state immediately erupted into a national spectacle, with tens of thousands of citizens, led by Wisconsin’s public-employee unions, seizing control of the capitol for weeks to protest the reforms. By early March, the crowds grew as big as 100,000, police estimated. Protesters set up encampments in the statehouse, openly drinking and engaging in drug use beneath the marble dome. Democratic state senators fled Wisconsin to prevent a vote on Walker’s plan. Eventually, the Senate did manage to pass the reforms, which survived a legal challenge and became law in July.

The unions aren’t done yet: they’re now trying to recall Walker from office. To do so, they will try to convince Wisconsin voters that Walker’s reforms have rendered the state ungovernable. But the evidence, so far, contradicts that claim—and Wisconsinites seem to realize it.

Back in 1959, Wisconsin became the first state to let public employees unionize. The unions spent the next half-century productively, generating lavish benefits for their members. By the time Walker took office in 2011, the overwhelming majority of state and local government workers paid nothing toward the annual contributions to their pension accounts, which equaled roughly 10 percent of their salaries per year. The average employee also used just 6.2 percent of his salary on his health-insurance premium. Among Walker’s reforms, therefore, was requiring employees to start paying 5.8 percent of their salaries, on average, toward their pensions and to double their health-insurance payments to 12.4 percent of their salaries. These two changes, Walker estimated, would save local governments $724 million annually, letting him cut state aid to localities and reduce Wisconsin’s $3.6 billion biennial deficit.

These measures angered unions, but Walker’s other moves were even more controversial. One was to allow government employees to bargain collectively only when negotiating wages; in other areas, collective bargaining would no longer be part of the contract-making process. The unions screamed bloody murder, decrying the loss of what they called their “right” to collective bargaining. “We are prepared to implement the financial concessions proposed to help bring our state’s budget into balance, but we will not be denied our God-given right to join a real union,” said Marty Beil, head of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, back in February. “We will not—I repeat we will not—be denied our rights to collectively bargain.”

What had the unions most up in arms, however, was a reform that ended mandatory dues for members. Wisconsin unions were collecting up to $1,100 per member per year in these obligatory payments, which they then spent on getting sympathetic politicians elected. In the last two elections, for instance, the state’s largest teachers’ union spent $3.6 million supporting candidates. Walker’s reform meant that government workers could now opt out of paying these dues—savings that could help offset those workers’ newly increased health and pension payments, the governor said. The unions knew that, given the option, many of their members would indeed choose not to write a check—and that this would strangle union election spending.

The unions’ battle against Walker’s reforms has rested on the argument that the changes would damage public services beyond repair. The truth, however, is that the reforms not only are saving money already; they’re doing so with little disruption to services. In early August, noticing the trend, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Milwaukee would save more in health-care and pension costs than it would lose in state aid, leaving the city $11 million ahead in 2012—despite Mayor Tom Barrett’s prediction in March that Walker’s budget “makes our structural deficit explode.”

The collective-bargaining component of Walker’s plan has yielded especially large financial dividends for school districts. Before the reform, many districts’ annual union contracts required them to buy health insurance from WEA Trust, a nonprofit affiliated with the state’s largest teachers’ union. Once the reform limited collective bargaining to wage negotiations, districts could eliminate that requirement from their contracts and start bidding for health care on the open market. When the Appleton School District put its health-insurance contract up for bid, for instance, WEA Trust suddenly lowered its rates and promised to match any competitor’s price. Appleton will save $3 million during the current school year.

Appleton isn’t alone. According to a report by the MacIver Institute, as of September 1, “at least 25 school districts in the Badger State had reported switching health care providers/plans or opening insurance bidding to outside companies.” The institute calculates that these steps will save the districts $211.45 per student. If the state’s other 250 districts currently served by WEA Trust follow suit, the savings statewide could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

At the outset of the public-union standoff, educators had made dire predictions that Walker’s reforms would force schools to fire teachers. In February, to take one example, Madison School District Superintendent Dan Nerad predicted that 289 teachers in his district would be laid off. Walker insisted that his reforms were actually a job-retention program: by accepting small concessions in health and pension benefits, he argued, school districts would be able to spare hundreds of teachers’ jobs. The argument proved sound. So far, Nerad’s district has laid off no teachers at all, a pattern that has held in many of the state’s other large school districts. No teachers were laid off in Beloit and LaCrosse; Eau Claire saw a reduction of two teachers, while Racine and Wausau each laid off one. The Wauwatosa School District, which faced a $6.5 million shortfall, anticipated slashing 100 jobs—yet the new pension and health contributions saved them all.

The benefits to school districts aren’t just fiscal, moreover. Thanks to Walker’s collective-bargaining reforms, the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee can implement a performance-pay system for its best teachers—a step that could improve educational outcomes.

Over the summer, a sign surfaced that the public wasn’t as alarmed by the Walker agenda as the unions would have liked. In August, six Republican state senators who had supported the reforms were forced to defend their seats in recall elections. Democrats, in the minority by a 19–14 margin, needed to pick up three seats to take back the Senate. In the days before the election, Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman Mike Tate touted poll numbers showing Democrats leading in three races and in a dead heat in the rest. “Independents are moving towards the Democratic candidates in strong numbers,” he told a group of national reporters. Every race, he claimed, was “eminently winnable.”

The manner in which the public unions ran the campaigns was telling. Because they realized that public-sector collective bargaining wasn’t the wedge issue that they’d expected, not a single union-backed ad mentioned it— even though it was the reason that the unions had mobilized for the recall elections in the first place. Instead, the union ads cried that Scott Walker had “cut $800 million from the state’s schools.” This was true, but the ads neglected to mention that the governor’s increased health-care and pension-contribution requirements made up for those funds, just as Walker had planned. That the unions poured nearly $20 million into the races, by the way, validated another argument of Walker’s: that mandatory dues are a conduit through which taxpayer money gets transferred to public-sector unions, which use it to elect Democrats, who then negotiate favorable contracts with the unions. In this case, the newly strapped Wisconsin unions had to rely heavily on contributions from unions in other states.

In the end, Republicans held four of the six seats and retained control of the Senate. Democrats nevertheless bragged about defeating two incumbents, but that achievement was more modest than it appeared. One of the Republican incumbents was in a district that Barack Obama had won by 18 points in 2008. The other losing Republican had been plagued by personal problems relating to his 25-year-old mistress. Meanwhile, two of the challenged Republicans, Alberta Darling and Sheila Harsdorf, won more decisively than they had in 2008, suggesting that the reforms might be strengthening some Republican incumbents. (The other two senators who kept their seats, Luther Olsen and Rob Cowles, ran unopposed three years ago, so it’s harder to tell whether their popularity has grown.)

The unions’ cause has been hurt by some widely reported stories of public-sector mischief. The most outrageous was the saga of Warren Eschenbach, an 86-year-old former school crossing guard from Wausau. After he retired, Eschenbach, who lives two doors down from Riverview Elementary, kept helping kids cross the road every morning; it gave him a reason to get up each day, he told a local TV station. But the Wausau teachers’ union didn’t see it that way: it filed a grievance with the city to stop him, since he was no longer a unionized employee.

Such stories of union malfeasance may not be enough to save Walker. If the governor’s opponents succeed in mounting a recall election, it would take place at some point between April and June. A poll conducted in October for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, where I work, found that Walker had a fairly low personal approval rating of 42 percent. Further, the public opposed recalling the governor from office by a troublingly slim 49 percent to 47 percent margin.

But if Walker’s task is to convince the public that the state hasn’t devolved into unfunded anarchy, he may have an easier case to make than you’d think. According to the same poll, 71 percent of Wisconsinites believe that the state’s public schools have either stayed the same or improved over the previous half-year. More than three-quarters of Wisconsinites expect the state’s economy either to get better or to stay the same in the next year, up from 60 percent during the height of the union tumult in March. And while just 23 percent of Wisconsinites think that “things in the country are generally going in the right direction,” 38 percent of them believe that that’s the case in Wisconsin, up from 27 percent in November 2010.

At his inauguration in 1959—and shortly before he created public-sector collective bargaining—Wisconsin’s newly elected Democratic governor, Gaylord Nelson, quoted Abraham Lincoln: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. . . . We must think anew and act anew.” It’s a good thing Scott Walker took his advice. It’s imperative for Wisconsin’s fiscal future that voters take it, too.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_scott-walker.html#.Tx1m0ggp2fs.facebook

 

[Cheyenne]

Support for Walker in the dead of winter

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20120121-walker-rally,0,7634275.story

for the video, see above

WITI-TV, WAUWATOSA—
Thousands of people gathered in a Wauwatosa park to rally in support of Gov. Scott Walker on Saturday.

Organizers called the rally a "Celebrate Walker" rally, and a dozen Republicans were set to speak. Organizers say this was their response to the recall against Governor Walker.

"The most important reason for this is rally is for our base to get back together and say ok, this recall looks like it's gonna happen, so let's get together and let's get the ground troops rolling," Walker supporter Santo Ingrilli said.

Republican speakers included Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, First Lady Tonette Walker, Sen. Van Wanggaard and Former Governor Tommy Thompson.

Speaking to the crowd, Tonette Walker called the rally long overdue. "I've waited a long time to see a rally on the other side," Walker said. "I thank you. Scott thanks you. My children thank you. Everyone here in Wisconsin thanks you for finally stepping up."

Kleefisch, who is also facing a recall election, asked the crowd to fight to keep Republican lawmakers in office. "I think that you're seeing that the silent majority that you hear so much about, isn't so silent anymore," Kleefisch said.

There was also a counter-rally just outside the park where dozens of people marched in support of the recall effort against Walker. Wisconsin Democratic Party Spokesman Graeme Zielinski said on Thursday he was planning to count the number of people who attended and compare it to last year's rallies in Madison. "I think it's a good time for his supporters to rally around him. He's failing, clearly. If they can't get 50,000 folks out here, it will pale in comparison to the protests against Scott Walker," Zielinski said.

Zielinski points to the one million signatures filed in Madison this week as evidence Walker might not survive a recall election. "Let's have an election as soon as possible. He said he wants to put his record before the people of Wisconsin and frankly we agree," Zielinski said.

Paris Procopis says the pro-Walker rally was organized via Facebook and came together quickly. He says he welcomed the counter-demonstrators, saying they're exercising their democratic rights, too.

Walker opponents on Tuesday said they turned in more than a 1.9 million signatures to recall Walker and five other Republicans. Walker touched off weeks of protests last year with a proposal, now law, taking away public unions' bargaining rights.

 

[Cheyenne]

Just wondering. What part of the state do you people live? Just wondering.

I live in the part of the state that will vote FOR Walker.

 

[Cheyenne]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wiscon...ar-up-to-defend-walker-583puqp-137351343.html


Waukesha - Martha Ryan puts in 10 hours a week to support Gov. Scott Walker.

She works the front desk at the Waukesha County Republican Party headquarters, answering phones, greeting visitors, and, when they're in stock, handing out lawn signs that say, "Stand with Walker."

Ryan also does a lot of listening.

"People want to vent their frustration," she said. "I tell them, they're preaching to the choir here."

Mainly sidelined for two months as Walker's opponents gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures in hopes of triggering a recall election, the Republican base now appears poised to demonstrate its support for the governor.

On Tuesday in Madison, recall petitions will be filed against Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state senators.

Signatures were gathered by Democrats, labor groups and a grass-roots organization called United Wisconsin. They need 540,208 valid signatures to trigger recall elections against Walker and Kleefisch and lesser amounts to force elections against the four state sena tors, including Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau).

Republicans say they're ready to scour the signatures to make sure they're up to snuff. More than 5,000 people have volunteered for the verification effort through a website, a Republican Party spokesman said, while hundreds of others have signed up at county GOP headquarters. Verification will begin once the petitions are made available by the state Government Accountability Board.

"We are putting together this comprehensive statewide effort to assure that Wisconsin electors are not disenfranchised," said Ben Sparks, a GOP spokesman. "This is in response to the repeated allegations of fraud that have permeated this process from day one."

Democrats say, bring it on.

"The Republican narrative that there are vast numbers of fraudulent petitions is a fiction designed to demean the people of Wisconsin who have voiced their opposition to Scott Walker, as well as rig the clock in Walker's favor by creating delay after delay after delay," said Graeme Zielinski, the Democratic Party spokesman. "Scott Walker himself has said this election is inevitable, so just what the Republicans and tea party are doing with these 'verification' efforts defies understanding."

Local Republican leaders say their base is fired up.

Jim Geldreich, Washington County GOP chair, said enthusiasm is strong and volunteer sign-up for the recall verification is "off the charts."

David Karst, Milwaukee County GOP chair, said volunteers are determined to keep Walker in office.

"We had an election (in 2010)," Karst said. "Their voice was heard. Now, we have to go ahead and confirm that vote again. We're in constant campaign mode. The opposition just won't let it go."

Walker supporters are even going out on their own to back the governor, some with homemade baseball caps and signs.

An idea that was triggered among Facebook friends has morphed into a planned pro-Walker rally for Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. Among the scheduled speakers, three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate: former Gov. Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann and Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald of Horicon.

Two of the rally's organizers, Paris Procopis and Noelle Lorraine, said the event just evolved over the last few weeks with volunteers pooling resources to get the thing off the ground.

"No one in their right mind will rent the park in the winter, but we feel so passionate about this," Procopis said.

"Effectively, our democracy is in jeopardy if they succeed in removing Walker. It sets the precedent that anytime you don't like someone, you can remove them from office. It will prevent people from being bold," added Procopis, a Republican activist who fell eight signatures short of qualifying for the ballot in 2010 to run against Rep. David Cullen (D-Milwaukee).

The energy to back Walker can now be seen most vividly in Wisconsin's Republican stronghold, Waukesha County. Pro-Walker yard signs are popping up even though a recall election might not take place until summer.

There's also a lot of activity at the county's GOP campaign headquarters, which normally doesn't open until July of a big election year. Volunteers are on the phone contacting voters. Visitors want yard signs, but they're often on back order.

"The passion is going to skyrocket to keep Scott Walker in office," said Keith Best, a member of the Waukesha GOP executive committee.

Cathy Waller, the Waukesha GOP executive director, said new volunteers are signing up every day and energy is high.

"I think it is way beyond what I've seen before," she said of the volunteer activity. "A lot of new folks, new faces."

 

[TexasWife25]

I live in the part of the state that will vote FOR Walker.

SO your not part of the nearly million people who are calling for him to go?

 

[cheesehead2]

I live in the part of the state that will vote FOR Walker.

I sure hope my part does the same.

 

[Cheyenne]

SO your not part of the nearly million people who are calling for him to go?

Not a chance. My Stand with Walker sign is in my yard and patient1 is one of the 5,000 volunteer workers to check signatures on the recall petitions.

Signing a petition when it is jammed in front of your nose is one thing. Actually going to the polls to vote is another. The Walker supporters are voters who show up on election day. We proved that in November 2010 and will do it again.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Clearly the union is desperately trying to hold on to their cash crop. The recall is a fraud with a min of 40% being bogus names. Funny how the union demanded name’s only with out addresses. Clearly shows the union is ripe with fraud

Wisc, CA and several other states are being robbed and held hostage by the union and frequent spending. We must teach people that welfare is not meant to be a career.

We should be praising Walker as we need MORE leaders like him

 

[richard_daily]

Clearly the union is desperately trying to hold on to their cash crop. The recall is a fraud with a min of 40% being bogus names. Funny how the union demanded name’s only with out addresses. Clearly shows the union is ripe with fraud

Wisc, CA and several other states are being robbed and held hostage by the union and frequent spending. We must teach people that welfare is not meant to be a career.

We should be praising Walker as we need MORE leaders like him

You already had Hitler and his union-busting schenanagans... now you want more like him?

 

[TexasWife25]

Clearly the union is desperately trying to hold on to their cash crop. The recall is a fraud with a min of 40% being bogus names. Funny how the union demanded name’s only with out addresses. Clearly shows the union is ripe with fraud

Wisc, CA and several other states are being robbed and held hostage by the union and frequent spending. We must teach people that welfare is not meant to be a career.

We should be praising Walker as we need MORE leaders like him

Do you even live is Wisconsin?

They got nearly double the signatures needed for the recall
so even if "40% of them are bogus" which you have no proof of
they still got what they needed.

 

[Cheyenne]

Do you even live is Wisconsin?

They got nearly double the signatures needed for the recall
so even if "40% of them are bogus" which you have no proof of
they still got what they needed.

I DO live in Wisconsin. But even if I didn't, I'd still be entitled to have an opinion if I'd studied what was going on.

I have no doubt that there WILL be a recall and subsequent election. The out of state unions had a lot of people here working to collect signatures. But like I said, signatures on a petition to recall are NOT the same thing as votes in an election.

The Walker supporters will be out to vote in the election. We want to keep our Gov who actually does what he says he will do and keeps his promises.

Another issue that hasn't been brought up is that the Dems are focusing on getting rid of Walker but haven't yet come up with someone to run against him. The unions are still deciding who they want the Dem candidate to be.

 

[TexasWife25]

I DO live in Wisconsin. But even if I didn't, I'd still be entitled to have an opinion if I'd studied what was going on.

I have no doubt that there WILL be a recall and subsequent election. The out of state unions had a lot of people here working to collect signatures. But like I said, signatures on a petition to recall are NOT the same thing as votes in an election.

The Walker supporters will be out to vote in the election. We want to keep our Gov who actually does what he says he will do and keeps his promises.

Another issue that hasn't been brought up is that the Dems are focusing on getting rid of Walker but haven't yet come up with someone to run against him. The unions are still deciding who they want the Dem candidate to be.

From what Ive read, they have enough signatures to recall walker, the lt. governor and something like 3 or 4 other republicans.

30,000 volunteers knocking on doors and getting signatures is a lot...
and while I'm sure not all of those people will get out and vote, I'm sure it will have an impact. There's a huge difference in seeing an ad on tv, and having a person stand in front of you and lay out the issues as they see them.

I thought I had read that kaitlin fauke had said she would run against walker?

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Do you even live is Wisconsin?

They got nearly double the signatures needed for the recall
so even if "40% of them are bogus" which you have no proof of
they still got what they needed.

please, ask anyone in Wisc or anyone outside of the union terrorist groups and you will see bogus names. Wonder how many times Mickey Mouse appears on the recall ballet? I was being nice by saying 40%, one could safely assume its closer to 80%

this is what the union has to do, to desperately hold on

richard L. trumka is no different than OBL - at least one of the terrorist was put out of our misery

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I DO live in Wisconsin. But even if I didn't, I'd still be entitled to have an opinion if I'd studied what was going on.

I have no doubt that there WILL be a recall and subsequent election. The out of state unions had a lot of people here working to collect signatures. But like I said, signatures on a petition to recall are NOT the same thing as votes in an election.

The Walker supporters will be out to vote in the election. We want to keep our Gov who actually does what he says he will do and keeps his promises.

Another issue that hasn't been brought up is that the Dems are focusing on getting rid of Walker but haven't yet come up with someone to run against him. The unions are still deciding who they want the Dem candidate to be.

and we should compare property taxes before and after Walker. that once they get the government fucktards greed under control, people in Wisc will be able to enjoy lower property taxes.

 

[Sean Renaud]

and we should compare property taxes before and after Walker. that once they get the government fucktards greed under control, people in Wisc will be able to enjoy lower property taxes.

And higher poverty.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

And higher poverty.

yes, why do you obama people want that? I don't understand why those that support obama, want more welfare. are you lazy? uneducated? like kfc says, "are you just stupid?"

thanks to obama, people (obama supporters) no longer take pride in his or her work cuz you don't want to work. you just want a check at stay at home.