From first talk of recalling eight Republican Senators in Wisconsin, I figured a couple of signature gathering efforts might succeed. And today, one has:
La Crosse area Democrats say they will file petitions today with enough signatures to trigger a recall election of Sen. Dan Kapanke, one of eight Senate Republicans targeted over votes to curtail collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Just shows what you can do with an outraged public, plenty of time and boatloads of money:
The filing comes just before the halfway point in the 60-day window the recall committee had to gather signatures in the district.
The state Democratic Party provided infrastructure support but “not a single paid canvasser was needed to trigger the recall versus Dan Kapanke,” said party spokesman Graeme Zielinski, who credited volunteers for collecting more than 20,000 signatures in less than 30 days.
“It took on a life of its own,” said Scheller, who filed the original paperwork to launch the recall effort.
Okay…so scratch the plenty of time and boatloads of money.
This is about a public outraged over extremists going too far in stripping rights away from public employees.
Given how quickly the drive has succeeded on a low budget, it seems all eight Republican Senators better get busy on their stump speeches….
(I recommend the Santorumesque campaign theme: “How collective bargaining leads to a culture of fetal cannibalism.”)
Good for the Wisconsin voters. They figured out the truth – Republicans are toxic.
Can we get one started for the Queen of Washington?
If it’s Santorumesque, shouldn’t that be fecal cannibalism?
@2 ROTFLMAO. What’s your problem, our state hasn’t cut ENOUGH out of it’s budget? Or that we’re only the 5th BEST state in the nation to do business according to liberal anti-business Forbes magazine? You think our state is in trouble, you obviously haven’t been ANYWHERE else in your life. Texas has none of those pesky liberals in charge, and THEY still have a $23 BILLION deficit. Golly Texas, just “stop spending” and the problem is fixed. Why can’t they do that?
Democracy in action. The Wisconsin legislature is FREE to pass ANY bill they want, but since they did NOT campaign on doing this (and it’s very unpopular) this is the consequence. If you go against the voters that far on an issue they really care about, this is what you get.
Meanwhile did anyone catch the national Tea Party rally in DC this week? There must have been DOZENS of people there! Fox News (national) went out to cover these dozens of people (of course) and blamed the poor turn out on the weather. Gee, that didn’t stop the tens of THOUSANDS of protesters in Wisconsin (which Fox News did not cover ‘live’ every day)…LOL
Good on them.
Can we get one started for the Queen of Washington?
You can always try. Nobody’s stopping you. If you find enough voters upset with what she’s doing, you will be successful. If not, it will be like that teabagger rally. (cricket…cricket…cricket) Keep us informed on how that works out for you.
@5: The right in Washington can’t even get Eyman’s initiatives to qualify without massive spending and paid signature gatherers . . . it’d be funny to watch them try without the paid employees.
@5
yes, the queen is popular with the lemming crowd….
$8 billion in the hole….and counting…
Oh wait – I forgot – she said we didnt have a budget problem
With the people that king county and wash state elect, this could be the dumbest state in the nation…or at least the one with the most partisan lemmings.
give rossi his due – he predicted an $8 billion budget problem during the election – the queen said there was no budget problem.
who was right?
state spending up 60% since the queen rode into town…nope – no budget probem here.
LMFAO.
@4
oh wait – someone mentioned Texas(like Texas has anything to do with Washingon – unless you are playing the red herring game).
Washington population is about 6.5 million
Texas population is 25 million
Washington budget hole = $8 billion and rising
Texas buget hole = $23 billion
Should I do the math comparison for you or do you think you are smart enough to figure out who is fucked worse? Maybe darryl can take you into his secret back room and give you a math lesson.
and lets not forget that texas has hordes of illegals running around chewing up and leaching off the state budget….even worse than they are here.
so really….you wanna talk comparison? go right ahead chumply…..but you better bring a lunch full of lots of crow.
Wisconsin Judge Sumi today continued to enjoin Walker’s union-stripping bill, and deferred ruling on whether Republicans violated the state’s open meetings law until late May, saying she wants to hear testimony from the Republican state house and senate leaders. This is, of course, the logical and judicial thing to do — to give all parties time to argue their case. Although rightwing cynics may contend otherwise, having been a state judge myself, I’m sure she didn’t delay a ruling on the merits for two months to give Democrats time to recall 3 GOP state senators and flip the state senate to the Democrats so Walker can’t re-enact his union-stripping bill after Judge Sumi strikes down the original bill for procedural violations.
Meanwhile, a Koch-supported Michigan “think” tank has made FOIA requests for the e-mails of three labor studies professors at Michigan universities, apparently looking for material they can use to attack the professors (and anyone else who supports worker rights).
Child Slavery Update
Contrary to what you may have thought, the 13th Amendment didn’t completely abolish slavery in all the states. It still exists in GOP-controlled North Dakota, where school students are bussed to work sites to fill sandbags that are then used to protect Fargo businesses and homes from flooding. The students perform hard labor, work long hours, and are not paid even though North Dakota has a $1 billion budget surplus (thanks to oil and gas royalties). Then North Dakota’s GOP representatives and senators in Congress vote to terminate Pell funding so these slave laborers can’t go to college. What a bunch of assholes! Why would anyone vote Republican?
I think North Dakota needs a Child Slave Laborers Union. These children should organize and form a union and demand, through collective bargaining, that they be paid at least minimum wage and the city be required to comply with the hours and working conditions provisions of North Dakota’s child labor laws, if it still has any child labor laws.
@11
buck toothed bunny fails to understand that everyone is trying to pitch in and save the damned town.
this should tell you how much roger values or participates in volunteerism.
selfish old bastard….and a slimy ex lawyer to boot.
How could this happen in a right wing state? I thought those wingnut paradises were examples of “fiscal responsibility”?
Would Dino Rossi have called Texas “right”? Heh.
@13
Texas held the record for children getting murdered for a while there too.
How? Porous borders moron.
And you demonstrate your clueless idiotic tendencies every time you “think”. Houston, Austin, Dallas, Galveston etc. liberal bastions of moronic thought!
15 – LMAO!!! Just a while back your tag team pal Klynical was touting the Lone Star State’s fiscal responsibility, i.e. he was buying the right wing bullshit of the time.
It don’t look so good now does it???
Again , how could right wingers who control the State House and the Gov’s mansion allow this???
How could a smaller state like AZ grab the headlines on the “porous borders” from the situation in TX?
How could right wingers allow this??
Easy, right wingers pad their pockets with cheap labor from Mexico. It’s been shown time after time after time.
http://michiganmessenger.com/4.....l-clean-up
Galveston, TX
OH NOES, 60,000 liberals on that island – responsible for the “porous” borders..
What is the right wing State Leg and Gov supposed to do against such formidable liberal forces???
nobody is fiscally responsible in the US govt you moron ylbleeder.
if you actually paid any taxes, you would care…
18 – Uhh.. Idiot??? I was talking about Texas STATE Government but tell that to your moronic right wing pals Klynical and Puddybud anyway.
To them it seems Texas is right wing paradise.
And a right wing state legislature and a right wing governor can’t freaking guide the ship of state to save their lives. But hell we learned that from Molly Ivins years and years before she passed on.
Lapdog..
that just proves my point you flake.
Texas run by R’s is in trouble.
Washington run by D’s is in LOTS of trouble.
whats the difference?
23 – 8 = 15 billion dollars perhaps?
But remember that the number that the right wing loves so much is ZERO. They say they balance budgets. Why isn’t it balanced right winger?
Could a “queen” be running Texas? Must be why they call their gov “goodhair”.
Yeah Dino Lossi would have been SO MUCH BETTER..
@20…
…uhhh maxie, your stupid is REALLY showing. Better tuck it in.
you are a fucking moron YLB.
I already pointed out above that the given the difference between population, The $8 billion is a much bigger problem for Washington that the $23 billion is for Texas.
Compare the populations moron.
you raelly are fucking flake.
no wonder you got your ass kicked so much back in the day.
and yeah, dino may have been better…hard to see how he could be doing much worse.
ah yes…and YLB’s secret little butt buddy shows up on time – fresh off a night of breaking church windows and slashing tires.
you two have fun being all faggity with each other.
23 – Wow you are dense. The magic number is supposed to be
ZERO
as in balanced.
But you’ll never call Gov. Goodhair Perry a “queen” because he has an “R” next to his name.
24 – When he doesn’t have an argument to save his life he starts calling people “fags”..
What a pathetic schoolboy.
LMFAO!!! Where’s your right wing faith tool? “Hard” to see??? How about “impossible”???
By the way it’s freaking EASY to see him “doing worse”.. Look at Texas – it’s been ruled by right wingers for YEARS!
Poor maxie…he just can’t keep up here can he?
I could give 3 shits about Texas – I dont live there.
Funny how you wanna do the “dont look at washington, look at texas” argument.
Texas is irrelevant to Washington state’s budget problems.
straw man TEH FAYLE.
This is how I imagine YLB’s life has been…mouth off and then get punked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onW1q6t5Y10
27 – Texas is a role model for what you want this state to be dumbass:
Run by right wingers..
28 – Yawwnnn. I don’t look at shit dumb ass right wingers link – especially pictures and video.
“teh fayle..”