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Yukon Cornelius
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Good for him - I hope he gets the book thrown at him.

He got his girlfriend a high paying job with the government. Not the first, won't be the last but large numbers of the people trying to get elected to all levels of government are doing so just for the corruption opportunities.

 

That's not an anti-Republican statement because there's a ton of Democrat examples too.

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He got his girlfriend a high paying job with the government. Not the first, won't be the last but large numbers of the people trying to get elected to all levels of government are doing so just for the corruption opportunities.

 

That's not an anti-Republican statement because there's a ton of Democrat examples too.

True - this guy seems like a slimy POS - sounds like a typical politician

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He got his girlfriend a high paying job with the government. Not the first, won't be the last but large numbers of the people trying to get elected to all levels of government are doing so just for the corruption opportunities.

 

That's not an anti-Republican statement because there's a ton of Democrat examples too.

 

One of the few posts that I would not accuse you of disparaging Republicans only and one that I wholeheartedly concur with. :wacko:

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Capitol Square recall rally draws thousands

e-mail print By Gina Barton of the Journal Sentinel

Updated: Nov. 19, 2011 4:46 p.m. |(689) Comments

 

Madison - In a demonstration reminiscent of those that occurred last February and March, between 25,000 and 30,000 protesters took over Capitol Square on Saturday to protest Gov. Scott Walker's policies and to promote a signature drive to recall him.

 

The petition drive must amass 540,208 signatures by Jan. 17 to force a recall election for Walker. As of Friday night, four days into the recall process, organizers had collected more than 105,000 signatures, according to the organizing group United Wisconsin. The claim could not be independently verified Saturday.

 

Many more people signed at Saturday's rally, and others picked up blank petitions so they can gather signatures later.

 

Organizers have said their goal is 600,000 to 700,000 signatures.

 

The recall attempt has been in the works since February, when Walker introduced a bill to repeal most collective bargaining for public employees.

 

If the drive is successful, it would prompt only the third recall election for a governor in the history of the United States.

 

Demonstrator Scott Spoolman, 57, of Madison, said he was working to collect signatures because Walker had broken his promises.

 

"The governor campaigned on a set of promises and then turned around and implemented a totally different agenda," Spoolman said. "It was deceitful. I don't think he's working for Wisconsin, but for a few billionaires."

 

Asked for a response to the protest, Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie said: "The only campaign Governor Walker is focused on is the one to help the private sector create 250,000 new jobs."

 

Said Stephan Thompson, executive director of the Republican Party in Wisconsin.

 

"The bill Wisconsin families will receive for the Democrats' baseless recall effort is without precedent. While Governor Walker and the state Legislature instituted bold reforms to cut wasteful spending, the Democrats and their liberal special interests simply want to increase it in their selfish pursuit to regain political power."

 

Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold signed a petition as he helped kick off the rally about 9 a.m. Saturday.

 

"Thank you for being on the front line of taking back Wisconsin," he told several hundred volunteers gathered at Madison's Majestic Theatre.

 

Feingold, the longtime Democratic senator who was defeated in November by Republican Ron Johnson, encouraged volunteers to counteract two pieces of misinformation that he said have been circulated by the movement's critics: that recalls are only allowed in cases of criminal conduct or malfeasance and that the recall movement consists of out-of-state activists.

 

"Our law says you can do recalls if you simply attack the people of Wisconsin," as Walker has done, Feingold said.

 

He also praised the recall movement as "all grassroots and all Badger."

 

Recent polling has identified Feingold as the only Democrat running ahead of Walker in a possible recall election

 

But despite shouts of "Governor Feingold!" and "Run, Russ, run!" from the volunteers, Feingold reiterated that he won't run against Walker if the signature drive is successful.

 

"I want there to be a new governor," Feingold told reporters outside the theater. "There will be a new governor in a few months, but it won't be me."

 

He said he sees his role as a supporter of restoring "civility and unity" to the state, rather than as a candidate.

 

Those among the crowd cited the loss of collective bargaining, cuts to medical assistance programs for the poor and cuts to education among their reasons for wanting to recall the governor.

 

"My major concern is kids who are sick, hungry and homeless who are not getting the education they deserve," said Marie Martini, 62, a retired high school English teacher who now teaches college part-time. "It's shameful that we're allowing all this to happen. We're sacrificing our future."

 

Martini attended the rally with her singing group, "The Raging Grannies," which consists of about 50 grandmothers and great-grandmothers who specialize in protest songs.

 

Tim Magee, 59, of Evansville, said Walker needs to be recalled to set a precedent for the rest of the country that it is wrong to balance the budget at the expense of children and the elderly.

 

"This is very unfair," he said. "You work all your life, and then they want to abandon you. That shouldn't happen. Not in the richest country in the world."

 

Janet Murphy, 57, said she had volunteered to collect signatures because she has seen negative effects of Walker's policies on workers' rights and on health care.

 

"My union has been made illegal," said Murphy, a nurse at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.

 

A lot of her colleagues have retired early, raising the stress levels of those who remain, she said. Patients are stressed too, she said.

 

"I'm finding more and more patients very frightened of losing their health care coverage," she said.

 

Speakers at the rally included a University of Wisconsin student who discussed cuts to higher education, a woman who lost her job in the health care field and a union welder.

 

"This movement is about our right to have a voice in the workplace and about our freedom," said Al Pelter, a member of Ironworkers Local 881.

 

Workers' rights are the Wisconsin way, he said.

 

"And let's be clear - when Scott Walker gutted workers' rights back in February, it was not the Wisconsin way, and it was not about the budget," he said.

 

Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, called Walker "out of touch."

 

"Gov. Walker doesn't get it," Neuenfeldt told the crowd. "He keeps telling us that everything is OK and that everything is working, but we know better, right? Gov. Walker: It's not working!"

 

As Neuenfeldt and the other speakers addressed the crowd, which spilled into the streets around the Capitol building, a few dozen Walker supporters marched among them.

 

One was Joan Hintz, 50, wearing a coat and holding up a t-shirt that said, "Scott Walker is my hero."

 

"We want Scott Walker to know he's got people that believe in him," she said.

 

She credited Walker for balancing the state's budget without raising taxes.

 

As the small group walked by, the pro-recall contingent shouted, "Shame! Shame! Shame!"

 

After the speakers left the podium, the crowd flooded the Capitol rotunda, chanting "Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Scott Walker has got to go!" and "We are the 99 percent!"

 

Some waved signs picturing Walker as a clown. Another showed him as a Thanksgiving turkey.

 

As of 1:30 p.m., the Capitol police, which provided the crowd estimate, had reported no arrests.

 

Journal Sentinel reporter Tom Tolan contributed to this report.

 

-sigh-

 

Here we go again . . . .

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-sigh-

 

Here we go again . . . .

Tax levies have gone down in total for Wisconsin!!!!

 

People can be angry that he did not run on what he is doing but I would love to here specifics of the bad things that have happened.

 

They will get enough signatures but it will be interesting to hear what his opponent is going to run on. Walker reduced taxes but I will do the opposite - vote for me!!!

 

If the recall works and Walker is replaced this state is going down the crapper.

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This is utterly ridiculous.

 

Did Jim Doyle run on illegally raiding the Transportation fund? Where were shouts for a recall then?

 

Did Jim Doyle run on selling WI out to the Indian Casinos? Where were the shouts for a recall then?

 

Did the recall organizers ask for in itemized list from Jim Doyle on what HE was going to do in office for 8 years?

 

This constant state of elections has got to stop. At some point the other side is just going to have to live with the will of the voter until the next election.

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This is utterly ridiculous.

 

Did Jim Doyle run on illegally raiding the Transportation fund? Where were shouts for a recall then?

 

Did Jim Doyle run on selling WI out to the Indian Casinos? Where were the shouts for a recall then?

 

Did the recall organizers ask for in itemized list from Jim Doyle on what HE was going to do in office for 8 years?

 

This constant state of elections has got to stop. At some point the other side is just going to have to live with the will of the voter until the next election.

 

Ironically, the following quote was said by Scott Walker

 

You… know the folks that were angry about this started a recall and they were told they needed to collect 73,000 signatures in sixty days,” said Walker. “Well, not hundreds, not thousands, but tens of thousands of ordinary people did an extraordinary thing. They stood up and took their government back. In less than thirty days they collected more than 150,000 signatures. It was at that moment I realized the real emotion on display in my county wasn’t just about anger. You see, if it had been about anger, it would have been about people checking out and moving out or giving up. But instead what happened was really amazing. You saw people standing up shoulder to shoulder, neighbor to neighbor and saying we want our government back. And in doing so the real emotion on display was about hope. Today I see a lot of the same emotions on display here in Wisconsin and all across our great country. Obviously, there are a lot of reasons to be angry.”

 

Recalls are OK . . . but just not against Scott Walker.

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Ironically, the following quote was said by Scott Walker

 

 

 

Recalls are OK . . . but just not against Scott Walker.

 

I'm just as tired as the next WI guy of this nonsense. That's all. It's an invalid attempt at regaining power as far as I'm concerned. The recall is not designed to be used as a tool to overturn the will of the voter, but as a tool to root out corruption and other crimes that a politician would do. Not simply because you don't like how a politician voted.

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Fixed, for accuracy. :wacko:

 

 

It's not so much the wanting butt sex that bugs me about Republicans - do whatever another consenting adult allows you to do with your dick, as far as I'm concerned - it's the fact they rail against rights for homosexuals and then go seek out the nearest male intern and/or glory hole.

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It's not so much the wanting butt sex that bugs me about Republicans - do whatever another consenting adult allows you to do with your dick, as far as I'm concerned - it's the fact they rail against rights for homosexuals and then go seek out the nearest male intern and/or glory hole.

 

And the fact that they are all for hot girl on girl action, but when it's two guys then suddenly they get all all disgusted.

 

Uhh....wait a minute....that's just me. Never mind. :wacko:

 

But for the record, I don't care what consenting adults do either.

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