Wisconsin recall elections carry implications for 2012 (LA Times)

Reporting from Glendale, Wis.—

During her son's graduation in May from Bowdoin College, Sandy Pasch listened as filmmaker Mira Nair urged students to get involved in society, citing the impact of citizen uprisings around the world.

"And then she gave as examples what's happening in Libya, in Egypt and Wisconsin," Pasch recalled.

"I thought, 'Wow. I don't know that everyone sees us in the same light as Egypt and Libya, but there's something happening here,'" she said. "There's something happening, and the common refrain I hear is that people want to take their state back."

Pasch, 57, who for three years has represented Milwaukee's northern suburbs in the state Assembly, is among six Democrats challenging Republican state senators in special recall elections Tuesday.

The elections are the latest fallout from controversial moves by the Republican-controlled Legislature and GOP Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public employees.

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some of my fellow badgers will extend their disapproval of Koch funded corporatist initiatives by removing users of ALECs model legislation from the state senate.

It's really important to kick these bums out.

people's brains about fighting back against the corporations and their flunkies.