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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:20 PM
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good grief, a Utah group is recalling DEMOCRATIC senators in Wisconsin
Edited on Tue Feb-22-11 07:35 PM by mimitabby
http://gab.wi.gov/node/1610
apparently this group is out of Utah..


they might end up with no government at all!
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:21 PM
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1. So change your misleading title
It's UTAH recalling WI Dems.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:28 PM
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5. How is anyone not a WI voter allowed to do that?
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:33 PM
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6. I guess there's no law about who heads up such an initiative or how they fund it
Not really sure, but if a Utah group is leading the effort, the headline should reflect that. Otherwise, it's accusing Wisconsin of something we haven't done.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:23 PM
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2. here's the whole thing

Date: February 22, 2011
The Government Accountability Board has received campaign registration statements for the recall of eight Wisconsin State Senators, filed by American Recall Coalition in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The districts and Senators are:

• District 4 – Senator Lena Taylor
• District 6 – Senator Spencer Coggs
• District 12 – Senator Jim Holperin
• District 16 – Senator Mark Miller
• District 22 – Senator Robert Wirch
• District 24 – Senator Julie Lassa
• District 26 – Senator Fred Risser
• District 30 – Senator Dave Hansen

The registrations were filed electronically between February 18 and 21. American Recall Coalition must file paper copies of the registration statements. Those registration statements also must contain the names and signatures of one qualified elector from each of the Senate districts, something the initial electronic registrations did not contain.

The electronic filing of these recall registrations starts the clock on a 60-day period during which the organizers may collect signatures from qualified electors in each of the districts. To trigger a recall election, a petition must contain signatures of qualified electors equal to at least 25 percent of the vote cast for the office of Governor at the last gubernatorial election in the district. A spreadsheet containing all the votes for Governor is available on the G.A.B. website. Additional information about recalls may be found at that link.

Once signed recall petitions have been filed with the G.A.B., a 31-day period begins for the Board staff to determine the sufficiency of the petitions. If the petitions are found to be sufficient, a recall election would be ordered in approximately six weeks. The incumbent would automatically be on the ballot, unless he or she chooses to resign. Other candidates may register to run in the recall election. In the event more than two candidates compete, a primary would be held on the original date of the recall election, with the recall election held four weeks later.

Attached below are the "draft" registrations by American Recall Coalition. Once the group files the appropriate signed paper copies, they will be listed in the Campaign Finance Information System.

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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:26 PM
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3. Why don't they recall the idiot Governor?
Not only does he look republican ugly it's plain to see he is doing dirty.
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:27 PM
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4. ...apparently they're a racist front group
Edited on Tue Feb-22-11 07:27 PM by Viking12
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TroglodyteScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:34 PM
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7. WOW!
Good find, Viking12....
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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:37 PM
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9. this is just getting crazier and crazier
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:36 PM
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8. 'It's a right-wing, Internet-based talk show host ...who recently filed a recall petion in Arizona
The opening shot in the effort to recall legislators on both sides of Scott Walker's manufactured budget crisis has been fired from the right. News organizations are quickly spreading a report by the Associated Press that a Utah group has filed formal papers with the State of Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) in an attempt to recall eight of the 14 state Senate Democratic legislators who relocated to Illinois to halt a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget despair -- uh, that is, repair -- bill.

But it's not really a "group." It's a right-wing, Internet-based talk show host who's heavy into fighting any kind of amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and who -- get this -- recently filed a recall petition in Arizona against Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. The sheriff is another Democrat who -- after Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot last month in Dupnik's jurisidiction -- had harsh words for talk show hosts and others engaging in hateful and violent speech. Yes, free speech for Democrats is grounds for removal from office, if you've the blunt ideology of a typical right-wing bloviator.

The registrations were filed electronically between February 18 and 21. The self-identified American Recall Coalition now is obliged to file paper copies of the registration statements. The electronically submitted "draft" registrations do not suffice to begin a recall, the GAB said. Once the group files the appropriate signed paper copies, they will be listed in the GAB's Campaign Finance Information System.

According to the electronic registrations, which are available for public viewing online, the Utah committee filed under the name of Dan Baltes, treasurer, who gave a post office box in Salt Lake City for his address, plus a Utah phone number and an email address.



http://rootswire.org/web/total-recall-no-one-can-recall-seeing-right-wing-organization-except-its-right-wing-utah-talk-sh
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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 08:24 PM
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10. oh thank you
Edited on Tue Feb-22-11 08:24 PM by mimitabby
bullshit whack jobs. well that's less scary to me.
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