Wisconsin Approves Recall Votes for More Republican Senators

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Source: Reuters

Wisconsin approves recall votes for more Republican senators

By Brendan O'Brien
MADISON, WISCONSIN | Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:20pm EDT

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Four more Wisconsin Republican state senators, including the Senate leader, will face recall elections this year, bringing the number of state lawmakers forced to campaign in special elections to 40 percent of the entire Senate, officials said.

The state agency that oversees elections agreed unanimously on Monday that enough valid signatures by voters were submitted to require all four senators to face recall votes.

The four lawmakers include Senate President Scott Fitzgerald, a chief architect of an anti-union law passed last year that sparked the recall movement.

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The decision means 13 of the state's 33 senators will have already faced a recall vote or will soon face one since Republican Governor Scott Walker pushed an anti-union law through the legislature last March.

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[krispos42]

1. I love the smell of backlash in the morning.

Scott Walker... the rising star of the GOP future just collapsed into irrelevance. He probably couldn't be elected dogcatcher at this point.

[PatrynXX]

8. yeah but Fitzgerald is to Scott Walker as Dick Cheney was to Bush

Scott would be nothing without the other.

course Scott wouldn't be all that much without having almost complete republican control in WI out of nowhere. ie no checks and balances... so Scotts... got to walk away breaking the law. But again I won't actually believe it till it's over. and Scott Walker is sitting next to Blago at the same jail and what Blago did is tiny compared to Walker.

[mbperrin]

2. Excellent! More like this, please! nt

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3. It's amazing how little you hear about big picture RW failures

You don't hear much about this unprecedented, amazing wave of Wisconsin recalls...but it should be a national story, part of a bigger election year story about failed RW strategies...the anti-union, anti-women's rights, anti-middle class, anti-safety net, anti-science, anti-voter, anti-whateverobamadoes, tack that the gop has been on. Ties in with a huge lack of enthusiasm in the gop primary battle. The RW governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida are wildly unpopular for trying to implement current radical RW platform planks. The RW portion of congress is setting records for disapproval. Judges are striking down their voter ID nonsense and redistricting adventures. More states are adopting more flexible marriage laws. It is generally recognized that Citizens United is a big problem, and that Obama was right and Alito wrong.

This is HUGE part of a HUGE story. RW talking points are almost never factual or close to believable....their official positions on issues are so unpopular that they have to resort to fear, hate, polarization, misinformation.

The only thing that will save the RW and those Wisconsin senators is money and lies. Unfortunately they have an unlimited supply of both.

[midnight]

4. It sounds like we can start making the recall ballots...

[efhmc]

5. Do we have the candidates to run against them?

I mean us Dems, of course.

[NBachers]

7. Yeah, that's . . . the Other Part of the Story

I was in Milwaukee last weekend- there's a big series of question marks about good Democrats to run in the recalled slots

[Smilo]

6. I am smiling as I read this - good news.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Rec #40