Wisconsin governor campaigning early to keep job

[Bozita]

Source: AP

Wisconsin governor campaigning early to keep job
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press – 1 hour ago


MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may not face a recall vote until next summer, but he's already campaigning to keep his job in the face of a major challenge by organized labor and the Democratic Party.

With petitions for a recall election now circulating, Walker is running television advertising defending his record during his first 11 months in office. Soon, Republican volunteers will begin going door to door, making phone calls and writing letters to the editor arguing that his most controversial initiative, which stripped public employee unions of most of their bargaining rights, was justified by the state's fiscal problems.

The Walker recall effort, which will be one of the most fiercely contested races in the 2012 national campaign, will serve as a gauge of the public's support for confrontational measures used by new Republican governors to balance state budgets. In only two weeks, petitioners here are on pace to gather more than enough signatures to put Walker on the ballot against a yet-to-be-determined opponent.

Walker's backers are trying to take lessons from the only two successful gubernatorial recalls in U.S. history — against California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921.


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Every dirty trick in the GOPer playbook will be employed.

[Vincardog]

1. F em I hope he is toast and takes his radical fascists with him

[Jackpine Radical]

2. We got more than half the necessary signatures so far.

Take heart.

[Angry Dragon]

3. A sane person would stop and reconsider their policies

if they are meeting that much negative response

But perhaps sanity is not part of Dictator Walker's makeup

[Plucketeer]

4. I don't think "sanity" figurtes into this

Walker's doing EXACTLY what he's being told. It's not crazy - it's cold, calculated dismissal of any edge that labor has gained thru the years. This so the likes of the one percent can rule with an iron fist.

[Seedersandleechers]

5. This person would be good to run against Walker

Russ Feingold. Any chance of that happening, and if so do you think he could win?

[Sportsguy]

6. He Has Said He Will Not Run For Office In 2012

He needs to reconsider, and I think there's an outside chance that he will.

[Seedersandleechers]

9. I really liked him as a Senator

and was shocked that he didn't win re-election.

[RBInMaine]

7. David Obey and the Mayor of Milwaukee would also be very good candidates.

[williesgirl]

8. He's not worried, he has Koch Bros money behind him and will flood the airwaves, phones etc.

This is a must for all Americans that he be recalled, then defeated if he runs. rec'd

[lonestarnot]

10. Good, somebody will get away with some dough as a result of that bitch.

krotch bro dough. Put it in a credit union!

[JJW]

11. People are not Americans

Even Ronald Reagan believed collective bargaining was an inherent right written in the US Constitution. So that Scott Walker isn't being tried for treason or impeached for violating the US Constitution just makes me, wonder just how stupid Americans have become?

[Blue Owl]

12. Flush Focker's turdly ambitions

n/t