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Paraphrased from an email (read to the end for the money quote):
The website is very sparse at the moment, but it will be the best way for individuals to sign up to volunteer, donate funds and get information. We will be enhancing it every day.
This weekend:
This weekend is our first weekend of action. We will be holding multiple canvasses in each of the senate districts - canvass locations will be on the recall website tomorrow. I know many of you are eager to begin collecting signatures - we will be emailing the petitions around tomorrow, after the committee paperwork has been officially approved by GAB.
I realize that these activities will not take place in all of your districts, but I implore you to send volunteers to the locations nearest you.
These are the eight Senators that are being recalled:
Robert Cowles (R-02)
Alberta Darling (R-08)
Sheila Harsdorf (R-10)
Randy Hopper (R-18)
Dan Kapanke (R-32)
Luther Olsen (R-14)
Mary Lazich (R-28)
Glenn Grothman (R-20)
In each district we need about 16,000 valid signatures which, as you all know, we need to collect about 24,000 to be safe. That comes out to about 410 signatures a day and it will take all of us working together to make it happen.
Here is the timeline for the efforts:
Process started = March 2, 2011
Collect signatures = 60 days
Signature challenge period signatures = 12 days
Once signatures are certified and election is called, the election is set for the Tuesday 6 weeks later
Talking Points:
-The questions about the recall are most properly directed toward the citizens within the (X) Senate District who have started this grassroots effort. As a political party, we are helping them with the tools they need. But the anger against Sen. (X) has arisen from within the district.
-Sen. (X) has stood with Scott Walker in seeking passage of what is likely the most divisive piece of legislation in Wisconsin history, a radical change in policy that amounts to a massive assault on Wisconsin's middle class.
-The right to collectively bargain for public employees has existed for seven decades in Wisconsin, and Sen. (X), like Scott Walker this past campaign, never once questioned its legitimacy nor tied it to the budget crisis Walker and Sen. (X) deliberately exacerbated with $140 million in tax giveaways.
-Sen. (X) has stood by Scott Walker in a scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners approach that leaves no room for compromise and seeks political power instead of solutions, that puts party above the people of Wisconsin.
-This is not to mention Sen. (X's) support of Scott Walker's plans to defund our (X) District schools by millions, and state schools by a billion dollars.
-Because of all these things, there arose a grass-roots movement in Sen (X's) district that says "Enough is enough." If Sen. (X) won't stand up to Scott Walker, then it is our duty to find someone who will.
-Scott Walker himself came to office as the result of a recall petition, so he knows well that this is a legitimate tool that is a proper response to the failure of elected officials to listen to the people. Sen (X), like Scott Walker, has ignored the thousands of people from the XXXth Senate District to come to the table and seek solutions together.
-Sen. (X), like Scott Walker, has benefited from the likes of oil tycoons like the Koch Brothers, and we do not undertake a recall petition lightly. Walker has made clear that he is going to stretch out his palm for aid from those corporate interests that have every interest in taking away collective bargaining and driving wages and benefits into the dirt.
-But we will force a recall and defeat Sen. (X0 not because an oil tycoon told us to, and not for lack of ideological purity, but because at the end of the day, Sen. (X) just wouldn't listen. Now (she/he) will hear us well.
And now the money quote:
The DPW is 100% supportive of this effort. We believe that we can retake the State Senate in the next four months.
NGU.
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