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Walker Supported 1997 Effort to Recall Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Dec 07, 2011 08:23pm |
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| Category | Blog Entry |
| Author | Jud Lounsbury |
| News Date | Saturday, November 19, 2011 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Scott Walker has been running around the state, lecturring everyone that will listen that the very notion of a recall election is preposterous. Walker either A) attempts to confuse people by conflating the recall and impeachment or B) claims another election is unnecessary because the voters just weighed in last year.
Of course Walker is wrong on both counts: An impeachment is a statehouse action intended as a checks-and-balance to kick-out someone for "crimes and misdemeanors" and a recall was put in place as a voters checks-and-balance to kick-out politicians that do something to rum-up enough outrage to motivate 25% of the electorate to sign a recall petition. And, as others have pointed out, the origin of the recall provision came in response to politicians pulling a bait-and-switch where they take extreme actions in office that they never bothered to mention during the campaign... such as ending collective bargaining for teachers and other public workers and making the biggest cut to public education in Wisconsin history. |
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