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Groups vow to start Walker recall signature collection in November; Walker pushes presidential primary back to April
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Oct 04, 2011 11:27pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Emily Mills |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 4, 2011 03:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Despite continued debate statewide between left-leaning groups to determine the start date of a recall signature collection campaign, several grassroots organizations in Wisconsin have said they will begin circulating petitions for signatures to trigger a recall election against Gov. Scott Walker at the earliest possible date: November 5 of this year.
Organizations like Grassroots People to Recall Governor Walker, which formed out of the group that worked to see Sen. Randy Hopper recalled in his district this summer, have made it clear from the outset that a Nov. 5 start date was their intention. "Some people may not agree with our timing, but that’s just the way it’s going to be. We know what our membership wants," said Scott Dillman, one of the founders of GPRGW.
Democratic Party of Wisconsin chairman Mike Tate and other large organizing groups like United Wisconsin have since distanced themselves slightly from that position, simply emphasizing, as Tate said via a statement back in July, that "the Democratic Party of Wisconsin will be committed to listening to the people when it comes to the recall of Scott Walker in 2012." Meanwhile, there has been considerable discussion of waiting until the new year to start the signature collection, in the hopes of having the recall election scheduled for the same day as the November presidential election. |
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