Four WI GOP Senators to Challenge Recall Petitions in Their Districts

Four Republican state senators in Wisconsin will challenge recall petitions in their districts.
Reuters reported:

Four Wisconsin lawmakers targeted for possible recall later this year filed challenges on Thursday to the validity of thousands of signatures gathered to force the special elections, the state’s Government Accountability Board said.

Organizers of the drive to recall the four Republican state senators submitted more than 18,000 pages of signed petitions with the board last month. Thursday was the deadline for the four lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, to lodge objections with the board.

In a statement, Fitzgerald cited “a wide range of irregularities, errors and outright falsehoods” in the petitions submitted to force him to defend his seat. He said he planned to challenge 4,300 of the signatures, which could be enough to derail the effort to unseat him.

All four Republicans supported the controversial curbs on public-sector union collective bargaining powers that were enacted in Wisconsin last year.

The measure, which greatly reduces the power of most public-sector unions in the state, triggered nine recall elections of state senators last summer. Two Republican senators were recalled.

Critics of the law have also targeted Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, both Republicans, for possible recalls later this year.

Three democrats are ready to take on Republicans in the recall elections.

#1 February 10, 2012 at 7:12 am
jony101 commented:

if acorn was the one collecting the signatures, at least half of them will be dead people from the cemetery, and by “chicago politics precedent” they are lawfully allowed to vote. A federal appointed judge will always follow precedent or his political views when making his final decision. The wisconsin gop senators will lose this battle before it even starts, if only they where democrats.
#2 February 10, 2012 at 7:15 am
Ryan commented:

I guess they haven’t heard that Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has no interest in investigating fraud in the petitions.
#3 February 10, 2012 at 7:24 am
coolidgerules commented:

This is only one part of the top down coming from Satan’s administration. I have come to the conclusion that EVERYTHING that SCOAMF does is subversion
#4 February 10, 2012 at 7:36 am
Trish commented:

LIBERAL:
A person who- if they do not get their own way on an issue regardless of how fairly a decision is made, will whine moan caterwaul protest and otherwise act like a boorish thug to attain a result that suits their agenda. Supported 100% by mainstream media.

Just 2 Cases in point: Wisconsin elections, Prop 8 in California.

Wisconsin, where a majority of voters, knowing full well his game plan, elect Scott Walker and other Republicans to clean up their state. Cue the Union thugs, the liberal media, Hollywood leftists and others who (some) don’t have to pay taxes in WI or figure out how to make the ship right. I say, please God, make this end well for Gov Walker and friends.

Prop 8-in defense of traditional marriage- put on the ballot in California, 2008, an election year when enormous amounts of black and Hispanic voters are moved to go to the polls to vote for Obama. But who are apparently not interested in seeing Gay marriages legal in CA. The populous gets out and votes, and the liberals wail. I say Obama’s CA electoral votes should be overturned too, if the votes on Prop 8 don’t stand.
#5 February 10, 2012 at 7:52 am
Joe Blow commented:

Soon elections will be worthless in Wisconsin as if a Republican gets in office they will cheat their was to get them removed even if the people voted to put them in office in the first place.

During the summer around the square in Madison at the Farmer’s Market there are still whackos with petitions and signs saying everything is George Bush’s fault and that 9/11 was an inside job. Smoking too much weed perhaps??!!
#6 February 10, 2012 at 8:01 am
wanumba commented:

Recall worked in AZ.
Do NOT underestimate it.
It has the same dynamics as an open primary so the DEMS can combine the DEM/INDY/Sell-Out RINO vote to overcome a solid block of Republicans- enhanced by a lower overall turnout. The DEMS will then claim it was all because “Republicans were not happy.” THe DEMS ALSO run a concurrent smear campaign to hurt the GOP office holders to depress turnout of supporters.

The way RECALLs are being employed by the DEMS is VERY dangerous to our normal political processes as the DEMS DO NOT CARE WHAT DAMAGE THEY DO.

I call the “self-described dissatisfied Republicans” that the DEMS hide behind for a 100% DEM dirty trick “Ephialtes Republicans.” Traitorous sell-outs. Sometimes they ARE DEMS who registered GOP for primaries just to infiltrate and screw the voting.
#7 February 10, 2012 at 8:22 am
Larkin commented:

Adequate words just fail me.

Put simply, democrats and their union/acorn thugs are making a mockery of the election process.

And from the media, …crickets.
#8 February 10, 2012 at 8:32 am
gemma commented:

why even have an election? just let the unions appoint people. isn’t that what they are saying they want in this state?
#9 February 10, 2012 at 8:56 am
Holder's AK-47s kill Mexicans commented:

fyi – from Wisconsin. Be prepared for this to happen in your state too.
The radical left, fueled by outside influence, has absolutely whipped people into a frenzy. The average dupe they’ve preyed upon is beside himself insane crazy over Governor Walker and the republicans ending mandatory union dues deductions for state employees. That money was sent directly to the union bosses who first took their cut, then second, used it to campaign for democrats. Literally, anyone who has always identified himself as a democrat, even when that was an honorable and respectable thing to do, is completely bonkers. It is impossible to have a civil discussion with them. Impossible. The corrosive effects of Marxism have taken over.
#10 February 10, 2012 at 8:57 am
chuck in st paul commented:

If the folks in Wimpconsin fall for this BS then they deserve the butt humping they’re going to get as a result.
#11 February 10, 2012 at 11:17 am
dwd commented:

I wonder how many times Mickey Mouse signed those petitions…
#12 February 10, 2012 at 11:39 am
paul52 commented:

I live in WI and live this crap everyday. The GAB is a “hear no evil, see no evil” group of ninnies. The Dims and union thugs believe in voting until they get their way. Seriously planning to relocate to a saner, warmer state.
#13 February 10, 2012 at 11:41 am
paul52 commented:

#10 Chuck: Many of us are really trying to right the ship. Careful where you throw stones… remember Al Franken and his “election”?????
#16 February 10, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Valerie commented:

They should keep track of their bills, because they are doing a specific state agency’s job, after that agency refused. Then they should sue the b@st@rds. They should also include a claim for punitive damages.
#17 February 10, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Beef commented:

This is a high stakes showdown. If this is recall tactic successful in Wisconsin, it definitely will spread. If the unions fail to overturn the elections in Wisconsin, they will be broken.

The fate of the nation depends on a bunch of cheese heads…
#18 February 13, 2012 at 4:16 am
Questionman commented:

Despite the incessant screams of “Traitor!” coming from the Right, Obama hasn’t actually committed treason You can’t impeach President Obama because he has not committed a high crime or misdemeanor, they only crime he committed was being black and they hate that! That’s why they create bogus charges of crimes!

I’ll come out and say it. Anyone who calls Obama a “Clear and Present Danger to this country” is, without doubt, a fact-challenged racist. THAT is a fact! I noticed I remember past President’s doing stuff like this, but why is it Anti-American when President Obama does it? Racism or Double Standards, It’s one of the two.

But you repeat these ridiculous lies anyway, because you can’t say the real reason you hate Obama: THEY CAN’T STAND A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.