Journal Sentinel
Recalls too easy? Are you kidding?
Recalls are just too easy, the Journal Sentinel editorial board says:
The recalls were unwarranted. A vote or stance on one issue is not sufficient in our view to justify the expense of a recall election...
And if recalls are going to be held every time a group disagrees with the stance of an elected official, constant political campaigns threaten to become the norm.
Too easy? To recall a state legislator, or statewide official, requires signatures from 25% of the people who voted for governor in the last election. In Walker's case, that is 540,206 signatures, a monumental task.
In State Senate districts, the 25% requirement also set the bar high, from 13,000 to 20,000-plus signatures, based on 2010 turnout. The signatures need to be collected in a 60-day period. It took legions of volunteers working countless hours to get that done. Republicans failed to reach the required number in several districts where they tried to retaliate against Democrats. And no Democrat was successfully recalled.
Recalls too easy? Are you kidding?
Recalls are just too easy, the Journal Sentinel editorial board says:
The recalls were unwarranted. A vote or stance on one issue is not sufficient in our view to justify the expense of a recall election...
And if recalls are going to be held every time a group disagrees with the stance of an elected official, constant political campaigns threaten to become the norm.
Too easy? To recall a state legislator, or statewide official, requires signatures from 25% of the people who voted for governor in the last election. In Walker's case, that is 540,206 signatures, a monumental task.
In State Senate districts, the 25% requirement also set the bar high, from 13,000 to 20,000-plus signatures, based on 2010 turnout. The signatures need to be collected in a 60-day period. It took legions of volunteers working countless hours to get that done. Republicans failed to reach the required number in several districts where they tried to retaliate against Democrats. And no Democrat was successfully recalled.
Uncomfy conservatives and their enablers now even busier dismantling dissent
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You've got to admire the chutzpah (pronounced "chuts-paw" by Michele Bachmann) of Republicans and conservatives and their opinion-leader enablers. Their attempt to seize permanent control of government (and that's hardly an overstatement, since at least one GOP party official a couple years ago said flat out that was their goal) hasn't been going well, so they're doubling down.
And how do you go about seizing control when the public isn't willing to help vote you into undismissable majorities? Well, there are ways, as we are learning in Wisconsin. For example:
* Trying to elilminate or make much more difficult our state's constitutional provision for recalls of state elected lawmakers for any reason the voters choose. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as of this morning has now written at least two editorials backing this dumb-down of the recall right.
You've got to admire the chutzpah (pronounced "chuts-paw" by Michele Bachmann) of Republicans and conservatives and their opinion-leader enablers. First they mounted a bald attempt to seize permanent control of government -- and that's hardly an overstatement, since at least one GOP party official a couple years ago said flat out that was their goal. But the effort hasn't been going entirely as planned, so they're doubling down.
How, exactly, do you go about seizing control when the public isn't keen to vote your political cabal into undismissable majorities? Well, there are ways, as we are learning in Wisconsin. For example:
* Trying to eliminate or make much more difficult our state's constitutional provision for recalls of state elected lawmakers. The recalls can be for any reason the voters choose. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as of this morning has now written at least two editorials backing this dumb-down of what we ought to rename Constitutional Recall.
You've got to admire the chutzpah (pronounced "chuts-paw" by Michele Bachmann) of Republicans and conservatives and their opinion-leader enablers. Their attempt to seize permanent control of government (and that's hardly an overstatement, since at least one GOP party official a couple years ago said flat out that was their goal) hasn't been going well, so they're doubling down.
And how do you go about seizing control when the public isn't willing to help vote you into undismissable majorities? Well, there are ways, as we are learning in Wisconsin. For example:
* Trying to elilminate or make much more difficult our state's constitutional provision for recalls of state elected lawmakers for any reason the voters choose. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as of this morning has now written at least two editorials backing this dumb-down of the recall right.
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