Yeah, overall, I think recalls are probably okay, they just need to be very hard to achieve.
Well, fair enough, but that’s not the standard. Personally I don’t think we should be allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections, but we do. Oh well.
Well, getting a million signatures in a state like Wisconsin can’t be all that easy.
Everybody playing the Brettmcd False Equivalence Home Game right now, do a shot!
And now there are claims that the “Democrat Union” is busing people in from Detroit to vote in Wisconsin.
The logic fail on this one is…impressive.
Scuzz
1985
I have heard a guy on the radio say today that there have been only two successful recalls of governors in US history, one in the 1920’s and then Gray Davis in California. Can that be right?
If only there was some way to find out.
Shouldn’t cops be used to remove someone who has committed a criminal act from office?
I think Wisconsin residents could argue that Walker has gone pretty far off his campaign promise script, so why should they be forced to let that slippery slope play out just because his arbitrary term is four years? I feel like it should be hard to recall a governor, but the electorate should have the option if they feel its necessary to stanch whatever political bleeding they feel is occurring.
Scuzz
1988
Maybe I should ask Madkevin. No, even he knows everything I shouldn’t bother him. :)
Fact is I don’t care enough to waste time at work to look it up. But maybe somebody else does.
Canuck
1989
But…it’s 6 o’clock in the morning!
Evan Mecham was in the process of being recalled in Arizona, but the legislature beat us to it and impeached him first.
Anyone else wonder if the recall was a bad move, politically, for the public employee unions? If they lose this, and there seems to be every likelihood they will, it might serve as a signal to other governors wrestling with budget shortfalls that the previously untouchable sacred cow might be (a little more) safely touched now. I suppose the fallout will be they’ll just have to swallow the deal they were already served, and then hope for a change during the next general election, but a comment upstream accused conservatives of overreaching; instead, part of me wonders if the unions didn’t do the same in this case.
Dave47
1992
A statement rendered incoherent by poor grammar, a smiley, and the admission that you care so little about what you’re posting that you cannot be bothered typing your question into Google.
This is basically the platonic ideal of a Scuzz P&R post.
So you cared enough to write the question in the first place, but you DON’T care enough to find out the answer? And you didn’t care that you were wasting time when you wrote the question, but you don’t want to “waste time” finding out the answer to a question you didn’t have to write and could have easily just answered yourself?
Is English your second language?
You knew what you were getting into when you bought the game.
Get lost you worthless piece of trash troll.
It is perfectly relevant to point out that most politicians do things far differently then their campaign promises. Walker is no different in that respect.
CNN & Fox both reported that Walker’s is only the 3rd recall of a governor in the US. The other two both being successful, looking at Wiki entry it appears the media got it right.
The latest polls have the results being virtually unchanged for the 2010 election so after 2 years and tens millions of ads looks like not many changed their minds. The polls close in few hours so we will soon know how good the predictions were.
Great! So, in which respects is he different? Ready… GO!
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but the NSCL reports there have been far more than three gubernatorial recalls:
California voters have initiated 32 gubernatorial recall attempts since 1911
Maybe. There’s four Republican state senators up for recall as well tonight. If any of them fall, Democrats take over the majority which will make Walker’s agenda quite a bit harder to push through, I’d imagine.
