Boy, when you can’t even pull off an “Operation: Chaos,” the situation is getting desperate… 
[BTW: Dear Mods: I really did try to find a general Wisconsin recall thread, but nothing came up on my search. Feel free to merge as necessary.]
They succeeded in their goal which was to delay the recall elections giving the Republicans more time to pass their legislation. The Republicans will lose some seats but they are playing a long game. They are breaking the Democrats long term fundraising ability.
Kill the unions and all the top campaign funding will be dollars for Republicans. Once they are the only ones with serious funding they can pick any seats the want for themselves.
The Democrats of Wisconsin seem to be the only ones to be really putting up a fight and they’re barely holding on.
I don’t get it. What’s the point of putting these people on the ballot? Were they repubs posing as Democrats or completely phantom names? And why? Were the repubs so worried about getting the votes that they tried to skew the results by convincing the masses to vote for someone who doesn’t exist? Or claims to be Democrat and then switches sides when they take office??
I don’t get the thinking here.
It pushes the recall election back a month to have the primary first, even if everyone knows it’s a sham primary. Meanwhile, the Republicans facing recall are still in office.
I think the idea here is, turf the GOP legislators, and eventually the GOP governor, and repeal any legislation regarding the unions.
I don’t think the GOP, Wisconsin or nationwide, realize that a hornet’s nest they stuck their hand into here. Prosser, a pro-GOP, anti-union judge, did get reelected, but by a narrow margin even in GOP-held counties. And given that he had since been accused of physically assaulting another Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, surely an impeachable offense, even this might be a pyrrhic victory. The people of Wisconsin are pissed, they feel the GOP legislature and governor are working against them, and they have whipped themselves into a frenzy.
We shall see.
Is Prosser the guy with the partisan hack official “found” thousands of votes on her PC or some damned thing?
It was his re election where that happened - and the votes were ‘found’ by a woman who had a history of similar bullshit.
-Joe
Which includes redistricting, and voter suppression. And now look what they’re doing.
I am just sick. I don’t know what to do. These filthy bastards will stop at nothing, and nobody seems to be able to do a fucking thing about it!
It is sickening. I’m at a bit of a loss myself.
There’s also this video, which highlights some of the practical issues in just getting a voter ID in this state.
This incident underlines what utter hypocrites these people are. They say they want to balance the budget and they say that they’re fighting for the taxpayers, but they force a phoney meaningless primary which serves no legitimate purpose and costs the taxpayers over $470,000.
Can one of the Republicans on this board justify this to me?
Clinton got a blowjob?
More likely it’s because any election in which they lose is by definition not a “real” election. Anything they do is therefore justified.
-Joe
What really pisses me off about the whole situation is that the Righties are cheering this sort of thing on.
Why? It’s not like it should be a surprise. The important part of voting is making sure that the right people vote so that they can win. What’s done after a victory, and even the responsibilities that go a long with that victory are completely unimportant. My team won, your team lost. That’s all that really matters, you loser.
And if the wrong side won, well it wasn’t a real victory anyways
-Joe
Once they get legislative power, they use that power to do things that help them increase that power even more.
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[li]Phony primaries to waste their opponents resources.[/li][li]Redistricting (to be fair, both parties do this).[/li][li]Sending mobs to raise a ruckus if someone dares to request a recount.[/li][li]Making it more difficult to register to vote and making it more difficult to actually vote after you’re registered.[/li][/ul]
It’s like it’s a game to them. They aren’t actually interested in representing their constituents.
Isn’t this sort thing skirting some…I don’t know…election laws or something?
Duh. Only (illegal or otherwise) minorities and Democrats commit voter/election fraud!
No votes were “found” because they were never lost.
The Waukesha county clerk failed to include vote totals from the city of Brookfield.
The error was discovered during the post-election canvassing process.
This website had the numbers on election night, which precludes them being created after the fact.
From this WisDOT news release.
That means service will be expanded in the 42 counties which do not currently meet the new standard.
And, if you look at the tentative list of DMV closures in the news release, then compare it to this map, you will see that 13 of the 14 counties that might be affected actually were carried by Walker last November.
Anybody have a better map?
I suspect that the DMV shuffling may prove to be less of a concern than it appears initially, and I’ve been waiting for more news on this than what I’ve seen so far. Certainly Walker’s actions give reason to be watchful for such shenanigans, but I’m not convinced that it’s happening in this particular case.
I must say, though, that comparing the proposed list with the map linked isn’t enough to set my mind at ease on this at all. I’d be more comfortable with a map with a finer granularity. Was the lawmaker who claimed that it was offices in Democratic areas that were being targeted just full of shit? Does anyone have a line on who said that and what information they were basing their statement on?
Are these two maps what you are looking for?
Since all plans are tentative right now, and the end result will be more DMV service across the state, not less, wait and see is probably the best approach here.
I think so, but YMMV.
From this
Jorgensen appears to be the “one Democratic lawmaker”, but he provided nothing to back up his claim.