How about Herb Kohl? Senator is often a stepping stone to Governor, the position where the real money is. Um, as if he needs it.
There’s a difference?
How do they go about picking candidates to run against him? Do there need to be primaries, or does each party’s state commitee get to pick a candidate? Or is this going to be like in California were anybody can get on the ballot absurdly easy & a few dozen people end up running?
There’s going to be a Democratic primary.
There will likely be a Democratic primary. Tom Barrett, who ran in 2010 and lost to Walker, may run again, and Kathleen Falk, former Dane County Executive, is thought to be a likely candidate.
Since all Walker has ever done as a small-government conservative is hold office in government and he doesn’t have a degree (not that I’m saying he shouldn’t be qualified for elected office due to said lack of degree), he won’t be a lawyer. My guess is that he’d become a GOP lackey or Huckabee-type. If he loses, of course.
Why don’t we raise revenue? America is not on a fixed income.
Because it would drive the Teahadists batshit crazy. Next to Obama, isn’t Feingold the most liberal something-something in the whole country?
Because people haver gottena taste of what tea party policies translate into. they aren’t cutting spending to reduce deficits (which is kinda what propelled them into office), they are cutting spending to cut taxes.
And the priority seems to be tax cuts over schools.
Kathleen Falk officially tosses her hat into the Democratic challenger ring.
This announcement does not inspire me in the slightest.
I just signed this petition to draft Feingold.
Maybe, maybe not. Remember, over a million voted against Walker the first time. And a number of those signatures will turn out to be invalid.
Sorry, the bolded is just wrong.
Doyle budget leaves $1.5 billion deficit in 2011-'13, report says (March 19, 2009)
Election 2010 Despite economy, Barrett, Walker make big job pledges (Sept. 25, 2010)
Wisconsin’s state budget – frequently asked questions (Feb. 18, 2011)
The budget repair bill for the 2009/11 budget was necessitated by the tax cuts and some other matters such as a payment to Minnesota for inter-state university tuitions. That deficit was about $136 million. (Small potatoes)
The 2011/13 budget had a projected shortfall of some $3.6 billion. Before being tackled in 2009, that budget, under governor Doyle had a projected deficit of some $5.9 billion. Those projected deficits are scare numbers based on maximum and optimistic expendature requests by departments. They always are pared down.
However, in 2009, Doyle was able to benefit by taking $2 billion of federal stimulus funds. Nevertheless, the governor and ledgislature were forced to make painful cuts in '09.
Wisconsin's Baffling Budget Battle - FactCheck.org
Walker has given up his review of the petitions saying he did not have enough time even though he received a 20 day extension by a judge when the basic law allowed 10 days for review. Very few bad signatures were discovered.
One of the recalled senators, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, challenged a number of signatures (not enough to cancel the recall, however.) His challenges were generally invalid, unlike the signatures.
Walker won't challenge any recall signatures because of 'impossible timeline'
Madison Politiscope: Fitzgerald campaign submits bizarre, inaccurate signature challenges
There was a large (35K) rally against Walker this weekend in Madison.
Walker has raised (and spent) millions. The majority of his support comes from out of state, mainly Texas.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57365613/wis-governor-fights-recall-with-out-of-state-cash/
Walker may be indicted before the election. It seems there was hanky panky (e.g. illegal campaigning from his Milwaukee County office on county time) going on with his staff. There is an on-going John Doe investigation and he has hired high priced outside legal counsel.
Milwaukee – Darlene Wink plead guilty this afternoon to two misdemeanor counts of illegal fundraising and political work for former Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s campaign for governor while being paid by the tax payers. Wink told the Circuit Court “What I was doing was putting together fliers that were for a fundraiser”.
Wink provided testimony in order to avoid jail time. Her plea deal comes with the agreement that she will provide information to prosecutors in regard to the ongoing John Doe investigation. Even though Wink will serve no jail time, her sentencing has been delayed for three months, allowing prosecutors to question Wink further. Wink’s lawyer said he wished that the sentencing could have happened sooner than May.
I’m sure that Walker is a very unhappy boy right now. At the very least, he’s going to lose his job, and he may serve actual prison time.
I’m kind of hoping that the Koch’s get caught up in the criminal issues somehow (if they actually did anything criminal).
All this recall signifies is that we’re on a slow slide to hell. We’re at the point where an entitled and generally dependent voting block, that pays little in the way of taxes, is free to vote themselves more and more and try to destroy those that want to curb their entitlement. The tea party is trying to save the country by returning us to a more fiscally responsible place, but the entitled masses don’t really want that. All this means is that we’re going down hill faster and faster and we’re one step closer to. . . wherever this ends. . . likely some type of total crash and revolution.
I’m surprised you didn’t drag “the welfare queens” into that somehow. :rolleyes:
At least they didn’t invote the famous faux-quote.
No, no, no, this is not about the poor, this is about almost everyone. And that’s a poison everyone ends up wanting to drink. The rich cheat the tax code, the poor want to vote for whichever politician is going to give them more aide, same for the rich. And I’m not surprised that you’re not concerned either. I guess that’s the liberal position,“everything’s fine, and everyone should have everything they want no matter if it’s paid for or not. We’re not responsible.”
Come on, say it. You know you want to.
That’s not the liberal position. I just thought you should know.
The tea party wants to raise taxes?