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**herbalviagra** · 03-14-2011, 11:07 PM

But didn't they hear the 2010 election was a shellacking and that the GOP came into power with a mandate to roll things back to how they were in 1911?

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In the latest development in Wisconsin, after the passage of Republican Gov. Scott Walker's new law curtailing public employee unions, state Democrats claim that they have reached 45% of their goal for petition signatures to recall eight Republican state Senators, Greg Sargent reports.

In the wake of last week's action by the state GOP leaders to pass the bill, Democrats have pledged to quickly recall the Republican members of the state Senate who are eligible, under the state law requiring at least one year of a term to be have been completed, and then to go after Walker next year.

A recall requires collecting signatures equal to at least 25 percent of the total votes in the previous gubernatorial election within the given district -- a high bar. But Democrats claim they're already almost halfway to their goal, which involves both that 25% number plus an unspecified cushion against bad signatures, after only about two weeks of circulating petitions.

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herbalviagra Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	Senate recalls in Wisconsin moving forward: 45% of req'd signatures already collected But didn't they hear the 2010 election was a shellacking and that the GOP came into power with a mandate to roll things back to how they were in 1911? TPM: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...or-recalls.php In the latest development in Wisconsin, after the passage of Republican Gov. Scott Walker's new law curtailing public employee unions, state Democrats claim that they have reached 45% of their goal for petition signatures to recall eight Republican state Senators, Greg Sargent reports. In the wake of last week's action by the state GOP leaders to pass the bill, Democrats have pledged to quickly recall the Republican members of the state Senate who are eligible, under the state law requiring at least one year of a term to be have been completed, and then to go after Walker next year. A recall requires collecting signatures equal to at least 25 percent of the total votes in the previous gubernatorial election within the given district -- a high bar. But Democrats claim they're already almost halfway to their goal, which involves both that 25% number plus an unspecified cushion against bad signatures, after only about two weeks of circulating petitions.
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