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Wisconsin Democrats have filed a recall petition against a sixth Republican state senator for his support of a bill that curtails collective bargaining rights.
Organizers for the committee to recall Sen. Robert Cowles of Green Bay turned in approximately 26,000 signatures Thursday, far more than the 15,960 needed to trigger a recall election.
Read more: Democrats file recall petition for 6th GOP senator - GreenwichTime (http://www.greenwichtime.com/default/article/Democrats-file-recall-petition-for-6th-GOP-senator-1357138.php#ixzz1KrD1Hp4Q - broken link)
So far recall petitions have been filed against nine of the sixteen Senators eligible for recall. Petitions have been filed against six of the eight Republicans eligible to be recalled. The deadline for the remaining two is next week. Petitions have also been filed on three of the eight Democrats who were eligible for recall. Deadlines to submit signatures have passed on three of the Democrats, the other two have deadlines of May 4th and May 16th (as the initial petitions on those two became inactive and were then refiled)
Also the GAB has filed a motion to delay the certification until May 31st to June 3rd on the previously filed petitions (in part to hold all the recall elections on the same day.
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The Government Accountability Board on Wednesday filed a motion in Dane County circuit court requesting an extension of the time allotted for it to rule on recall signatures against eight state senators.
The motion, a revision of an earlier filing, includes a schedule for the GAB’s deliberations on the recalls of the three Democrats and five Republicans, and sets May 31 to June 3 for its certifying the signatures.
That would presumably set July 12 for the actual elections for all eight races. State law sets the election for the Tuesday of the sixth week af ter the signatures are certified. But court challenges to the GAB rulings could delay some or all of those elections.
In addition, if more than one candidate in either party filed to run in the election, July 12 would be the primary election, and the final election would be four weeks later, on August 9.
Please note this article doesn't include the recent Cowles filing.
Financed by the government unions that donated half a billion last election to Obama. They need to be out of government.
Unlike the tea party that the Koch's had to bus people in and pay Palin to make an appearance, the pro-middle class workers were 100% grass roots and didn't earn a penny
Yes, yes, I am sure their efforts will be as successful as the supreme court election!
The GOP just lost a Special Election in one of the Assembly Seats they use to hold on Tuesday. The Assembly district they lost covers portions of Kapanake's district.
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