Recall Efforts Underway

This week, officials efforts to recall Governor Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca  and four more Republican members of the State Senate began. Recall organizers have until Jan. 17 to collect 540,208 signatures -- for both the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor. The amount of signatures is equivalent to one-quarter of the more than 2.1 million votes cast in the governor's race last year in order to force a recall election (www.wispolitics.com).

In a proactive move to offset any possible momentum recall organizers may gain through their offical filing of the recall movement with the Government Accountability Board (GAB), Governor Walker began running television ads - with the first one appearing during the Packers game on Monday night - that highlighted his efforts to rein in state spending over the past year.

In the 30-second ad, the Walker campaign features a mother and current school board member who describes what she sees as the positive results of Walker's budget reforms. The ad closes with Walker saying, "I'm committed to working together to create more jobs, to improve our schools, and to protect our seniors. You know, Wisconsin's best days are yet to come. It won't happen overnight, but we are on our way."

Read the Walker Campaign press release and ad script, click here:
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=253228

In a sign of the amount of money that will spent on the recall campaign, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairperson Mike Tate said this week that he believes that close to $100 million will spent in total on the recall effort of the Governor (www.wispolitics.com).

Also, this week recall petitions were filed with GAB to recall four more GOP State Senators that voted for Act 10 - legislation that curtailed collective bargaining for public employees. Those GOP Senators who potentially could face a recall include: Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), Van Wangaard (R-Racine), Terry Moulton (R-Chippewa Falls) and Pam Galloway (R-Wausau).