Morse Recall Supporters Clear Major Hurdle In Colorado Recall Effort

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  June 18th at 06:36 PM  | 

In an afternoon press release, the Colorado Secretary of State has verified that the effort to recall Senate President John Morse (D-SD11) will proceed. Colorado Springs activists who were concerned with Morse’s leadership and votes in the 2013 session gathered over 16,000 signatures to initiate a recall, after a verification process conducted by the Secretary of State the total number of valid signatures was 10,137, | Read More »

Is Colorado state senator Angela Giron resorting to PAYING to have anti-recall supporters?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 13th at 06:45 PM  | 

So, basically it’s going on like this: Colorado State Senator Angela Giron is being threatened with a recall for her support of the rather draconian gun control laws that the (currently) Democratic-controlled Colorado state legislature just passed. This was, of course, not received well by Democrats, and so Colorado Peak Politics did what all smart Right-populist groups do these days: they saturated the area with | Read More »

AP: Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms Wisconsin job growth. #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 30th at 10:00 PM  | 

Readers might remember – certainly The Weekly Standard [TWS] did – that beleaguered Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall candidate Tom Barrett has called into question Republican Scott Walker’s contention that the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] had reported Wisconsin had actually gained jobs in 2011, instead of the loss of jobs that had been previously reported from another source.  Actually, ‘called into question’ is too mild | Read More »

Tom Barrett (D CAND, WI-GOV RECALL) passes on honoring slain cops to… stump-speech the UAW. #recall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 20th at 10:00 AM  | 

When it came out last week that Milwaukee mayor (and Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor in the upcoming recall election) Tom Barrett had skipped out on two ceremonies honoring Milwaukee police officers, there was some questions about what Barrett thought could possibly be more important that going to, say, a memorial service for slain Wisconsin policemen.  It probably didn’t help either that Barrett was so | Read More »

“Who was that lady I saw you with last night,” Tom Barrett? #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 18th at 02:30 PM  | 

…Oh, relax: it’s an old vaudville/movie routine. You know: “That was no lady: that was my wife.” Yeah, that one’s older than my parents, let alone me. Still: why exactly did Democratic Wisconsin recall gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett shrug off ceremonies honoring Milwaukee policemen this week? Including one on Wednesday that honored Milwaukee cops slain in the line of duty? I ask… well, mostly because | Read More »

The DNC seems to be sitting out the Wisconsin recall.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 15th at 09:45 PM  | 

Alernate-alternate title: DOOM. You know, when I saw this secondhand whine from Wisconsin Democrats upset that the DNC apparently wasn’t prepared to throw half a million dollars at the general recall election, I assumed that this would be resolved. I mean, really: the Left has already thrown away tens of millions of dollars; what’s a bit more? Admittedly, not throwing utterly horrible money after bad | Read More »

The DOOM that came to Wisconsin Democrats.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 9th at 09:00 AM  | 

Here are the final results of last night’s primary contest, and presumably a variant of this[***] will end up on Democratic political operatives’ desks across the breadth of Wisconsin: Barrett 390,109 Falk 228,940 Vinehout 26,926 La Follette 19,461 Huber 4,842 Total 670,278 Walker 626,538 Note that that total does not include the almost 20K of ‘Republican’ votes accumulated by ‘Republican’ Arthur Kohl-Riggs, given that the | Read More »

Wisconsin Democrats’ Divided House

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 7th at 01:26 PM  | 

The Wisconsin Democratic Party had scheduled a unity rally the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow, Democrat voters will go to the polls to pick a candidate to put up against Scott Walker in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall. Well, it seems the preferred candidate isn’t going to win and the Democrats have said to heck with unity. The Unity Rally is cancelled. It won’t happen. There will | Read More »

WI-GOV Recall Democrats running on… property tax hikes?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 17th at 01:00 PM  | 

If states are really the laboratories of democracy, then apparently Wisconsin is the place where all the mad scientists go to cook up the latest abomination of science with which to terrify the populace. And one case in point is the way that the Democratic party in Wisconsin has decided to run with the novel platform of explicitly offering to raise other people’s taxes in | Read More »

Judicial Bias and Political Activism Running Rampant in Wisconsin Courts

By: Matt Batzel (Diary)  |  March 21st at 03:29 PM  | 

From the diaries . . . Once again, Wisconsin is the nation’s poster child for controversial decisions that damage our electoral process.  This time, it’s Wisconsin’s judiciary that’s implicated as liberal judges are revealing their partiality and engaging in political activism. Perhaps this problem would be best understood with a baseball analogy. Suppose Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun was facing a panel of three judges (instead | Read More »

Update on the Scott Walker recall shenanigans.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 15th at 11:26 PM  | 

So, let me tell you of the wickedness of the world… or, more accurately, of the abject stupidity of the anti-Scott Walker forces in Wisconsin. Which is really not the same thing, but it at least sounds good. Or at least jovial. Anyway, here’s the background: the Wisconsin Left, having managed to allegedly get enough signatures to force a recall election against a governor enjoying | Read More »

First reports of Wisconsin recall petition fraud?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 7th at 12:30 PM  | 

Could be, could be: The Racine County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate possible fraudulent recall signatures collected by Mark Demet, a Racine man whose brother’s signature was found four times on petitions to recall Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine. His mother’s signature was also found twice. But both say they didn’t sign, said Capt. Thomas Lamke of the Racine County Sheriff’s Office. This is, by | Read More »

Wisconsin Democrats voting the graveyard on Walker recall?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 16th at 09:45 AM  | 

[UPDATE] Before anybody starts complaining that I shouldn’t have taken this calendar entry seriously, I’d just like to note: as of 10:54 AM EST, so did up to 71 Wisconsin Democrats. One wonders how many people they’ll have sign up to conspiracy to commit election fraud before the plug is pulled? – I’m hoping for three digits, myself. This almost has to be a fake.  | Read More »

Wisconsin Republicans spoil Democrats’ recall fun.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 9th at 09:45 AM  | 

There is an interesting thing about the Wisconsin recall process.  Essentially, if you read the document regulating it you will discover that the designation of a particular date for a recall election assumes that there was no primary; if there is a primary, it occurs on that date, with the general election taking place a month afterward.  Also of note… political parties do not have | Read More »

Joe Conason lies about PPP WI recall poll.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 27th at 11:00 AM  | 

This is very entertaining, because it takes real skill to muck up reporting this PPP poll about Scott Walker’s chances in a hypothetical recall election; fortunately, Joe Conason is up to the challenge. Let’s look at what Conason wrote (bolding mine): Asked whether they would support or oppose [Scott Walker's] removal from office in a recall election, 50 percent said yes and only 47 percent | Read More »