It's On! Wisconsin Verifies Enough Signatures For First Two Recall Elections

  A little late with this one as I’ve been ill a bit. One of the joys of being a diabetic.

  By Chris Bowers        Mon May 09, 2011    at Dkos

Please, support the recall effort by contributing $5 to Democrats Jessica King and Fred Clark on Orange to Blue.

The first two recall petitions have been verified in Wisconsin:

Independent state reviews of the petitions to recall Republican Senators Randy Hopper and Luther Olsen found enough valid signatures to force an election, a Wisconsin Government Accountability Board spokesperson said Monday.

GAB staff verified 23,127 signatures to recall Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, and 22,381 signatures to recall Olsen, R-Ripon, spokesperson Reid Magney said.

Petitioners needed 15,269 signatures to recall Hopper and 14,733 signatures to recall Olsen.

This is just the beginning—verifications of the other four petitions Democrats filed against Republicans are on the way.

There are already Democrats in both of these campaigns. Oshkosh Deputy Mayor Jessica King is challenging Randy Hopper, and State Representative Fred Clark is matching up against Luther Olsen. We've added both candidates to the Orange to Blue page.

Let me reiterate the stakes in this campaign, as well as the similar campaigns in Ohio and Michigan. If we lose, political observers will continue to believe that there is no reason to take either labor or the netroots seriously as political forces. No matter how big the protests and no matter what the polls say, there are no real consequences to passing laws that make public sector labor unions illegal. And then Scott Walker clones will start winning all over the country.

This is a turning point for workers in our nation's history. We either immediately demonstrate that what Scott Walker and his buddies are doing is political suicide, or there will be basically nothing to stand in the way of people like the Koch brothers. Please, contribute $5 to Jessica King and Fred Clark now.

 

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Jon Stewart Commenting On Republican Presidential Hopefuls

  Of course, at this point in time the Republican Party American Taliban have no presidential hopefuls. Did you witness their generic debate on Fox the other night?

The Daily Show - Indecision 2012 - Good Luck Motherf@*kers Edition - Blather for Elephants
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Gingrich To Announce Presidential Ambition Online…

   …. on Wednesday, May 11th. Big deal and nobody cares about his campaign to be the Republican Party American Taliban nominee for president in the first place.

  Gingrich's Tweet

Trying to tap into the spontaneity of Twitter and Facebook, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, will announce his campaign for the Republican nomination for president on Wednesday by way of the two popular social networking sites, his spokesman, Rick Tyler, said in a Twitter post on Monday.

  This scumbag has his work cut out for him being that he is not the most popular fish in the sea.

Even in the GOP, nearly half of voters don't have an opinion of him, and he's got an unfavorable rating from one-third of those who do. And, not surprisingly, Republican women hold him in much lower regard than Republican men.

If there's any good news here for Newt, it's that there's probably no truth to the speculation that he'll also be announcing wife number 4. ( Source )

  Newt Gingrich is one of those really nasty infections that just will not go away.

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Republicans Going After Children

  Here is a little bit of humor for you just to show you how ridiculous those Republicans are most of the time.

GOP Bill Targets Children, Goobers

WASHINGTON---In a move that has enraged childrens groups and their supporters, House Republicans plan to introduce legislation that, if passed, would literally allow lawmakers to take candy from a baby.

The Juvenile Confection Freedom Enhancement Act would allow members of Congress to legally confiscate Tootsie Pops, Runts, Milk Duds, holiday candy, Everlasting Gobstoppers, Skittles, Razzles and other sweets that would appear on a new federal Yummy Watch List.

House Speaker John Boehner made the announcement yesterday. "We're bored to death talking about jobs, and we're not making much headway separating seniors from their Medicare," he said. "But it's pretty hard to screw up taking a lollipop from a two-year-old."

The law would apply to all children up to age four, Boehner said, with exemptions for certain older children. "If a youngster appears capable of fighting back, either alone or by assembling a posse of pals brandishing dodgeballs, we'll look the other way out of self-preservation," he said. When asked what he would do with the confiscated candy, Boehner said he intended to store it on a really high shelf in his office.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), the primary author of the bill, said it was originally targeted at keeping candy out of the hands of so-called "terror babies." As more co-sponsors signed on---224 so far---the parameters changed, he said. "Walking up to a child and seizing his candy dovetails nicely with the spirit of our party. If we can't take health care away from old people, we'll take Heath Bars away from kids. It produces the same kind of endorphin rush, anyway."

The current draft contains exemptions for children of Republican members of Congress and the unborn. "But once the umbilical cord's cut, the Kool-Aid in their sippy cups is fair game," said co-sponsor Virginia Foxx (R-NC).

The response from juvenile advocacy groups was swift and fierce. "They'll have to pry these Sour Patch Kids from my warm, soft, tiny and adorable child hands," said Wendell Petersmith, 4, of the Center for American Num Nums.

"Just wait until we become eligible to vote," added Natalie Woolich, 6, of the advocacy group Candyless Grocery Store Checkout Counters NO! "In a dozen years, their days in office will be numbered."

A vote in the House is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. If approved, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to send the bill on a path of gumdrops to the Senate floor for a vote. "I look forward to letting America see just which Republicans are willing to lay a finger on our childrens' Butterfingers," he said.

President Obama has promised to veto the legislation if the Juvenile Confection Freedom Enhancement Act reaches his desk. He had no immediate comment, as his mouth was full of Raisinettes.

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