The people of Wisconsin have already gathered 20% of the required signatures they need to recall their union busting Governor Scott Walker.
From Talking Points Memo:
United Wisconsin, the group managing the recall, announced on Saturday that during the first four days of the effort — from Tuesday through Friday — they had brought in 105,000 signatures, nearly a fifth of the threshold they must legally meet: 540,208 signatures in a 60-day window.
This of course is just the beginning. Wisconsin needs to gather more than the required 540,208 signatures to stand up the the legal challenges that will certainly rise.
Even though the recall effort is a populist movement beyond party affiliation, there are those who would like to see it fail. Many people who are gathering signatures have been subject to death threats.
From WISC Madison:
Opponents of Gov. Scott Walker said they have faced threats and thefts in the days since the recall effort began.
Two volunteers in the petition drive reported violent threats made against them to the police. Neighbors in Monona also complained to authorities of politically motivated thefts from their yards.
The threats involved phone calls from an area code in Minnesota. The calls came overnight after Walker’s opponents began the recall, said Madison resident Tom Peer, who said he received a call at 2 a.m. on Thursday.
“They said, ‘If you don’t stop circulating recall petitions, we will kill you,’” said Peer.
A similar call came to Heather DuBois Bourenane, of Sun Prairie. The United Wisconsin recall worker jumped out of bed
when her phone rang around 4 a.m. on Thursday.“He said I had attracted the attention of some very bad people, and my life and the lives of my family were in danger,” Bourenane said.
She called Sun Prairie police, who confirmed investigators were working on the case.
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