Wisconsin governor's bid for delay on recall signatures (denied)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Wisconsin governor's bid for delay on recall signatures

By Brendan O'Brien

MILWAUKEE | Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:08pm EST

(Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge Friday denied Governor Scott Walker extra time to review the estimated one million signatures submitted last month to the state in an effort to recall him.

Dane County Judge Richard Niess refused to give Walker's campaign the two extra weeks it requested to examine the signatures on the estimated 152,000 pages of petitions recall organizers turned into the Government Accountability Board.

Walker and other Republican lawmakers were targeted for recall by Democratic organizers after he led a successful effort to limit public worker collective bargaining rights.

"We hope today's ruling, where a judge found that all recall elections likely will proceed, will end his heinous attempt to avoid accountability," said state Democratic Party chair Mike Tate in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/18/us-recall-wisconsin-idUSTRE81H03X20120218

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I guess they couldn't figure out how to get it

in front of a tame Walkershaw judge.

[Kalidurga]

2. It would only be delaying the inevitable.

But, it is entertaining none the less while we are awaiting the results of the criminal investigation.

Personally I think he does the perp walk within a couple of years.

http://www.wisdems.org/news/press/view/2012-02-as-criminal-corruption-probe-expands-scott-walker-fl

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Delay is the entire point.

Every day he's in power is another day he can use to destroy the state. Like with the mining deregulation they're rushing through right now.

[Scuba]

3. Any delay allowed them more time for unlimited fundraising, so this halts that ....

... or at least will in a when the challenges are over. There will be a recall election for Walker and all four Republican State Senators we targeted.


Indictments could get 'em first though.