Question About Wisconsin Law

[Danzo]

Are you allowed to re-call governors? (Just curious).

[mzteris]

1. unitedwisconsin.com

outlines the information.

we can recall after one year.

can start collecting signatures on an official petition in November.

Must have 540,000 minimum acceptable signatures.

Recall election held within 6 weeks.

[Danzo]

4. Cool, thanks everybody.

I'm from Washington State and I know that Wisconsin-ites can re-call state senators, but I wasn't sure whether you could also re-call governors. Thank you for the clarification, much appreciated.

[elocs]

2. Where have you been for the last few weeks? Here is the law:

http://elections.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=11827&locid=47

[sybylla]

3. It's actually fairly clearly spelled out in the WI Constitution

Article VIII, Sect. 12

The qualified electors of the state, of any congressional, judicial or legislative district or of any county may petition for the recall of any incumbent elective officer after the first year of the term for which the incumbent was elected, by filing a petition with the filing officer with whom the nomination petition to the office in the primary is filed, demanding the recall of the incumbent.

(1) The recall petition shall be signed by electors equaling at least twenty-five percent of the vote cast for the office of governor in the lass preceding election, in the state, county or district (meaning the number of votes for gov in the recall district)

subsections 2-5 set out other parameters for the recall, including the timeline, holding a primary and the responsibilities of the incumbent and challengers.

(6)After one such petition and recall election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer during the term for which he was elected.

But the most important provision of our constitution regarding recalls...

(7) This section shall be self-executing and mandatory. Laws may be enacted to facilitate its operation but no law shall be enacted to hamper, restrict, or impair the right of recall.

[Viking12]

7. As we saw last night, those douchebags have no regard for the law

Bet your bottom dollar they'll do everything they can, including passing legislation in direct violation of the Constitution, to monkey wrench the process.



ed:sp

[sybylla]

8. Yep, more delaying and obfuscating coming up.

Choke the courts up so they can't hear their suit to stop the recalls in a timely manner and prevent us from accomplishing anything for the next year.

Typical.

[undeterred]

5. I think its going to be faster to catch him on ethics violations.

He's quite overconfident and probably making a lot of missteps while he's got the whole world watching.

[tcaudilllg]

6. Better call in the FBI then... although I suspect Obama is preparing a statement as we speak. n/t