WaPo: Can Dems use recalls to take back Wisconsin Senate???

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/can-dems-take-back-wisconsin-state-senate/2011/03/03/AF9P7r0D_blog.html?referrer=emaillink


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Today Dems announced that they will file the signatures necessary to trigger a third recall election against a Wisconsin GOP state senator. The target this time: Luther Olsen.

Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, tells me that Dems will file 23,931 signatures. That means Dems have collected 162% of the 14,733 required.

This comes after Dems recently announced that they had collected 145 percent of the signatures required to trigger a recall election against GOP state senator Dan Kapanke, and over 150 percent of the number required against senator Randy Hopper.

What this means: It is now all but certain that — despite any challenges to the veracity of signatures — there will be three elections held to recall GOP state senators. And Dems need to net three recall wins to recapture the state senate

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