Scott Walker Recall Hampered By 60-Day Window For Governor To Raise Unlimited Cash

Mother Jones:

The fight to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker begins November 15, when the 60-day window opens for progressives, Democrats, and other Walker opponents to gather the more than half-million signatures they'll need to trigger a recall election. Conveniently for Walker, a loophole in Wisconsin elections law opens up the same day and spans the same 60-day window. For that two-month period, the state's $10,000 donation limit for individuals giving to gubernatorial candidates is out the window. That's right: Walker can raise unlimited campaign cash for his recall defense as his opponents round up support to recall him.

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Comments

[nelthroppesq]

09:59 PM on 11/12/2011

Good. At least he can try to raise enough to counter the union war-chest that they have collected from dues on Tax-payer funded union public employees.

[Scent]

03:04 PM on 11/09/2011

By now we are so used to elections being decided by money we have completely forgotten that it is money that destroys democracy by changing a vote of the people into a vote by money.

So what happens is: the richest have taken our money by theft, fraud, war mongering and even stooped to treason now take the money they stole to control our nation.

Either we soon start a REAL fight for our democracy or we will lose even the last shreds the parasites left standing.

[nelthroppesq]

10:01 PM on 11/12/2011

Maybe some of the rich produced a product people neede3d like Ford, Edison, Jobs. Maybe its the unions who are stealing your money and buying elections?

[busynurse]

12:26 AM on 10/27/2011

And...scooter has just proposed to give himself a 5.4 percent pay increase!!!!! Bloody cheek...he has been in office for less than a year.

[JohnUllmann]

07:20 PM on 11/11/2011

he authorized himself a PAY RAISE...???? ...IN THE MIDST OF THIS GREAT RECESSION...???? Abnegation strikes another blow! OCCUPY!!

[intellectualTradition]

11:43 PM on 10/26/2011

besides wasting money and time, is there anything at which the left isn't and utter failure ?

[alteredstory]

11:49 AM on 10/29/2011

Um, WHO'S wasting money?

Walker's public service track record is one of wasting money, and costing local governments MORE money.

[Scent]

03:05 PM on 11/09/2011

The left is a failure, true. But it is by FAR better than the treason of the right.

[Pastori Balele]

10:43 PM on 10/26/2011

That's sign Walker and his buddies are panicking they will lose their jobs come recall day. Who will hire Walker after abusing Wisconsin people? Nobody. Well he can join Herman Cain and flip pizzas at one of his restaurants. If I were Walker I would resign at the end of November. I would say "enough is enough". Just like Nixon did.

[AbeMartin]

01:22 PM on 10/26/2011

Walker's "buy the election" strategy probably will see the spending of millions of dollars provided to him by his corporate backers in Wisconsin, and other plutocrats such as the Koch's.  Ultimately, I predict he will be ousted.  Collecting upwards of one million petition signatures will be an enormous undertaking.  Walker will have dozens of operatives combing the voter registration roles to identify any deviation from the signature or information on the petitions from the official records.  This is no different than what happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election that ultimately resulted in Bush' coronation by the Supreme Court, despite his having been squarely beaten in the popular vote and unable to secure a victory in the Electoral College.

But the petition drive will give the unions and voters who are sick to their stomachs that the lying little weasel is occupying the Statehouse.  Ultimately, it will come down to one vote for each person, not millions of dollars sent to the ad agencies and television and online media.

[AngrymanT]

12:50 PM on 10/26/2011

This guy is GREASY!!

[CVaughn]

06:41 PM on 10/26/2011

You're too kind. Calling him "greasy" is an insult to grease.

[oldgeek1]

12:47 PM on 10/26/2011

Throw his sorry butt out of office.

[Witchitalineman]

11:57 AM on 10/26/2011

I hope the people of WI boot his butt right out the door!

[Downrivers]

11:57 AM on 10/26/2011

It has always been the goal of the GOP to break the unions in our country.. It is time for them to give up their livable wage, their vacations and healthcare if they are asking the same thing of the blue-collar worker. This is pure politics and class warfare on the middle class.

The unions were formed in this country because of the exploitation of labor. The work of unions brought about rights and protections for both union and non-union labor. But since Reagan busted the Air-Traffic Controllers Union, unions have been on the decline. And wages have stagnated, benefits are more expensive, people are more productive and working longer hours but for less money. Two incomes are now required to barely feed a family of 4. Children are losing time with their parents and drop out rates and grades are on the decline. We've been maintaining the illusion of wealth because of the easy credit based on demand pull asset inflation. Meanwhile, top management went from making 20 times the lowest paid worker to 400 times. This is pure politics and class warfare between the union and non-unionized states. The republican agenda is about power not public service.

[intellectualTradition]

11:43 PM on 10/26/2011

no, it's a derivitive of 14 million illegals here.

[Downrivers]

12:28 PM on 10/27/2011

explain please

[JoanMeijer]

11:38 AM on 10/26/2011

Here is the first chance the people have to show that voter outrage trumps unlimited funds. If they can do it, it should scare the daylights out of the Republicans - all they have is money.

[ETBgood]

11:17 AM on 10/26/2011

Get the signatures the way the folks have in Ohio who are repealing another "tea party" governors collective bargaining bill.

Then get ten times the money in small donations and enlist outside groups to help with advertising, word of mouth works wonders and tell everyone to recall him since Walker has not helped with jobs or the economy in his state.

Cutting collective bargaining just so these "tea party" governors funded by the GOP can cut jobs of public sector or union workers claiming a "balanced budget" on the backs of the unemployed is the most cold, heartless, uncaring thing I have seen from the GOP and their "tea party" candidates.

Putting people in the unemployment line isn't balancing any budget because paying for their unemployment is as costly as keeping them, keep collective bargaining and negotiate to keep jobs!

[MRb1000]

11:16 AM on 10/26/2011

Oh he is going to cry like John Boehner. LOL I do not think this will work! Stick a fork in him! It is over! LOL

[allm]

10:14 AM on 10/26/2011

The only weapon "We the people" have against this massive corporate corruption is our vote.

[sensimilla]

12:49 PM on 10/26/2011

we also have our pocketbook, and can wield it with impunity in the marketplace.

[Ruthless1]

01:02 PM on 10/26/2011

We the people need to vote more often. Providing mandates for our elected officials instead of the our elected officials and the media telling us what our vote means.

[middleoftheroad53]

09:48 AM on 10/26/2011

Scott Walker has been "FEELING" THE HEAT from the "almost decimated" Middle-Class in Wisconsin and around the Country. He was a SHOCK TO THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM and, I think, he will be RECALLED!

I'm betting Beers and Brats on my prediction .... something I don't take "lightly"!