Next up for Wisconsin: the mother of all recall drives

[frigidmagi]

CSM

[quote]The partisan fight over collective-bargaining rights in Wisconsin is moving from the streets of Madison toward the ballot box.

A recall drive of unprecedented scale is underway, with 32 efforts targeting 16 state senators involved in the three-week budget standoff between Senate Republicans and Democrats. In the 103 years since Oregon first adopted the recall process, only 13 state legislators have been recalled nationwide.

The campaigns – against eight Republicans and eight Democrats – have been infused with money and energy from outside the state, making the movement “a national eventâ€

[SirNitram]

This isn't all. M&I bank, a state bank, has become a flashpoint. Firefighters, police, and other unionized folks are pulling their cash out, in protest over the bank's donations to Walker.

The hilarity of that is how the wingnuts of such cesspools of RedState responded.

[Norseman]

You know it seems that Walker and the Republicans were expecting the labour unions to sit meekly, hands in lap, and just take it up the you know what. It's as if they weren't expecting anyone to actually fight back.

[Charon]

You know it seems that Walker and the Republicans were expecting the labour unions to sit meekly, hands in lap, and just take it up the you know what. It's as if they weren't expecting anyone to actually fight back.

That's what happens when a movement is so damn certain that they are in the right. They don't see how anyone could possibly think they are wrong, so when someone opposes them it's somewhat shocking.

I like how it's this "political tantrum" that the American Recall Coalition is going after and not the hundreds that Republicans in congress have pulled. Real subtle, guys.