The People of Rural Wisconsin are driving Walker Recall success – it’s local, and about community

A holiday weekend in rural Wisconsin demonstrated the real grassroots effort leading the campaign to recall Scott Walker. While Milwaukee and Madison may have a dense concentration of activity (and much of the media attention); rural areas like Jackson County (Western Wisconsin)  are quietly exceeding expectations in gathering recall signatures. Based on the previous Gubernatorial [...]

As Kleefisch stays “under the radar” for most Wisconsinites, her recall lags in signatures…why she deserves recall

At 7:30 this evening, United Wisconsin will make an announcement within a few hours regarding the number of signatures gathered in the Walker Recall effort, so far. A United Wisconsin official spoke with Badger Democracy this evening, and the number will greatly exceed expectations for the first two weeks of the effort. The recall of Rebecca [...]

Sensing Walker recall inevitable, GOP focus becomes election control

Scott Walker and the GOP have made it perfectly clear that when it comes to keeping their crusade alive, the end justifies the means. Amongst threats of violence against recall volunteers from out-of-state area codes (Minnesota), Walker has refused to comment or condemn the threats. Posts by right-wing aligned groups on Facebook threatening to collect, then destroy petitions; [...]

Beyond the polls…Moderate Wisconsin Republican voters are ditching Walker as radical right panics

The new poll released by St. Norbert College/Wisconsin Public Radio points to a trend that has the radical right in a frenzy. Scott Walker’s approval rating has dropped since April – from 46% down to 38%; with his disapproval rating jumping from 48% to 58%. More telling, the 18%, ultra right-wing conservative “strongly approve” rating is unchanged. [...]

Walker’s GOP “Cronies” end four short years of GAB autonomy, shred constitutional checks and balances

The non-partisan Government Accountability Board (GAB) fell under the GOP hammer today, in Leah Vukmir’s powerful Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) hearing. In a 6-4 partisan vote, the committee passed resolutions which will force the non-partisan and independent GAB to create “rules” regarding opinions they have rendered on voter ID and recall petitions over [...]

Scott Walker – will run on his record by revising history, creating fiction

Scott Walker, while responding to questions at his recent breakfast engagement in Chicago, stated he would defend himself in a recall election by showing the people of Wisconsin “how well his programs have worked.” Adding, he would be happy to use Illinois as a comparison to how well Wisconsin is doing under his Administration. Badger [...]

Walker, Kleefisch, GOP supporters turn partisan politics into crusade

As David Brandt of Muskego (a Walker supporter and small businessman) filed the papers to launch a recall of Scott Walker on Friday, the recent sequence of events have made one thing perfectly clear. For the current incarnation of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, the ends justifies the means. The recall petition filed by Mr. [...]

Recall petition triggered by Walker donor from Muskego, records show

David Brandt of Muskego filed the petition to launch a recall of Scott Walker today, earlier than grassroots and Democrats has intended. Campaign finance records show that David and Bettie Brandt of Muskego were first and one time donors to Scott Walker’s 2010 campaign. David giving $50, and his wife Bettie donating $100. these are [...]

Top Ten Reasons to Recall Rebecca Kleefisch (in case you need a reminder)

The case for Scott Walker’s recall continues to build, as he recently spends more time speaking (and hearing protests) out-of-state than in Wisconsin. So much for job creation – he’s left that up to Republicans in the Legislature. Unfortunately for Scott Walker, and the people of Wisconsin, GOP lawmakers were more interested in social engineering than job creation, [...]

“Blame Waukesha…”: an in-depth study of Waukesha County politics

I was recently asked to write the cover story for this week’s Isthmus on a highly relevant topic to Wisconsin politics. In this turbulent political climate, Waukesha County has emerged as a statewide influence in Wisconsin fiscal policy, legislation, and politics. The article is an in-depth expose on the multitude of factors effecting this county’s continual shift to [...]