USA TODAY: ….Hundreds of people statewide are involved in a movement to recall Wisconsin’s first-term Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who drew a firestorm of protests last spring after he unveiled and enacted rules that curtailed the ability of state public workers and teachers to collectively bargain…
The recall effort formally launched Nov. 15. Signature gatherers are closing in on the 540,208 voters they need to force Walker back on the ballot, according to Mahaffey. That number represents a quarter of the votes cast when Walker was elected in 2010. To help stave off signature challenges, organizers are aiming for 722,077 signatures, Mahaffey said. The deadline for filing signatures is Jan. 17.
Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform at Wagner College in New York, said recalls are historically rare. If the effort is successful, Walker would be the third U.S. governor to be recalled. North Dakota voters recalled Lynn Frazier in 1921, and California voters booted Gray Davis in 2003… (more)
